Notions of the Feminine: Literary Essays from Dostoyevsky to Lacan [electronic resource] /
Axelrod, M.author.
Approaching the question of how male novelists perceive their female characters, this collection of creative yet analytic literary essays unwinds the complexities of male authorship versus narration. Mark Axelrod looks at a wide range of male authors including Fydor Dostoevsky, D.H. Lawrence, Carlos Fuentes, and the theories of Jacques Lacan.
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Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1 "Pale Whore, Pale Writer": Is There Punishment for the Crime?; 2 "Blushes & Flushes": Anna Karenina's Shameful Physiology; 3 Women in Love: D.H. Lawrence's Paean to Misogyny; 4 The Virgin and the Gipsy: D.H. Lawrence's Paean to Misogyny; 5 Ugly Hairy Mounds, Fierce Hairy Armpits, and Sewer-Like Menstruations: Women as Vulgar Commodity in Fuentes's The Old Gringo; 6 Mediazation and Marginalization of the Feminine in Böll's Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
7 Gazing from the Inside: Lacan and an Endocrinological Notion of the Male "Gaze"Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Approaching the question of how male novelists perceive their female characters, this collection of creative yet analytic literary essays unwinds the complexities of male authorship versus narration. Mark Axelrod looks at a wide range of male authors including Fydor Dostoevsky, D.H. Lawrence, Carlos Fuentes, and the theories of Jacques Lacan.
Mark Axelrod is Professor of Comparative Literature at Chapman University, USA, and is the Director of the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing. He has received five National Endowment Arts Grants and is also an accomplished novelist, literary critic, and screenwriter.--Page 4 cover.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
European literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
British literature.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
European Literature.
Literary Theory.
British and Irish Literature.