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Feminine Gospels, Feminine Gospels - Coggle Diagram
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Feminine Gospels
Techniques/Typicality
Enumeration/asyndetic listing
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Fairy Tale Imagery
Towers, woods, apples, transformation
- The Long Queen
- The Diet (Alice in Wonderland)
- The woman who shopped
- Tall
- The Cord
Mythological Imagery
Harpies, Ariadne, Daphne, Echo
Biblical Imagery
Eve, crucifixion, Apple
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Themes and Connections
Women's bodies/transformation
- The Diet
- The Map Woman
- The Woman who shopped
- Tall
- Beautiful
Degredation and Mistreatment of Women
Women and History
- Beautiful
- Sub
- The Long Queen
- Wish
- History
Unheard female voices
- Sub
- History
- The Virgin's Memo
- Anon
- Loud
- The Laughter of Stafford Girls' High (beginning)
- White Writing
Motherhood
- The Virgin's Memo
- The Cord
- The Light Gatherer
- Work
- The Long Queen
Poetic Voice
- Gambler
- A Dreaming Week
- Tall
- Anon
- White Writing
Elegies
- Wish
- North-West
- Death and the Moon
Critical Views
Helene Cixous: "Women write in white ink"
-> voices of women often invisible/unheard
- White Writing
- Laughter of Stafford Girls' High
- Anon
- Virgin's Memo
Jacques Lacan - Jouissance (female pleasure) a force of life "Begins with a tickle and ends with a blaze of petrol"
- Laughter of Stafford Girls' High
Laura Mulvey - "Male gaze" "Woman's desire is subjugated to her image [...] as bearer, not maker, of meaning."
Context
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"What I was trying to do was use the idea of the gospel truth: in a sense the gospels are a tall story told as truth, so these poems were about trying to find truth about particularly female issues, but doing it within tall stories."