Gender and Narrativity (Textual Analysis, Discourse and Culture) - Softcover

Rutland, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0886292980 ISBN 13: 9780886292980

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997

Synopsis

It is impossible to imagine a community that is not divided into at least two gender groups. It is equally impossible to imagine a community that does not tell or enact stories. The relationship between these universal aspects of human culture is the mainspring of Gender and Narrativity. From Genesis to Freud, the Western narrative tradition tells the same old story of masculine dominance/feminine subservience as a matter of divine will or natural truth. Here, nine Canadian scholars challenge and interpret this tradition, in effect "re-telling" the story of gender, and themselves intervening in the narrative process. Critical readings from a wide range of literary texts - medieval and modern, European and Canadian - replace abstract theory in these studies, while sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, deconstruction and new history are the axes of discussion. This book exemplifies the current range and diversity of Canadian critical writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0886292980
• ISBN 13: 9780886292980
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277