Abstract
My concern is the way in which women writers whose work can be characterized as Decadent and/or Symbolist used the figures of Narcissus, Medusa and Ophelia, as well as the imagery of femininity and water. When analyzing this aspect of their work, I am looking at the ways in which these writers created and co-created the Decadent imagery, what strategies they adopted in their representations of woman and the construction of female subjectivity.
Recommended Citation
Parente-Capkova, Viola
(2006)
"Narcissuses, Medusas, Ophelias… Water Imagery And Femininity in the Texts by Two Decadent Women Writers,"
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies: Vol. 3:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
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https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/wagadu/vol3/iss1/4
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