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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Axelrod, Mark (1946-....)
Titre(s) : Notions of the feminine [Texte imprimé] : literary essays from Dostoevsky to Lacan / Mark Axelrod, ...
Publication : New York, NY ; Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Description matérielle : vi, 98 pages ; 23 cm
Collection : Palgrave pivot
Lien à la collection : Palgrave pivot
Comprend : "Pale whore, Pale writer": is there punishment for the crime? ; "Blushes and flushes": Anna Karenina's shameful physiology ; Women in love: D.H. Lawrence's paean to misogyny ; The virgin and the gipsy: D.H. Lawrence's paean to misogyny ; Ugly hairy mounds, fierce hairy armpits, and sewer-like menstruations: women as vulgar commodity in Fuentes' The Old Gringo ; Mediazation and marginalization of the feminine in Boll's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum ; Gazing from the inside: Lacan and an endocrinological notion of the male "gaze" ; Index.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index. - Mark Axelrod is Professor of Comparative Literature at Chapman University, USA,
and is the Director of the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing. He has received
five National Endowment Arts Grants and is also an accomplished novelist, literary
critic, and screenwriter.--Page 4 cover.
Approaching the question of how male novelists perceive their female characters, this
collection of creative yet analytic literary essays unwinds the complexities of male
authorship versus narration. Mark Axelrod looks at a wide range of male authors including
Fydor Dostoevsky, D.H. Lawrence, Carlos Fuentes, and the theories of Jacques Lacan
; Just how do male novelists perceive their female characters? Are there subtle or
not so subtle indications in the narrative that reflect the perceptions of the author
rather than the narrator? And are some of these perceptions pre-conceived based on
certain cultural biases? These are a few of the questions that Notions of the Feminine:
Literary Essays from Dostoevsky to Lacan addresses. With that in mind, the essays
examines those notions in such texts as: Dostoevsky's, Crime & Punishment; Tolstoy's,
Anna Karenina; Lawrence's Women in Love and The Virgin and the Gypsy; Fuentes', The
Old Gringo; Boll's, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum; and with an additional essay
based on Lacan's notion of The Gaze that is germane to the other texts.--Page 4 cover
Sujet(s) : Femmes -- Dans la littérature
Roman -- Thèmes, motifs
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781137507259. - ISBN 113750725X
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44307746g
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