| Issue |
SHS Web Conf.
Volume 167, 2023
2023 2nd International Conference on Comprehensive Art and Cultural Communication (CACC 2023)
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 02020 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Cultural Communication and Visual Media Innovation | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202316702020 | |
| Published online | 18 May 2023 | |
“Large fat sighings” of a “large bulky figure”: Identity-building and formation of new order in Persuasion
Department of Foreign Language Studies, NingboTech University, China
* Corresponding author: nkweimengyang@163.com
This essay provides a multifaceted analysis of Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion through the lens of narrative consciousness, rhythm and sexual anxiety. Drawing on Lacanian theory, it examines the selfidentification processes of the heroine Anne Elliot and Mrs Musgrove against, and with relation to patriarchal norms. By analyzing the dynamics presented in Mrs Musgrove’s “large fat sighings”, the essay explores the effect of incongruity between the human body and spirit; and it further examines Mrs Musgrove’s Sphinx-like figure, who inspires desire and inhibitions in the Oedipus-like Captain Wentworth with a significant impact on the formation of community and order. The essay investigates long-neglected subjects presented in Austen’s novels and enriches the complex portrait of Mrs. Musgrove as both Mother and Sphinx.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2023
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.