ISBN:
9780198031680
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (248 p)
Series Statement:
Studies in Language, Gender, and Sexuality
Parallel Title:
Print version Livia, Anna Pronoun Envy : Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
English language ; Gender
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English language ; Grammar, Comparative ; French
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French language ; Grammar, Comparative ; English
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Nonsexist language in literature
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Livia examines a broad corpus of written texts in English and French, concentrating on those texts which problematize the traditional functioning of the linguistic gender system. They range from novels and prose poems to film scripts and personal testimonies, and in time from the 19th century to the present. Some withhold any indication of gender; others have non-gendered characters. Livia's goal is two-fold; to help bridge the divide between linguistic and literary analysis, and to show how careful study of the manipulation of linguistic gender in these texts informs larger concerns. This fre
Abstract:
Contents -- 1. ""Un homme sur deux est une femme"": Introduction-Pronoun Envy and Phallogocentrism -- 2. ""Sexes mêlés je ne sus plus rien distinguer"": Nongendered Characters in French -- 3. ""Was I, perhaps, castrato/a?"": Nongendered Characters in English -- 4. ""La sphyngesse, la taure, et les agnelles nouvelles-nées"": Experiments with Lexical Gender in French -- 5. ""On est quatre dans le même tas"": French Epicene on -- 6. ""Na sat astride Three, na hands on nan throat"": Epicene Neologisms in English
Abstract:
7. ""Avant j'étais un transscxuel, maintenant j'étais une femme"": Linguistic Gender and Liminal Identity -- 8. ""Pendue pour des inventions illicites"": Implications -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
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