THE SPEAKING DIVINE WOMAN by Patricia Zecevic ( 9783906766911 )

Item Details

Title:

THE SPEAKING DIVINE WOMAN
LOPEZ DE UBEDA'S LA PICARA JUSTINA AND GOETHE'S WILHELM MEISTER

By:

Patricia Zecevic

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£68.40

Our price:

£61.56

Discount:

10% off

You save:

£6.84

ISBN 10:

3906766918

ISBN 13:

9783906766911

Availability:

This item will be printed on demand and will usually be dispatched within 10 days.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

VERLAG PETER LANG

Pub. date:

1 September, 2001

Series:

European Connections v. 2

Pages:

294

Synopsis:

Drawing on the Spanish Kabbalah's account of the divine speaking Woman, analysed in terms derived from contemporary feminist stylistics - especially the speculative-cum-theological variety associated with Luce Irigaray's work - this study examines the problem of female self-presentation in two novels from quite different cultural periods and national literary contexts. The study concludes that the two works participate in the long history of kabbalistic-hermetic reflexion on the nature and status of the Divine Feminine and its expression in language. The deft deployment of current French feminist thinking to elucidate both the theme of the Divine Feminine and the stylistic resources available for formal female self-expression not only sharpens our perception of what is being articulated in the novels themselves. It opens up a remarkable illuminating historical dimension stretching back to the origins of Kabbalah, in which contemporary feminism finds its place.

Publication:

Switzerland

Imprint:

Verlag Peter Lang

Returns:

Returnable