This essay explores the gender implications of metaphor and metonymy in Joyce's Dubliners story «A Mother». The approach owes a large debt to Jane Gallop's Reading Lacan (1985) in which she draws upon Luce Irigaray's reading of Jacques Lacan. For Gallop and Irigaray, Lacan's privileging of metaphor over metonymy in his psychoanalytic theory represents a « phallocentric neglect of feminity » (Gallop 127). Gallop associates metaphor with the «masculine» and freedom, metonymy with the «feminine» and servitude in patriarchal cultures. Gallop's constructs allow us to focus on the clear gender associations of these binary oppositions in «A Mother», where the «feminine» is consistently associated with the constrained and repressed position of thos...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-156).Joycean critics have paid little attention to ...
This article traces and examines representations of motherhood andmother-daughter relationships in c...
A number of works by British modernists James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and American modernists Erne...
It is difficult to imagine a more elusive, polemical author than James Joyce. He is often spoken of ...
In this article, I propose to analyze female characterization in Dubliners (1914), by James Joyce, b...
My thesis explores the representations of women in the fiction of James Joyce through their roles as...
This extended essay is an investigation of the protagonist female characters in both James Joyce’s D...
peer-reviewedThis thesis discovers signs of positive change in maternal representation in contempor...
In Aphrodite Unshamed: James Joyce's Romantic Aesthetics of Feminine Flow, I trace the influence of ...
This paper offers a Lacanian/feminist reading of Night, Mother by the American playwright Marsha Nor...
My thesis analyzes James Joyce’s engagement with Catholic-nationalist Ireland’s (mis)understanding o...
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for ...
This paper sets out to show the close relation between the female characters in the last two chapter...
Female characters frequently appear as animals in the unstable universe of James Joyce’s a Finnegans...
Irish male identity in James Joyce\u27s and Samuel Beckett\u27s novels shows evidence of abjection. ...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-156).Joycean critics have paid little attention to ...
This article traces and examines representations of motherhood andmother-daughter relationships in c...
A number of works by British modernists James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and American modernists Erne...
It is difficult to imagine a more elusive, polemical author than James Joyce. He is often spoken of ...
In this article, I propose to analyze female characterization in Dubliners (1914), by James Joyce, b...
My thesis explores the representations of women in the fiction of James Joyce through their roles as...
This extended essay is an investigation of the protagonist female characters in both James Joyce’s D...
peer-reviewedThis thesis discovers signs of positive change in maternal representation in contempor...
In Aphrodite Unshamed: James Joyce's Romantic Aesthetics of Feminine Flow, I trace the influence of ...
This paper offers a Lacanian/feminist reading of Night, Mother by the American playwright Marsha Nor...
My thesis analyzes James Joyce’s engagement with Catholic-nationalist Ireland’s (mis)understanding o...
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for ...
This paper sets out to show the close relation between the female characters in the last two chapter...
Female characters frequently appear as animals in the unstable universe of James Joyce’s a Finnegans...
Irish male identity in James Joyce\u27s and Samuel Beckett\u27s novels shows evidence of abjection. ...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-156).Joycean critics have paid little attention to ...
This article traces and examines representations of motherhood andmother-daughter relationships in c...
A number of works by British modernists James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and American modernists Erne...