Art and Anger: Reading Like a Woman
Jane Marcus
Language: English
Pages: 320
ISBN: 0814204600
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Book by Marcus, Jane
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steady flame. The bravest and best of us at bay in the world [my italics] need an eye like his to read deep, and not be baffled by inconsistencies." Diana is both historical and mythological in that she exemplifies the deterioration of the hunt ress into the hunted. Sometimes Meredith abandons Clio and Calliope for the comic spirit; the wonderful scene describing the pig is a tribute to Diana, patroness of the slaughter of animals. When Lord Larrian gives Diana a guard dog, myth is again invoked
delves into her mind to show her working herself up to believe both that she has been sexually assaulted and that she has been acting like an adventuress and deserves his disrespect, then convincing herself that her financial plight is desperate. But her irrational need to rush off in the night to The Times springs from a deeper source than she can acknowledge. It is not that, as some critics have claimed to exonerate her, as a woman she does not understand the political import of the secret. She
indignation are the least likely of expressive forms to be learned by the oppressed, for survival has often been depen dent on the appearance of humility. Christianity and Western culture have insisted that the meek shall inherit the earth, while history tells us the opposite. And pacifism itself as a cause and as a political weapon has been popularly associated with Gandhi in India, with women and blacks, with those excluded from the ranks of empire and privilege. Anger and righteous
George Spater's pet Woolves in A Marriage of True Minds.19 This is a silly book, and the authors have "admitted" so many "impediments" that they ought to have found another title. Chief among the impediments is the observation that Leonard Woolf used his wife's proofs and manuscripts as toilet paper. This is worth mentioning, since the new biographers are ingenious in their explanations for Virginia's supposed phobias about eating and excretion. The whole business could be settled with common
gave up blaming Leonard for Virginia's sufferings. One can wish that he were a splendid lover, generous enough to overcome her guilts, able to give her the child she longed for, sensitive enough to respect her distaste for too much food and milk, her fear of "rest homes." But, realistically, he was the only heterosexual male in her circle who was her equal in mind and morals, and these were the things that really mattered to her. Poole's dichotomy between the rational man and the intuitive woman
