Dorothy Parker

Virginia Woolf set off a storm when she borrowed Coleridge's expression "a great mind is androgynous," and used it as a model for writers of both sexes. Woolf says, "He meant, perhaps, that the androgynous mind is resonant and porous; that it transmits emotion without impediment; that it is naturally creative, incandescent and undivided" (98). We will see how gender roles have been represented in a selection of stories from The Best American Short Stories of the Century. How have these stories embraced Woolf's idea of the "androgynous" mind, and how have they served as a commentary on society? How has the short story served as a tool to integrate this idea? We will see a trend develop over the course of the century in which the most positive male/female representations are the ones that embrace Woolf's "androgynous motif" as a model for behavior, and correspondingly, the ones who represent gender separation are presented as barbaric, anachronistic, and destructive. In "A Jury of Her Peers" (1917), we find that the traditional male/female relationship is being called into question because "female knowledge" has been left out of the equation of the Ro chester

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σε μια επιλογή εξηνταπέντε ποιημάτων της αμερικανίδας Ντόροθι Πάρκερ απλωμένα σε έξι ενότητες, που η φαντασία της μεταφράστριας τα είδε σαν ένα είδος ποιητικού θεατρικού μονολόγου.
Η Ντόροθι Πάρκερ (22 Αυγούστου 1893: - 7 Ιουνίου 1967) υπήρξε συγγραφέας, ποιήτρια, κριτικός και δημοσιογράφος.