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Mind the Gap: The Visual Arts, the Reader-as-Viewer, and Identity Critique in Early Twentieth-Century American Women's Writing.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mind the Gap: The Visual Arts, the Reader-as-Viewer, and Identity Critique in Early Twentieth-Century American Women's Writing./
Author:	Hildebrand, Molly J.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	241 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-10A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3704582
ISBN:	9781321770841

Mind the Gap: The Visual Arts, the Reader-as-Viewer, and Identity Critique in Early Twentieth-Century American Women's Writing.
Hildebrand, Molly J.

Mind the Gap: The Visual Arts, the Reader-as-Viewer, and Identity Critique in Early Twentieth-Century American Women's Writing. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 241 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2015.

This dissertation examines the aestheticization of female protagonists in early twentieth-century American women's writing and demonstrates how tropes from art and literature come together to produce a transformative and revolutionary aesthetics of the female body. Adopting a feminist framework, my work offers a political intervention into the ways in which women are both viewed and view themselves in literature. "Mind the Gap" argues that in evoking tropes from the visual arts, the writers I analyze emphasize the gap between the visual perception of a female body and the consequent cognitive awareness of femininity. This gap enables the reader to pause and evaluate not only the protagonists' relationship to the world, but also the reader's participation in codes of cultural recognition. My first chapter investigates the artists Claude Cahun and Adrian Piper to establish the theoretical and visual practices available to American women artists and writers. Chapters 2 and 3 employ Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905) and Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928), respectively, to demonstrate the ways in which art is used to aestheticize Lily Bart and Helga Crane's bodies in oppressively raced and gendered ways. Ending the dissertation with Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899), I consider the revolutionary subjectivity proposed by Edna Pontellier's rejection of passive aestheticization and her assertion of active artistry. In each of the chapters, I unpack how the aestheticization of female protagonists in early twentieth-century American women's writing functions as a mechanism for raced and gendered oppression, but also as a way to critique, interrupt, and open up transformative models of female identity.

ISBN: 9781321770841Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

Mind the Gap: The Visual Arts, the Reader-as-Viewer, and Identity Critique in Early Twentieth-Century American Women's Writing.
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