'Self' and 'Other' in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion

Male postmodernist fiction often shows an obsessive desire to undermine the concept of the bourgeois individual subject characteristic of classic realism. However, women writers on the whole do not feel comfortable with an aesthetics of impersonality because it would be deeply at odds with women’s o...

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Autor: Onega, Susana
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1994
País:España
Institución:Universidad de La Laguna (ULL)
Repositorio:RIULL. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
OAI Identifier:oai:riull.ull.es:915/30704
Acceso en línea:http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/30704
Access Level:acceso abierto
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Sumario:Male postmodernist fiction often shows an obsessive desire to undermine the concept of the bourgeois individual subject characteristic of classic realism. However, women writers on the whole do not feel comfortable with an aesthetics of impersonality because it would be deeply at odds with women’s own experience of subordination and objectification. The paper analyses the way in which, in The Passion, Jeanette Winterson attempts to reconcile her rejection of the conventions of classic realism with her need for definition of selfhood within the framework of Freudian and Lacanian theory.

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