The Unspeakable Mother : : Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H.D. / / Deborah Kelly Kloepfer.
Moving back and forth between experience and language, The Unspeakable Mother operates out of the intersection of two perspectives: women's immersion in the mother/daughter dyad and the paradoxical absence of the mother in the daughter's discourse. Deborah Kelly Kloepfer calls attention to...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1989 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Reading Women Writing
|
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
9781501722035 |
---|---|
ctrlnum |
(DE-B1597)514774 (OCoLC)1083630551 |
collection |
bib_alma |
record_format |
marc |
spelling |
Kloepfer, Deborah Kelly, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Unspeakable Mother : Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H.D. / Deborah Kelly Kloepfer. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1989 1 online resource (224 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Reading Women Writing Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. The Blind Spot -- 2. Gazing for His Behalf -- 3. Orestes' Sisters -- 4. Between Corpse and Song -- 5. Words That Are Not Words -- 6. Fishing the Murex Up -- 7. Bitter Jewel -- 8. The Syntax of Stained Glass -- 9. She Herself Is the Riddling -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Moving back and forth between experience and language, The Unspeakable Mother operates out of the intersection of two perspectives: women's immersion in the mother/daughter dyad and the paradoxical absence of the mother in the daughter's discourse. Deborah Kelly Kloepfer calls attention to the repeated allusions to dead mothers, dying mothers, mad mothers, stepmothers, abortions, stillbirths, miscarriages, and infant death in the novels of Jean Rhys and the poems and prose of H.D. Drawing on American and French feminist theory, she suggests that Rhys, H.D., and other modernist women writers, rather than just characterizing women's experience, are encoding the mother in relation to language. The dead mother is a trope for textlessness, a trope that also serves to inscribe the repression of the female speaking/writing subject.Challenging a number of assumptions of critical discourse, in which the father traditionally functions as the guardian of the symbolic, Kloepfer shows how thematic violence toward the female body is accompanied by the rupturing of conventional language, an act that both reconstitutes the abandoned mother and turns the violence against the androcentric discourse that has denied her. In the work of both Rhys and H.D., Kloepfer uncovers a startling and unsettling incestuous language between mother and daughter which relies not only on the unspoken but on the unspeakable.Anyone interested in literary modernism will find The Unspeakable Mother fascinating reading, as will students and scholars in the fields of psychoanalytic criticism and feminist theory. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Autobiographical fiction, English History and criticism. Feminism and literature English-speaking countries History 20th century. Mothers and daughters in literature. Women and literature English-speaking countries History 20th century. Family & Relationships. Literary Studies. Womens Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women . bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722035 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501722035 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501722035/original |
language |
English |
format |
eBook |
author |
Kloepfer, Deborah Kelly, Kloepfer, Deborah Kelly, |
spellingShingle |
Kloepfer, Deborah Kelly, Kloepfer, Deborah Kelly, The Unspeakable Mother : Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H.D. / Reading Women Writing Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. The Blind Spot -- 2. Gazing for His Behalf -- 3. Orestes' Sisters -- 4. Between Corpse and Song -- 5. Words That Are Not Words -- 6. Fishing the Murex Up -- 7. Bitter Jewel -- 8. The Syntax of Stained Glass -- 9. She Herself Is the Riddling -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data |
author_facet |
Kloepfer, Deborah Kelly, Kloepfer, Deborah Kelly, |
author_variant |
d k k dk dkk d k k dk dkk |
author_role |
VerfasserIn VerfasserIn |
author_sort |
Kloepfer, Deborah Kelly, |
title |
The Unspeakable Mother : Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H.D. / |
title_sub |
Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H.D. / |
title_full |
The Unspeakable Mother : Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H.D. / Deborah Kelly Kloepfer. |
title_fullStr |
The Unspeakable Mother : Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H.D. / Deborah Kelly Kloepfer. |
title_full_unstemmed |
The Unspeakable Mother : Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H.D. / Deborah Kelly Kloepfer. |
title_auth |
The Unspeakable Mother : Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H.D. / |
title_alt |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. The Blind Spot -- 2. Gazing for His Behalf -- 3. Orestes' Sisters -- 4. Between Corpse and Song -- 5. Words That Are Not Words -- 6. Fishing the Murex Up -- 7. Bitter Jewel -- 8. The Syntax of Stained Glass -- 9. She Herself Is the Riddling -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data |
title_new |
The Unspeakable Mother : |
title_sort |
the unspeakable mother : forbidden discourse in jean rhys and h.d. / |
series |
Reading Women Writing |
series2 |
Reading Women Writing |
publisher |
Cornell University Press, |
publishDate |
2018 |
physical |
1 online resource (224 p.) |
contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. The Blind Spot -- 2. Gazing for His Behalf -- 3. Orestes' Sisters -- 4. Between Corpse and Song -- 5. Words That Are Not Words -- 6. Fishing the Murex Up -- 7. Bitter Jewel -- 8. The Syntax of Stained Glass -- 9. She Herself Is the Riddling -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data |
isbn |
9781501722035 9783110536171 |
geographic_facet |
English-speaking countries |
era_facet |
20th century. |
url |
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722035 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501722035 https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501722035/original |
illustrated |
Not Illustrated |
dewey-hundreds |
800 - Literature |
dewey-tens |
820 - English & Old English literatures |
dewey-ones |
820 - English & Old English literatures |
dewey-full |
820.9/355 |
dewey-sort |
3820.9 3355 |
dewey-raw |
820.9/355 |
dewey-search |
820.9/355 |
doi_str_mv |
10.7591/9781501722035 |
oclc_num |
1083630551 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT kloepferdeborahkelly theunspeakablemotherforbiddendiscourseinjeanrhysandhd AT kloepferdeborahkelly unspeakablemotherforbiddendiscourseinjeanrhysandhd |
status_str |
n |
ids_txt_mv |
(DE-B1597)514774 (OCoLC)1083630551 |
carrierType_str_mv |
cr |
hierarchy_parent_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
is_hierarchy_title |
The Unspeakable Mother : Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H.D. / |
container_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
_version_ |
1770177083355430912 |
fullrecord |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>04728nam a22007215i 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">9781501722035</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-B1597</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20220302035458.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m|||||o||d||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr || ||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">220302t20181989nyu fo d z eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9781501722035</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.7591/9781501722035</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-B1597)514774</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1083630551</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="b">eng</subfield><subfield code="c">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">nyu</subfield><subfield code="c">US-NY</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="072" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">LIT025050</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">820.9/355</subfield><subfield code="2">22</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Kloepfer, Deborah Kelly, </subfield><subfield code="e">author.</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield><subfield code="4">http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">The Unspeakable Mother :</subfield><subfield code="b">Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H.D. /</subfield><subfield code="c">Deborah Kelly Kloepfer.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Ithaca, NY : </subfield><subfield code="b">Cornell University Press, </subfield><subfield code="c">[2018]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">©1989</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (224 p.)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text</subfield><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">computer</subfield><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">online resource</subfield><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="347" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text file</subfield><subfield code="b">PDF</subfield><subfield code="2">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="490" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Reading Women Writing</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="t">Frontmatter -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Contents -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Foreword -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Acknowledgments -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Prologue -- </subfield><subfield code="t">1. The Blind Spot -- </subfield><subfield code="t">2. Gazing for His Behalf -- </subfield><subfield code="t">3. Orestes' Sisters -- </subfield><subfield code="t">4. Between Corpse and Song -- </subfield><subfield code="t">5. Words That Are Not Words -- </subfield><subfield code="t">6. Fishing the Murex Up -- </subfield><subfield code="t">7. Bitter Jewel -- </subfield><subfield code="t">8. The Syntax of Stained Glass -- </subfield><subfield code="t">9. She Herself Is the Riddling -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Epilogue -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Bibliography -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Index -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="506" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">restricted access</subfield><subfield code="u">http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec</subfield><subfield code="f">online access with authorization</subfield><subfield code="2">star</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Moving back and forth between experience and language, The Unspeakable Mother operates out of the intersection of two perspectives: women's immersion in the mother/daughter dyad and the paradoxical absence of the mother in the daughter's discourse. Deborah Kelly Kloepfer calls attention to the repeated allusions to dead mothers, dying mothers, mad mothers, stepmothers, abortions, stillbirths, miscarriages, and infant death in the novels of Jean Rhys and the poems and prose of H.D. Drawing on American and French feminist theory, she suggests that Rhys, H.D., and other modernist women writers, rather than just characterizing women's experience, are encoding the mother in relation to language. The dead mother is a trope for textlessness, a trope that also serves to inscribe the repression of the female speaking/writing subject.Challenging a number of assumptions of critical discourse, in which the father traditionally functions as the guardian of the symbolic, Kloepfer shows how thematic violence toward the female body is accompanied by the rupturing of conventional language, an act that both reconstitutes the abandoned mother and turns the violence against the androcentric discourse that has denied her. In the work of both Rhys and H.D., Kloepfer uncovers a startling and unsettling incestuous language between mother and daughter which relies not only on the unspoken but on the unspeakable.Anyone interested in literary modernism will find The Unspeakable Mother fascinating reading, as will students and scholars in the fields of psychoanalytic criticism and feminist theory.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="538" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Autobiographical fiction, English</subfield><subfield code="x">History and criticism.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Feminism and literature</subfield><subfield code="z">English-speaking countries</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="y">20th century.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Mothers and daughters in literature.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Women and literature</subfield><subfield code="z">English-speaking countries</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield><subfield code="y">20th century.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Family & Relationships.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Literary Studies.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Womens Studies.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women .</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110536171</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722035</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501722035</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="3">Cover</subfield><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501722035/original</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-053617-1 Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000</subfield><subfield code="b">2000</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_BACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_CL_LT</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ECL_LT</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EEBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ESSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_PPALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_SSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">GBV-deGruyter-alles</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA11SSHE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA13ENGE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA17SSHEE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA5EBK</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |