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Terry Castle - Clarissa's Ciphers, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Clarissa's Ciphers

Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa

Av Terry Castle

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As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,' Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa's Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically and literally. A victim of rape, she is first a victim of hermeneutic abuse. Drawing on feminist criticism and hermeneutic theory, Castle examines the question of authority in the novel. By tracing the patterns of abuse and exploitation that occur when meanings are arbitrarily and violently imposed, she explores the sexual politics of reading.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-11-01
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
  • Vikt: 454 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 204
  • Förlag: Cornell University Press
  • ISBN: 9781501707148
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Terry Castle is Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. She is the author of many books, including The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture, Boss Ladies, Watch Out! Essays on Women, Sex, and Writing, and The Professor: A Sentimental Education.

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"Castle's work on sexuality and gender has helped make feminist and queer intellectual projects acceptable."-Signs "The truth is outrageous: that's a principle Terry Castle has proved. She is as sound as she is scandalous. Any educated person can read her essays with profit and pleasure-and with a jaw that is permanently dropped."-Edmund White on Castle's Boss Ladies, Watch Out! "Brave, learned, sassy, wildly funny, Terry Castle knows heaps about people (and lives) as well as about literature in English. Her writing is full of feeling and wisdom. She's not only our best Female Literary Critic and One Wise Babe. She's the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today."-Susan Sontag

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