American Madonna: Images of the Divine Woman in Literary Culture
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Yet the Marian cult is also problematic in the feminist approach, Gatta says, "because in some ways Mary has been perceived to be an exemplar of docility and all of the things women are not supposed to be. He says Marian themes conflict with the American myth of progress, or the "masculinist" approach that still dominates the corporate world.
Our society is always at odds with itself because there's emphasis on this driving, achieving, conquering, and what seems to be a feminist emphasis on recovery for both men and women. He notes that even the pop singer Madonna Ciccone draws not only on her name but other religious symbolism as well - including the name of her child, Lourdes Maria.
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For her, the whole iconic idea of motherhood was part of an entire vision and her sense of what would redeem the nation," he says. Gatta notes that Stowe grew up in a Calvinist-Presbyterian-Congregation al family in which her father, husband and brothers were Calvinist clergymen, but she became an Episcopalian later in her life, as did her son and twin daughters and her sister. This is an archived article.
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Ask Seller a Question. Publisher: Oxford University Press. This book explores a notable if unlikely undercurrent of interest in Mary as mythical Madonna that has persisted in American life and letters from fairly early in the nineteenth century into the later twentieth.
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This imaginative involvement with the Divine Woman -- verging at times on devotional homage -- is especially intriguing as manifested in the Protestant writers who are the focus of this study: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harold Frederic, Henry Adams, and T. John Gatta argues that flirtation with the Marian cultus offered Protestant writers symbolic compensation for what might be culturally diagnosed as a deficiency of psychic femininity, or anima , in America.
Although Gatta, professor of English, teaches Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in his religion and literature course, it was a visit to Stowe home in Hartford - where she lived for the last quarter century of her life as a neighbor of Samuel Clemens - that triggered the thinking that led to his book. Cole Rachel March 2, Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide. Jeansonne, Glen Madonna has several titles, subjectives and superlatives, many of them explain and explore her large impact in many fields. Shepard, John
He argues that the literary configurations of the mythical Madonna express a subsurface cultural resistance to the prevailing rationalism and pragmatism of the American mind in an age of entrepreneurial conquest. His publications, most concerned with religion and literature, include numerous journal articles and an award-winning book on the New England poet Edward Taylor.
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