Just how do male novelists perceive their female characters? Are there subtle or not so subtle indications in the narrative that reflect the perceptions of the author rather than the narrator? And are some of these perceptions pre-conceived based on certain cultural biases? These are a few of the questions that Notions of the Feminine: Literary Essays from Dostoevsky to Lacan addresses. With that in mind, the essays examines those notions in such texts as: Dostoevsky's, Crime & Punishment; Tolstoy's, Anna Karenina; Lawrence's Women in Love and The Virgin and the Gypsy; Fuentes', The Old Gringo; Boll's, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum; and with an additional essay based on Lacan's notion of The Gaze that is germane to the other texts.
- ISBN10 1137502940
- ISBN13 9781137502940
- Publish Date 24 November 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Imprint Palgrave Pivot
- Format eBook
- Pages 110
- Language English