The (M)other Tongue : Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation

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This timely and provocative collection of sixteen essays combines feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to literary theory and to the reading of literary texts. It demonstrates not only the ways in which psychoanalytic theory can illuminate traditional literary texts, but also the ways in which fem...

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Main Authors: Garner, Shirley N. (Author), Kahane, Claire (Author), Sprengnether, Madelon S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Psychoanalysis.
Sex differences (Psychology) in literature.
Feminist literary criticism.
Feminist criticism.
Psychology & Psychiatry.
psychoanalysis.
PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General.
Feminist criticism
Feminist literary criticism
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis and literature
Sex differences (Psychology) in literature
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Feminists On Freud
  • 1. The Father's Seduction / Gallop, Jane
  • 2. Enforcing Oedipus: Freud And Dora / Sprengnether, Madelon
  • 3. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle: Recent Gender Theories And Their Implications / Kahn, Coppélia
  • 4. Hysteria, Psychoanalysis, And Feminism: The Case Of Anna O. / Hunter, Dianne
  • Part II. Rereading Patriarchal Texts
  • 5. "This Is And Is Not Cressid ": The Characterization Of Cressida / Adelman, Janet
  • 6. Difference And Silence: John Milton And The Question Of Gender / Swan, Jim
  • 7. The Mother Tongue: Christabel And The Language Of Love / Durham, Margery
  • 8. Mrs. Hawthorne's Headache: Reading The Scarlet Letter / Leverenz, David
  • 9. Eugénie Grandet: Mirrors and MelanchoHa / Schor, Naomi
  • PART III. WOMEN REWRITING WOMAN
  • 10. A Map for Rereading; or, Gender and the Interpretation of Literary Texts / Kolodny, Annette
  • 11. Class, Gender, and Family System: The Case of George Sand / Deutelbaum, Wendy / Huff, Cynthia
  • 12. Women and Men in Doris Lessing's Golden Notebook: Divided Selve / Greene, Gayle
  • 13. Writing as Difference in Violette Leduc's Autobiography, La Bâtarde / Evans, Martha Noel
  • 14. "Women Together " in Virginia Woolfs Night and Day / Garner, Shirley Nelson
  • 15. The Gothic Mirror / Kahane, Claire
  • 16. Writing and Motherhood / Suleiman, Susan Rubin
  • Contributors
  • Index

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