Simply how do male novelists understand their girl characters? Are there sophisticated or now not so sophisticated symptoms within the narrative that replicate the perceptions of the writer instead of the narrator? And are a few of these perceptions pre-conceived in line with definite cultural biases? those are some of the questions that Notions of the female: Literary Essays from Dostoevsky to Lacan addresses. With that during brain, the essays examines these notions in such texts as: Dostoevsky's, Crime & Punishment; Tolstoy's, Anna Karenina; Lawrence's ladies in Love and The Virgin and the Gypsy; Fuentes', The previous Gringo; Boll's, The misplaced Honor of Katharina Blum; and with an extra essay according to Lacan's suggestion of The Gaze that's germane to the opposite texts.
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