PLEADING FOR THE GENOS-ANALYSIS AS AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD OF APPROACHING A LITERARY TEXT
PLEADING FOR THE GENOS-ANALYSIS AS AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD OF APPROACHING A LITERARY TEXT

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to discuss a new concept in literary analysis, namely gender analysis. Intimately related to another new concept, that of genderisation, gender analysis can bring a fresh perspective to how one regards and understands a literary text, providing insight into the workings of the creative mind and emphasising the fact that a poetic image may not always be entirely the poetřs own. Analising imagined gender may open a window towards the psychology of the creative act. Identifying the influence of grammatical gender on imagined gender can lead to a new dimension in the interpretation of a poetřs work, a new way to discern the extent to which his or her work is culturally and linguistically determined, modelled by certain foreign influences or, on the contrary, the extent to which it can escape such determinations and reach true originality.

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