• Login
    View Item 
    •   Athenaeum Home
    • University of Georgia Theses and Dissertations
    • University of Georgia Theses and Dissertations
    • View Item
    •   Athenaeum Home
    • University of Georgia Theses and Dissertations
    • University of Georgia Theses and Dissertations
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Rethinking revision

    Thumbnail
    Date
    2010-05
    Author
    Frank, Sarah Noble
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    During the last two decades, feminist historiographers of rhetoric have tended to conflate a feminist historiographic methodology with a revisionary one. The result of this conflation of terms is that feminist historiographies of rhetoric are largely limited to works that focus on the recovery and rehabilitation of forgotten female rhetors, within the dominant narrative of rhetorical history. This paper draws an analogy between this situation in feminist historiography and the therapeutic relationship between Freud and Dora, wherein Freud’s objective was to put Dora “in possession of her own story,” which is really Freud’s own Oedipal story. It is my position here that Freud’s failure to validate Dora’s hysterical subjectivity as capable of a legitimate memory of the past is analogous to the feminist adherence to the conventions of the dominant historical narrative. I argue, therefore, for the importance of developing an historical interaction with the Other that refuses to circumscribe her in the very ideology that marginalizes and negates her in the first place.
    URI
    http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/frank_sarah_n_201005_bs
    http://hdl.handle.net/10724/26319
    Collections
    • University of Georgia Theses and Dissertations

    About Athenaeum | Contact Us | Send Feedback
     

     

    Browse

    All of AthenaeumCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    About Athenaeum | Contact Us | Send Feedback