Browsing by Subject "Feminist literary criticism"

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    A brief look at the elegy tradition in terms of the status of women in patriarchal societies
    (2006) Aydın, Hilal
    It is observed that, a genre of folk literature, "elegy" which consists of the oral and melodic expression of the feelings triggered by events causing pain and sorrow, is generally performed by women. Thus, elegies can provide us with the information regarding the status, perspective and creativity of women in a patriarchal society. The purpose of this text is to evaluate the information in question in ternis of the content, style, and function of elegies and also to call attention to the fact that elegies, as they are performed mostly by women, are appropriate for analysis within the frame of feminist criticism. The other purpose of this text, deriving from this last statement concerning elegies and feminist criticism is to pose some questions vis-a-vis the possibility of expanding the critical horizons related to this genre.
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    Linguistic silence and the alienation of female characters in Ulysses and the Blind Owl
    (Slovene Comparative Literature Association, 2020) Najafibabanazar, Maryam
    This article intends to demonstrate how female characters in Ulysses and The Blind Owl are deprived of full means of communication and expression. The connection with the concern with alienation in these two novels is that it is in the representation of female language that they show how characters—female characters and by extension women in general—are alienated from and marginalized by the masculine voices of the novels’ narrators and focalizers. It is noticeable that the narrative style of Ulysses and The Blind Owl, although very innovative and experimental, still allocates almost no space to female voices and language, with the major exception of Molly Bloom’s interior monologue. With the benefit of more recent perspectives, Molly’s narrative can be read as deriving in some ways (the lack of punctuation being one major indication) from the semiotic and subverting the established discipline of language use (the symbolic), thus, as an example of écriture féminine.