Gaze, Memory, and Gender in Narrative from Ancient to Modern - Couverture rigide

Kupper, Nelly G.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1433146975 ISBN 13 : 9781433146978

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2017

Synopsis

This book examines the concept of the gaze in the context of narrative fiction. It argues that the gaze in fiction is a tractable factor, identifying the function of characters by way of the gender. The gaze variance and its connection to memory is not new to literary scholarship, but what has been overlooked to date is the fact that the divide exists along the line of gender. The dyad gaze-memory, provided by literary scholarship thus far is erroneous; what emerges instead is a triadic paradigm gaze-memory-gender. The gender divide is reflected in neuroscience, which shows memory processing in man and woman as respectively losing (forgetting) or retaining (remembering) vividness of detail. The discussion focuses on two narratives, one ancient (the Orphic cycle) the other modern (the novel Le Grand Meaulnes) to show that despite the presence of new narrative devices and conventions, the rules of the paradigm are preserved.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nelly G. Kupper is Professor of French and Russian at Northern Michigan University, Marquette. She earned her PhD in Modern Foreign Languages from the University of Tennesee, Knoxville. Her more recent publications include "Obsessively Estranged, Compulsively Creative" in Perspectives on Creativity: Volume 2 (2011), "Daughters Who Remember: the Omnipresent Mother in Nathalie Sarraute's Enfance, and the Absent Mother in Patrick Modiano's La Petite Bijou" in Orbis Litterarum (2011), and «Le Piège du discours maternel dans le roman de Mme de Lafayette» in Gradiva, revue européenne d'anthropologie littéraire (2006).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1433146975
• ISBN 13: 9781433146978
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 214
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne