Clarissa's Ciphers Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa

• מחבר ראשי: Castle, Terry (auth)
• פורמט: אלקטרוני Book Chapter
• שפה: אנגלית
• יצא לאור: Cornell University Press 1982
• נושאים: hermeneutics; Samuel Richardson; sexual politics; reader-response criticism; Clarissa; feminist criticism
• גישה מקוונת: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

סיכום

<p>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.<p>

תיאור פיזי

1 electronic resource (208 p.)

ISBN

9781501707148

גישה

Open Access