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Feminine Perspectives and Narrative Points of View

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Ismay Barwell
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Abstract

The search for a unified and coherent feminine aesthetic theory could not be successful because it relies upon “universals” which do not exist and assumes simple parallels among psychological, social and aesthetic structures. However, with an apparatus of narrative points of view, one can demonstrate that individual narrative texts are organized from a feminine point of view. To this extent, the intuition that there is a feminine aesthetic can be vindicated.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 5 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Feminism and Aesthetics , Summer 1990 , pp. 63 - 75
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Copyright © 1990 by Hypatia, Inc.

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