Clarissa's Ciphers : Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa / / Terry Castle
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| Autore: |
Castle Terry
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| Titolo: |
Clarissa's Ciphers : Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa / / Terry Castle
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| Pubblicazione: | Cornell University Press, 1982 |
| Ithaca, N.Y. : , : Cornell University Press, , 1982 | |
| ©1982 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (206 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 823/.6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Reader-response criticism |
| Rape victims in literature | |
| Women and literature - England - History - 18th century | |
| Epistolary fiction, English - History and criticism | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato: | hermeneutics |
| Samuel Richardson | |
| sexual politics | |
| reader-response criticism | |
| Clarissa | |
| feminist criticism | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Bibliography: p. 189-196. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 . Clarissa by Halves -- 2. Discovering Reading -- 3. Reading the Letter, Reading the World -- 4. Interrupting "Miss Clary" -- 5. Denatured Signs -- 6. The Voyage Out -- 7. The Death of the Author: Clarissa's Coffin -- 8. The Death of the Author: Richardson and the Reader -- 9. Epilogue: The Reader Lives -- Bibliographic Postscript -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,' Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa's Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically and literally. A victim of rape, she is first a victim of hermeneutic abuse. Drawing on feminist criticism and hermeneutic theory, Castle examines the question of authority in the novel. By tracing the patterns of abuse and exploitation that occur when meanings are arbitrarily and violently imposed, she explores the sexual politics of reading. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Clarissa's Ciphers |
| ISBN: | 1-5017-0693-4 |
| 1-5017-0694-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910136646003321 |
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