scholarly journals Painting with words. Some considerations on the picture of women from The Child of Pleasure to The Virgins of the Rocks by Gabriele D’Annunzio

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Garosi
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Gabriele D'annunzio ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Figurative Art

Il saggio si occupa di un aspetto fondamentale della ricerca compiuta da D’Annunzio che è la fusione di scrittura e arte figurativa, e della sua declinazione secondo i dettami dell’estetismo finisecolare. Lo studio intende mettere in luce non solo le modalità stilistiche e compositive, ma anche la finalità poetica e le valenze ideologiche, della sperimentazione ecfrastica realizzata nel passaggio tra il romanzo di debutto (Il piacere) e il romanzo del superomismo (Le vergini delle rocce). L’analisi testuale prenderà in esame come i ritratti dei personaggi femminili, costruiti attraverso la comparazione con oggetti d’arte, poggino altresì sulla narrazione dell’effetto prodotto sull’io del protagonista che sceglie e guarda tali opere d’arte. La visione viene cristallizzata nelle immagini verbali che ornano le pagine del libro, il quale, a sua volta, diventa museo e si offre allo sguardo del lettore del tempo proponendogli un nuovo canone estetico di Bellezza. The essay deals with a fundamental aspect of D'Annunzio’s research which is the fusion of writing and figurative art, and its declination according to the dictates of end-century aesthetics. The study intends to highlight the stylistic and compositional modalities, in addition to the poetic purpose and ideological values, of the ecphrastic experimentation carried out in the transition between the debut novel (The Child of Pleasure) and the novel of superomismo (The Virgins of the Rocks). The textual analysis will examine how the portraits of female characters, constructed through the comparison with objects of art, rest at the same time on the narration of the effect produced on the Self of the protagonist who chooses and looks at these works of art. The vision turns out to be crystallized in verbal images which adorn the pages of the book which in turn becomes a museum and offers itself to the eye of the reader of the time, proposing a new aesthetic canon of Beauty. Il saggio si occupa di un aspetto fondamentale della ricerca compiuta da d’Annunzio che è la fusione di scrittura e arte figurativa, e della sua declinazione secondo i dettami dell’estetismo finisecolare. Lo studio intende mettere in luce le modalità stilistiche e compositive, oltre alla finalità poetica e le valenze ideologiche, della sperimentazione ecfrastica realizzata nel passaggio tra il romanzo di debutto (Il piacere) e il romanzo del superomismo (Le vergini delle rocce). L’analisi testuale prenderà in esame come i ritratti dei personaggi femminili, costruiti attraverso la comparazione con oggetti d’arte, poggino al tempo stesso sulla narrazione dell’effetto prodotto sull’io del protagonista che sceglie e guarda tali opere d’arte. La visione viene cristallizzata nelle immagini verbali che ornano le pagine del libro, il quale, a sua volta, diventa museo e si offre allo sguardo del lettore del tempo proponendogli un nuovo canone estetico di Bellezza.

scholarly journals Unveiling Women Marginalization in Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 84-89
Author(s):  
Saira Siraj ◽  
Muhammad Tahir Anjum ◽  
Abdus Samad
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The West ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
The Status ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Better Than

The present study pursues the primaeval customs of patriarchy and its tormenting effects happening in the lives of women in Pakistan. The purpose of this research is to explore how patriarchal traditions, class differences, and their triple marginalization in the novel played chaos in the lives of females. Though the existing status of women is traditionally much better than that of women in the West but still they are not empowered and are deprived of basic rights. GC Spivak provides the theoretical foundations for this research through her theory, can the subaltern speak (1988). This research is based on qualitative textual analysis. The present study explores the status of women in Pakistan through the characterization of various female characters in the novel. This study concludes that they are portrayed as compliant and deserted beings deprived of every kind of individualism.

scholarly journals A Study of Traumatic Experiences of Female Characters in Sophia Khan’s Novel “Yasmeen”

sjesr ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 275-281
Author(s):  
Mehreen Zafar ◽  
Dr. Muhammad Ahsan ◽  
Dr. Zahoor Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Trauma Theory ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Trauma Fiction

The current study aims to explore the traumatic experiences of female characters of Sophia Khan’s Yasmeen. M. Balaev (2014) identified “the concept of trauma as pathological and unspeakable” in the genre of trauma fiction. The insights Bloom’s Psychological Trauma Theory (1999) provided the theoretical framework for the descriptive and critical textual analysis of the novel which in turn disclosed the traumatic experiences of leading female characters, Yasmeen, Irenie, Celeste and Mehrunissa. The current study is in the qualitative paradigm of research and suggested through findings that the female characters are suffering from various traumatic experiences resulted through the loss, distrust, immoral values, and re-enactment; the teenage young characters, Irenie and Celeste can dilute the trauma by dissociating the emotions whereas Yasmeen and Mehrunissa, the adult characters cannot cope their traumatic experiences.  Though the traumatic experiences of all characters are separate in content and degree but the traumatic experiences of ‘Evolution’s legacy’, emotions of loss, and ‘Learned helpless’, constrained actions, are common to all female characters.

scholarly journals Configuration of the Self-Mythology and Identity of Female Characters in Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things and The New York Trilogy

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Mohammad Amin Shirkhani
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Paul Auster ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
New York Trilogy ◽  
American Society

The works of American novelist Paul Auster (1947- ) are uniquely concerned with the mythology of self, metanarrative and the role gender plays in these transactions. In his earliest works, The New York Trilogy (1985-1986) and In the Country of Last Things (1987), Auster uses genre conventions and styles (for the former, detective novels; for the latter, dystopian fiction) to interrogate these preconceptions of self-mythology and the role of gender within these genres, subverting tropes and traits of these works to comment upon them. In the following, we investigate these works in depth along these themes, conducting a close textual analysis from the framework of Freudian and Lacanian theories of psychoanalysis and poststructuralism. By investigating the roles of women in The New York Trilogy and In the Country of Last Things, we hope to illuminate Auster’s uniquely postmodernist, deconstructive approach to the psychological imperatives women are socialized into within American society, and how they are informed by narrative and mythology. The role of women, from the absent trophies of The New York Trilogy to the central voice of sanity of Anna in In the Country of Last Things, posits women as a societal superego whose goal it is to keep the destructive, nihilistic id-like impulses of men in check. 

scholarly journals A Psychoanalysis of Female Characters in the Novels Heat and Dust and Inside the Haveli : Function of Mother Archetype in the Characters of the Narrator and Geeta

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
Deepali Jaiswal
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Carl Jung ◽  
The Self ◽  
Collective Unconscious ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Mother Archetype

The psychoanalysts enhance our understanding of our consciousness, the self and self-identity. Psychoanalytic theory plays an important role in the comprehension of the fundamental condition of selfhood. The self is not an unified entity in psychoanalytical terms. Human subject emerges as an outcrop of the unconscious desire. After Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, a swiss psychologist is considered as an eminent contributor to psychoanalysis who theorized the concept of collective unconscious. The purpose of my study is to find out the presence of the collective unconscious and to analyse two female characters, The Narrator , from the novel Heat and Dust and Geeta from Inside the Haveli with the help of Jung's theory of  collective unconscious and mother archetype. In this research paper several theoretical concepts of  Carl Jung are used to analyse the female characters. Jung’s theories are applied during the analysis process such as personal conscious, collective conscious and archetypes. I would use qualitative method for the analysis of the characters of the Narrator and  Geeta. I would use important dialogues and incidents for the data collection for the analysis of the characters. The psychoanalytic study of the Narrator and Geeta shows that they both have collective unconscious. I would study the function of mother archetype in the life of the Narrator and Geeta

Ideological Representation of Women's Oppression in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (138) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Huda Aziz Muhi Al-shammari ◽  
Nidaa Hussain Fahmi Al-Khazraji
Keyword(s):  
Research Paper ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Abuse Of Women

The abuse of women is an issue that persists throughout the ages till the present time because people are still living in a world of a dominated idea which is known as man is the self and woman is the other. So the objective of this research paper is to argue this global issue using Van Dijk's Ideological Square (1998) as a framework so as to examine the ideologies that underline the use of language in The Handmaid’s Tale. It is hypothesized that the ideology of oppression is exposed in the novel throughout using the ideological strategies of positive- self presentation and negative-other presentation. Ultimately, it concludes that the novelist employs both, male and female, characters to consistently ridicule and offer negative coverage about women and to increasingly align and offer favorable comments about men to present the world of patriarchy from a different perspective.

scholarly journals Gender Performativity in Stieg Larsson’s 'The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo'

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-115
Author(s):  
Admiral Indra Supardan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Female Stereotypes ◽  
Male Dominated

This study investigates the issue of gender performativity in Stieg Larsson’s novel The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2008). Judith Butler’s ideas on gender performativity serve as the theoretical framework of this study. A qualitative method is preferred as the study is heavily permeated with textual-analysis. The main objective of this study is to center on Larsson’s presentation of Lisbeth Salander in challenging boundaries in terms of how gender is presented and perceived. The study also provides analysis of other female characters, to see if they challenge or conform to the socially accepted notions of what it means to be a woman. The findings show that Stieg Larsson imbues his novel with the idea of challenging female stereotypes by developing fluidity within Salander’s gender identity. Larsson further ingrains gender performativity in all the female characters – they perform their gender identities differently in order to protect themselves from male-dominated society. However, the novel proves to be paradoxical as it shows an incessant reference to female characters in inferior circumstances. Keywords: Feminism, Gender, Identity, Performativity, Stereotypes

Persuasion: Fellow Creatures

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pam Morris
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Porous Boundaries

Persuasion overtly foregrounds the self as embodied: physical accidents and sickness are recurrent. Sir Walter Eliot’s belief in the time-defying bodily grace of nobility is subject to Austen’s harshest irony. The transition from vertically ordered place to horizontal space in Persuasion is more extreme than in any other of the completed novels. Anne Elliot’s movement from social exclusiveness to socially inclusive possibility allows Austen to challenge gender and class hierarchies traditionally held to be inborn. Her writerly experimentation expands the possibilities of narrative perspective to encompass the porous boundaries of the physical, the emotional and the rational that constitute any moment of consciousness. Her focalisation techniques in the text look directly towards Woolf’s stylist innovations. A chain of references to guns and shooting gathers into the novel contentious contemporary discursive networks on class relations, notions of masculinity and the nature of creaturely life.

Sub-version of Myth: Portrayal of Karna’s two wives in Kavita Kane’s Karna’s Wife

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-292
Author(s):  
Yashika Bisht ◽  
Shweta Saxena
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters

Karna’s Wife is the first work of the writer, Kavita Kane who is “trying to portray a small chunk, a small aspect which has not been dealt with yet” in the Mahabharata. In Karna’s Wife, Kavita Kane portrays female characters like Uruvi and Vrushali who are victims at the hands of men and fate and how they still balance their lives and endure it all. Vrushali is the first wife of Karna and her husband married Uruvi and was deeply in love with her. Her rights, his attention, his love, everything is distributed. Uruvi who is Karna’s second wife is constantly seen striving throughout the novel to keep her husband away from Duryodhana’s evil camaraderie because she fears that this alliance will certainly lead to her husband’s catastrophe. It would be very interesting to see how these two women have come out of these gritty situations, faced the veracity and still lived mightily.

Identifying Ethics: Dysfunction as Representation of Societal Relationship in Ian McEwans’s Sweet Tooth

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
A. Yacob ◽  
S. Veeramani
Keyword(s):  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethical Code ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Ian Mcewan

In the novel, Sweet Tooth, McEwan has employed an ethical code of conduct called, Dysfunction of Relationship. The analysis shows that he tries to convey something extraordinary to the readers. If it is not even the reader to understand such a typical thing, He himself represents a new ethical code of conduct. The character of the novel, Serena is almost a person who is tuned to such a distinct one. It is clear that the character of this type is purely representational. Understanding reality based on situation and ethics has been a new field of study in terms of Post- Theory. Intervening to such aspect of Interpretation, this research article establishes a new study in the writings of Ian McEwan. In the novel, Dysfunction is not on the ‘Self’ but it is on the ‘Other’. The author tries to integrate the function of the Character Serena, instead of fragmenting the self. Hence, Fragmentation makes sense only in the dysfunction of relationship.

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