Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (IJHCS) - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
The explorative framework basically the extrinsic criticism of Defoe’s female selfrepresentation in Moll Flanders and Roxana urged the critics to deal with intricate concepts of the plural and dialectic intrinsic text. Re-visiting Defoe’s novel through the flourishing provisions of literary criticism and cultural studies offers a fulcrum that connects the text to the world. Thus, the notion of female self-representation has been given much interest by many 20th century scholars, among others, Novak, Richetti, Sutherland, and Watt who considered Defoe as the father of the novel. Defoe’s critics unveil his interaction with and his impact on the literary canon. This article examines how his novel compels the theory of representation in his era by creating new writing modalities. Defoe’s novels ponder on the significant quest for shaping individual and collective human destiny in an unstable world where the marginalized self prevails. Defoe’s female selfrepresentation is contingent to a fluctuating tone between an extrinsic real context and an intrinsic fictional one linked to his conception of the autobiography premises. The present paper eschews the intrinsic context of female self-representation in Moll Flanders and Roxana through the examination of the protagonist’s self-evolution conveyed by the use of new writing modalities. Thus, the intent of the research is to unfold the duality between form and content, idea and structure, representation and reflection, fact and fiction. The image of the female marginalized-self reflects the despised position of the novel as a literary genre. Through fiction Defoe challenges the literary decorum of poetry and drama.
Authors and Affiliations
Ikram Arfi| University of Carthage, Tunisia
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