Duffys Feminism and Dramatic Monologues

Zusatztext

This research aims at investigating Carol Ann Duffys representation of feminist issues by recalling historical, religious and mythological figures using the dramatic monologue. Duffy subverts feminine archetypes through a series of dramatic monologues in her volume The Worlds Wife whose structure is based on an eclectic mixture of influences that build up intertextual and metatextual webs reflected in themes of love, as well as the loss of love, sexist oppression, sadness and loneliness, and many others. Be it noted that The Worlds Wife shows difficulties, set by a patriarchal society, in the way of women as well as men. Duffys simple language is traced back to Wordsworth, while her use of the dramatic monologue reminiscent of Browning and T. S. Eliot. To express female desiderata, Duffy has revisited different female figures such as Medusa, Mrs. Midas that holds intertextual semantic relations based on world text theory with Ovids king Midas story from Metamorphoses, and Delilah and Salome. Other gender-bending figures, illustrated not by cross-dressing but by cross identification, appear like Mrs. Darwin, Mrs. Aesop, Mrs. Sisyphus, and Mrs. Faust.

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Dr. Yasser Aman, associate prof,Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University,KSA,& Minia University, Egypt, is author of many papers and eight books on literature, translation and culture.The latest book, Black Voices:The Noble Savage Between Resistance and Assimilation,highlights the black dilemma and introduces Nikky Finney, a famous Affrilachian Poet.

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