Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The study analyzes Anne Tyler՚s novel, Vinegar Girl, as a narrative rewrite of the well-known Shakespearean comedy The Taming of the Shrew, part of the Hogarth–Shakespeare project, started in 2015. Two levels on which the American writer՚s rewriting innovates are pursued: the discursive changes due to the change in the mode (from mimesis to diegesis, in the Aristotelian sense) and those related to the recontextualization of the subject and the infusion of a contemporary, post-feminist ethos. Anne Tyler emphasizes not the undermining of the misogynistic vision that was imputed to Shakespeare, but the relationship of the female character with her own self that she discovers through the “other”, the other sex. The novel gives a current response to the traditional imaginary of the struggle for domination between the sexes by proposing the formula of “similarity in difference” as a modus vivendi in the couple, but also in a broader, socio-cultural horizon.
Author: Florica Bodiștean
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411327738