Feminist and Gender Criticism and Tess of the d’Urbervilles

1998 ◽  
pp. 441-483
Author(s):  
Thomas Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Criticism

scholarly journals Discovering Eden: Rain, Cats and Women in Hemingway’s Garden

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
Ghufran Abd Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Female Presence ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Criticism

Abstract The publication of The Garden of Eden in 1986 opened the gates of Hemingway’s exegesis to gender criticism, the result being a re-evaluation of the female presence in a traditional literary work devoted to the literary traditions of the personality and adventurous life of the writer that challenged the previous four decades of critical appraisal that insisted on what Broer and Holland called “superficial or misguided interpretations of Hemingway’s treatment of women and gender”. Our essay demonstrates this new approach to Hemingway’s work, with examples from “Cat in the Rain” and The Garden of Eden.

Feminist and Gender Criticism and Heart of Darkness

1996 ◽  
pp. 148-184
Author(s):  
Ross C. Murfin ◽  
Johanna M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Criticism

Romanticism and Gender Criticism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan J. Wolfson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Literary Representation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
Cross Dressing ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Criticism

Gender criticism, an evolution from feminist criticism, studies representations of gender and gender difference in literary representation and, more broadly, in the ‘social text’, the languages and systems of representation in culture at large. Gender language is conspicuous in the binaries masculine and feminine, allied to manly, unmanly, effeminate, boyish, girlish, womanish, womanly, etc. It also involves the complications and challenges to these binaries by same-sex associations and intimacies, ‘queer’ configurations (unreadable by traditional measures), trans- or fluid figures, and performativity in all these aspects – including ventures in cross-dressing or cross-living, closeted or coterie-identifiable. In the Romantic era, gender criticism suggests that the sex/gender coordinates male/masculine and female/feminine are historically specific determinations, not inevitabilities. This essay focuses on dismantling critiques and attendant reinforcements. Critique often takes the form of satires of the ‘feminine’ qualities of delicacy, sentiment, soft-headedness, and dependence, ‘girls’ for life, even in a adult woman’s body; it also satirizes masculine swagger and presumption. It becomes interested in aberrant but not necessarily stigmatized variants – say, the rational woman and the man who respects such a woman, without being unmanned. Traditional understandings get put into question and into play, with critical implications.

scholarly journals ”In Memory of the Snow Queen” – Hans Christian Andersen Recalled and Retold

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Aldona Zańko
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
American Writer ◽  
Hans Christian Andersen ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Criticism

Abstract The main focus of the present paper is the so-called “intertextual revision”, explored as one of the most recent and innovative strategies employed while reviving the legacy of the Danish fairy-tale classic Hans Christian Andersen. In order to illustrate this practice, I discuss a short story entitled Travels with the Snow Queen (2001), by an American writer Kelly Link, which is a reworking of Andersen's worldfamous fairy tale The Snow Queen (1844). Link’s take on Andersen’s tale represents one of the leading directions within revisionary fairy-tale fiction, inspired by feminism and gender criticism. The analysis is centered around the narrative strategies employed by the author in order to challenge the gender logic incorporated into Andersen’s account, as well as the broader fairy-tale tradition it belongs to.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-40
Author(s):  
Eden Wales Freedman
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
American Literature ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
Reception Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Testimonial Literature ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Criticism

The introduction explicates theories of dual-witnessing and Venn liminality and introduces the reader to the terminology the author developed to address readerly engagement of (African) American traumatic and testimonial literature. The introduction also explains how the author’s modes of reading trauma intersect with American literature, critical race theory, and gender criticism and unpacks what (and how) this Venn conversation contributes to the fields of trauma, race, gender, and reception studies and (African) American literature.

scholarly journals (Con)figuring gender in Bible translation: Cultural, translational and gender critical intersections

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Punt
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Bible Translation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Biblical Translation ◽  
Critical Aspects ◽  
Gender Criticism

The gendered intersection of cultural studies and Bible translation is under acknowledged. Accounting for gender criticism in translation work requires, besides responsible theory and practice of translation, also attention to interwoven gender critical aspects. After a brief investigation of the intersections between biblical, translation and gender studies, translation in a few Pauline texts with bearing on gender and sexuality are investigated.

scholarly journals Tess of the d’Urbervilles: Hardy’s Nonconformist Views and Challenge of the Prevailing Social and Moral Ideology

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1354-1358
Author(s):  
Taher Badinjki
Keyword(s):  
Original Text ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Innocent Victim ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
And Gender

In Tess of the d’Urbervilles Hardy’s non-conformist views are evident through the dialectic of negation which opposes institutionalized codes, and rejects the stereotypical Victorian concepts of femininity. He hovers over Tess like a stricken father, and presents her as an innocent victim, yet he has not been able to save her from her pre-destined death. His endeavours to create a Utopian society and change the cultural logos in regards to sex and gender, have been hampered by various forms of repression from editors, reviews, publishers and supporters of “the purity movement”. In his attempt to avoid the trauma of rejection, he made substantial expurgations and revisions of the original text, but the tragic death at the end of the book shows that the prevailing ideology, and excessive prudishness of supporters of the league of virtue have outweighed his perceptions and defeated his liberal concepts.” His frustration, bitter experience, and the unpleasant attacks waged on him and his works, were apparently influential in making him cease writing novels.

TESS, VICTIM OF HYPOCRICY TESS OF THE d’URBERVILLES, THOMAS HARDY

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 2379-2382
Author(s):  
Suzana Ibraimi Memeti
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Fallen Woman ◽  
Alfred The Great ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Deep Sympathy ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Social Prejudice

Thomas Hardy is distinguished by his contemporaries for the fact that the subjects of his novels are taken from the rural environment in the agricultural region south of England. He calls his homeland Dorset, Wessex, in memory of former King Alfred the Great. Themes and subjects of his novels are attractive and dominant. In all of his most popular novels, Hardy describes, outlines, and portrays human beings who are faced with powerful attacks of devastating and mysterious forces. He was a serious novelist who sought to present the view of life throughout a novel. Frequently, his themes and subjects mix with the sequence of events that have extreme and fatal consequences, while he rarely fails to inspire the reader with his deep mercy to the characters who suffer in their live; he often cannot afford to reach the highest degree of tragic element. The author sends an indictment to his time: he firmly rejects the duality of morality according to which the behavior of a man and the behavior of a woman is differently estimated. Thomas Hardy’s world as a writer is completely realistic, even transparent because he is a rare master of description of the environment. His characters are creatures of their environment, presented in their mutual relationships, often with sharp psychological observations. “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” is based on a familiar motif, that of a fallen woman, where Tess represents the prejudices of the Victorian society. In the novel, Hardy portrays an innocent poor girl of a country, a victim of the combined forces of Victorian patriarchal society, of the hypocrisy of social prejudice and gender inequality, which shows his deep sympathy for Tessa, the protagonist of the novel, a symbol of women devastated without mercy in a world dominated by males. He shows that Tess is an example of the devastating effect of society's pressures on a pure girl, and that Angel and Alec are personifications of destructive attitudes towards women.

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