"As You are Well Pronounced by All External Warrants": Women's Bodies and Women's Places in 17th-century Dutch and English DramaWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2006 - 175 pages |
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Page 31
... ideal a writer resorts to a long series of negations . He reiterates qualities which he cannot grasp otherwise but by negating their oppo- sites or upbraiding transgressive behaviours , all of which define women rather in the terms of ...
... ideal a writer resorts to a long series of negations . He reiterates qualities which he cannot grasp otherwise but by negating their oppo- sites or upbraiding transgressive behaviours , all of which define women rather in the terms of ...
Page 32
... ideal woman should thus be : Not too sweet , not too sour Not too soft , not too hard Not too fast , not too slow ... ideal picture rather than an extra - textual reality . Hence the overtly didactic tone of his text . According to Van ...
... ideal woman should thus be : Not too sweet , not too sour Not too soft , not too hard Not too fast , not too slow ... ideal picture rather than an extra - textual reality . Hence the overtly didactic tone of his text . According to Van ...
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... ideal of beauty and virtue . The idealisation is modified by a number of dramatic and rhetorical techniques which undercut the female character's perfection . Additionally , even if the heroine is present- ed as a model female , her ...
... ideal of beauty and virtue . The idealisation is modified by a number of dramatic and rhetorical techniques which undercut the female character's perfection . Additionally , even if the heroine is present- ed as a model female , her ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Chapter I Constructions of femininity | 17 |
Translation notes | 57 |
Copyright | |
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