scholarly journals De la Delie de Scève en Diotima rediuiua, ou l’image d’un mentor sans le son

Author(s):  
Xavier Bonnier

Made an exceptional mentor by her sex, her foreignness and her status as Socrates’ teacher, Diotima was a key figure of reference in Renaissance discussions about Love in revivals of Plato’s Symposium. The waters become muddied when Scève, following the examples of Castiglione and Speroni, uses the character of Diotima as a metaphor for the beloved woman in Delie (1544): the competition with other female characters, the finality of the metaphor, the ambiguous structure of the dizain, and the fact that the redeeming speech is absolutely silent combine to imply a certain irony, for here Diotima is supposed to teach Hatred as well as Love, and the mischievous side of a poetic composition that favours inscription over expression.

2006 ◽  
Vol 175 (4S) ◽  
pp. 466-466
Author(s):  
Jill A. Macoska ◽  
Lesa Begley ◽  
Christine Monteleon ◽  
James W. MacDonald ◽  
Rajal B. Shah

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
CLARE HOLLOWELL

This paper examines girls and power in British co-educational boarding school stories published from 1928 to 1958. While feminist scholars have hailed the girls’ school story as a site of potential resistance to constricting gender roles, the same can not be said of the co-educational school story. While the genres share many tropes and characterisation, the move from an all-female world to a co-educational setting allows the characters access to a narrower range of gender roles, and renders the female characters significantly less powerful. The disciplinary structures of the co-educational schools, mirroring those in real life, operate in a supposedly progressive manner that in fact removes girls from access to power.


2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Wai Fong Cheang

Abstract Laden with sea images, Shakespeare‘s plays dramatise the maritime fantasies of his time. This paper discusses the representation of maritime elements in Twelfth Night, The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice by relating them to gender and space issues. It focuses on Shakespeare‘s creation of maritime space as space of liberty for his female characters.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-292
Author(s):  
Yashika Bisht ◽  
Shweta Saxena
Keyword(s):  

Karna’s Wife is the first work of the writer, Kavita Kane who is “trying to portray a small chunk, a small aspect which has not been dealt with yet” in the Mahabharata. In Karna’s Wife, Kavita Kane portrays female characters like Uruvi and Vrushali who are victims at the hands of men and fate and how they still balance their lives and endure it all. Vrushali is the first wife of Karna and her husband married Uruvi and was deeply in love with her. Her rights, his attention, his love, everything is distributed. Uruvi who is Karna’s second wife is constantly seen striving throughout the novel to keep her husband away from Duryodhana’s evil camaraderie because she fears that this alliance will certainly lead to her husband’s catastrophe. It would be very interesting to see how these two women have come out of these gritty situations, faced the veracity and still lived mightily.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-188
Author(s):  
Malika Adigezalova ◽  

The article is devoted to the features of female types in the tragedies of one of significant playwrights of the XX century Guseyn Javid. In the given article, they analyse and compare the characteristic features and behavior of the female figures of the author’s such literaryworks as «Mother»(Selma, Ismet), «Maral»(Maral, Humay), «Afet»(Afet, Alagoz), «Siyavush»(Farangiz, Sudaba). The basis of the article lies in the creative works of G.Javid, where special attention is attracted by several types of female characters, among which the types of a traditional eastern woman are most brightly represented


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