Feminist Dialogics: A Theory of Failed CommunityState University of New York Press, 8 juil. 1988 - 224 pages Feminist Dialogics examines the structure of four novels (Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, James's The Golden Bowl, Wharton's The House of Mirth and Chopin's The Awakening) through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin's critical framework. The author draws on Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia to show how the interaction of many voices forms the social community of the novel and how the functioning of these voices makes clear statements about the position and fate of women in these specific societies. The novels present dialogic situations in which the women misinterpret their social texts and, therefore, fail to understand their own social power. The four works considered in this study represent the struggle for women's construction of self within a dialogic structure of many competing voices. Bauer introduces and enters into dialogue with other theorists who are concerned with the social implications of reading and interpretation, including Rene Girard, Wolfgang Iser, Sandra Gilbert, and Susan Gubar, as well as other American feminists. The recurring theme in the novels of this study is the exclusion and rivalry of discourse: the competition among characters for authoritative and interpretive power. Each voice in the novel is a thematization of an ideological perspective and, as such, competes for domination. The conspiracy of voices to exclude the female reflects the social reality as well. This work is an important contribution to literary criticism and feminist theory. |
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... patriarchal culture : the myth of a unified subjectivity under patriarchy . And , on the other , it also cautions against the perils of insertion into a community which might drown out one's voice the moment one agrees to enter into it ...
... patriarchal culture : the myth of a unified subjectivity under patriarchy . And , on the other , it also cautions against the perils of insertion into a community which might drown out one's voice the moment one agrees to enter into it ...
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... patriarchal culture is that within which the self originally constitutes itself , it is always already there in each subject as subject . Thus how can it be over- thrown if it has been necessarily internalized in everybody who could ...
... patriarchal culture is that within which the self originally constitutes itself , it is always already there in each subject as subject . Thus how can it be over- thrown if it has been necessarily internalized in everybody who could ...
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... patriarchal cul- ture , which feminism would subvert . Feminist interventions dis- rupt monolithic discourse . Teresa de Lauretis writes in Alice Doesn't that " strategies of writing and of reading are forms of cultural resist- ance ...
... patriarchal cul- ture , which feminism would subvert . Feminist interventions dis- rupt monolithic discourse . Teresa de Lauretis writes in Alice Doesn't that " strategies of writing and of reading are forms of cultural resist- ance ...
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... patriarchal linearity . What is interesting about the novels is that Zenobia's and Maggie's coming to consciousness occurs for them in appropriating a con- ventionally male language , a male style . That is , they move from passive ...
... patriarchal linearity . What is interesting about the novels is that Zenobia's and Maggie's coming to consciousness occurs for them in appropriating a con- ventionally male language , a male style . That is , they move from passive ...
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... patriarchal critical discourse . With voice ( and not with the gaze ) , these heroines can engage in the battle Bakhtin suggests is the basis for community . The opposition between the surveillant gaze and the disruptive ( excessive or ...
... patriarchal critical discourse . With voice ( and not with the gaze ) , these heroines can engage in the battle Bakhtin suggests is the basis for community . The opposition between the surveillant gaze and the disruptive ( excessive or ...
Table des matières
A Counterfeit Aracadia | 17 |
Reading Coverdales Romance | 24 |
Coverdale and Surveillance | 31 |
Zenobias Carnival | 38 |
Zenobias Muscular Feminism | 44 |
A Matter of Interpretation | 51 |
The Failure of the Republic | 89 |
Kate Chopins The Awakening | 129 |
Resisting Tradition | 140 |
Reading Motherhood | 152 |
Postscript | 159 |
55 | 200 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Adam Adam's Adèle alienation ambivalence American Amerigo argues articulate authoritative Awakening Bakhtin becomes Bertha Blithedale Blithedale Romance carnival characters Charlotte Chopin claims codes consciousness conventions Coverdale Coverdale's Creole Criticism culture desire discourse dominant Edith Wharton Edna Edna's Emerson exchange father female feminine feminist dialogics fiction force freedom gaze gender Golden Bowl gossip Hawthorne Hawthorne's Henry James heteroglossia Hollingsworth House of Mirth husband ideology imagination impulses individual inner speech internally persuasive interpretive interpretive community James's Judith Fetterley Léonce Lily Bart Lily's Luce Irigaray Maggie Maggie's male marriage masquerade Mikhail Bakhtin monologic mother motherhood narrative norms notion novel patriarchal Patricia Meyer Spacks Prince Priscilla reader relation represents republic resistance reveals ritual role romantic Rosedale sacrifice Selden sense sentimental sexual silence society speak struggle suggests suicide symbolic Terry Castle Trenor University Press Ververs violence voice Wharton woman women York Zenobia