Love : a discourse of corporeal vulnerability

• Main Author: Kuah, Ting Ting
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70125
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In response to Adrienne Rich’s challenge for women writers to “re-vision” love, this dissertation aims to demonstrate how contemporary women writers re-vision love as an ethical relation between self and other in romance narratives. By making use of Judith Butler’s concept of corporeal vulnerability...