Look Who’s Talking: Gendered Discourse in Margaret Atwood’s Backdrop Addresses Cowboy
Look Who’s Talking: Gendered Discourse in Margaret Atwood’s Backdrop Addresses Cowboy

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I examine the discoursal configuration of negotiations between what Seamus Heaney coined as the ‘feminine mode’ and the ‘masculine’ – and the ways in which this distinction instantiates iconographies, be they feminine or masculine. Beyond the cultural constructs of gender and the patriarchal structures of language, Heaney’s classification deems ‘language’ instantiation, which he labels ‘mode’, as the distinguishing factor

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