EMAIL<\/a> | SYLLABUS<\/a> | POLICIES<\/a> | QUESTIONS<\/a> | PRESENTATIONS<\/a> | JOURNALS<\/a> | PAPER<\/a> | FINAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Assigned: Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. From The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination:<\/em> from Chapter 2: \u201cInfection in the Sentence . . .\u201d (1926-37 in Leitch, Vincent B. and William E. Cain. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.<\/em> 2nd edition. Norton, 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0393932928).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. On 1927-28 of our selection from The Madwoman in the Attic,<\/em> how do Gilbert and Gubar define and assess Harold Bloom\u2019s key notion that male authors are always subject to a certain \u201canxiety of influence\u201d vis \u00e0 vis their male predecessors?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. On 1929-30 of our selection from The Madwoman in the Attic,<\/em> Gilbert and Gubar discuss the \u201canxiety of authorship\u201d that confronts female authors and differentiates their struggle to create from that of male authors. How do they define and develop this concept? How is it vitally different from Bloom\u2019s model for male authors?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. On 1930-32 of our selection from The Madwoman in the Attic,<\/em> Gilbert and Gubar address what they call the \u201cdarker side\u201d of \u201cfemale literary subculture\u201d (1930 bottom). What are the most troubling effects of the anxiety of influence on women writers? How does Emily Dickinson\u2019s poetical phrase \u201cinfection in the sentence\u201d (1931 lower middle) resonate in Gilbert and Gubar\u2019s analysis in this regard?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. On 1932-36 of our selection from The Madwoman in the Attic,<\/em> Gilbert and Gubar analyze the binary opposition that seems to govern any female writer: she is bound to be viewed either as an \u201cangel in the house\u201d (the name comes from Victorian author Coventry Patmore\u2019s narrative poem, \u201cThe Angel in the House\u201d) or a \u201cmonster.\u201d How do Gilbert and Gubar explicate these terms, and how do they help us to appreciate the deepest difficulties faced by female authors?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. On 1936-38 of our selection from The Madwoman in the Attic,<\/em> Gilbert and Gubar discuss several more \u201cdiseases and dis-eases\u201d besetting women writers and the texts they produce, and conclude that it\u2019s vital to \u201clearn how women have won through disease to artistic health\u201d and that such a project must \u201cbegin by redefining Harold Bloom\u2019s seminal definitions of the revisionary \u2018anxiety of influence\u2019\u201c (1938 top). On the whole, do you think that Gilbert and Gubar have offered us a successful redefinition of Bloom\u2019s key concept for understanding literary history? Why or why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SANDRA GILBERT & SUSAN GUBAR QUESTIONS FOR E492 MODERN CRITICAL THEORY, CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2015 Assigned: Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. From The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination: from Chapter 2: \u201cInfection in the Sentence . . .\u201d (1926-37 in Leitch, Vincent B. and William E. Cain. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[47],"class_list":["post-948","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5092,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/948\/revisions\/5092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}From The Madwoman in the Attic<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n