Representations of intercourse in American literature: Gender, patiency and fuck as a transitive verb
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Representations of intercourse in American literature : Gender, patiency and fuck as a transitive verb. / Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard.
In: Academic Quarter, Vol. 8, 2014, p. 119-130.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Representations of intercourse in American literature
T2 - Gender, patiency and fuck as a transitive verb
AU - Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This article investigates the representation of sexual intercourse in American literature expressed via the use of fuck as a transitive verb. Its goal is to identify possible trends in the differentiation between men and women's roles and power relations in such literary representations. Drawing on theoretical notions from cognitive poetics, the present article assumes that literary representations of intercourse reflect and replicate in readers cognitive-cultural models of intercourse and the roles of, and power relations between, men and women therein. The analysis presented here is quantitative and falls under the rubric of corpus stylistics and is based on data from the FICTION component of the Corpus of Historical American English. The analysis measures the preference of male or female passive participants in propositional scenarios denoted by transitive fuck, thus allowing for the identification of large-scale patterns in sexual objectification of men or women in American literature.
AB - This article investigates the representation of sexual intercourse in American literature expressed via the use of fuck as a transitive verb. Its goal is to identify possible trends in the differentiation between men and women's roles and power relations in such literary representations. Drawing on theoretical notions from cognitive poetics, the present article assumes that literary representations of intercourse reflect and replicate in readers cognitive-cultural models of intercourse and the roles of, and power relations between, men and women therein. The analysis presented here is quantitative and falls under the rubric of corpus stylistics and is based on data from the FICTION component of the Corpus of Historical American English. The analysis measures the preference of male or female passive participants in propositional scenarios denoted by transitive fuck, thus allowing for the identification of large-scale patterns in sexual objectification of men or women in American literature.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - patiency
KW - cognitive poetics
KW - cognitive stylistics
KW - literary representations of intercourse
KW - corpus linguistics
KW - corpus stylistics
KW - American literature
KW - American fiction
KW - English language
KW - American English
KW - stylistics
KW - language and literature
KW - literary language
KW - cognitive semantics
KW - English studies
KW - construction grammar
KW - transitivity
KW - profane language
KW - swearing
KW - Corpus of Historical American English
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
SP - 119
EP - 130
JO - Akademisk kvarter
JF - Akademisk kvarter
SN - 1904-0008
ER -
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