About One is not born a Woman by Monique Witting Pertinent Author Information Monique Wittig was born in July 3‚ 1935 in the Haut Rhin department in Alsace. She moved to Paris in the 1950s‚ where she studied at the Sorbonne. Her first novel‚ L’Opoponax‚ published by Minuit in 1964‚ immediately drew attention to her when it was awarded the Prix Médicis by a jury that included Nathalie Sarraute‚ Claude Simon‚ and Alain Robbe-Grillet. Praised by such influential writers‚ the novel was quickly
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Moreover‚ further emphasising how the able-bodied person will focus on the physical differences of the disabled individual‚ as it is demonstrated with Julie. This is made evident when Aunt Bea first perceives Julie from afar. Aunt Bea first indicates the visual characteristics of Julie‚ in referring to her as the “The fat Lord‚” then focusing on her “crazy brush cut” or “her funny walk” (Gowdy 9). The minor physical details that ought not to matter is what causes Aunt Bea to recognize that Julie
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Gideon Toury ` In Search of a Theory of Translation. Tel Aviv: Porter Institute for Semiotics and Poetics‚ 1980. Harish Trivedi ` India‚ England‚ France‚ A (Post-) Colonial Translational Triangle ’ in S.Ramakrishna(ed.).‚ 1997 John Brannigan Kristeva‚ Julia. ` The Revolution in Poetic Language ’ (trans.) Margaret Waller‚ New York‚ Columbia U.P 1984‚pp.59-60 in Raman Selden(ed.). The Theory of Criticism: From Plato to the Present. London and New York‚ Longman‚ 1988. Lance Hewson ‚ and Jacky Martin
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Introduction Many myths and misconceptions float around the term ‘Feminism’. It is a movement that is frequently projected as being violent‚ aggressive‚ and full of ‘bra burning’ extremists. The word alone often evokes reactions among people that are negative‚ uncomplimentary and stereotypical. The disturbing of the patriarchal paradigm was a phenomenon that became prominent only in the Twentieth Century. Historically speaking women have always numerically outnumbered men‚ but through the system
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The Colossus by Sylvia Plath as an example of ideology or feminist writing. You may begin by commenting on the different definitions available for ideology in general as well as the theory of feminism. Feminism is discussed in this course as an example of modern theories and is often associated with the issue of ideology. Your discussion should refer to the discussion of these terms as well as the major elements connected to them (e.g. gender‚ écriture feminine‚ patriarchy‚ etc.). In your analysis
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Is the gaze male? Book Title: Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera. Contributors: E. Ann Kaplan author. Publisher: Methuen. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1983. Page Number: 35. Since the beginning of the recent women’s movement‚ American feminists have been exploring the representation of female sexuality in the arts—in literature‚ painting‚ film‚ and television. As we struggle towards meaningful theory‚ it is important to note that feminist criticism‚ as a new way of reading
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Polity‚ work-ing paper 33/2001 in: http://www.one-europe.ac.uk/pdf/w33chryssochoou.pdf 9. Connelly J 10. Cotter B.‚ 2002‚ Hannah Arendt and “the Right to Have Rights”‚ in: http://www.isanet.org/noarvhive/cotter.html 11. Fischer M 18. Kristeva J.‚ 1996‚ Julia Kristeva: Interviews (ed. Guterman R. M.) New York: Colum-bia University Press‚ p.41. 19. La Torre M.‚ 1999‚ European identity and citizenship‚ in working paper Reflections on European Identity‚ ed. Jansen T.‚ published by the European Commission
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The terms of intertextual neutralization are the idea that a text “taken from other text‚ intersect and neutralize one another” (Kristeva‚ 1980‚ p.36). The creation of the new work of art will neutralize the matrix one in different motifs or images. John Berger (1972) points that‚ “An image is a sight which has been recreated or reproduced” (p.9). The image of Jesus is a discoursed
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There is a clear connection between the monstrous-feminine and blood. The vampire figure in general is for obvious reasons connected to blood: It is what they drink and what ultimately keeps them alive. The female vampire figure’s lust for blood was also‚ as myth would have it‚ connected to menstrual blood‚ arguably because the blood she lost during her menstruation needed to be reacquired through someone else’s body (Dijkstra 334). Bram Dijkstra in her 1988 work Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of
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The dominant figure that steered the course of the Abstract Expressionist movement was the infamous painter Jackson Pollock. He was born Paul Jackson Pollock in Cody‚ Wyoming on January 28‚ 1912. He was the fifth and youngest son and grew up in Arizona and California after his family left him when he was a little over one year old. Pollock’s artistic journey began at the Manual Arts School in Los Angeles‚ California where he joined two of his brothers. From there‚ he went on to New York to attend
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