Mimesis, metaphor and representation
Holding Out an Olive Branch to the Emergent Schreiner Canon[1]
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4347356 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Liz Stanley (0000-0001-7831-3283, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-50 |
| Publication date | 2001-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612020100200278 |
| OpenAlex | W2117345163 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 14 |
There are complex and interesting representational issues and interpretational practices involved in claiming to ‘know past lives’ and these have particular resonance in feminist terms. These ideas are examined in relation to a particular case study, of the feminist writer and theorist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), although the discussion contributes to the ‘women's history and post-structuralism’ debate by eschewing taking up an abstract ‘position’ in favour of examining these ideas through a grounded historical example. A range of representations of Schreiner is discussed, including a photograph which her estranged husband contemporaneously had ‘touched up’ before sending it to some of her friends just after her death, and presentday representations of Schreiner in the emergent feminist canon of claimed knowledge about her. The ideas of mimesis and alterity are used both in relation to photographic representation and also in relation to the use of metaphor to stand for perceived facets of Schreiner's character. Representational issues are fundamental and ought not to be excised from feminist discussion; at the same time, the past and its ‘irreducible things that happened’ must also be taken seriously
Aesthetics · Alterity · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Metaphor · Sociology · Computer Science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Themes in Literature Analysis
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2008 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |