This thesis offers a textual analysis of Emily Bronte's
novel Wuthering Heights and, to a lesser extent, her poems
in an effort to understand fully the complicated
relationship of gender to time that characterizes her
artistic imagination.
The study emphasizes the interplay of religious,
psychological and sexual forces inherent in her narrative,
and their effect when portraying cyclical and linear
concepts of time. Narrators' and characters' interactions
serve by themselves and as dyads to represent a concept of
mythical or eternal time that manifests itself within
historical or chronological time. These time concepts
differ and complement each other through aspects of
wholeness and differentiation. References to Julia
Kristeva's psycholinguistic theory and to C. G. Jung's
archetypes give support for a unique space and female
concept of time within a male discourse. Kristeva's
exemplification of time concepts as linear/chronological for
the male gender and cyclical/eternal for the female gender
happens to be specially relevant to the 19th century, when
the patriarchal socio-symbolic order, inhibited, undermined,
and/or circumscribed the participation of the feminine
within the social contract. / Graduation date: 1991
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/37545 |
| Date | 28 June 1990 |
| Creators | Miranda, Pamela C. |
| Contributors | Campbell, Elizabeth |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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