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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790439703321

Autore

Rutland Barry

Titolo

Gender and narrativity [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Barry Rutland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Ottawa, Ont.], : Centre for Textual Analysis, Discourse, and Culture, : Carleton University Press, 1997

ISBN

1-283-53143-7

9786613843883

0-7735-8431-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Collana

TADAC papers/Cahiers TADAC ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

RutlandR. B (R. Barry)

Disciplina

809/.923

Soggetti

Gender identity in literature

Narration (Rhetoric)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Co-published by Carleton University Press.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Telling Difference / Barry Rutland -- Toward an Epistemology of Gender / John Verdon -- Telling the Feminine / Robert Richard -- Sex, Lies, and Photography: Reading Detective Fiction as Psychoanalysis in Timothy Findley's The Telling of Lies / Barbara Gabriel -- F(r)ictions: Feminists Re/Writing Narrative / Barbara Godard -- The (W)rite of Passage: From Childhood to Womanhood in Lucy Maud Montgomery's Emily Novels / G.A. Woods -- Parsifal and Semiotic Structuralism / J. Iain Prattis -- Writing Toward Absence: Frances Gregg's The Mystic Leeway / Ben Jones -- Androgynous Realism in Heinrich von Kleist's Die Heilige Cdcilie oder Die Gewalt der Musik (Eine Legende) / Arnd Bohm -- Clough, Claude, Arnold, and Marguerite: Male Heterophobia in Victorian Poetry / Barry Rutland.

Sommario/riassunto

It is impossible to imagine a community that is not divided into at least two gender groups. It is equally impossible to imagine a community that does not tell or enact stories. The relationship between these universal aspects of human culture is the mainspring of Gender and Narrativity. From Genesis to Freud, the Western narrative tradition tells the same old story of masculine dominance/feminine subservience as a matter of divine will or natural truth. Here, nine Canadian scholars challenge and interpret this tradition, in effect "re-telling" the story of



gender, and themselves intervening in the narrative process. Critical readings from a wide range of literary texts - medieval and modern, European and Canadian - replace abstract theory in these studies, while sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, deconstruction and new history are the axes of discussion. This book exemplifies the current range and diversity of Canadian critical writing.