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From: Victorians Institute Journal[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, McDermott notes the ways in which Trollope portrays his protagonist as androgynous. McDermott then suggests that the warden’s “feminine” qualities, while occasionally depicted...
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 85. )Introduction Viewed as one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, Twelfth Night (c. 1600-01) continues to be praised by scholars as a fascinating and evocative study of love, sexual desire, and personal discovery....
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From: MosaicFor the last several decades, Ursula K. Le Guin has been acclaimed as a leading “female” writer of science fiction. The term “female” seems more appropriate than “feminist” because her work, very much as in the case of...
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From:Cultural Critique (Issue 66) Peer-ReviewedIn this essay I describe two popular modes of gothic masculinity as a prelude to discussing recent theories of gender. Over the past twenty years or so, gothic narratives of masculinity have had a noticeable impact on...
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 95, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBeowulf's behavior is packed with tests of masculine strength, yet once he begins to make peace between his tribe and the Danes, his role becomes equivalent to the womanly duties of forging spiritual kinship when given...
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From: Théophile Gautier’s Mademoiselle de Maupin: Toward a Definition of the “Androgynous Discourse.”[(essay date 2001) In the following essays, Barsoum examines the relationship between the novel’s characters and their names, which often serve as historical or otherwise coded references to gender ambiguity. She argues...
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From:Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art (Vol. 1) Peer-ReviewedPaul Gauguin clearly wanted to lead the life of a savage. The enormous oeuvre of this prolific artist not only encompasses all media, but also many writings that reflect his innate desire to escape the constraints of...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn emphasizing the need for women to construct their own identities and challenge traditional concepts of gender, Anglo-American feminist critics sometimes overlook the adjustments in strategy that are necessary because...
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From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn "The Feminine Note in Literature," a lecture he delivered in 1910, the novelist E. M. Forster suggested that the key distinction between masculine and feminine writing concerns "ethical standards." "Men have an...
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From:Atenea (Vol. 28, Issue 1)Feminist critic Clarice Stasz, in her landmark 1976 essay entitled "Androgyny in the Novels of Jack London," spearheaded what was to become the feminist literary response to Jack London--an author usually valorized for...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOne of the most complex issues that has been debated in gender studies is the problematics of subject formation, particularly of the gendered subject. Whether viewing gender as irreducible difference located in the...
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From:MLN (Vol. 108, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJohann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel 'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre' presents a world of confusing sexual ambiguity. This is achieved through women characters who exhibit transvestism and gender transgression. The androgyne...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAccording to Judith Butler, gender may be understood as a performance, as "a kind of persistent impersonation which passes as the real." The genders masculine and feminine are for her not natural or essential, and are...
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From: MELUS[(essay date Spring 1991-1992) In the following essay, Swan discusses the male relationships in Silko's Ceremony and how they relate to the customs and practices of the Pueblo of Laguna.] Leslie Marmon Silko's novel...
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From:Commentary (Vol. 148, Issue 3)AS THE RECENT furor over "drag queen story hour" in public libraries goes to show, many people--mainly, many older people who themselves grew up in a less cumulatively fractured time--have found the proliferating of...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedJames Joyce dwells on the issue of androgyny in 'Ulysses' by alternately agreeing to and critiquing the patriarchal bondage of women. His resistance to it is evident in Leopold Bloom's masochism and Molly Bloom's...
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From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedVictorian writer Thomas Hardy's life was marked by conflict. Despite his literary success, evidence bears out that Hardy wrote not so much for self-expression as he did for profit. An examination of his works indicate a...
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From: Romanic Review[(essay date 1987) In the following essay, Weil shows the oppositions underlying two different constructions of gender ambiguity: the classical, self-contained androgyne of Platonic myth and the Romantic, mutable...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 42, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed* An extensive survey of North American college courses in science fiction published in 1996 revealed that the novel most widely assigned was Ursula K. Le Gum's The Left Hand of Darkness (Evans and Mullen 525). Thirty...
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From:Asian Theatre Journal (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe way of the Western practitioner or scholar wishing to analyze contemporary Japanese theatre in terms of gender and culture is fraught with peril. How is it possible to apply critical theory without imposing Western...