scholarly journals Reclamation of the Narrative for the Silenced Voice in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (01) ◽  
pp. 177-191
Author(s):  
Saroj G.C.
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Canonical Text ◽  
History And Myth

This article analyzes Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, a rewriting of Homeric epic, The Odyssey. Atwood rewrites the story — the saga of gallantry and triumphalism of Odysseus, with narrative shift that brings postmodern irony and parody, self-reflexivity and metafiction, and intertextuality and paratextuality into play. The article tries explore if Atwood’s shifting of narrative orientation of the Homeric epic yields any different and substantial reception and interpretation of the epic in the recent context.Moreover, I demonstrate how Atwood’s reconstruction and subsequently the empowerment of the minor characters unfolds the incompatibilities and discrepancies the official version of Homer’s epic, and brings the marginal voice to the front by granting a variety of narrative access.I argue, giving subject positions to silent agents and using various genres of expression, for instance, history and myth, Atwood, through the deployment of an autodiegetic narrative, brings together gender, genre and language in such a way that results in a decisive shift in conceptualizing the narrative structure for the marginal voice and agency female characters. The article concludes that why rereading of classical and canonical text is crucial to bring the marginals’ claim to a subject position, and produce a different language and literature that allows space for expression subjectivity of characters on the margins

Psychotic, acritical and precarious? A Lacanian exploration of the neoliberal consumer subject

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aliette Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
The Self ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Mental Health Issues

Extending the critical project of interrogating the consumer subject form, in this study, the consumer subject is read as potentially acritical, precarious and psychotic through Dufour’s Lacanian-inspired analysis of neoliberal subjectivity. Reflecting on two case studies from an ethnographic-type study of young women, identity and consumer culture, I demonstrate how participants attempt to fulfil neoliberal ideals related to agency, productivity and creativity. Relying on commodities for symbolic anchoring in doing so, a ‘psychotic’ and precarious subject position is evidenced. While the findings could certainly be interpreted as productive, tendencies toward materialism, uncertainty and anxiety, along with pervasive mental health issues, provided the impetus to further problematise dominant understandings of the consumer. Neoliberal consumer culture is evidenced as a harmful, dehumanising ideology that fosters competitiveness, individuality and meritocratic tendencies, encouraging a reliance on ever-changing, transient commodities to (in)form the self. This occurs at the expense of compromise, communality and social welfare, through which subjects may find more stable and emancipatory symbolic anchors. Only by recognising critical theorisations of the consumer as dominant subject positions of neoliberalism can cultural consumer researchers begin to imagine opportunities for resistance and emancipatory change.

scholarly journals In search of self: Navigating subjectivity amidst conflicts in Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park (2012)

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2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Azalea Ayu Dewinta Fitriani ◽  
Isti Siti Saleha Gandana ◽  
Nia Nafisah
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Active Subject

Entrance into adulthood has often been seen as a phase marked by self-exploration, instability, and struggles to overcome tensions and conflicts. Eleanor & Park (2012) is a novel that explores issues of growing up and tells the story of how the two main characters go through the struggles of their adolescent lives. This study analyzes how Eleanor and Park construct and navigate their subjectivities amidst the various conflicts they face. It does so by, first, identifying and classifying the conflicts the characters encounter and then locating their provisional subject positions that draw on how they react to and deal with the conflicts. While the study confirms the dynamic nature of subject positions, both Eleanor and Park tend to bring to the fore their active subject position in dealing with the conflicts. Moreover, their subject positions further indicate that Eleanor and Park are empowered agents who are capable of deliberating thoughts and actions consciously. In navigating their subjectivities, both characters, in the end, are able to achieve personal growth and empowerment.

scholarly journals The origin of the Northern Subject Rule: subject positions and verbal morphosyntax in older English

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
NYNKE DE HAAS ◽  
ANS VAN KEMENADE
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Corpus Study ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
Early English ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Syntactic Context

This article presents new evidence for the early history of the Northern Subject Rule in the form of an exhaustive corpus study of plural present-tense indicative verb forms in Northern and Northern Midlands early Middle English, analysed in relation to their syntactic context, including subject type and subject–verb adjacency. We show that variation between -∅/e/n and -s endings was conditioned by both subject type and adjacency in a core area around Yorkshire, whereas in more peripheral areas, the adjacency condition was weaker and often absent.We present an analysis of these facts in relation to the presence of multiple subject positions in early English, which we show contra earlier literature to be relevant for Northern English as well, We view -∅/e/n endings as ‘true’ agreement, which in the relevant dialects is limited to contexts with pronominal subjects in a high subject position, Spec,AgrSP; other forms of agreement (-s or -th) represent default inflection occurring elsewhere. This analysis supports the hypothesis that the NSR arose when the extant morphological variation in Northern Old English was reanalysed as an effect of pre-existing multiple subject positions.

Justifications of citizens’ subject positions in public debates on welfare

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janne Mikael Autto ◽  
Jukka Törrönen
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Welfare State

Foucault’s work has inspired studies examining how subject positions are constructed for citizens of the welfare state that encourage them to adopt the subject position of active and responsible people or consumers. Yet these studies are often criticised for analysing these subject positions as coherent constructions without considering how their construction varies from one situation to another. This paper develops the concept of subject position in relation to the theory of justification and the concept of modality in order to achieve a more sensitive and nuanced analysis of the politics of welfare in public debates. The theory of justification places greater weight on actors’ competence in social situations. It helps to reveal how justifications and critiques of welfare policies are based on the skilful contextual combination of diverse normative bases. The concept of modality, in turn, makes it possible to elaborate how subject positions in justifications and critiques of welfare policies become associated with specific kinds of values. We demonstrate the approach by using public debates on children’s day care in Finland. The analysis illustrates how subject positions are justified in relation to different kinds of worlds and made persuasive by connecting them to commonly desirable rights, responsibilities, competences or abilities.

scholarly journals KARAKTER PEREMPUAN DALAM NOVEL PERAHU KERTAS KARYA DEWI LESTARI (TINJAUAN FEMINISME SIMON DE BEAUVOIR).

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
SITTI AIDA AZIS
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Language And Literature

AbstractThe research aimed to describe the female character (Kuggy) in “Perahu Kertas “ novel wrote Dewi Lestari. The benefit of this study was expected to enrich the wealth of knowledge, especially in the field of study Indonesian language and literature. The data in this study were words, sentences, and phrases that impling the female character in the Perahu Kertas Novel, whereas the source of the data in this study was Perahu Kertas Novel wrote Dewi Lestari work. Methods of study used literature review. Data collection techniques in this study, namely the descriptive analysis of literary works (in the form of documents) or books related literature discussed in the focus of research. The data analysis technique used to classify data that strengthens the research. The study was invented female characters in the Perahu Kertas Novel wrote Dewi Lestari.Key words: Woman, independent, creative, unique AbstrakPeneitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan karakter perempuan( Kuggy)dalam novel Perahu Kertas karya Dewi Lestari. Manfaat penelitian ini diharapkan dapat memperkaya khazanah ilmu pengetahuan, khususnya dalam bidang studi Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia. Data dalam penelitian ini adalah kata, kalimat, ungkapan yang mengandung makna karakter perempuan dalam novel Perahu Kertas, sedangkan yang menjadi sumber data dalam penelitian ini adalah novel Perahu Kertas karya Dewi Lestari. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan kajian pustaka. Teknik pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini, yaitu teknik analisis  deskriptif karya sastra (dalam bentuk dokumen) atau buku-buku sastra yang berkaitan dengan fokus yang akan dibahas dalam penelitian. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah mengklasifikasi data-data yang memperkuat hasil penelitian. Dengan begitu, ditemukanlah karakter perempuan dalam novel Perahu Kertas karya Dewi Lestari meliputi hal seperti: mandiri, kreatif, unik.Kata kunci: perempuan, mandiri, kreatif, unik.

‘Does he know you like I know you?’: Barbara Kean’s bisexual appeal, the Male Gothic and Gotham’s woman problem

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carey Millsap-Spears
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Television Series ◽  
The Us ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Definition Of

This article discusses how the FOX television series Gotham (2014–19) fits the overall definition of a traditional Male (Horror) Gothic text and how disruptive female characters, like Barbara Kean, push against these seemingly strict Gothic boundaries. Through the development of the bisexual character Barbara Kean, the conservative, Male Gothic foundation is ultimately questioned in the US television series. Gotham’s portrayal of Barbara not only propagates bisexual stereotypes, but it also speaks to the larger discussion of bisexual aversion and eventual erasure present in many media texts. Additionally, Gotham employs the depraved bisexual trope, in which bisexual characters, like Barbara, are shown to be duplicitous. Barbara Kean, however, transgresses the boundaries of the Male Gothic tradition and thrives within the narrative structure of Gotham.

Aspects of the syntax of ce in French copular sentences

2019 ◽  
pp. 153-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Roy ◽  
Ur Shlonsky
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Relativized Minimality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Syntactic Constraints ◽  
Copular Sentences ◽  
Copular Sentence

This chapter offers a syntactic analysis of French ce in copular constructions. It is argued that the distribution of ce is best understood in terms of the conditions on the agree operation inside the copular sentence. The proform ce, an expletive, is inserted whenever an agreement relationship cannot be established between an element in the subject position and an element from the PredP (Bowers 1993). Two sources of agreement failure are considered. In one case, agreement failure results from syntactic constraints on movement (Relativized Minimality, criterial freezing) together with focalization. In the other case, agreement failure results from the absence of accessible phi-features on the subject, possibly as the result of a grammatical shift taking place at the interface. This chapter further highlights the relevance of two subject positions (Subj1 and Subj2) each with their own interpretational properties.

Monologue and Dialogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
Isobel Hurst
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Dramatic Monologue ◽  
Louise Gluck ◽  
Carol Ann Duffy ◽  
Canonical Text ◽  
Dramatic Monologues

With the telling and retelling of stories by the narrator and characters, Homer’s Odyssey seems to invite the reworking of episodes and characters in new forms. Modern poets favour the dramatic monologue for entering into dialogue with a revered canonical text, often in an irreverent or subversive manner. Dramatic monologues are crucial to the revisionist mythology of women writers, often representing female characters who are peripheral and largely silent in classical texts in order to articulate some element of the story that was previously untold. Poets such as Linda Pastan, Carol Ann Duffy, Louise Glück, and Judith Kazantzis use monologue and dialogue to create reworkings of the Odyssey that relocate Odysseus to the margins of the story and question the importance of his heroic adventures.

Relative inversion and non-verb-initial imperatives in Early Modern Swedish

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Magnusson Petzell
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Word Order ◽  
Relative Clauses ◽  
Additional Assumption ◽  
Structural Difference ◽  
Initial Position ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Syntactic Differences

This article deals with two syntactic differences between Present-Day Swedish (PDSw) and Early Modern Swedish (EMSw): first, only EMSw allows VS and XVS word order to occur in relative clauses; second, only EMSw permits non-verb-initial imperatives. One structural difference between the varieties is assumed to be a prerequisite for all these word order differences: the subject position was spec-TP in EMSw but is spec-FinP in PDSw. Only the lower position (spec-TP) is compatible with inversion (VS) and fronting of non-subjects (XVS) in relative clauses as well as with imperative clauses having elements other than the imperative verb in the initial position. To be able to account for the latter phenomenon, however, an additional assumption is needed: the imperative type-feature, [imp], always accompanies the verb in PDSw but is tied to an operator in EMSw. The first assumption about differing subject positions is independently motivated by findings already in the previous literature. The second assumption about the differing behaviour of [imp] in the two varieties is supported by the distribution of imperative verbs over a wider range of syntactic contexts in EMSw than in PDSw.

Patients as `Safeguard' and Nurses as `Substitute' in Home Health Care

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stina Öresland ◽  
Sylvia Määttä ◽  
Astrid Norberg ◽  
Kim Lützén
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Home Health Care ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Home Health ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
To Receive

One aim of this study was to explore the role, or subject position, patients take in the care they receive from nurses in their own home. Another was to examine the subject position that patients say the nurses take when giving care to them in their own home. Ten interviews were analysed and interpreted according to a discourse analytical method. The findings show that patients constructed their subject position as `safeguard', and the nurses' subject position as `substitute' for themselves. These subject positions provided the opportunities, and the obstacles, for the patients' possibilities to receive care in their home. The subject positions described have ethical repercussions and illuminate that the patients put great demands on tailored care.

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