scholarly journals PSYCHOANALYTIC FEMINISM – A TOOL TO STUDY THE WORKS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF AND SYLVIA PLATH USING BEAUVOIR’S THE SECOND SEX.

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 1587-1590
Author(s):  
Soundarya KR ◽  
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DrShanthiK Chitra ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Psychoanalytic Feminism

scholarly journals Identity and Writing in the Diaries of Plath and Woolf: Defining, Abjectifying, and Recovering the Self

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 82-102
Author(s):  
Christie Mills Jeansonne
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
The Self ◽  
Range Of Movement ◽  
The Past ◽  
Diary Writing

The ordering, de-abjectifying function of language is often harnessed by the diary writer: re-living and re-writing a fictive self through diary writing allows the writer control and understanding of the self which has experienced and then changed in the interval of time between the event, the recording, and the rereading. The diaries of Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf lend credence to this possibility of recovering abject identity through language. Their diary accounts of mental illness wield mastery over their experiences and emotional responses by choosing to recount them (or not). My paper seeks to reveal how Plath’s and Woolf’s distancing and retelling does not simply divide their selves (the pre- and post- trauma selves, the physical and textual selves), but allows them a greater range of movement, enabling mediation and reconciliation of many self-identities from the past, present, and future, and granting the authority to narrate their own continuums of becoming. This article was submitted to the EJLW on 13 October 2013 and  published on 13 October 2014.

scholarly journals Para os não nascidos: a peça-suicídio de Sarah Kane

2019 ◽  
pp. 103-119
Author(s):  
Lara Luiza Oliveira Amaral
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Sarah Kane

Virginia Woolf escreve uma carta antes de ir em direção ao rio com os bolsos cheios de pedras. Sylvia Plath anota o número do telefone de seu psiquiatra em cima da mesa próxima ao fogão. Sarah Kane escreve sua última peça antes de retirar os cadarços para se enforcar. 4.48 Psychosis se torna uma espécie de “bilhete suicida” deixado por Kane antes do seu ato final. Pretendemos, neste trabalho, analisar não somente a autoaniquilação, tema central da peça, como também a sua relação com as teorias do pós-drama e a influência do lirismo na escrita e a imersão na interioridade da personagem. Para tanto, utilizaremos teóricos como Lehmann (2007) e Sarrazac (2012) para a teoria do drama; Alvarez (1999) para o suicídio; Lang (2015) para os estudos sobre Kane e seu contexto de escrita; dentre outros.

scholarly journals An Anatomy of the Collective Unconscious of Leading Women Writers

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 67-76
Author(s):  
Jency Christafer
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Women Characters ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Collective Unconscious ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Socially Relevant ◽  
General Objection

This article intends to explore the concept of feminism as presented in the works of Virginia Woolf, Mary Ann Evans, Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath, Kamala Das and Maya Angelou.A selective study of their works is conducted to exhibit the ways in which they presented the woman characters in order to deal with socially relevant issues. Woman victimisation, racism, discrimination etc become the major focus of these writers. This article investigates the collective unconscious realm of these writers and how it influenced them in their writing. The writers’ individual conception of feminism is also studied and critiqued. The traditional conception of beauty, perfection in the works of writers like Petrarch had resulted in the general objection from the women writers and it led to the representation of women characters in their novel quite differently. The article brings to light the minute flaws in the approach of the women writers and concludes by highlighting their contribution to feminism.

Spaces of Feeling

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Figlerowicz
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Marcel Proust ◽  
Ralph Ellison ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Wallace Stevens ◽  
John Ashbery

Can other people notice our affects more easily than we do? Spaces of Feeling examines modernist novels and poems that treat this possibility as electrifying, as well as deeply disturbing. Their characters and lyric speakers are undone by the realization that they depend on others to solve their inward affective conundrums—and that, to these other people, their feelings often do not seem mysterious at all. To a psychoanalyst, such realizations might sound like truisms. Spaces of Feeling shows that they become considerably weightier within the context of our contemporary approaches to affects as gateways into larger social conditions. Through close readings of works by Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, John Ashbery, Ralph Ellison, Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, and Wallace Stevens, it highlights the diversity of aesthetic and sociopolitical contexts in which these affective dependencies become central to these authors’ representations of selfhood. By setting these novels and poems in conversation with the work of contemporary theorists, it also shows that the questions about subjectivity that these earlier works open remain pressing, and tantalizingly unanswered, in our present day.

Endogenous misery: menopause in medicine, literature and culture

2019 ◽  
pp. 67-82
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Barry
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Political ◽  
Menopausal Woman ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Political Stance ◽  
History Of

This chapter addresses the changing conception of menopause in philosophy and culture—a particularly fraught example of the intersection of ageing, gender and sexuality. It takes as its starting point the oblique but revealing representation of the 'turn of life' in the work of Virginia Woolf, looking at how the cultural history of the menopause offers a context for today's attitudes and practices. It also considers Germaine Greer’s heated critique of Simone de Beauvoir’s conception of menopause, in particular the gap between the political stance in The Second Sex and the capitulation in Beauvoir’s memoirs to society’s construction of a disempowered menopausal woman. The chapter goes on to reflect on the way that both Beauvoir and Greer, however, unwittingly echo discredited scientific theories about menopause as ‘deficiency’, and to think about how Woolf’s fiction might offer a more nuanced account of the gains as well as losses of female midlife.

scholarly journals Um fio de voz tecendo biografias ficcionais

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Maria Zeneide De Macedo Melo Jorge ◽  
Rita de Cássia Silva Dionísio
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Clarice Lispector ◽  
Zelda Fitzgerald ◽  
Dorothy Parker

ResumoEste trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar uma leitura da obra Vésperas da escritora contemporânea Adriana Lunardi. A autora através de um olhar inovador conduziu as personagens escritoras, poetas e romancistas, nascidas no século XIX e XX, para reencenar em uma era pós-moderna: Virgínia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, Colette, Katharine Mansfield, Sylvia Plath, Zelda Fitzgerald, Ana Cristina César, Júlia da Costa e Clarice Lispector. No desenrolar da narrativa é pertinente esclarecer que o narrador chama a nossa atenção para a importância da estrutura dos contos, aproximando as mulheres escritoras das suas produções artísticas, revelando o encontro dessas personagens com a morte. Faz isso, tentando reproduzir a realidade dos fatos narrados e também para tornar as cenas narradas mais próximas de um realismo.Palavras-chaveVésperas, Adriana Lunardi, Biografia ficcional.

scholarly journals Protrusion of Simon de Beauvoir, A Propelled Portrayal of Feminism in Orlando on Elizabethan Epoch

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Manzar Bashir ◽  
Rida Sarfraz ◽  
Khubaib Ur Rehman ◽  
Muqaddas Javed
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Complete Analysis ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Shared History ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Main Factor

It is a stiff known fact that in chauvinistic society, a female has been taken as a suppressed commodity. The ultimate dependence is the main factor in the marginalization of females in society. Although, in a country where the female population is more than men’s, such topics of female subjugation can be traced from the shared history. This study aims at the various factors through which the main character of the movie and novel “Orlando” has gone through the acute transformation from a weaker position to being in command and strong. This paper is based on the qualitative methodology and it will probe traces through which the protagonist is viewed through the lens of Simon de Beauvoir’s Second Sex and gender differences (Beauvoir, 1993). Complete analysis in terms of the body language from being submissive to outrageous, from vulnerable to gaining strength, this research will significantly try to scan all the aspects through which a character is transformed. This paper will also try to probe the socio-psychological factors through which an individual suffers through the anguish (Ranjan, 2019 ). The protagonist's anguish has been depicted and will be analyzed in the light of famous feminist theorist Simon de Beauvoir's “The Second Sex” (Beauvoir, 1976). While engaging and clashing for the dependability this investigation likewise examines the complexities agonized over the opportunity of enunciation of the protagonist from the two portrayals that are film and text. This examination will open vistas to contemplate the grievance forced by the financial components that pressurises a person, as far as possible, where one has to decide between giving up or revolting against the shackles of society. By the execution of Beauvoir's idea on the screen transformation of "Orlando" composed by Virginia Woolf (Woolf, 1993), the spitting image of women in Elizabethan civilization and her insurrection is illustrated. This paper is a significant effort to highlight the cobwebs encapsulating an individual and their strife to survive and breathe in the same existing world.    

scholarly journals From “The Small Doll” to “The Lioness”: The Reversal of Master/Slave Role in Sylvia Plath’s Selected Poems

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Atoosa Shahsavari ◽  
Fahimeh Naseri ◽  
Abdolmohammad Movahhed
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
The Other ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Second Sex

Written in the last two years of her life, selected poems of Sylvia Plath such as, “The Jailer”, “Three Women”, “Fever103°”, “Purdah”, “Daddy”, “Lady Lazarus”, and “Edge” reveal that the speaker’s inevitable movement towards her final suicide is rooted in her enslavement by men in society. This is observed by reading these poems in the light of Simon De Beauvoir’s dichotomy of master-slave in The Second Sex, with application of terms like “the other”, “realm of the women”, “double demand”, “servant”, and “enchantress”. In this article it is argued that the speaker manages to reverse the dichotomy and becomes the master of her own fate by committing suicide. To the best of my knowledge the application of De Beauvoir’s theory to the above-mentioned poems has not been done before; therefore, it can shed new light on how power relations between men and women are reversed in these poems.

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