EN 4113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Aurora Leigh, Gynocriticism, Unreliable Narrator
12 Nov 2016
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In the first week, we considered the book from woolf"s perspective of why the book is not being read in the twentieth century. It was a book of its time: a victorian project. Too much about barrett browning (autobiographical) although it is not quite clear how, because aurora is nothing like bb. The dialogue is not natural at all- overblown. Mitchell"s perspective on the psychoanalysis of the critique of patriarchy through the subject and gender identity. Through mitchell we get into the details of character and gender construction through the infant subject; the subject created in relation to the two genders (the mother and the father) Aurora"s significant other was her father because her mother died young. Aurora began to self-identify with her father, and saw a future that would be considered for the male gender (the life of a poet)
