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Gender and literature : a systems study

Print Book, English, ©2001
University Press of America, Lanham, Md., ©2001
xxiii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780761821328, 0761821325
48014901
Foundations of gender : the psyche, its structure and function
Origins of gender : genders apart
Interactions between genders : genders together
Gender and dynamism of character
Literary characters : psychological realism versus narrative fiction
Cupid and psyche : a story of female initiation
The birth of the hero : Heracles and archetypal masculinity
Chrétien de Troyes' Erec and Enide : in search of gender harmony in marriage
Untying the knot : inversions of gender in Shakespeare's Twelfth night
The masculine in Macbeth
"A delicate bubble of fancy" : Oscar Wilde's The importance of being earnest
Leopold Bloom : the modern Androgynous anti-hero
The nature of transsexualism in I.B. Singer's Yentl the Yeshiva boy