发表于2024-11-29
Plain and Ugly Janes 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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"If beauty is truth, is ugliness falsehood and deception? If all art need concern itself with is beauty, what need have we to explore in our literature the nature and consequences of ugliness?" In Plain and Ugly Janes, Charlotte Wright defines and explores the ramifications of a new character type in twentieth-century American literature, the "ugly woman," whose roots can be traced to the Old Maid/Spinster character of the nineteenth century. During the 1970s, stories began to appear in which the ugly woman is a figure of power--heroic not in the traditional old maid's way of quiet, passive acceptance, but in a way more in keeping with the active, masculine definition of heroic behavior. Wright uses these stories to discuss the nature and definitions of ugliness and the effects of female ugliness on both male and female literary characters in the works of a range of American authors. Wright concludes that the ugly woman character allows American authors to explore the ironies and inequalities inherent in the beauty system.
理论比较弱 罗列了很多作品和人物
评分理论比较弱 罗列了很多作品和人物
评分理论比较弱 罗列了很多作品和人物
评分理论比较弱 罗列了很多作品和人物
评分理论比较弱 罗列了很多作品和人物
Plain and Ugly Janes 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书