HORTENSIA PAPADAT-BENGESCU SAU O CAMERĂ SEPARATĂ
HORTENSIA PAPADAT-BENGESCU OR A SEPARATE ROOM
Author(s): Iulian BăicușSubject(s): Gender Studies, Literary Texts, Comparative Study of Literature, Romanian Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature, British Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Feminism; Jung‘s Archetypes; Menstrual Blood; Psychoanalysis; Novellas; Literary Influence; Virginia Woolf;
Summary/Abstract: I have been trying in this particular critical essay to compare the work of one of the most notorious woman writers of European literature, Virginia Woof, with the work of the most important Modernist writer, Hortensia-Papadat Bengescu. This parallel doesn’t imply o direct influence but an archetypal use of symbols, coming from the deep psychoanalytical roots of the feminine gender. I have also been using the approach of Gender studies, in order to translate these particular themes to a better understanding of feminine mythic figures and symbolism of blood and of different metaphors used in several texts, in a totally deconstructive discourse, focusing on early texts written by Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu, the Grand European Lady of the Romanian novel, in between the two great World Wars.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 24
- Page Range: 458-470
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Romanian