چکیده

Although the novel, The Feather, has become popular and well-known in different countries, especially Iran, Charlotte Mary Matheson’s works have not been known and worked on as much as other female English authors. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to study The Feather in the light of feminism and with regard to the ideas of a French philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas. One of the main concerns of feminism is the relationship between self and Other, which questions the self as the dominating male power and the female as the dominated Other. Additionally, the main concerns of Levinas is ethics which rotates around the relationship between self and Other. Levinas introduces Ontology as the reason for the alterity of the Other and it is when ethics finds its meaning. The face of the Other that was the reason for loathing in totalitarian western outlooks, now in Levinasian philosophy, brings responsibility for the self. Our analysis shows how the relationship between self and Other which starts with the mere carnal desires in the novel finally leads the characters to their transcendence. In addition, it shows how the female character or Other that was first controlled and dominated by the self finds her voice with the help of male power.

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Charlotte Mary Matheson, The Feather, Feminism, Levinas, Self and Other

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Sahar Mortazavi , 1398 , The Face of the Other in Charlotte Mary Matheson’s The Feather , اولين کنفرانس بين المللي مطالعات زبان انگليسي