Monsters of Affection: Dickens, Eliot, & Bronte on Fatherhood |
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... symbolic understanding of fatherhood.24 In Dickens's narratives that deal with parricide , just such a transformation must take place . When at the origin of his fictions Dickens discovers the father dead , he in fact discovers the ...
... symbolic understanding of fatherhood.24 In Dickens's narratives that deal with parricide , just such a transformation must take place . When at the origin of his fictions Dickens discovers the father dead , he in fact discovers the ...
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... symbolic realm , castration signifies presence or absence of the phallus - or the father , as I imply in the second section of this chapter . Woman is defined in the dominant ideology as lacking the power associ- ated with the phallus ...
... symbolic realm , castration signifies presence or absence of the phallus - or the father , as I imply in the second section of this chapter . Woman is defined in the dominant ideology as lacking the power associ- ated with the phallus ...
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... symbolic confrontation to lay to rest the ghosts of the father , paradoxically empowered the imaginations of my three authors . Dickens , Eliot , and Charlotte Bronte all struggle as well with symbolic paternity . Their characters ...
... symbolic confrontation to lay to rest the ghosts of the father , paradoxically empowered the imaginations of my three authors . Dickens , Eliot , and Charlotte Bronte all struggle as well with symbolic paternity . Their characters ...
Contents
Authors of Being | 10 |
A Sort of Father | 65 |
Masters and Mastery | 119 |
Copyright | |
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