Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/75155
Full metadata record
DC FieldValueLanguage
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-05T07:02:07Z-
dc.date.available2021-05-05T07:02:07Z-
dc.date.issued2007-
dc.identifier.citationGrech, M. (2007). Escaping through the undecidable : the suspending of phallogocentric discourse in four novels by Christine Brooke-Rose (Master's dissertation).en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/75155-
dc.descriptionM.A.ENGLISHen_GB
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation attempts to trace the considerable influence that the deconstructive texts by Jacques Derrida have had on the work of Christine Brooke-Rosa. Linking four of this writer's novels to texts of poststructuralist theory, the following chapters explore how the playful nature of these novels subverts and deconstructs phallogocentric discourse. The Introduction to the following chapters provides a generic overview of Brooke-Rose's work to date and a brief outline of the influence that 1960s and '70s French poststructuralist theory had on the novels from this period Chapter One presents Brooke-Rose's novel Between as a writerly text that is inherently 'other' to logocentric discourse. Discussing the notion of undecidability and the hymen, this chapter argues that the multiplicity and ambiguity inherent to this novel suspends any logocentric or metaphysical unveiling of univocal truth and meaning in the text. The second chapter links the notion of logocentrism to that of phallocentrism and argues that the same playfulness at work in Between operates in Amalgamemnon and Thru to subvert this discourse. Referring to Luce Irigaray's Speculum and Brooke Rose's Amalgamemnon, the first section exposes the phallogocentric stigmatisation and effacing of woman. Exploring the motif of reflection utilised in Irigaray' s text and Brooke-Rose's Thru, the final sections of the chapter discuss how the playful nature of this novel may be said to shatter the phallogocentric 'rear-view' mirror that attempts to efface woman.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccessen_GB
dc.subjectBrooke-Rose, Christine, 1923-2012en_GB
dc.subjectCriticism, Textualen_GB
dc.subjectDerrida, Jacques, 1930-2004en_GB
dc.subjectPhallicism in literatureen_GB
dc.titleEscaping through the undecidable : the suspending of phallogocentric discourse in four novels by Christine Brooke-Roseen_GB
dc.typemasterThesisen_GB
dc.rights.holderThe copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder.en_GB
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Maltaen_GB
dc.publisher.departmentFaculty of Arts. Department of Englishen_GB
dc.description.reviewedN/Aen_GB
dc.contributor.creatorGrech, Marija-
Appears in Collections:Dissertations - FacArt - 1999-2010
Dissertations - FacArtEng - 1965-2010

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
M.A.ENGLISH_Grech_Marija_2007.pdf
  Restricted Access
9.21 MBAdobe PDFView/Open Request a copy


Items in OAR@UM are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.