Gender Features of Discourse in Women's Literature as a Reflection of Changes in the Modern Society

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of new conception of the “female” fiction prose as an independent discourse with special outlook and gender meaningful concepts. The article reveals the meaning of the notion “discourse of the modern female prose” described as complicated sociocultural phenomenon or the reflection of gender-motivated female consciousness revealed in the process of fiction text creation by women-authors. All mentioned features are very important and actual nowadays because the female prose is rapidly developing and represents the certain part of the national worldwide. The fiction texts by the woman-authors are considered to be the female discourse characterized with special outlook and gender-associated language peculiarities and it represents the female language person. The female prose texts undoubtedly reflect new aspects of woman's role and place in the world and also firm stereotypes of man-woman relationships and they created the model for woman the lack of which is felt in modern society.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s2p476