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- Title
A Foucauldian Study of Power, Gender and Violence in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
- Authors
Niazi, Nozar; Daeizadeh, Zohreh
- Abstract
This paper studies Emily Bronte's only published novel Wuthering Heights from the New Historical point of view mainly based on Foucault's ideas. The focus is mostly on the dialogs and the circulating discourse throughout the novel. Foucault's concepts like gender, identity, discourse, opression, violence, resistance and their relationship with power are discussed. Also, this article elaborates on the circulating and dominant discourses flowing in the English society of the nineteenth century such as the discourse of patriarchy and masculinity, feminism and capitalism. In this article, the attempt is ventured to highlight and demonstrate how ordinary members of oppressive institutions are victimized within the manipulative power systems, and how their individuality and freedom are ignored as the consequences of their involvement in the power relations.
- Subjects
BRONTE, Emily, 1818-1848; WUTHERING Heights (Book : Bronte); POINT of view (Literature); DISCOURSE; PATRIARCHY in literature; GENDER in literature; POWER (Social sciences) in literature; INDIVIDUALITY in literature
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2013, Vol 4, Issue 2, p53
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Article