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Transformation of woman through a feminist lens in The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
Název práce v češtině: Proměna ženy z pohledu feminismu ve sbírce básní The World’s Wife od Carol Ann Duffy
Název v anglickém jazyce: Transformation of woman through a feminist lens in The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
Klíčová slova: Carol Ann Duffy|The World’s Wife|feministická poezie|subverze|převyprávění|řecko-římské mýty|ženská perspektiva|současná perspektiva
Klíčová slova anglicky: Carol Ann Duffy|The World’s Wife|feminist poetry|subversion|re-telling|Greco-Roman myths|female perspective|contemporary perspective
Akademický rok vypsání: 2023/2024
Typ práce: bakalářská práce
Jazyk práce: angličtina
Ústav: Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK)
Vedoucí / školitel: doc. Clare Wallace, M.A., Ph.D.
Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd.
Datum přihlášení: 20.12.2023
Datum zadání: 20.12.2023
Schválení administrátorem: bylo schváleno
Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: 20.12.2023
Datum a čas obhajoby: 04.09.2024 00:00
Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby:15.07.2024
Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 04.09.2024
Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: odevzdaná studentem a finalizovaná
Oponenti: PhDr. Soňa Nováková, CSc.
 
 
 
Zásady pro vypracování
Myths, especially those of Greco-Roman antiquity, are seen as the cornerstones of the Western culture and its values. Even today, many parts of our lives are constructed around their basis, as they are embedded in our consciousness. But these myths are centred around a male gaze on the world – this is something what the poems, especially those disassembling and re-arranging mythical stories, in the collection The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy seek to undermine. The aim of my thesis would be to examine the process in which the poetic language is able to subvert the prevalent patriarchal view on the Western world originating already in the times of Classical Antiquity. But vocabulary in itself has come to be embedded and with meanings that reflect the centuries long social order. Duffy is re-focalizing the mythical narratives through the female gaze and changing the perspective of how they are commonly understood. Through this, the words loaded with centuries old meanings are disrupted and contested. As these stories are so well known, they offer great ground for the distortion of their narrative through the contemporary lens and also illumination of characters, mainly women, who were pushed to the background. The poetic devices and the aspects of the ancient myths which were changed or added to the narratives in the poems of Carol Ann Duffy would be examined in the context of gender theory, with the focus on the feminist perspective, based mainly on the notions of Helene Cixous and her text The Laugh of the Medusa, as for Cixous it is precisely poetry that offers the greatest space for the repressed to write and insert themselves into history.
Seznam odborné literatury
Duffy, Carol Ann. 1999. The World's Wife: Poems. London: Picador.
Braund, Susanna. 2012. “'We're here too, the ones without names.' A study of female voices as imagined by Margaret Atwood, Carol Ann Duffy, and Marguerite Yourcenar.” Classical receptions journal 4 (2): 190-208.https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/cls019.
Brown, Paul Tolliver. 2021. “The Artist and her Work in Carol Ann Duffy’s Poetry.” English (London) 69 (266): 270-293.https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efaa016.
Cixous, Hélène, Keith Cohen, and Paula Cohen. “The Laugh of the Medusa.” Signs 1, no. 4 (1976): 875–93.
Dowson, Jane. 2016. “Poet for Our Times.” In Poet for Our Times, 1-45. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-41563-9_1.
Hudson, Libby. "'An axe to a willow to see how it wept': the creative use of cliche and the commonplace in Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife is analysed by Libby Hudson." The English Review 18, no. 2 (2007): 38+. Gale Literature Resource Center
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