The Portrayal of Female Sexuality and Sensuality in Selected Works of Anne Sexton and Adrienne Rich
| Thesis title in Czech: | Vyobrazení ženské sexuality a smyslnosti ve vybraných dílech Anne Sexton a Adrienne Rich |
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| Thesis title in English: | The Portrayal of Female Sexuality and Sensuality in Selected Works of Anne Sexton and Adrienne Rich |
| Key words: | Anne Sexton|Adrienne Rich|poezie|feministická poezie|konfesijní poezie|feminismus|francouzský feminismus|ženská sexualita |
| English key words: | Anne Sexton|Adrienne Rich|poetry|feminist poetry|confessional poetry|feminism|French feminism|female sexuality |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2020/2021 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK) |
| Supervisor: | Mgr. Pavla Veselá, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 15.12.2020 |
| Date of assignment: | 16.12.2020 |
| Administrator's approval: | not processed yet |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 05.01.2021 |
| Date and time of defence: | 07.09.2021 09:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 04.08.2021 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 07.09.2021 |
| Submitted/finalized: | committed by student and finalized |
| Opponents: | Stephan Delbos, M.F.A., Ph.D. |
| Guidelines |
| The second wave of feminism, alongside the sexual liberation movement, raised the long overdue questions concerning gender, female body and sexuality. The issue of female sexuality left the realm of suppression and turned into something to be embraced and a source of female power. The objective of this thesis is to examine the work of two of the most prominent names of American poetry—Anne Sexton and Adrienne Rich—and look at the ways in which these two poets express and portray female sexuality, sensuality and sexual experience through their poetic language. The focus is going to be on poems written during the period of the 1960s and 70s. The main base for the analysis of the poems is going to be the work of French feminism; specifically of Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray |
| References |
| Primary sources:
Rich, Adrienne. Collected Poems: 1950-2012. New York: Norton, 2016. Sexton, Anne. The Complete Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Secondary sources: Cixous, Hélène. “Castration or Decapitation?” Trans. Annette Kuhn. Signs 7, no.1 (Autumn 1981): 41–55. Cixous, Hélène. “The Laugh of the Medusa.” Trans. Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen. Signs 1, no.4 (Summer 1976): 875-893. Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. New York: Norton, 1963. Irigaray, Luce. Je, tu, nous: Toward a Culture of Difference. Trans. Alison Martin. New York: Routledge, 1993. Irigaray, Luce. Speculum of the Other Woman. Trans. Gillian C. Gill. New York: Cornell UP, 1985. Irigaray, Luce. This Sex Which Is Not One. Trans. Catherine Porter and Carolyn Burke. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985. Jones, Ann Rosalind. “Writing the Body: Toward an Understanding of ‘L'Ecriture Feminine.’” Feminist Studies 7, no. 2 (Summer 1981): 247–263. Ostriker, Alicia Suskin. Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986. Rich, Adrienne. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” Signs 5, no. 4 (Summer 1980): 631–660. |