Brann OR Gilbert & Gubar

The Power of Literature

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/02/the_power_of_literature.html

So class, Why do women fall short in literaure, just why?

Faulty Assumptions
“Imagining himself buried alive in tombs and cellars, Edgar Allan Poe was letting his mind poetically wander into the deepest recesses of his own psyche, but Dickinson, reporting that ‘I do not cross my Father’s ground to any house in town,’ was recording a real, self-willed, self-burial” (Gilbert and Gubar 260).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/02/faulty_assumptions.html

"When 'The Yellow Wallpaper' was published she sent it to Weir Mitchell, whose strictures had kept her from attempting the pen during her own breakdown, thereby aggravating her illness, and she was delighted to learn, years later, that 'he had changed his treatment of nervous prostration since reading' her story" (Gilbert and Gubar 263).

"'The Yellow Wallpaper', which Gilman herself called 'a description of a case of nervous breakdown', recounts in the first person the experiences of a woman who is evidently suffering from a severe postpartum psychosis" (Gilbert and Gubar 262).

From Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” in Donald Keesey’s Contexts for Criticism:
“…as Emily Dickinson put it, her ‘life’ has been ‘shaven and fitted to a frame,’ a confinement she can only tolerate by believing that ‘the soul has moments of escape/When bursting all the doors/She dances like a bomb abroad.’” page 260
“…but Dickinson, reporting that ‘I do not cross my Father’s ground to any house in town,’ was recording a real, self-willed, self-burial.” page 260
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/03/it_might_be_a_poor_critique_of.html

Can’t We All Just Write the Same
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/03/cant-we-all-just-write-the-sam.html

"Women authors, however, reflect the literal reality of their own confinement

why is this a part of the essay!?

"Dramatizations of imprisonment and escape are so all-pervasive in nineteenth-century literature by women that we believe they represent a uniquely female tradition in this period." (Gilbert and Gubar 260).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/2009/03/trying-to-escap.html

Here's my blog again. My comment didn't post the first time around, I guess.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/QuinnKerno/2009/03/thoughts_on_the.html

"Thus, after nearly two and a half millennia, language and visual imagining draw apart; for their mutuality depended on the understanding that visual arts depict something, the very thing the poetic arts describe. And that is just what neither artists or critics any longer take for granted" (Brann 247).

"Thus, after nearly two and a half millennia, language and visual imagining draw apart; for their mutuality depended on the understanding that visual arts depict something, the very thing the poetic arts describe. And that is just what neither artists or critics any longer take for granted" (Brann 247).