Deviant women : cultural, linguistic and literary approaches to narratives of feminity / / Tiina Mäntymäki, Marinella Rodi-Risberg, Anna Foka, (editors)

• Pubblicazione: Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : , : PL Academic Research, , 2015; ©2015
• Edizione: 1 ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.933522
• Soggetto topico: Femininity in literature; Deviant behavior in literature; Female offenders in literature; Femininity; Deviant behavior; Female offenders
• Altri autori: RyallAnka
• Persona (resp. second.): MäntymäkiTiina <1960->; Rodi-RisbergMarinella; FokaAnna <1981->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction (Tiina Mäntymäki, Marinella Rodi-Risberg, Anna Foka); Deviant Women: Socio-Cultural Perspectives; Towards a Definition of Deviance; Narrative as a Conceptual Starting Point/Perspective; Past Scholarship, Contents and Purpose of the Volume; Reconstructing Narratives of Female Deviance; Works Cited; I. Deviance: Historical and Cultural Perspectives; Beyond Deviant: Theodora as the Other in Byzantine Imperial Historiography (Anna Foka); Introduction; Theodora: Byzantine Context, Social Norm and Deviance; Lust: Actress and Prostitute ; The Villain: Cruelty and Violence Conclusions: Sexuality, Violence, Manipulation and Power = Social Deviance?; Works Cited; Ghosts and Spirits as the object a in Pu Songling's Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio (Wang Lei); Introduction; The Polyvalent object a; The 'Scholar' as the Parodic Phallus; Volatile and Versatile Ghosts and Spirits; Conclusion; Works Cited; Deviant Will to Knowledge: The Pandora Myth and Its Feminist Revisions (Sanna Karkulehto and Ilmari Leppihalme); Introduction; 'I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing'. The Pandora Myth as an Epistemological Cautio ; 'Familiarity in the unfamiliar'. The Freudian Mystery and the Threat of Pandora'Who or what is behind this ... flesh?' The Female Body and Will to Knowledge; '[If] she opened this thing?' Pandora and Epistemology of the Closet; Pandora as a Metaphor of Feminist Thought; Works Cited; II. Contemporaneity, Deviance, Subjectivity and Violence; Carnivalesque Masquerade. Lisbeth Salander and Her Trickster Agency (Tiina Mäntymäki); Introduction; The Carnivalesque, the Trickster and Lisbeth Salander; Lisbeth Salander Becomes a Trickster Figure; Tricking as Carnivalesque ; The Dissolution of the Trickster and the End of the Carnivalesque Conclusions; Works Cited; Secondary Sources; Primary Sources; Trauma and Contextual Factors in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees: Incest, Race and Gendered Subjectivities (Marinella Rodi-Risberg); Trauma in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees; Trauma and Contextual Factors; Incest, Race and Transgressive Desire; Trauma, Memory and the Rearticulation of Subjectivity; The Ethics of (Reading) Trauma; Works Cited ; 'Baby Killer!' - Media Constructions of a Culturally Congruent Identity for Casey Anthony as Mother and Female Offender (Caroline Enberg)Introduction; Media Representations of Female Violence; Good Motherhood and Murder; Casey Anthony breaking the norms of motherhood; Indulgence; Neglect; Anthony's Self-Representation; Public Opinion; Conclusions; Works Cited; Primary sources; Secondary Sources; III. Deviance and/as (In)visibility; The Absent Female Rotarian in Finland: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Rotary Norden (Maj;Britt Höglund); Introduction; Women and Rotary; Rotary Norden ; Multimodal Discourse Analysis and Ideology
• Sommario/riassunto: This multidisciplinary collection of articles illuminates the ways in which the concept of female deviance is represented, appropriated, re-inscribed and refigured in a wide range of texts across time, cultures and genres. Such a choice of variety shows that representations of deviance accommodate meaning-making spaces and possibilities for resistance in different socio-cultural and literary contexts. The construct of the deviant woman is analysed from literary, sociolinguistic and historical-cultural perspectives, revealing insights about cultures and societies. Furthermore, the studies
• Titolo autorizzato: Deviant women
• ISBN: 3-653-99592-2; 3-653-03319-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910476921303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II