1 / 15

Love Stories: The Discourses of Desire in Literature and Culture, 1800 – the Present

Love Stories: The Discourses of Desire in Literature and Culture, 1800 – the Present. Session Four. Agenda. Joseph Allen Boone, Love and the Form of Fiction : 19th and 20th century love stories. Romanticism, Victorianism, realism, modernism Joyce’s letters to Nora

yoshe
Download Presentation

Love Stories: The Discourses of Desire in Literature and Culture, 1800 – the Present

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Love Stories: The Discourses of Desire in Literature and Culture, 1800 – the Present Session Four

  2. Agenda • Joseph Allen Boone, Love and the Form of Fiction: 19th and 20th century love stories. Romanticism, Victorianism, realism, modernism • Joyce’s letters to Nora • D.H. Lawrence, The Virgin and the Gypsy

  3. Joseph Allen Boone, Tradition-Counter-Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction • Boone’s theoretical background • Feminism, gender studies: gender • Dialogic criticism,Mikhail Bakthin : dialogism, polyphony, heteroglossia • Marxism, Louis Althusser: Ideology

  4. Joseph Allen Boone, Tradition-Counter-Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction • Boone’s theoretical background • Feminism, gender studies: gender • Gender, in contrast to sex, is a cultural construct generated by patriarchy

  5. Joseph Allen Boone, Tradition-Counter-Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction • Boone’s theoretical background: Dialogic criticism,Mikhail Bakthin : dialogism, polyphony, heteroglossia • Since novels have narrators (unlike plays, for instance) who report what the characters say and think, narrative discourse is always double-voiced; a dynamic web of contesting, contradictory, and mutually influencing voices.

  6. Joseph Allen Boone, Tradition-Counter-Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction • Boone’s theoretical background: Marxism, Louis Althusser: Ideology • Subject position: pre-established positions as a person (subject) with certain norms, values, ideas, views, and ends

  7. (The Marriage) Tradition: Courtship: comic P&P Seduction: tragic Clarissa Wedlock: comic / tragic Counter Tradition Attacking the tradition from within Inventing trajectories for the single protagonist Joseph Allen Boone, Tradition-Counter-Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction

  8. (The Marriage) Tradition: Half-selves: Polar opposites: union or war ”likeness” contrast Counter Tradition Likeness Complex difference Joseph Allen Boone, Tradition-Counter-Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction

  9. What about? • Thomas Hardy, “On the Western Circuit” • Sara Orne Jewett, “The White Heron” • Susan Glaspell, Trifles • James Joyce, “The Dead” • Virginia Woolf, "The Mark on the Wall“ • LeRoi Jones, The Dutchman • David Lodge, "Hotel Des Boobs"

  10. The Virgin and the Gipsy • Lawrence’s novella and ”The Lady of Shalott” (40-41) • Tradition and counter-tradition • Love as scandal • Virginity (53-54) • The ending

  11. Love as scandal • [Early ME. scandle, scha(u)ndle, a. ONF. escandle, Central OF. eschandle, semi-popular ad. eccl. L. scandalum cause of offence or stumbling, ad. Gr. , recorded only in Hellenistic literature, in the fig. sense ‘snare for an enemy, cause of moral stumbling’, but certainly an old word meaning ‘trap’ (cf. the derivative spring of a trap), believed to be f. the Indogermanic *skand- to spring, leap: cf. L. scandre to climb, to SCAN. • Before the 16th c. the word occurs only in the Ancren Riwle, exc. in the forms treated s.v. SLANDER n. (from the OF. variants escandre, esclandre). In the 16th c. it was re-adopted from the Latin in the form scandal, possibly after the Fr. learned form scandale, which had been introduced to represent the strict sense of eccl. L. scandalum, as distinguished from the senses that had been developed by F. esclandre. Cf. Sp. escándalo, Pg. escandalo, It. scandalo, G. skandal (which has developed the sense ‘uproar’), Du. schandaal.]

  12. 1. Point of view and desire • The role and function of the narrator • 2. Plot and character and desire • The vicar and Cynthia (5-8) • Yvette and young men • Yvette and the gypsy • The Eastwoods • 3. Imagery and desire • The virgin • The rectory • The gypsy (23-24 (28), 51-54) • The gypsy camp • The flood • Consider also the relationship between The Virgin and the Gypsy and “The Lady of Shalott”, especially the theme of female imprisonment. Who or what imprisons Yvette?

  13. James Joyce’s Letters to Nora • Value: In 2004, a letter from James to Nora sold at Sotheby's for £240,800 • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1466556/Erotic-Joyce-letter-to-Nora-sells-for-.25m.html

  14. James Joyce’s Letters to Nora • Desire and signs • “Nora, dear, I am dying all day to ask you one or two questions” (Dublin 3 December 1909) • Tell me now, Nora, truth for truth, honesty for honesty” (Dublin 3 December 1909) • O, I am anxious to get your reply, darling! (Dublin 6 December 1909) • Write me more about that and yourself, sweetly, dirtier, dirtier. (Dublin 8 December 1909) • Do more if you wish and send the letter then to me, my darling […]. (Dublin 9 December 1909) • No letter! Now I am sure my girlie is offended at my filthy words. ((Dublin 15 December 1909)

  15. James Joyce’s Letters to Nora • Signs: signifier / signified • Absence / presence • Desire is always mediated through signs: desire is a present absence or an absent presence • Some signs are more priviledged and highly valued than others

More Related