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Организаторы: Tunisian Association for Comparative Studies

The first Tunisian Association for Comparative Studies international conference invites proposals that explore history or literature for tales about Passive Female Audience. Why do men, asks Angus N. Wilson in his novel Scandal (1983), require the passive female audience, the ear of a woman? Why do men rehearse whole speeches in front of the bedroom looking-glass or keep their wives or girlfriends awake with rehashing cabinet meetings or repeating verbatim the telephone calls they had had one morning with constituents, civil servants, Treasury officials, and so forth? Is it to be simply congratulated? Or is there anything else? Is the need for the ear of a woman specific to particular men of a particular race, class, ethnic, religion? Do such women choose to play the passive audience for a purpose? Do they find pleasure in being the passive anti-heroes? Which passive female audience (mother, wife, sister, mistress/concubine, slave, student, friend, etc) do men prefer?

Веб-сайт: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/08/16/passive-female-audience-in-history-and-literature