Being known as the lesbian-themed novel,Tipping the Velvet has always been analyzed with queer theory and Judith But?ler’s sexual performance.Female body discourse is a new perspective to analyze it with the combinat...Being known as the lesbian-themed novel,Tipping the Velvet has always been analyzed with queer theory and Judith But?ler’s sexual performance.Female body discourse is a new perspective to analyze it with the combination of the text analysis and feminine writing put forward by Helene Cixous.Narrating the female body in a novel is a way to deconstruct the patriarchal society and to awaken women to fight against it.It is still of significance in 21st society where gender inequality and discrimination exist everywhere.展开更多
There are abound with the deconstruction of classic works in recent years,among which Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius is undoubtedly an impressive one.Updike completed the antecedent part of Shakespeare’s play Hamlt....There are abound with the deconstruction of classic works in recent years,among which Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius is undoubtedly an impressive one.Updike completed the antecedent part of Shakespeare’s play Hamlt.Noticeably,this new prequel of Hamlet,from the mindset of female,takes Queen Gertrude as the narrative center and airs Gertrude’s psychological states to break the confinement of female discourse in Shakespeare’s plays.Hinged on Foucault’s theory of power and discourse,this paper attempts to analyze how Updike manifests women’s endeavors to assert preserve and construct their discourse,break the aphasia and even challenge the voice of male authority by elucidating the interactions between Queen Gertrude and other crucial male roles in the full text in order to navigate readers in-depth to scrutinize the changes of women’s social status in different era.展开更多
I Stand Here Ironing is Tillie Olsen’s first novel of her back to writing after several years’silence.It reflects the real living condition of marginalized women through the description of a daughter by the mother’...I Stand Here Ironing is Tillie Olsen’s first novel of her back to writing after several years’silence.It reflects the real living condition of marginalized women through the description of a daughter by the mother’s memories.Based on Susan S.Lanser’s distinction of three modes of narrative voice in feminist narratology,this paper analyzes three narrative voices in this novel.Olsen employs multiple narrative voices in the novel in order to release the voice of the marginalized women in the silence,she destroys the male’s authority and constructs the discourse authority of silent,poor working-class women.展开更多
Philip Roth has often been accused of misogyny.A close and unbiased reading of Roth’s American Pastoral,however,reveals that beneath its surface patriarchal narrative discourse simmers an undercurrent of a female sub...Philip Roth has often been accused of misogyny.A close and unbiased reading of Roth’s American Pastoral,however,reveals that beneath its surface patriarchal narrative discourse simmers an undercurrent of a female subtext,which engages a dialogue as well as a confrontation with its counterpart.Swede Levov,worshipped as an indestructible,active and masculine semi-god,turns out to be weak,passive and indecisive,while the women belittled by him are actually independent,insightful,wise and proactive.Such patriarchal binary oppositions as male/female,active/passive,strong/weak having been subverted,patriarchal myth and authority represented by Levov has thus been deconstructed and the gender politics has been rectified.Women in the novel win the domination held by the male protagonist Levov,the narrator Nathan Zuckerman.展开更多
文摘Being known as the lesbian-themed novel,Tipping the Velvet has always been analyzed with queer theory and Judith But?ler’s sexual performance.Female body discourse is a new perspective to analyze it with the combination of the text analysis and feminine writing put forward by Helene Cixous.Narrating the female body in a novel is a way to deconstruct the patriarchal society and to awaken women to fight against it.It is still of significance in 21st society where gender inequality and discrimination exist everywhere.
文摘There are abound with the deconstruction of classic works in recent years,among which Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius is undoubtedly an impressive one.Updike completed the antecedent part of Shakespeare’s play Hamlt.Noticeably,this new prequel of Hamlet,from the mindset of female,takes Queen Gertrude as the narrative center and airs Gertrude’s psychological states to break the confinement of female discourse in Shakespeare’s plays.Hinged on Foucault’s theory of power and discourse,this paper attempts to analyze how Updike manifests women’s endeavors to assert preserve and construct their discourse,break the aphasia and even challenge the voice of male authority by elucidating the interactions between Queen Gertrude and other crucial male roles in the full text in order to navigate readers in-depth to scrutinize the changes of women’s social status in different era.
文摘I Stand Here Ironing is Tillie Olsen’s first novel of her back to writing after several years’silence.It reflects the real living condition of marginalized women through the description of a daughter by the mother’s memories.Based on Susan S.Lanser’s distinction of three modes of narrative voice in feminist narratology,this paper analyzes three narrative voices in this novel.Olsen employs multiple narrative voices in the novel in order to release the voice of the marginalized women in the silence,she destroys the male’s authority and constructs the discourse authority of silent,poor working-class women.
文摘Philip Roth has often been accused of misogyny.A close and unbiased reading of Roth’s American Pastoral,however,reveals that beneath its surface patriarchal narrative discourse simmers an undercurrent of a female subtext,which engages a dialogue as well as a confrontation with its counterpart.Swede Levov,worshipped as an indestructible,active and masculine semi-god,turns out to be weak,passive and indecisive,while the women belittled by him are actually independent,insightful,wise and proactive.Such patriarchal binary oppositions as male/female,active/passive,strong/weak having been subverted,patriarchal myth and authority represented by Levov has thus been deconstructed and the gender politics has been rectified.Women in the novel win the domination held by the male protagonist Levov,the narrator Nathan Zuckerman.
