FEMININE MODES OF CORPOREALITY REPRESENTATION IN THE UKRAINIAN POETRY OF THE XXth CENTURY
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Філологія. Літературознавство" - Year 2016, Vol 271, Issue 259
Abstract
The article elaborates on the feminine specificity of corporeality art representation in the Ukrainian poetry of the XXth century. Corporeality is a field, where gender and psychological differences of the masculine and feminine «mentalities» are clearly visible, especially if the methodology of psychoanalysis (Oedipus complex) and gender sociology (study the gender inequality in the patriarchal culture) is used. The feminine mode to overcome Oedipus complex (when a girl wants to be seduced by her father) founds the woman’s status as the object (particularly sexual) and forms the features inherent to femininity. This status is compounded by the influence of patriarchal stereotypes (overestimation of sexual and aesthetic aspects of the female body, the preclusion of women by main society’s structures) and leads to the passiveness as an element of feminine life strategy. Through these arguments we can determine the main feminine modes to represent the corporeality in lyrics: 1) the priority of the depiction of a lyric hero’s own body (mostly female or asexual body); 2) the «objective status» of a lyric hero, who correlates his/her own personality with his/her own body/appearance and reflects him/herself as the object of physical or/and visual influence of the Other. They are realized in the texts through the motives of self- admiration, of self-sacrifice by lyric hero of his / her own body, of the Other’s look as an instrument for lyric hero to find him(her)self, of a lyric hero’s observation his / her own appearance in mirror etc and also through the image of clothes as female body’s «prolongation» and through the motive of senescence as devaluation of a whole person. The research novelty consists of elaboration on 1) some features of feminine writing are reasoned trough gender and psychological specificity of feminine reflection of (female) corporeality; 2) feminine modes to depict (female) body according to the peculiarities of relations «I – the Other»; 3) the influence of psychical and gender factors on the feminine strategies of writing.
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O. Shaf
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