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Im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert wurde die Literatur zum Verhandlungsort jüdischer Weiblichkeitsentwürfe, zu einem Experimentierraum, in dem zeitge¬nössische Diskurse über und anhand jüdischer Frauenfiguren ausgetragen und erprobt wurden. Es entstand eine Wechselwirkung zwischen literarischen Texten und der Wahrnehmung jüdischer Frauen, zwischen einer meist männlichen Perspektive und einem weiblich-jüdischen Selbstbild. Denn literarischen Weiblichkeitsentwürfen war zumeist ein Schreiben über (jüdische) Frauen inhärent. Weiblich(-jüdisches) Schreiben blieb eine Randerscheinung. Das gilt insbesondere für das 20. Jahrhundert: Die Pathologisierung von Frauen(-körpern) im Fin de Siècle wirkte nach und nahm Einfluss auf alle Lebensbereiche; für jüdische Frauen galt das durch eine Engführung von Antisemitismus und Misogynie in besonderer Weise. Im Mittelpunkt dieser Untersuchung stehen daher literarische Präsentationen jüdischer Frauen – jüdische Weiblichkeit als Paradigma männlicher Autorschaft. In the nineteenth and, in particular, twentieth centuries, literature became a place to negotiate ideas of Jewish femininity, an experimental space in which contemporary discourses were carried out and tried out on and using female Jewish characters. Literary portrayals of Jewish women and therefore Jewish femininity as a paradigm of male authorship are thus at the center of this study.
Ideas of gender. --- Jewish femininity. --- literary antisemitism. --- misogyny. --- stereotypes. --- Femininity in literature. --- Femininity (Psychology) in literature
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The form of art called fiction has always been the privileged framework providing the perfect alibi for facing, framing, and containing the Other's desire and the strange libido attached to violence: in other words, there is an ambivalent dimension inherent in the scenarios and fantasies we enjoy by proxy. Are not the fairy tales of our childhood full of images of death and violence, whose fascinating presence is paradoxically meant to make us feel all the more safely tucked up in bed? After ...
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American fiction --- Women and literature --- Femininity in literature. --- Friendship in literature. --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Femininity (Psychology) in literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Women authors
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In Forces of Nature, the authors investigate the relationships between the natural world and gender and sexuality. The authors explore the frameworks within which femininity and nature have been constructed, as well as the impact nature has had on our understandings of masculinity, homosexuality, and heterosexuality. For some writers nature has restorative powers, for others nature embodies violence and destruction. Yet, one common thread runs across all of the chapters in this collection:...
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Gender in American Literature and Culture introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism. It offers nuanced readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present and moves beyond inflexible categories of masculinity and femininity that have reinforced misleading assumptions about public and private spaces, domesticity, individualism, and community. The book also demonstrates how rigid inscriptions of gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States. Responding to a sense of 21st century cultural and political crisis, it illuminates the literary histories and cultural imaginaries that have set the stage for urgent contemporary debates.
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The notorious image of Pandora haunts mythology: a woman created as punishment for the crimes of man, she is the bearer of hope yet also responsible for the earth's desolation. She binds together perpetuating dichotomies that underlie the most fundamental aspects of the Western canon: beauty and evil, body and soul, depth and superficiality, truth and lie. Speaking in multiplicity, Pandora emerges as the first sign of female complexity. In this compelling study, Vered Lev Kenaan offers a radical revision of the Greek myth of the first woman. She argues that Pandora leaves a decisive mark on ancient poetics and shows that we can unravel the profound impact of Pandora's image once we recognize that Pandora embodies the very idea of the ancient literary text. Locating the myth of the first woman right at the heart of feminist interrogation of gender and textuality, Pandora's Senses moves beyond a feminist critique of masculine hegemony and shows the centrality of this iconic figure among the poetics of such central genres as the cosmological and didactic epic, the Platonic dialogue, the love elegy, and the ancient novel. Pandora's Senses innovates our understanding of gender as a critical lens through which to view ancient literature.
Pandora (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Classical literature --- History and criticism. --- Femininity in literature --- Pandora (Greek mythology) in literature --- Pandora in literature --- Femininity (Psychology) in literature --- History and criticism --- Femininity in literature. --- Pandora (Greek mythology)--in literature. --- Pandora
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Contemporary feminist theorists have implied a special affinity between women and irony because of their 'double' relation to the prevailing order of things: both speak from within this order while remaining 'other' to it in some way. Irony can be regarded as the obvious mode in which a feminist might speak, as it reflects her relation to the patriarchal structure while refusing to validate the truth of the current sexual hierarchy. She Changes by Intrigue undertakes the first sustained analysis of the parallels between irony, femininity and feminism. By retracing the association of these terms through canonical and contemporary continental philosophy, the book seeks to illuminate a notion of sexual agency that has until now remained shadowy, in spite of its prevalence. Examining the recurrence of the 'ironic feminine' in texts by Kristeva, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Irigaray, Derrida and Kofman, it argues that a radical revaluation of the legacy of patriarchal thought in feminism is necessary before irony can be embraced as a feminist strategy. In this context, She Changes by Intrigue offers a new reading of what it means to write as a feminist 'subject'. This volume will be of interest to students and academics working in the fields of gender studies, continental philosophy and critical / cultural theory.
Femininity (Philosophy) --- Femininity in literature. --- Feminist theory. --- Irony. --- Sarcasm --- Cynicism --- Rhetoric --- Satire --- Tragic, The --- Understatement --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Femininity (Psychology) in literature --- Philosophical anthropology --- Philosophy --- 82:396 --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme
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By November 1822, the British reading public had already voraciously consumed both Walter Scott's expensive novels and Rudolf Ackermann's exquisite lithographs. The next decade, referred to by some scholars as dormant and unproductive, is in fact bursting with Forget Me Nots, Friendship's Offerings, Keepsakes, and Literary Souvenirs. By wrapping literature, poetry, and art into an alluring package, editors and publishers saturated the market with a new, popular, and best-selling genre, the literary annual. In Forget Me Not, Katherine D. Harris assesses the phenomenal rise of the annual and it
English literature --- Gift books --- Femininity in literature. --- Art, Victorian. --- Victorian art --- Art, Modern --- Femininity (Psychology) in literature --- Annual gift books --- Annuals (Gift books) --- Christmas books --- Gift-books (Annuals, etc.) --- Giftbooks --- Keepsakes (Books) --- Anthologies --- Souvenirs (Keepsakes) --- Literature, Victorian --- Victorian literature
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Der galante Roman um 1700 überrascht mit weiblichen Haupt- und Titelfiguren. Bisher kaum bekannt, prägen sie als zentrale Handlungsträger ein galantes Erzählen, das in einer Textform stattfindet, die erst im 18. Jahrhundert zur ,literarischen Gattung' avanciert. In gattungs- und genderspezifischer Perspektive analysiert die Autorin erstmals narrative Konstruktionsprinzipien galanter Weiblichkeit im deutschen Roman (1690-1720). Ausgehend von den Para-, Peri- und Epitexten beschreibt sie die Spezifik galanter Frauenfiguren im Wechselspiel von poetischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Aspekten der Buch- und Medienlandschaft um 1700. Anonyme Buchhandelsstrukturen und die Orientierung an der preziösen Romantradition Frankreichs erweisen sich als ebenso konstitutiv für ein Erzählen über Geschlecht im galanten Roman wie die Adaption und Modifikation poetischer Traditionen und Gendermodelle durch junge Akademiker auf der Suche nach ,eigenen' bzw. neuen Ausdrucksformen zwischen ,Scherz und Ernst'. Aus der Gattungsdynamik emergieren subversive Gendernarrative.
Women in literature. --- Femininity in literature. --- German fiction --- Chivalry in literature. --- Femininity (Psychology) in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism. --- Gender roles in literature. --- chivalrous literature.
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