Oxford Eprints
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Oxford E-prints is a cross-disciplinary digital archive for research articles written by Oxford University authors. The repository has been developed as part of the SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) project and is running on eprints.org open archives software.
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Jean Paul and women's anthropology - Minter, C
In this article, I examine the philosophical anthropology - the ideas on mind-body relations - behind Jean Paul's presentation of women in his fictional writings. First, I discuss his unflattering association of women with the body in his early satires and Siebenkäs. With reference to Titan, I then suggest that he reaches a more favourable view of female physiology and psychology in his sentimental fiction. Throughout, I relate his views on women's anthropology to those of his contemporaries.
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Robert Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice: A Northern Humanism? - Rutledge, Thomas
This paper responds to the suggestion that Robert Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice was influenced by the Favola di Orfeo of the Italian humanist, Angelo Poliziano. It does not argue for such influence, but suggests that the two works have more in common than has generally been recognised. Both works, composed in the last decade of the fifteenth century and in the vernacular, celebrate the poetic vocation and the liberating possibilities of poetic eclecticism.
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Time, Sex and Authority in John Rolland's Seuin Seages - Couper, Sarah
This paper considers Rolland's additions to his famous source text, to explore some issues associated with the poem's consciousness of time - historical as well as narrative. My reading considers how this conditions its misogynist sexual discourse, in the political context of sixteenth-century Scotland. I look at the authorities the poem invokes to sanction this discourse, but also the way in which the poet-figure himself finally acknowledges and refuses to authorise his sexual subtext.
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The Perils of a Room of One's Own: Space in Simone de Beauvoir's L'Invitée, Le Sang des autres and Les Bouches inutiles - Fell, Alison S.
This article examines the contradictory representation of female space in Simone de Beauvoir's 1940s fiction. While Beauvoir generally supports Virginia Woolf's "room of one's own" as an ideal environment for women seeking intellectual independence, her fictional rooms are frequently spaces of claustrophobic imprisonment in which women suffer physical or mental breakdowns. This ambiguity in Beauvoir's wartime writings is intimately related, I suggest, to her changing conceptions of the self-other relation in this period.
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