Female Figures of the Jazz Age in Dorothy Parker’s Short Stories
Most criticism on Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) highlights her literary persona only to the detriment of the study of a profuse work comprising six decades of narrative, poetry and drama. Probably her best-known contribution to literature was her condition of the voice of the Jazz Age generation, shif...
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Universidad de Jaén
2015-12-01
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Most criticism on Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) highlights her literary persona only to the detriment of the study of a profuse work comprising six decades of narrative, poetry and drama. Probably her best-known contribution to literature was her condition of the voice of the Jazz Age generation, shifting from acquiescence to irony. A corpus of Parker’s short stories written in the 1920s and early 1930s will be analyzed from feminist perspectives, such as those by Pettit, Melzer or Showalter, in terms of ‘appearance’, ‘social life’ and ‘bonds with men’ to determine whether her heroines respond to the stereotype of the flapper in the Roaring Twenties. Results show a satirized viewpoint conveying dissatisfaction regarding body, idleness and romance predicting many of the conflicts of women in the second half of the XXth century.
Keywords: Dorothy Parker, short stories, flappers, Jazz Age, feminist criticism, body, satire.
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| spelling | doaj.art-60e9afa4342548388c9904fa0d9335ce2022-12-22T03:17:32ZengUniversidad de JaénThe Grove1137-005X2386-54312015-12-0122Female Figures of the Jazz Age in Dorothy Parker’s Short StoriesIsabel López Cirugeda0University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) Most criticism on Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) highlights her literary persona only to the detriment of the study of a profuse work comprising six decades of narrative, poetry and drama. Probably her best-known contribution to literature was her condition of the voice of the Jazz Age generation, shifting from acquiescence to irony. A corpus of Parker’s short stories written in the 1920s and early 1930s will be analyzed from feminist perspectives, such as those by Pettit, Melzer or Showalter, in terms of ‘appearance’, ‘social life’ and ‘bonds with men’ to determine whether her heroines respond to the stereotype of the flapper in the Roaring Twenties. Results show a satirized viewpoint conveying dissatisfaction regarding body, idleness and romance predicting many of the conflicts of women in the second half of the XXth century. Keywords: Dorothy Parker, short stories, flappers, Jazz Age, feminist criticism, body, satire. http://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/grove/article/view/2699 |
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