Feminist literary critical approach to H.G.Wells' Ann Veronica Arnold Bennett's Helen With the High Hand and d.h.Lawrence's Women in Love
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2008
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Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
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Contemporary feminist criticism comprises the struggle to challenge the societies which regard the male figure as the only authority, not only at home but also in every part of the societies in which even the traditions and customs are generally regulated and applied according to the rules based on male-centred ideologies. The feminist literary critical approach puts emphasis on the relationships between the patriarchal prejudices in the society and literature and the potential role of literature to impede this.Feminist literary criticism basically deals with the depiction of female characters in the works of male writers in terms of male-female relationships, relationships between parents and children, gender identities, power struggles between the sexes, body and sexuality and images of women.This dissertation not only aims to apply certain feminist theories to certain novels but also makes a comparative study among such novelists as Wells who has a visionary and Darwinistic attitude, Bennett who is preoccupied with social observation and analysis and Lawrence who deals with the anxieties and tensions in the unconsciousness of the characters by taking the reader right inside the characters with his apocalyptic vision.This dissertation has shown that in Ann Veronica, Helen with the High Hand, and Women in Love written with different attitudes, and approaches, most of the female and male characters are able to construct themselves as multiple subjects in the Symbolic Order where they accept the Law of the Father, and they are also able to balance their semiotic and symbolic drives.
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Feminizm, Herbert George