Narrating the gender riddle: the case of Maupassant's Yvette, "M. Jocaste," and "L'Ermite".(Critical Essay)

The Romanic Review | May 1, 2000| | Copyright

Literary theory in general, and the various idioms of feminist theory in particular, have frequently portrayed the male relationship to discourse in powerful terms. It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the majority of formulations on this topic have cast a rather unfavorable light on the dominant role that man has assumed in manipulating language and its signifying processes. Helene Cixous' landmark essay, "The Laugh of the Medusa," ranks at once among both the most well-known and the most virulent condemnations of the male's usurpation of semiotic primacy. Cixous ...

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