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Madness Woman:Negative Metaphor Of Female Creation And Text

Posted on:2014-09-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330425978839Subject:Literature and art
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This paper is based on the "mad woman" as the breakthrough point, discusses systematically the crazy factor permeated by women writers and their works, writing structure of this paper are as follows:First of all, as the overall study in the introduction part:throughout to grasp madness in the context of a large madness background, narrate the relationship between female literature and madness, mainly the madness is equal to Female temperament, and become the fact that negative metaphor, where to find the research possibility of previous research achievements.Secondly, in the first part of the paper, namely chapter one, is the support of theory, which is the main part of the paper provides the background, the starting point and the theoretical basis, mainly includes three sections, the first section includes crazy literary significance and gender discourse of madness writing, in order to make a detailed examination of the "mad woman" image, three aspects were in this section, male writers describe the "mad woman", the male writers describe "mad man", female writers describe "mad man" and women writers describe the mad woman; this paper studies the "madwoman" writing of female literature, I think, only the opposite:male writers about the "mad woman","mad men" writing, female writers writing about "mad men", that the problem can be more comprehensive and accurate, in this section, male writers of "madwoman","mad men" description and expectation to do a detailed inspection, but writing for "madwoman" situation in later chapters to summarize; The second section is crazy metaphor, it reveals the real dilemma and the creative motivation that female writers have to face, from the female gender and the writer identity; The third section is included in the feminist literary theory of the "mad woman", the "mad woman" image understanding of feminist literary criticism, because the1979Sandra Gilbert and Susan grand,"the mad woman in the attic" published, it starts from the prison--author identity anxiety--solution strategy, to discuss women writers are trying to escape the limits of their patriarchal culture, in the process of writing have adopted a "double" or "madwoman" strategy.Once again, the main part of the paper, including two or three, four of the three chapter. the two or three the two chapter embarks from the creation of female writers and the concrete work level, to explore the writer secret writing motivation:In the extreme repression of patriarchal culture rule context, the female writers make use of own wisdom to express surface obedience to orthodox cultural rights in the dominant text,to hide deep meaning, but in the hidden text implant "madwoman" to truly express own anger and rebellion. The fourth chapter is starting from the concrete works, combined with the third chapter of the twentieth Century Chinese women writers, the classic western "madwoman" novels as an example, analyzes the specific image of the insane woman and the writers in the text, and from about mad reason and the solution ways to crazy.Finally, I discuss the meaning of madness woman image, madness image open the door of female self-exploration, construct female subjectivity, but whether women writers or readers acutely realize that there are only sad, poor life behind the madness, the only thing we can do is to ensure its own power, more complex social situation in the new era, we pay more attention to women’s own, correctly handle the three worlds (inner world; bisexual world; the objective world of common men and women), this is the correct direction that we positively pursue the relationship between men and women.
Keywords/Search Tags:Madness woman, Patriarchal culture, Female identity, Gender harmony
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