1B quotes I need to learn Flashcards
Roland Barthes
Every text is “a new tissue of past citations”
Gender essay (11)
“(1) She was dead … (2) That she was a woman which amounts to much the same thing”
“All they desire, we were about to say when the gentleman took the very words from out of our mouths. Women have no desires”
“women must be obedient, chaste, scented and exquisitetly apparelled by nature”
“sumbit with grace” “docile” “constraint”
“fragile creature” “favourite animal”
“equal”
“lest a sailor may fall from the mast-head”
“distortions themselves can only be conceived against a background of liner chronological sequence”
“‘You’re a woman, Shel!’ She cried.
You’re a man, Orlando!’ He cried”
“the deer and the dogs … are far better judges of both character and identity than we are”
Gilbert and Gubar - “Eve and Eve all along”
Narrative Essay (6)
“writers holiday”
“desire to break with established forms and subjects in literature” - Norton Anthology of English Literature
“are we to blame Orlando?”
“Stories always have something to say about stories”
“The telling of a story is always bound up with power, authority, property or domination”
“governing or massacring their species”
The superhuman (3)
“the monster isn’t so much unnatural than something that comes out of natural, something that goes through and beyond the natural” - B + R
“The monster is excluded, abjected, not because it is entirely other, but because it is at least in some part identical with that by which is was excluded … the human”
“‘You’re a woman, Shel!’ She cried.
You’re a man, Orlando!’ He cried”
