ENGB45H3 Lecture 15: 8.1 Women II_ Women _ Art
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Madwoman in the attic : responds directly to harold bloom. To be a woman writer is equated with prostitution in the broadcasting to the world; it"s like putting a piece of your spirit out there to be touched by many. Indicates if you want to engage with writing as a woman, you are unnatural. Problem with assigning natural-ness to a gender (gender is a social construction, not biological) Argued today by gilbert & gubar that there"s a anxiety in authorship for women from the influence of men. Radical fear that women can never become a precursor; there are no women writers before her. Act of writing will isolate or destroy her . Bloom argues that great poetry is created when a writer looks back on older works and tries to be better. Bloom uses very physical, masculine language ( wrestle, father, son ) There are indeed fewer female than male writers. Female writers used male pseudonyms to protect themselves.
