Sandra M. Gilbert Gönderileri
Sandra M. Gilbert kitaplarını, Sandra M. Gilbert sözleri ve alıntılarını, Sandra M. Gilbert yazarlarını, Sandra M. Gilbert yorumları ve incelemelerini 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.The Queen's Looking Glass
Finally, no human creature can be completely silenced by a text or by an image. Just as stories notoriously have a habit of "getting away" from their authors, human beings since Eden have had a habit of defying authority, both divine and literary.
Sayfa 16
The Queen's Looking Glass
A final paradox of the metaphor of literary paternity is the fact that in the same way an author both generates and imprisons his fictive creatures, he silences them by depriving them of autonomy (that is, of the power of independent speech) even as he gives them life. He silences them and, as Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" suggests, he stills them, or — embedding them in the marble of his art — kills them.
Sayfa 14
The Queen's Looking Glass
No doubt this complex of metaphors and etiologies simply reflects not just the fiercely patriarchal structure of Western society but also the underpinning of misogyny upon which that severe patriarchy has stood. The roots of "authority" tell us, after all, that if woman is man's property then he must have authored her, just as surely as they tell us that if he authored her she must be his property. As a creation "penned" by man, moreover, woman has been "penned up" or "penned in."
Sayfa 13
The Queen's Looking Glass
"...Jane Austen's Anne Elliot understates the case when she decorously observes, toward the end of Persuasion, that "men have had every advantage of us in telling their story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands" (II, chap II
Sayfa 7
The Queen's Looking Glass
...this image of God alone making sky, earth, sea, it is this image which has confused woman.
Sayfa 3
Çağdaş kadın yazarlar bugün, kaleme enerji ve otorite ile türkü ile sarılabiliyorlarsa, bunu on sekiz ve on dokuzuncu yüzyıllardaki anneleri, hastalık hissi veren bir tecrit, delilik hissi veren bir yabancılaşma ve kendi edebi alt kültürlerinde yaygın yazarlık endişesinin felç hissi veren belirsizliği ile mücadele etmiş oldukları için yapabilmişlerdir.
Sayfa 100
Kadını, melek gibi davranmadığı takdirde canavar gibi gören bir toplumda, melek olmadığını bilen kadın kendini canavar gibi görmek ya da bu bilincin suçluluğuyla bir sürü hastalıkla, delilikle, histeriyle boğuşmak zorunda kalmıştır.