Speech, Writing, and Allegory in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
- Authors
- Normandin, S[Normandin, Shawn]
- Issue Date
- Mar-2016
- Publisher
- NATL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIV
- Citation
- CONCENTRIC-LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES, v.42, no.1, pp.121 - 145
- Indexed
- AHCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- CONCENTRIC-LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
- Volume
- 42
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 121
- End Page
- 145
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/skku/handle/2021.sw.skku/37495
- DOI
- 10.6240/concentric.lit.2016.42.1.06
- ISSN
- 1729-6897
- Abstract
- Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice opposes Darcy, a character closely associated with writing, to Wickham, one associated with speech. Elizabeth Bennet's early prejudice in favor of Wickham and against Darcy-by extension, in favor of speech and against writing-is, among other things, an example of what Jacques Derrida calls phonocentrism. Her prejudice is as much a literary necessity as a moral defect, since Austen has ensnared her in a phonocentric allegory. After the unfolding of Darcy's letter, the novel complicates the allegory, empowering Elizabeth, who, in her final argument with Lady de Bourgh, triumphantly exploits the fact that speech can function like writing. The novel does not replace phonocentrism with its opposite, a prejudice in favor of writing; rather, it shows how both speech and what we commonly call writing depend upon arche-writing. The novel stages its own retroactive detachment from the media prejudice it exploits.
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