Monsters of Affection: Dickens, Eliot, & Bronte on Fatherhood |
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Page 127
... female desire with the phallic pen , her narrative geography of pleasure ignores neither male nor female libidinal economy and simultaneously cherishes both the gaze and the voice . In terms of subject matter , Bronte indulges and ...
... female desire with the phallic pen , her narrative geography of pleasure ignores neither male nor female libidinal economy and simultaneously cherishes both the gaze and the voice . In terms of subject matter , Bronte indulges and ...
Page 147
... female lack with an equation that appears reductive : the subject may " have " or " be " the phallus . 52 The male “ is ” the phallus , and the female desires to " have ” it ; to acquire the phallus she lacks , the girl desires ( by a ...
... female lack with an equation that appears reductive : the subject may " have " or " be " the phallus . 52 The male “ is ” the phallus , and the female desires to " have ” it ; to acquire the phallus she lacks , the girl desires ( by a ...
Page 154
... female sexual landscape complete with metaphorical vagina at its center . And despite Caroline's metaphors of intercourse with masculinity - the gnarled trees , the entry as " penetration " - this female space represents the long - lost ...
... female sexual landscape complete with metaphorical vagina at its center . And despite Caroline's metaphors of intercourse with masculinity - the gnarled trees , the entry as " penetration " - this female space represents the long - lost ...
Contents
Authors of Being | 10 |
A Sort of Father | 65 |
Masters and Mastery | 119 |
Copyright | |
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