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Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Cixous | The book is divided into three parts: The Guilty One, written by Clément, Sorties, written by Cixous, and Exchange, a collaboration between both authors. Sandra Gilbert
describes Sorties as an apocalyptic vision... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Cixous | HC
argues against Freud
's theory that the feminine situation is a result of anatomical defect: that women must be described as men who are missing parts. Sexual difference, she writes, is not determined by... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Cixous | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ivy Compton-Burnett | In the opening scene of Darkness and Day, two old friends discuss the approaching death of one of them. The plot is a version of the Oedipus story: Bridget Lovat kills her mother and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rosalind Coward | With essays under such titles as Ideal Homes, Kissing, Naughty but Nice: Food Pornography, and Men's Bodies, Female Desire interrogates the matter-of-fact details and events of everyday life, revealing the complex... |
Textual Features | Richmal Crompton | Children are very important in RC
's adult novels. She repeatedly traces a group of characters, sometimes but not always all within the same family, from childhood to maturity or old age. Another pattern is... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Drabble | Imagery of postpartum fluidity, particularly lactation, characterizes the lovers' growing passion and the descriptions of female sexual desire and orgasm. The narrative alternates between a schizoid third-person dialogue Drabble, Margaret. The Waterfall. Penguin. 130 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maureen Duffy | MD
published a novel, Love Child, which she has called a psychological statement, an elaboration of the Freud
ian theory of primal relationships with a subtext from classical mythology. British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1973 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Textual Production | Maureen Duffy | MD
published The Erotic World of Faery: a Freud
ian study of the supernatural in English literature from Anglo-Saxon elves to science fiction, Duffy, Maureen. “My Life with Aphra Behn”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 19 , No. 2. 239 British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. 1973 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maureen Duffy | The play takes a biographical approach, as Woolf
, from the vantage point of imminent death, looks back over her past life. The only two other characters are Vita Sackville-West
and Sigmund Freud
; Duffy... |
Education | Anne Enright | As a student she discovered and spent much of her time in two worlds which deeply influenced her writing: the theatre and psychoanalysis. She involved herself in student drama (already writing for the theatre) and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Alison Fell | Four epigraphs include one each from Julia Kristeva
and Hélène Cixous
. Fell, Alison, editor. Serious Hysterics. Serpent’s Tail. 2 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | A wide spread of social institutions and systems of knowledge interests EF
: she looks at the force of gendered attitudes in theology, commerce, education, psychology and philosophy. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mavis Gallant | During her teenage years her legal guardians were a New York woman and her psychiatrist husband who had assisted and been analyzed by Sigmund Freud
. Besner, Neil K. The Light of Imagination: Mavis Gallant’s Fiction. University of British Columbia Press. 2, 3 Grant, Judith Skelton. Mavis Gallant and Her Works. ECW. 5 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | The essay argues that traditional religions are morbid and male-oriented, formulated by hunters and fighters and thus erected upon the fear of death and hope for afterlife. Scharnhorst, Gary. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Twayne Publishers. 110 |
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