No Evil Star

Sexton, Anne; Colburn, Steven

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“…However, the reason for Sexton to compose the poem in such a way of which female characters have been seriously objectified without any agency left, as she mentioned in an interview, that "[poems] should be a shock to the senses. It should almost hurt […in order to] make us become more aware" [26]. Indeed, in those poems in Transformations, Sexton tries to provide a sense of unease towards the readers and expects more on the awakening processes happened on her readers.…”

Section: -1-female Objects In Breaking the Conventional Narrating Formmentioning

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“…As Sexton indicated in an interview that the poetry "should be a shock to the sense" with the metaphors which could "make [the readers] become more aware" [26]. Therefore, the implicit images in her poems amplified the fact that females are unaware of herself being materialized and considered as males' fetish, shows that the "fetishism transformation ambiguity and uncertainty into something knowable and certain and in doing so snuffs out any sparks of creativity that might ignite the fires of rebellion" [24].…”

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“…Therefore, as Sexton once announced in an interview, "what [a writer] should do-[is to] move people to action" [45]. To some extent, although it seems to materialize female figures into objects on the very surface, by providing a sense of mirror effect, nearly all of the adaptations towards fairy tales by Carter and Sexton, aim to promote their reader's awareness and response towards social affairs.…”

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Female Objects and Feminist Consciousness for the Purpose to Awake Readers’ Awareness: A Comparative Analysis between Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Anne Sexton’s Transformations

Fenglin

2020

Emerg Sci J

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The female object, as a symbolic image created by male authors to reduce the threat brought by females towards patriarchy, has become a method to express male sexual and domestic fantasies. However, in the fairy tale adaptation by two mid-twentieth century female authors-Angela Carter and Anne Sexton, the female object is used to evoke feminist consciousness. Although former studies have covered some feminism issues, for instance, the feminist awareness through the mirror image in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, and the direct metaphors such as “doll” and “soap pop” which lead to female objectification in Anne Sexton’s Transformations, little research has compared the distinctive psychological impacts that the narrative forms between the two mentioned texts have on readers. In the first section of this paper, how both authors deconstruct the female stereotypes and how they reinterpret modes of female agency in the original Grimm’s fairy tales have been examined. Based on the writers’ perspective, the first section would also explore the expression of female objects in their works. As for the second section, I would mainly focus on the psychoanalysis of Lacan’s mirror stages, and yet cover the awakening processes presented in the mirror images and symbols composed in the two adaptations. In the third section, the different narrative strategies utilized by Carter and Sexton in order to stimulate readers’ responses towards feminist consciousness would be illustrated.

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Section: -1-female Objects In Breaking the Conventional Narrating Formmentioning

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Female Objects and Feminist Consciousness for the Purpose to Awake Readers’ Awareness: A Comparative Analysis between Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Anne Sexton’s Transformations

Fenglin

2020

Emerg Sci J

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Insights, Epiphanies, and Working Through: on Healing, Self-Healing, and Creativity in the Writer and The Analyst

Jacobs

2011

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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The author discusses similarities and differences between the way that writers and psychoanalysts go about their respective tasks. He raises questions about the role of creativity and its sources in both these vocations. He illustrates his points by relating a brief clinical vignette from his work with a patient who was a writer, and by sharing the description of a creative story he wrote many years before becoming an analyst. After presenting a story by James Joyce as also illustrative of these themes, the author concludes by comparing and contrasting the inner experiences of the writer and the analyst.

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Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry

Waters¹

2015

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

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No Evil Star

Cited by 11 publications

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Female Objects and Feminist Consciousness for the Purpose to Awake Readers’ Awareness: A Comparative Analysis between Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Anne Sexton’s Transformations

Female Objects and Feminist Consciousness for the Purpose to Awake Readers’ Awareness: A Comparative Analysis between Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Anne Sexton’s Transformations

Insights, Epiphanies, and Working Through: on Healing, Self-Healing, and Creativity in the Writer and The Analyst

Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry

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