Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and CultureUniv of North Carolina Press, 1997 - 206 strán (strany) Susan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Exploring this dynamic in Charlotte Bronta's Villette, Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, George Eliot's Da |
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Strana ix
... rhetorical effects of this personal criticism , which I labeled a " confessional mode " because of the way autobiographical disclosure functions as an intrusion where the subject attention shifts from Lacan's texts to the narrating ...
... rhetorical effects of this personal criticism , which I labeled a " confessional mode " because of the way autobiographical disclosure functions as an intrusion where the subject attention shifts from Lacan's texts to the narrating ...
Strana 2
... rhetorical com- plications and political contradictions difficult to decipher through such easy oppositions.1 For instance , it would be reductive to estimate as either subversion or submission the blank space in Tess of the d ...
... rhetorical com- plications and political contradictions difficult to decipher through such easy oppositions.1 For instance , it would be reductive to estimate as either subversion or submission the blank space in Tess of the d ...
Strana 6
... rhetorical and political maneuvers by which a female character seems to occupy both positions of subject and object of violence . In the chapters that follow , I am interested in how women are held accountable in their narratives for ...
... rhetorical and political maneuvers by which a female character seems to occupy both positions of subject and object of violence . In the chapters that follow , I am interested in how women are held accountable in their narratives for ...
Strana 7
... rhetorical style , but also con- stitutes a habitual silencing that safeguards patriarchal privilege . In this cul- tural sense , confession might be regarded as the spectacle of the repressed , the textuality of the silenced ; in the ...
... rhetorical style , but also con- stitutes a habitual silencing that safeguards patriarchal privilege . In this cul- tural sense , confession might be regarded as the spectacle of the repressed , the textuality of the silenced ; in the ...
Strana 8
... rhetorical contradictions of depicting such scenes of brutality . One might wonder why Tess's excised story of sexual violence against her is persistently labeled in the novel as " confession , " something that implies her own culpabil ...
... rhetorical contradictions of depicting such scenes of brutality . One might wonder why Tess's excised story of sexual violence against her is persistently labeled in the novel as " confession , " something that implies her own culpabil ...
Obsah
theorizing Confession Gendering Confession | 15 |
Histories and Fictions of Victorian Confession AntiCatholic Rhetoric and Villette | 41 |
That Narrow Boundry Line Figures of Female Degeneracy and Lady Audleys Secret | 73 |
The Bonds and Bondage of Gender and Race Paternal Metaphors of Confession in Daniel Deronda | 105 |
The UnIntact State Tess of the dUrbervilles and Confessions of Sexual and Textual Violence | 143 |
Notes | 165 |
Bibliography | 191 |
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Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian ... Susan David Bernstein Obmedzený náhľad - 2000 |
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