As one of the most famous contemporary British women novelists, A.S. Byatt depicts the true situation of women in her"Frederica Quartet". The quartet involves some feminist issues such as marriage and celiba...As one of the most famous contemporary British women novelists, A.S. Byatt depicts the true situation of women in her"Frederica Quartet". The quartet involves some feminist issues such as marriage and celibacy, female power and women's alienation. In the quartet, Byatt associates the mythical virgin images to the women figures in real life, and contemplates possible ways for women to survive and keep female power in a male-dominated society. It makes a detailed analysis on the recurring virgin images and the characterization of female characters in the quartet, aiming to analyze the theme of Byatt's quartet and reveal her feminist concerns.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
文摘As one of the most famous contemporary British women novelists, A.S. Byatt depicts the true situation of women in her"Frederica Quartet". The quartet involves some feminist issues such as marriage and celibacy, female power and women's alienation. In the quartet, Byatt associates the mythical virgin images to the women figures in real life, and contemplates possible ways for women to survive and keep female power in a male-dominated society. It makes a detailed analysis on the recurring virgin images and the characterization of female characters in the quartet, aiming to analyze the theme of Byatt's quartet and reveal her feminist concerns.
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.
