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Women's Vision in Western Literature - The Empathic Community (Hardcover, New)
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Women's Vision in Western Literature - The Empathic Community (Hardcover, New)
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Beginning in ancient Greece through the present day, women writers
have confronted the male urge to make war by imagining communities
in which intuitive bonding among individuals questions and replaces
masculinist values of aggression and competition. Women's Vision in
Western Literature traces the "gender gap" in literature from 600
B.C. to the present day through an examination of seven
extraordinary women writers from Sappho to Christa Wolf. Combining
close readings with a comprehensive overview of the careers of
these women, Porter shows how the threat, the experience, and the
aftermath of war incites them to imagine tolerant, empathic
communities. This careful consideration of these seven great
writers brings to light an underappreciated aspect of Western
women's writing. Starting with Sappho, Porter illustrates this
ancient poet's ability to rewrite the Homeric war rhetoric to
reflect a non-possessive love experience. Marie de France arranges
traditional animal fables to imply an open-ended
"situation-ethics," according to the author, and Madame de
Stael--in a Europe torn by Napoleonic conquests--advocates
cross-cultural unions among countries. In the works of Mary
Shelley, we see the warnings of the dangers of vainglorious,
soulless technology, and Virginia Woolf depicts intuitive bonding
beyond gender stereotypes, amid the ruins of war and crumbling
empire. He shows how Marguerite Yourcenar dreams of a new era of
world peace after Hitler's defeat, and how Christa Wolf tries to
cope with her country's Nazi past even as she reaffirms European
identity threatened by annihilations in nuclear conflict.
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