scholarly journals Reclaiming Histories/Rewriting Destinies: Mrs. Woolf and Orlando in Unearthing the Buried

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
Milica Nenezić
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Stable Structure ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Literary Expression ◽  
The Past ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
Strange Particles ◽  
The Future ◽  
Structural Theories ◽  
Living Creature

History is usually written by the winners; those who lose retain their own. The extent to which these differ and whether the differences affect the fate of mankind are all issues that require constant rendering and re-examination. The future confidently retains the answers, but do these answers change the circumstances? Can philosophy, feminist literary criticism or post-structural theories obscure the meaning of fiction? We are composed of strange particles that create our being and identity, which does not likely pave the way to our becoming true by solely ‘static’ existence, but by one that unites the past, present and the future. Such particles placed on the platform of literary expression sometimes have the character of a more permanent testimony to history, either written, or tobe-written. One figure, who struggled to raise our awareness and to remind us that the essay can represent a dialogue, that the reader carries special importance and a role in both the creation and reception of artistic skills, yet that language and meaning do not have a stable structure, was Virginia Adeline Stephen Woolf, who was rewriting and reclaiming both individual and common histories. Reflecting on the dilemmas and perplexities of both historical and fictional structural norms in literature, Mrs. Woolf unobtrusively portrayed an androgynous and ever-living creature in her novel Orlando, who seeks, among other feats, to re-evaluate the importance of witnessing and re-examining history

Emphasis Added: Plots and Plausibilities in Women's Fiction

PMLA ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy K. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Women's Fiction ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
Mill On The Floss ◽  
Women's Novels

Feminist literary criticism over the past decade has raised the important issue of woman's relationship to the production of prose fiction. Central to the inquiry have been both the desire to identify the specificity of such a “corpus” and the reluctance to define it by inherited notions of sexual difference. Reading Mme de Lafayette's La Princesse de Cléves with George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss in the context of this double agenda suggests the possibility of deciphering a female erotics that structures the plots of women's fiction, plots that reject the narrative logic of the dominant discourse. Traditionally, the critical establishment has condemned these plots as implausible and generally assigned women's novels a marginal position in literary history. Perhaps the grounds of that judgment are less aesthetic than ideological.

scholarly journals KETERDIDIKAN PEREMPUAN DAN WACANA KESETARAAN DALAM NOVEL INDONESIA PRA-BALAI PUSTAKA

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulianeta Yulianeta
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Women's Education ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Gender

This research rests on the phenomenon that literary works are not born from cultural vacuum and social emptiness. The pre-Balai Pustaka Indonesian novels mark the public's awareness of the importance of education so that it cannot be separated from its social cultural system. The issue of the importance of women's education and equality discourse has been spawned in pre-Balai Pustaka Indonesian novels. This is important to be reflected as an effort to enrich the literary treasures of Indonesia that often side-stepped pre-Balai Pustaka literary works. Three pre-Balai Pustaka Indonesia novels that raise issues of women's education and equality discourse show the concern of Indonesian authors on issues related to women's education. This research seeks to explore the discourse of equality in three pre-Balai Pustaka Indonesian novels buried in the course of Indonesian literature. Therefore, feminist literary criticism and gender perspective are used. The results of this study contribute to the world of Indonesian literature, especially the activities of Indonesian literary criticism that reflect the presence of pre-Balai Pustaka Indonesia novels for the development of literary criticism in the present time and the future.

scholarly journals Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna mniej więcej znana

2018 ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Lucyna Marzec
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Religious Poetry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
History Of ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Government Institution ◽  
Unusual Type

The article is the analysis of the place of Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna in contemporary literary discourse. The author of the article claims – using Pierre Bayard’s theory – that the poetess is known “more or less”: she is remembered as someone who got prizes and recognition but at the same time she is impossible to read nowadays. There is political ambiguity and antiquity in her texts that keep her in the past. Marzec points at four areas of literary studies, where Iłłakowiczówna is still present: 1. Poetics: Iłłakowiczówna uses an original and unusual type of the Polish tonic verse. The author of this article analyses it using tools of psychoanalysis. 2. Religious discourse: Iłłakowicz.wna is interpreted as the author of religious poetry but Marzec argues with such interpretations. 3. Post-dependence studies: Iłłakowiczówna has not been analysed in terms of post-dependence studies yet but she is mentioned in the Polish borderlines discourse. 4. Feminist literary criticism: Iłłakowiczówna used to be studied as the author of androgynous poetry, but Marzec points out other motifs such as miscarriage, infanticide or problems of the new woman, like work at government institution, contestation of vitalism and bureaucracy. The aimof this article is to show that writing of Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna needs to be read in terms of the history of literature which is devoid of evaluation and judging. Such analysis means going back in terms of modern literary studies which have undergone multiple turns that changed the tools accessible to contemporary critics.

Magical Vanishing Point

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Sizemore
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Vanishing Point ◽  
Historical Romance ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Simultaneous Prediction

This chapter advances a new understanding of the historical romance as a medium for constituting the people via the readerly experience of enchantment. The motif of vanishing in the revolutionary romance, a generic subcategory, signals the absent historical present and the related challenge of representing the people in process. Contrary to a long tradition of literary criticism, the chapter argues that the genre of historical romance seeks to trace out the historical present amid lived conditions of uncertainty. In William Austin’s “Peter Rugg, the Missing Man” (1824) and Catharine Sedgwick’s The Linwoods (1835), two different forms of enchantment (supernatural and affective; the latter is The Linwood’s version of eros) serve as diagnostics on the present, as does the genre’s simultaneous prediction of the future and recreation of the past.

scholarly journals A Woman by Nature? Darren Aronofsky’s mother! as American Ecofeminist Gothic

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Hauke
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
American Gothic ◽  
The Past ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
Biblical Symbolism

In this essay, I discuss Darren Aronofsky’s 2017 feature film mother! in the context of an intersectional approach to ecofeminism and the American gothic genre. By exploring the histories of ecofeminism, the significances of the ecogothic, and the Puritan origins of American gothic fiction, I read the movie as a reiteration of both a global ecophobic and an American national narrative, whose biblical symbolism is rooted in the patriarchal logic of Christian theology, American history, female suffering, and environmental crisis. mother! emerges as an example of a distinctly American ecofeminist gothic through its focus on and subversion of the essentialist equation of women and nature as feminized others, by dipping into the archives of feminist literary criticism, and by raising ecocritical awareness of the dangers of climate change across socio-cultural and anthropocentric categories. Situating Aronofsky’s film within traditions of American gothic and ecofeminist literatures from colonial times to the present moment, I show how mother! moves beyond a maternalist fantasy rooted in the past and towards a critique of the androcentric ideologies at the core of the 21st-century Anthropocene.

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