MISOGYNY AND THE CARNIVALESQUE IN WYNDHAM LEWIS'S THE WILD BODY

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  • Ana Gabriela Macedo

Keywords:

Wyndham Lewis, Mikhail Bakhtin, representation of women, carnival tradition

Abstract

Throughout this paper I will concentrate on two short stories from Wyndham Lewis's collection The Wild Body ( “The Cornac and his Wife”, and “Brotcotnaz”), which illustrate this author's carnivalized and misogynous representation of women. My analysis will have as theoretical framework Bakhrin's discussion of the ambivalent image of woman: Its positive representation in the medieval popular comic tradition -as related to fertility: The womb, the earth and its later denigration and trivialization as “the bodily grave of man, un inexhaustible vessel of fertility which condemns to death al1 that is old and finished (Bakhtin, 1984b:240).

Author Biography

Ana Gabriela Macedo

Dep. Estudos Ingleses e Norte Americanos Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

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