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- Creator:
- Kessler, Gracemarie T
- Description:
- Angela Olive (Stalker) Carter (1940-1992) positions herself as a writer in the "demythologizing business" (Notes 38). Carter defines myth in the sense Roland Barthes uses in Mythologies as "the very principle of myth that transforms history into nature" (Barthes 129). Barthes' process of naturalization transforms culturally and historically determined fictions into received truths, which are accepted as natural and even sacred. For Carter, demythologizing means exploring what society and culture really stand for, what they mean, underneath the kind of semireligious coating that makes people not particularly want to interfere with them (Katsavos 1 ). This thesis explores Carter's demythologizing approach in her fairy tale collection, The Bloody Chamber, her feminist manifesto, The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography, and her novel, Nights at the Circus. In The Bloody Chamber and Nights at the Circus, Carter questions the culturally determined roles that patriarchal ideology has "palmed off' on women as "the real thing" (Notes 38), and she scrutinizes the relations between the sexes that have resulted from these culturally determined roles. The Sadeian Woman investigates problems that the Marquis de Sade raises about the culturally determined nature of women and the resultant relations between men and women. All three texts explore the subject-object dichotomy of gendered identity in a predatorial hierarchy. The Bloody Chamber explores gender identity from a perspective of"'tigers' and 'lambs,' carnivores and herbivores, those who are preyed upon and those who do the preying" (Atwood 118), which in turn reduces women to "meat," that is as passive objects of desire and inert objects of exchange. The Sadeian Woman intertextualizes similar cultural determinations existing in malefemale power relations. Nights at the Circus retains the subject-object dichotomy presenting also a spectator-spectacle gaze of self representation through masquerade.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies
- Creator:
- Knox, Valerie E
- Description:
- What do colleges, American corporations, and state government have in common? Each spends an astronomical amount of money annually for remedial writing instruction: college campuses spend approximately $1 billion to boost freshmen writing skills; American corporations spend as much as $3.1 billion, and state governments spend approximately one quarter of a billion of taxpayers' dollars ("Most American Students Must Improve Writing," A Ticket to Work Sec A:4, A Powerful Message from State Government 6). The publicly funded university has a wealth of excellent writing resources in faculty and graduate students that if engaged could improve the overall writing health of its community. One successful means to engage students in the community is through community service learning, a pedagogy in which students serve in the community doing planned and meaningful activities that meet both a community identified need and the course's goal and objectives. At California State University San Marcos, the Office of Community Service Learning, the Literature and Writing Graduate Studies program and Human Resources and Equal Opportunity created a synergistic partnership to launch the Professional Writing Workshop Series. The series is designed for the professional working adult who wants to gain confidence in his/her writing ability. Key words: graduate students, English graduate students, community service learning, service learning, professional writing, writing projects, facilitating writing Item only available to the CSUSM community. Authentication with campus user name and password required.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies
- Creator:
- Larson, Janette Kim
- Description:
- Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available. Item only available to the CSUSM community. Authentication with campus user name and password required.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies
- Creator:
- McGuinness, John M
- Description:
- Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available. Item only available to the CSUSM community. Authentication with campus user name and password required.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies
- Creator:
- Mesaros, Kristina Louisa
- Description:
- During the Victorian era, British society met with vast urbanization and the social and environmental problems associated with a dramatic shift from an agrarian economy to an industrialized one. As the landscape of society changed, the PreRaphaelite movement turned toward a romantic vision of the Medieval and Gothic themes and narratives. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood simultaneously questioned and reestablished the Victorian ideal of femininity as a mixture of moral fortitude and physical vulnerability. Within the themes of the "fallen" woman and the woman in need of rescue, the Brotherhood focused on a sympathetic view of women as victims of coercion by men or a harsh environment. Although this sympathetic treatment served to place Victorian ideals ofwomanhood into question, the subjects of their paintings still upheld a managed female sexuality. Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market responds to this Pre-Raphaelite use of the performance of vulnerability. By creating images of women set in a performance of idealized, almost cliched, vulnerability, the Brotherhood may enjoy and take from a controlled sexuality. Rossetti subverts this manufactured womanhood in her poem by showing complete and unmanaged female sexuality. Keywords: Christina Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelitism, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Goblin Market, Victorian sexuality.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Literature and Writing Studies