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The form of art called fiction has always been the privileged framework providing the perfect alibi for facing, framing, and containing the Other's desire and the strange libido attached to violence: in other words, there is an ambivalent dimension inherent in the scenarios and fantasies we enjoy by proxy. Are not the fairy tales of our childhood full of images of death and violence, whose fascinating presence is paradoxically meant to make us feel all the more safely tucked up in bed? After ...

Women and literature. --- Female offenders in literature. --- Crime in literature. --- Femininity in literature. --- Femininity (Psychology) in literature --- Literature

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Gender in American Literature and Culture introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism. It offers nuanced readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present and moves beyond inflexible categories of masculinity and femininity that have reinforced misleading assumptions about public and private spaces, domesticity, individualism, and community. The book also demonstrates how rigid inscriptions of gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States. Responding to a sense of 21st century cultural and political crisis, it illuminates the literary histories and cultural imaginaries that have set the stage for urgent contemporary debates.

Gender identity in literature. --- Femininity in literature. --- Masculinity in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Femininity (Psychology) in literature

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Contemporary feminist theorists have implied a special affinity between women and irony because of their 'double' relation to the prevailing order of things: both speak from within this order while remaining 'other' to it in some way. Irony can be regarded as the obvious mode in which a feminist might speak, as it reflects her relation to the patriarchal structure while refusing to validate the truth of the current sexual hierarchy. She Changes by Intrigue undertakes the first sustained analysis of the parallels between irony, femininity and feminism. By retracing the association of these terms through canonical and contemporary continental philosophy, the book seeks to illuminate a notion of sexual agency that has until now remained shadowy, in spite of its prevalence. Examining the recurrence of the 'ironic feminine' in texts by Kristeva, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Irigaray, Derrida and Kofman, it argues that a radical revaluation of the legacy of patriarchal thought in feminism is necessary before irony can be embraced as a feminist strategy. In this context, She Changes by Intrigue offers a new reading of what it means to write as a feminist 'subject'. This volume will be of interest to students and academics working in the fields of gender studies, continental philosophy and critical / cultural theory.

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Der galante Roman um 1700 überrascht mit weiblichen Haupt- und Titelfiguren. Bisher kaum bekannt, prägen sie als zentrale Handlungsträger ein galantes Erzählen, das in einer Textform stattfindet, die erst im 18. Jahrhundert zur ,literarischen Gattung' avanciert. In gattungs- und genderspezifischer Perspektive analysiert die Autorin erstmals narrative Konstruktionsprinzipien galanter Weiblichkeit im deutschen Roman (1690-1720). Ausgehend von den Para-, Peri- und Epitexten beschreibt sie die Spezifik galanter Frauenfiguren im Wechselspiel von poetischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Aspekten der Buch- und Medienlandschaft um 1700. Anonyme Buchhandelsstrukturen und die Orientierung an der preziösen Romantradition Frankreichs erweisen sich als ebenso konstitutiv für ein Erzählen über Geschlecht im galanten Roman wie die Adaption und Modifikation poetischer Traditionen und Gendermodelle durch junge Akademiker auf der Suche nach ,eigenen' bzw. neuen Ausdrucksformen zwischen ,Scherz und Ernst'. Aus der Gattungsdynamik emergieren subversive Gendernarrative.

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