Journal Name:
- İstanbul Üniversitesi LITERA, Journal of Western Languages and Literatures
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Abstract (2. Language):
This paper closely examines T. S. Eliot's use of Tiresias in "The Waste Land" as a commentary on treatment of female sexuality in the Modern era and contrasts it to Guillaume Apollinaire's surrealist play "Les Mamelles de Tiresias". Eliot's use of Tiresias, in his specification of Ovid's rendition in Metamorphoses, his allusion to Apollinaire's own use of Tiresias, and his structuring of Tiresias as narrative frame suggests that rather than misogynistic, Eliot is actually sensitive to female sexual alienation as a result of capitalism, rather than advocating an end to Feminism as Apollinaire does. As women became responsible for repopulating nations and their reproductive organs became property of the state, society and medical community, recreational sex for women became a clinical and empty function. Where Apollinaire surrealistically advocates anti-feminist perspectives, Eliot presents a realistic decaying scene, framed by and contrasted with the Classical figure of Tiresias, a representation of female sexual pleasure.
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