Sandra M. Gilbert Sözleri ve Alıntıları
Sandra M. Gilbert sözleri ve alıntılarını, Sandra M. Gilbert kitap alıntılarını, Sandra M. Gilbert en etkileyici cümleleri ve paragragları 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
...the confinement of these women, a confinement that was inescapable for them even at their moments of greatest triumph, a confinement that was implicit in their secretness. This confinement was both literal and figurative. Literally, women like Dickinson, Bronte, and Rossetti were imprisoned in their homes, their father's houses; indeed, almost all nineteenth-century women were in some sense imprisoned in men's houses. Figuratively, such women were, as we have seen, locked into male texts, texts from which they could escape only through ingenuity and indirection.
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Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
More specifically, however, the one plot that seems to be concealed in most of the nineteenth-century literature by women which will concern us here is in some sense a story of the woman writer's quest for her own story; it is the story, in other words, of the woman's quest for self-definition...
...The story "no man may guess," therefore, is the story of her attempt to make herself whole by healing her own infections and diseases.
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Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
In other words, the "female diseases" from which Victorian women suffered were not always byproducts of their training in femininity; they were the goals of such training.
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The Queen's Looking Glass
The male child's progress toward adulthood is a growth toward both self-assertion and self-articulation, "The Juniper Tree" implies, a development of the powers of speech. But the girl child must learn the arts of silence either as herself a silent image invented and defined by the magic looking glass of the male- authored text, or as a silent dancer of her own woes, a dancer who enacts rather than articulates.
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The Queen's Looking Glass
An angel in the house of myth, Snow White is not only a child but (as female angels always are) childlike, docile, submissive, the heroine of a life that has no story. But the Queen, adult and demonic, plainly wants a life of "significant action," by definition an "unfeminine" life of stories and story-telling. And therefore, to the extent that Snow White, as her daughter, is a part of herself, she wants to kill the Snow White in herself, the angel who would keep deeds and dramas out of her own house.
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The Queen's Looking Glass
Excluded from the human community, even from the semidivine communal chronicles of the Bible, the figure of Lilith represents the price women have been told they must pay for attempting to define themselves. And it is a terrible price : cursed both because she is a character who "got away" and because she dared to usurp the essentially literary authority implied by the act of naming, Lilith is locked into a vengeance (child-killing) which can only bring her more suffering (the killing of her own children).
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