INSCRIPTION AND ENCRYPTION: DAPHNE DU MAURIER’S REBECCA
INSCRIPTION AND ENCRYPTION: DAPHNE DU MAURIER’S REBECCA
Author(s): Klaudia Papp Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Summary/Abstract: Drawing upon Silverman’s and Kristeva’s ideas on melancholia, the paper claims that du Maurier’s Rebecca dramatizes Silverman’s thesis asserting that women are constitutively melancholic: having to renounce the mother as a devalued object of desire, but also required to identify with her, daughters tend to encrypt the mother’s imago, an abject that will inhabit (haunt) the boundaries of their egos.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2008
- Issue No: 14
- Page Range: 121-127
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
