"A White Heron"provided an alternative to a civilized world dominated by men and their values.Jewett has weaved several irreconcilable conflicts between the masculine world and an artificial women Utopian wo..."A White Heron"provided an alternative to a civilized world dominated by men and their values.Jewett has weaved several irreconcilable conflicts between the masculine world and an artificial women Utopian world.The conflicts between two competing sets of values are material and spiritual,industrial and rural,sophisticated and innocent,and masculine and feminine.Sylvia unconsciously finished her spiritual journey by choosing the latter ones over the formers.展开更多
Inhabited by women with male characteristics and men possessing female features, the Dunnet Landing in Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece The Country of the Pointed Firs is depicted as a harmonious land of beauty, fr...Inhabited by women with male characteristics and men possessing female features, the Dunnet Landing in Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece The Country of the Pointed Firs is depicted as a harmonious land of beauty, from which Jewett's preference of androgyny is fully expressed. In this novel, androgyny is used as a means by Jewett to achieve her feministic idea of the equality between men and women and that neither of the sex has prejudice upon the other in this combination. Through a detailed textual analysis, this paper reveals the androgyny elements in this novel and discusses about the possibility of androgyny as a way out for feminism.展开更多
文摘"A White Heron"provided an alternative to a civilized world dominated by men and their values.Jewett has weaved several irreconcilable conflicts between the masculine world and an artificial women Utopian world.The conflicts between two competing sets of values are material and spiritual,industrial and rural,sophisticated and innocent,and masculine and feminine.Sylvia unconsciously finished her spiritual journey by choosing the latter ones over the formers.
文摘Inhabited by women with male characteristics and men possessing female features, the Dunnet Landing in Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece The Country of the Pointed Firs is depicted as a harmonious land of beauty, from which Jewett's preference of androgyny is fully expressed. In this novel, androgyny is used as a means by Jewett to achieve her feministic idea of the equality between men and women and that neither of the sex has prejudice upon the other in this combination. Through a detailed textual analysis, this paper reveals the androgyny elements in this novel and discusses about the possibility of androgyny as a way out for feminism.
