Toward a Recognition of Androgyny, 第 10 卷Knopf, 1973 - 189页 Carolyn Heilbrun opens our eyes to the ways in which the concept of androgyny -- the realization of man in woman and woman in man -- has run from its source in pre-Hellenic myth through the literature of the Western world. Here brilliantly brought to life are long-unrecognized manifestations of the androgynous ideal: in the classic drama, with its celebration of the feminine impulse toward life; in the Gospels, as Jesus breaks with the paternalistic tradition; in the medieval ambiguities of the cult of Mary and the courts of love; in the Renaissance, with its developing view of a more autonomous human being, culminating in Shakespeare's androgynous vision. Moving toward our own time, Mrs. Heilbrun traces the emergence of the woman hero in fiction. Clarissa and Hester Prynne, the strong women characters in Jane Austen, the Brontës, and George Eliot, the heroines of male writers -- Henry James, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence -- are all seen as androgynous creations. And the writers of the Bloomsbury group are looked as exemplifications of the androgynous ideal both in their art and in their lives. -- From publisher's description. |
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