Artikel
Blood, sacrifice, marriage : why Iphigeneia and Mariam have to die
Verfasst von:
Purkiss, Diane
in:
Wallingford:
1999
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27 - 45 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Purkiss, Diane |
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| Jahr: | 1999 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article concentrates upon Jane Lumley's "Iphigeneia" and Elizabeth Cary's "Mariam". It challenges received feminist criticism on these two plays and suggests that the authors were "not" performing an ideological critique of tragedy's feminisation, were "not" covertly or overtly resisting the notion of marriage as sacrifice. How could that be? If woman is an unstable, temporary self, figured sporadically by shifting family identity, how can the stable subjectivity implied in writing woman come into being in a woman? In order to write women so, the writer has to adopt a position securely above her, in control of her. The answer is at once very simple and deeply puzzling. Receiving a male education means absorbing male values. Thus the expensive humanist education which Lumley and Cary received, is what made their dramas possible and conceivable; indeed those dramas exist to display that education. | |
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