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dc.contributor.authorSan Juan, E. Jr.
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-23T05:52:00Z
dc.date.available2023-05-23T05:52:00Z
dc.date.issued1989
dc.identifier.issn0038-3600
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12852/2687
dc.descriptionJournal articleen_US
dc.description.abstractOnce upon a time-this phrase is less rhetorical than it seems-we were taught that art, great literature, is essentially a creation of genius, an expression of a divine spirit, an epiphany of a god. Artists are heroic souls or geniuses who agonize to produce a masterpiece; that is to say, the artist resembles an oyster suffering in pain when a grain of sand enters its bowels until later, after its gratuitous martyrdom, it throws up a pearl. This is called the oyster theory of art production. If you are one of those delicate sensibilities offended by this metaphor of the oyster and consider it a desecration, you can replace it with any one of such familiar images like Edgar Allan Poe drinking his way to greatness. Or Byron, the aristocratic individualist riding his horse and declaiming rebellion against tyranny. You can recall any number of pictures of mad or crazed painters, musicians, sculptors, or mass media superstars. You will notice that in doing so, you have fallen into that time-warp I’ve signaled earlier- "once upon a time," where you have just escaped reality into fantasy island, a realm of Ideas-to use the philosophical term-akin to that of Plato’s or of religious and mythical thought. This is a safe refuge which hides and shields us from the terrible menace of History.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCentral Philippine Universityen_US
dc.subject.lcshSexen_US
dc.subject.lcshPolitics in literatureen_US
dc.subject.lcshSex in literatureen_US
dc.subject.lcshShort storiesen_US
dc.subject.lcshLiterary criticismen_US
dc.titleStrategies of reading: Sexual politics in Aida Rivera-Ford's "Love in the cornhusks"en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dcterms.accessRightsPublicly accessibleen_US
dc.citation.firstpage15en_US
dc.citation.lastpage24en_US
dc.citation.journaltitleSoutheast Asia Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume17en_US
dc.citation.issue1en_US


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