Herself Beheld
Title | Herself Beheld PDF eBook |
Author | Jenijoy La Belle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780801497049 |
What happenes when a woman looks into a mirror? Does she see her face or does she see herself? Jenijoy La Belle finds that women--both in literature and in life--interact with their reflected images for reasons that far transcend the gratification of vanity. In this thought-provoking account of the role played by the mirror in women's self-conceptions, La Belle focuses attention on literature of the last two hundred years in which a woman confronts her looking glass, and through her perception of how she looks, begins to consider who she is.
A Community of One
Title | A Community of One PDF eBook |
Author | Martin A. Danahay |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1993-08-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780791415122 |
Complementing recent feminist studies of female self-representation, this book examines the dynamics of masculine self-representation in nineteenth-century British literature. Arguing that the category autobiography was a product of nineteenth-century individualism, the author analyzes the dependence of the nineteenth-century masculine subject on autonomy or self-naming as the prerequisite for the composition of a life history. The masculine autobiographer achieves this autonomy by using a feminized other as a metaphorical mirror for the self. The feminized other in these texts represents the social cost of masculine autobiography. Authors from Wordsworth to Arnold, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Stuart Mill, and Edmund Gosse, use female lovers and family members as symbols for the community with which they feel they have lost contact. In the theoretical introduction, the author argues that these texts actually privilege the autonomous self over the images of community they ostensibly value, creating in the process a self-enclosed and self-referential community of one.
Historical Plays
Title | Historical Plays PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 904 |
Release | 1908 |
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Shakespeare's Venvs and Adonis
Title | Shakespeare's Venvs and Adonis PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 122 |
Release | 1899 |
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Pericles ; Two noble kinsmen ; Venus and Adonis
Title | Pericles ; Two noble kinsmen ; Venus and Adonis PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 1881 |
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The Temple Shakespeare
Title | The Temple Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 1904 |
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Shakespeare's Venus & Adonis
Title | Shakespeare's Venus & Adonis PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1901 |
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