"我应该给他喂食"：伊迪丝-沃顿《伊桑-弗洛姆》中重拾的男性气质

Q4 Social Sciences

Gender Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI:10.2478/genst-2023-0032

Narumi Yoshino

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摘要本文讨论了伊迪丝-沃顿的《伊桑-弗洛姆》中主人公伊桑的男性气质与他所使用的载体之间的关系。伊桑为了逃离不幸的婚姻，试图与妻子的表妹玛蒂一起坐雪橇下山自杀，但最终失败了，身体也残废了。针对这种常见的（合理的）解释，本文将重点探讨他使用马车、雪橇和马匹作为行动的来源，并在其社会和文学背景下对它们进行分析，以证实他为重获男子气概而进行的斗争。

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“I Ought to Be Getting Him His Feed”: Masculinity Regained in Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome

Abstract This paper discusses the masculinity of the protagonist Ethan in Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome in relation to the vehicles he uses. Ethan, who attempts to commit suicide by sledding down a hill with his wife’s cousin Mattie so as to flee his unhappy marriage, but fails and becomes physically crippled in the end, is commonly interpreted as a symbolically demasculinized loser. Against this common (and sensible) interpretation, this essay will focus on his use of carriage, sled, and horses, as his source of mobility, and analyze them in their social and literary contexts to confirm his struggle to regain masculinity.

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Gender Studies Social Sciences-Gender Studies

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0.30

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157

审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Gender Studies is a journal addressing academics and a general readership at the same time and its main goal is to provide a gendered approach to literature, language and society and also to highlight attempts of educationalists and Gender Studies esperts in various parts of the world to institutionalize Gender Studies in the academe. The GS journal publishes high-quality peer-reviewed articles from various Humanities and Social Sciences areas. The GS journal is interdisciplinary—gender proving an excellent analytical category enabling a new perspective on literature, anthropology, social and political studies, cultural studies, linguistics and mass media studies. The GS journal provides state-of-the-art research in all such fields.