The Reading of Intertextuality in Anne Bronte's Writing and Drawing
碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 英國語文學系 === 88 === The aim of my thesis is to examine the intertextuality and the mosaic of different levels of discourses in Anne Bronte's _The Tenant of Wildfell Hall_. I notice that the novel possesses multi-dimensional levels. It is a nexus connecting social and...
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2000
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| Online Access: | http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40612600309835802778 |
| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 英國語文學系 === 88 === The aim of my thesis is to examine the intertextuality and the mosaic of different levels of discourses in Anne Bronte's _The Tenant of Wildfell Hall_. I notice that the novel possesses multi-dimensional levels. It is a nexus connecting social and cultural discourses related to women's condition in contemporary nineteenth century. Anne Bronte attempts to present her anti-patriarchal projects through the novel. At the same time, she also reveals her framed condition and de-framing anxiety by presenting the recurring frame imagery through her drawing. However, I have discovered the rupture in the narrative structure that Anne Bronte's discourse is still enclosed and embedded within a more powerful discourse of patriarchal framework. Helen's story could remain the mode of traditional love-story narration. Anne Bronte's narrative strategy of the embedded narrative under this circumstance seems to reduce her anti-patriarchal challenge, and fails to eliminate the influence of patriarchal Judeo-Christian values and narrative traditions.
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