K: "Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety": Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety At the same time, however, the woman who squarely confronts both her own femaleness and the patriarchal nature of the plots and poetics available to her as an artist may feel herself struck dumb by what seem to be irreconcileable contradictions of genre and gender. An entry in Margaret Fuller's journal beautifully summarizes this problem: For all the tides of life that flow within me, I am dumb and ineffectual, when it comes to casting my thought into a form. No old one suits me. If I could invent one, it seems to me the pleasure of creation would make it possible for me to write... I love best to be a woman; but womanhood is at present too straitly-bounded to give me scope. At hours, I live truly as a woman; at others, I should stifle; as, on the other hand, I should palsy, when I play the artist.

Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety

At the same time, however, the woman who squarely confronts both her own femaleness and the patriarchal nature of the plots and poetics available to her as an artist may feel herself struck dumb by what seem to be irreconcileable contradictions of genre and gender. An entry in Margaret Fuller's journal beautifully summarizes this problem: For all the tides of life that flow within me, I am dumb and ineffectual, when it comes to casting my thought into a form. No old one suits me. If I could invent one, it seems to me the pleasure of creation would make it possible for me to write... I love best to be a woman; but womanhood is at present too straitly-bounded to give me scope. At hours, I live truly as a woman; at others, I should stifle; as, on the other hand, I should palsy, when I play the artist.

Sayfa 71 - Margaret Fuller

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination Sandra M. Gilbert

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