Clarissa's Ciphers

<p>As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa’s Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically...

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description <p>As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa’s Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically and literally. A victim of rape, she is first a victim of hermeneutic abuse. Drawing on feminist criticism and hermeneutic theory, Castle examines the question of authority in the novel. By tracing the patterns of abuse and exploitation that occur when meanings are arbitrarily and violently imposed, she explores the sexual politics of reading.<p>
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-433272023-12-20T18:40:31Z Clarissa's Ciphers Castle, Terry PN1-6790 hermeneutics Samuel Richardson sexual politics reader-response criticism Clarissa feminist criticism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies <p>As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa’s Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically and literally. A victim of rape, she is first a victim of hermeneutic abuse. Drawing on feminist criticism and hermeneutic theory, Castle examines the question of authority in the novel. By tracing the patterns of abuse and exploitation that occur when meanings are arbitrarily and violently imposed, she explores the sexual politics of reading.<p> 2021-02-11T09:58:23Z 2021-02-11T09:58:23Z 2016-10-26 08:56:43 1982 book 19888 9781501707148 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/43327 eng application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://www.cornellopen.org/9781501707148/clarissas-ciphers/ http://d3p9z3cj392tgc.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/23184035/9781501707148.pdf http://d3p9z3cj392tgc.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/23184035/9781501707148.pdf Cornell University Press 05937e7b-c222-4680-9580-c09c5ce7a11e 9781501707148 208 open access
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