Men writing the feminine : literature, theory, and the question of genders
What happens when a male author writes the feminine? Can a male author completely identify with a woman? Or does a male author always write through a woman's voice for purposes of his own? This fascinating collection explores these and other questions about gender and writing from a wide range of theoretical perspectives, including psychoanalysis, semiotics, deconstruction, feminism, postmodernism, and discourse analysis. The introductory essay provides an overview of current issues and methodologies in gender theory, while the 11 essays in the book discuss novels and poems, from the seventeenth century to the present, by British, American, and French male writers who speak as, through, or like the feminine. Authors considered in this book include George Herbert, William Wordsworth, John Hawkes, Denis Diderot, Paul Verlaine, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, William Faulkner, Thomas psychon, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Lacan
Print Book, English, ©1994
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©1994
Aufsatzsammlung
vi, 207 pages ; 24 cm
9780791419939, 9780791419946, 0791419932, 0791419940
29386491
The mourner in the flesh : George Herbert's commemoration of Magdalen Herbert in Memoriae matris sacrum / Deborah Rubin
Lyrical ballads and the language of (men) feeling : writing women's voices / Susan J. Wolfson
Border disturbances : D.H. Lawrence's fiction and the feminism of Wuthering Heights / Carol Siegel
"To write what cannot be written" : the woman writer and the male authority in John Hawkes's Virginie : her two lives / Peter F. Murphy
Diderot and the nun : portrait of the artist as a transvestite / Béatrice Durand
"This kind" : pornographic discourse, lesbian bodies, and Paul Verlaine's Les amies / Barbara Milech
The woman in the mirror : Randall Jarrell and John Berryman / Christopher Benfey
William Faulkner as lesbian author / Frann Michel
Objects of postmodern "masters" : subject-in-stimulation/woman-in-effect / Martina Sciolino
The politics of aversion in theory / Charles Bernheimer
Five propositions on the future of men in feminism / Jonathan Culler
Two conversations on literature, theory, and the question of genders / Robert Con Davis, Thaïs E. Morgan