Staging Slander and Gender in Early Modern EnglandAshgate, 2003 - 202 oldal This book examines slander in early modern England as a gendered and theatrical cultural practice. Habermann explores oral defamation – the negative fashioning of others – in language and rhetoric, social interaction and the law, literature and authorship as well as religion, subjectivity and the body. Since the 'slander triangle', which requires an accuser, an audience and a victim, is inherently theatrical, the dramatic representation of slander forms a central concern of the study. Focusing on sexual slander in particular, Habermann shows how femininity was fashioned between praise and slander, and how the 'slandered heroine' emerged as an influential fantasy of femininity – a linguistic, legal and social mechanism that lends itself to masculine self-fashioning through the display of eloquence but that is also subject to resignification by female authors. As theatre and the law mutually influence each other, drama offers a poetic inquiry into the gendered subject and the social life of the community. |
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... heroine ” in a discussion of the four plays by Shakespeare dealing with the slander of a woman . She argues that in ... heroine " or the moral framework to which she belongs . In the early modern period the " slandered heroine " as a ...
... heroine ” in a discussion of the four plays by Shakespeare dealing with the slander of a woman . She argues that in ... heroine " or the moral framework to which she belongs . In the early modern period the " slandered heroine " as a ...
141. oldal
... heroine " to lament and to die singing , like a swan , or like the maid Barbary , which reference lends an exotic flavour to Desdemona's victimization . In a brief evocation of tragicomic devices , she comes to life again to testify ...
... heroine " to lament and to die singing , like a swan , or like the maid Barbary , which reference lends an exotic flavour to Desdemona's victimization . In a brief evocation of tragicomic devices , she comes to life again to testify ...
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... heroine " in order to present an assertive woman who , being clearly innocent of the charges levelled against her , may serve as a model of positive identification . This allows Cary not only to dramatize the predicament of contemporary ...
... heroine " in order to present an assertive woman who , being clearly innocent of the charges levelled against her , may serve as a model of positive identification . This allows Cary not only to dramatize the predicament of contemporary ...
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GRAD | 1 |
The Rhetoric of Slander | 27 |
The Law of Slander | 43 |
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