| The Living Mirror: The Representation of Doubling Identities in the British and Polish Women's Literature (1846-1938) Contributor(s): Wilczynski, Marek (Editor), Naszkowska, Klara (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631649363 ISBN-13: 9783631649367 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $77.38 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Social Science | Women's Studies - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 820.992 |
| Series: Gdansk Transatlantic Studies in British and North American C |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.8" W x 8.2" (0.65 lbs) 263 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book identifies a corpus of British and Polish texts that share correspondences with reference to the themes of feminine doubling, the difficulty of asserting feminine subjectivity, sexual mother-figures and symbolic father-figures. It draws on the Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and the French feminist uses of it known as criture f minine - the theories of Luce Irigaray and H l ne Cixous. It also introduces the theories of the forgotten Russian-Jewish psychoanalyst, Sabina Spielrein. The first part of the book takes account of specifics of Polish culture and history that made women writers marginalised within this context. In the second part, it closely and comparatively examines the selected British and Polish texts, while giving voice to the unknown, stereotyped, or forgotten Polish works. The innovative features of the book include its comparative character and the implementation of various psychoanalytical approaches to the Polish texts. |