Posts Tagged ‘Hester Prynne’
Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition For my creative project, I chose to create a board game – Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition. Initially, my intent was to create a game that would test the knowledge our class gained over the course of the semester in a fun, nontraditional way. However, I […]
Trivial Pursuit: Sexuality and American Culture Edition
Tags: deployment of sexuality, Dimmesdale, discourse, essentialism, Foucault, Hermaphrodites, Hester Prynne, homosexuality, Humbert, hysterization, incest, Jeffrey Weeks, power, power relations, scientia sexualis, sex, social construction, social constructivism
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Response to Middlesex Books One and Two
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
“I think love breaks all taboos. Don’t you?” (67)
Response to Middlesex Books One and Two
Tags: Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, Humbert, incest, liberation, love
Posted in Eugenides: Middlesex, Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Kaitlyn O'Hagan, Kushner: Angels in America, Nabokov: Lolita | Comments Off on Response to Middlesex Books One and Two
Lolita as a Foucauldian Case Study
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Lolita as a Foucauldian Case Study Reading the introduction to Lolita invoked a strong sense of déjà vu, which I realized came from the uncanny similarities between it and “The Custom House”. Both introductions serve to set up the stories as “true” (or in terms of The Scarlet Letter, based on a true story). More […]
Lolita as a Foucauldian Case Study
Tags: confession, Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, hysterization, scientia sexualis, truth
Posted in Foucault: History of Sexuality, Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Kaitlyn O'Hagan, Nabokov: Lolita | 1 Comment »
The Never-Ending Confession
Monday, March 8th, 2010
The Never-Ending Confession The Scarlet Letter, a novel so imbued with the themes of sin, guilt, and confession, has an interesting confessional: the scaffold. Hester is taken to the scaffold early in the narrative and a confession is demanded of her, but she refuses that with silence. Her silence is in itself a powerful act, […]
The Never-Ending Confession
Tags: confession, Hester Prynne, passionless, Puritan, scaffold, sin
Posted in Foucault: History of Sexuality, Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Joseph Papa, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Womanhood as Duty (though not to be written about as such or otherwise by women, but only by Hawthorne).
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Womanhood as Duty (though not to be written about as such or otherwise by women, but only by Hawthorne). ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne is notorious for complaining in a letter to one of his publishers that a “damn’d mob of scribbling women” was stealing his audience. Elsewhere, he referred to women authors as “ink-stained Amazons” who were […]
Womanhood as Duty (though not to be written about as such or otherwise by women, but only by Hawthorne).
Tags: desexualization, duty, feminism, Hester Prynne, morality, women
Posted in Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality, Yelena Tsodikovich | 1 Comment »
Men and Women Both Think the Other is Evil, Society has Double Standards about Sex…. News at 11
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Men and Women Both Think the Other is Evil, Society has Double Standards about Sex…. News at 11 Cott’s essay on Victorian sexual ideologies clarified some of the themes and terms presented by The Scarlet Letter. As we discussed in last week’s class, adultery was only committed if the woman involved in the sexual activity […]
Men and Women Both Think the Other is Evil, Society has Double Standards about Sex…. News at 11
Tags: adultery, affliction, consequences, evil, fall, Hester Prynne, madness, morality, nymphomania, religion, Victorian, virtue
Posted in Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Jaslee Carayol, Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality | 1 Comment »
“Double Standard of sexual morality”
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
“Double Standard of Sexual Morality.” In Cott’s essay, I was particularly intrigued by the Puritan “double standard of sexual morality” (133), in which women, being of the weaker sex, were more prone to succumb to temptation, even though it was not permitted for them to initiate sexual acts. This lead to greater blame for women […]
“Double Standard of sexual morality”
Tags: Adam and Eve, confession, Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, Puritans
Posted in Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Katharine Maller, Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality | 3 Comments »
Power in “The Scarlett Letter”
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Power in The Scarlett Letter Godbeer’s essay, “Sodomy in Colonial New England” posed an interesting history about the definition of sodomy and the power relations within that definition. Previous coursework of mine (more specifically, American Legal Systems) established that sodomy was non-reproductive sex. This definition was present in the Godbeer essay as part of the […]
Power in “The Scarlett Letter”
Tags: Hester Prynne, hierarchy, influence, nonreproductive, power, power relations, sexual act, sodomy
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