Rape and Representation

by Nancy K. Miller and John J. Winkler

Book Overview

Rape does not have to happen. The fact that it does--and in the United States a rape is reported every six minutes--indicates that we live in a rape-prone culture where rape or the threat of rape... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023107266X
• ISBN13: 9780231072663
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Representations of Rape in Literature and Other Cultural Products

From Back Cover: The contributors to 'Rape and Representation,'...explore how cultural forms construct and reinforce social attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate sexual violence." ****** CONTENTS: * Introduction: Rereading Rape - Lynn A. Higgins and Brenda R. Silver 1 - PRIOR VIOLENCE 1 - The Education of Chloe: Erotic Protocols and Prior Violence - John J. Winkler 2 - The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours - Patricia Klindienst Joplin II - THE RHETORIC OF ELISION 3 - The Marquise's 'O' and the Mad Dash of Narrative - Susan Winnett 4 - 'A Little More than Persuading'" Tess and the Subject of Sexual Violence - Ellen Rooney 5 - Periphrasis, Power, and Rape in 'A Passage to India' - Brenda R. Silver III - WRITING THE VICTIM 6 - 'Lucrece': The Sexual Politics of Subjectivity - Coppelia Kahn 7 - Rape, Repression, and Narrative Form in 'Le Devoir de violence' and 'La Vie et demie'-Eileen Julien 8 - Rape and Textual Violence in Clarice Lispector - Marta Peixoto IV - FRAMING INSTITUTIONS 9 - The Poetics of Rape Law in Medieval France - Kathryn Gravdal 10 - Rape's Disfiguring Figures: Marguerite de Navarre's 'Heptameron', Day 1:10 - Carla Freccero 11 - Alice Walker's 'Advancing Luna--and Ida B. Wells': A Struggle Toward Sisterhood - Nellie V. McKay V - UNTHINKING THE METAPHOR 12 - The Rape of the Rural Muse: Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' as a Version of Pastourelle - Nancy A. Jones 13 - On Ravishing Urns: Keats in His Tradition - Froma I. Zeitlin 14 - Screen/Memory: Rape and Its Alibis in 'Last year at Marienbad' - Lynn A. Higgins