EN 4113 Lecture 10: November 14 Lecture
20 Nov 2016
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Gilbert and gubar"s madwoman in the attic from chapter 2: infection in the. Sentence: the woman writer and the anxiety of authorship . G&g questions bloom"s model of history, which is not a recommendation for but an analysis of the patriarchal poets (and attendant anxieties) which underlie our culture"s chief literary movements (3) And just as the male artist"s struggle against his precursor takes the form of what. Bloom calls revisionary swerves, flights, misreading, or the female writer"s battle for self-creation involves her in a revisionary process. Women do not suffer the anxiety of influence that men do; they suffer a different kind of anxiety. Questioning bloom"s model of history which is not a representation for, but an analysis of the patriarchal poets and anxieties which underline our culture"s chief literary movements (movements that have been dominated by male poets) Her anxiety revolving around eligibility, legitimacy and adequacy.
