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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Female Protagonist"”.
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A contemporary voice for the female protagonist : an exploration of the collaborative creative process : the development and synthesis of vocal techniques in the realisation of premiere music performances
… is vital to increase the body of work where the female character acts as protagonist, rather than the foil for the masculine “norm” (McClary 1991).It is the intention of this candidature to present performances of several new music works that focus on the experience of the female character and …
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The Royalty of Oakwood County
… the complicated relationships of a late teenage, female protagonist named Mercy Forrester. Through the layered construction of the narrative framework, Mercy navigates her feelings regarding her dying father, Ezra Forrester, better known as drag queen and reality television star Lady Ezra Foxxx, …
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Femme noir : a subcategory of neo noir film
… male gaze and scopophilic treatment of the female characters to limit and fragment women characters. This dynamic is most obvious in the binary between the ‘looking’ male protagonist and the ‘looked at’ femme fatale. This binary traps female characters in positions that have limited agency …
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This Book Will Destroy You: A Critical Comparative Analysis of YA Heroines
… characters and stories, the representation of a female protagonist has remained formulaic and predictable. YA commonly centers heroines who embody characteristics associated with female likability, resulting in the loss of authentic representations of teenage girls. Characters who do not …
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Rape, revenge, reclamation: An analysis of female agency in American rape-revenge films
… will argue that the violent actions taken by the female protagonist during her revenge against her rapist(s) serve to allow her to reclaim her agency that was stolen from her during the rape(s). I will show that the rape-revenge narrative is more diverse than it might seem, as the five films I …
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But Rather Becomes
This collection of female-driven short fiction explores the ways that girls and women are victimized, excluded, empowered, misled, or left to their own devices within contemporary patriarchal American culture. Feminist rhetoric appears with some frequency in an attempt to spark academic …
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The Ungovernable Governess:The Figure of the Governess in the Victorian Sensation Novel of the 1860s.
… of femininity. The primary focus will be on the female protagonist in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret, Wilkie Collins Armadale, Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Behind a Mask,’ and Ellen Wood’s East Lynne.1 The effects of the moral and social climate of the nineteenth century and the influence …
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Unreal Reality: Post-socialist China's Massive Infrastructural Agenda in Jia Zhangke's "Three Gorges Films"
… Is Purest White</em> in which both films’ female protagonists go to the Three Gorges construction site in search of their estranged male partners, and they both experience the unreal moments of UFO sightings. While he presents the Three Gorges construction’s consequences of housing …
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Oceans, like highways
… of one’s past, and self-discovery tracks a young female protagonist who runs away from a life in her family’s touring circus. Her story begins in a vivid, unorthodox environment and moves into a more mundane setting as she builds a life of her own, navigating the world outside the circus and away …
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Literature for girls and the preadolescent novel: a historical analysis and recommendations for challenging the status quo
… appropriate behavior, conceptions about the female body and sexuality at a time that is critical in the identity formation and development for preadolescent girls. Therefore, in this study, I examine how the female protagonists, as well as some supporting characters, in select preadolescent …
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Thinking Skills in Young Adult Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Thirty Novels
… attempt at an even distribution between male and female protagonists, first and third person point of view. A large number of novels were examined to determine the presence or absence of protagonists whose thinking abilities determined their actions .</p> <p>Thirty novels were found to have …
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The anxiety of authorship among women fantasy writers
… me, as a woman fantasy writer, and centered on a female protagonist and told through a female gaze, which correlates with the critical introduction.
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Viewing Zimbabwean literature through an Africana womanist lens: a critical reading of selected texts to investigate Charles Mungoshi’s treatment of African women in Ndiko Kupindana Kwamazuwa and Waiting for the Rain
… the characteristics attributed to Mungoshi’s female characters. Africana womanist theory provides a framework which it argues mainstream feminism fails to address the deep meaning of African culture (Hudson-Weems, 1997). In particular, the critical component focuses on Mungoshi’s two novels …
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Short Works: Things Gone By, Novel: Creatives
… genre specific), chronicling the events of a female protagonist (Jack) and her journey to find her runaway sister and discover the reason behind her sister’s disappearance: With the help of a seemingly otherworldly presence, Jack discovers complex and interconnected worlds that are locked deep …
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“Henrietta and Harriet:” Considering the Marginalized Best Friend in Burney’s <em>Cecilia</em> and Austen’s <em>Emma</em>
… to the author’s different approaches to female agency and minor character space. To accomplish this task, I look at the narrative space given to minor characters in Burney’s <em>Cecilia</em> and Austen’s <em>Emma</em>. Specifically, I assess the roles of the minor characters Henrietta …
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“Young Adult Books Don’t Realize They Have that Power”: Reader Response to Ideology in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
… popularized the “Girl on Fire” trope of a fierce female protagonist, who performs a traditionally masculine gender role. However, YA dystopian novels also operate under tight constraints due to their implied adolescent reader. Although the YA dystopian genre promotes a progressive narrative to its …
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A Critical Edition of 'Tochmarc Ferbe' with Translation, Textual Notes and Literary Commentary
… is argued that its depictions of a wide range of female characters challenge traditional assumptions about medieval Irish attitudes towards women, which tend to focus on their supposed passivity and negativity. The portrayals of two female characters are singled out as especially noteworthy. Queen …
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"Myn owene woman, wel at ese" : feminist facts in the fiction of Mary McCarthy
This study examines Mary McCarthy's three major female-protagonist works of fiction--The Company She Keeps (1942), A Charmed Life (1955), and The Group (1963)--in terms of the author's attitude towards femaleness. It confronts Elizabeth Janeway's assessment in Harvard Guide to Contemporary American …
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Twisting Tales: a guide to fairytale adaptation
… and serves as a dialogue for the role of the female protagonist in fairytale adaptations. The question of how adaptations interact with their source material is a core question here, and the guidebook suggests that the best adaptations are made out of affection for their source material, and …
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