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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Female Protagonists"”.
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Sexual Difference as Narrative Technique: Cross-Dressing, Redressing, and Undressing Female Protagonists
Throughout the twentieth century gender study has been a site of considerable social debate, stress, and change. The social forces which have destabilized gender identities are by now widely acknowledged--ranging from early twentieth century American and English feminist movements struggling for …
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Oppressed female protagonists and their survival strategies: An ecofeminist perspective in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
… encounters a significant problem regarding the female characters’ responses to and association with the natural world. Upon reaching a critical point of view in their lives, the female characters in both novels begin to display a tremendous realization of the importance of nature. Therefore, …
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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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An Analysis of Authors, Characters and Dependency of Women Protagonists in the Short Stories of Selected Literary Anthologies
… evaluated textbooks in terms of frequency of female authors, frequency of female protagonists, and frequency of dependency in female protagonists in selected modern American short stories. The study was limited to selections in Scott, Foresman and Company textbooks used in eleventh grade …
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Dystopian Cinderellas: "I Follow Him into the Dark"
… this project will demonstrate that the agency of female protagonists of young adult dystopian novels is curtailed by heteronormative constraints which reward women for being nurturing and punish them for being aggressive in Panoptic societies. If adolescent readers internalize the constructs in …
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Open Endings and Questionable Liberation in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, Cat 's Eye, and The Handmaid's Tale
… in obtaining power, and argues that Atwood’s female protagonists are not only shaped by their imagined environments but are liberated from the oppression within them. Given the focus on female protagonists and how they may liberate themselves, the research also considers Peter Brooks' work …
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Home Enough
… these themes largely through a series of young female protagonists, women who are working their way towards peace in isolation, and joy in moments of connection.
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Girls coming of age: possibilites and potentials within young adult literature
… this analysis by examining how the young female protagonists explore their own power through acts of resilience and resistance, and how young female readers respond to this exploration. I begin to answer questions such as, how does gendering this project change the kinds of power utilized? …
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The Rhetoric of Rape-Revenge Films: Analyzing Violent Female Portrayals in Media from a Narrative Perspective of Standpoint Feminism
… feminism, is applied to movies featuring female protagonists throughout the past five decades of the “rape and revenge” genre of filmmaking to understand the extent to which probability and fidelity function in these five films to create empathy for the victims of sexual violence. …
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Pain or Pleasure: The Allure of the Masochistic Young Adult Fantasy Protagonist, As Seen in Twilight and Other Texts : With a particular focus on the language of sexuality used within a select number of young adult paranormal romance texts
… paper thesis discusses the masochistic traits of female protagonists in the young adult paranormal romance genre and identifies a misconception of masochism as a whole, through the exploration of sexual language, eroticism, and death.<br/><br/>In conjunction with the critical paper, my young adult …
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Identities displaced and misplaced: aspects of postcolonial subjectivity in the novels of Jean Rhys
This thesis examines various aspects of female subjectivity in the characters of Jean Rhys’s five novels: Quartet (1928), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, (1930), Voyage in the Dark (1934), Good Morning, Midnight (1939), and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). These aspects are informed by race, gender and class, …
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Picture This
… of short stories featuring a series of strong female protagonists wrestling with questions of identity and belonging. This collection seeks to explore the tension between faith and doubt, illusion and reality, hope and despair—while providing social commentary regarding the treatment of women …
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On the edge : woman, nature, mother and father in the works of Kono Taeko
… Mother and Father, and the manner in which the female protagonists of the works relate to each of these objects, is studied. Within these relationships, issues of fantasy, marginalization, and preoedipal and Oedipal development are also examined. The approach is psychoanalytical, using the …
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Cul-de-Sacs
… of view of each piece also varies although young female protagonists often come to the forefront. I have arranged the stories in chronological order, beginning with the most recent, to demonstrate my growth as a writer. This collection of short stories is representative of the issues I find most …
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Bringers of epiphany: depictions of the feminine in the shorter fiction of George Mackay Brown
… role and function of George Mackay Brown's main female protagonists in ten key short stories. By bearing in mind Christopher Whyte and Douglas Gifford's very different observations of the place these female characters occupy in the texts, it will be discovered whether or not Brown's gender …
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Women of the Mere: stories
… takes place in modern Tennessee and follows female protagonists with uncanny, “familiar”-like connections to animals that are stereotypically portrayed as horrifying or dangerous. These women feed giant snakes, chase hallucinations, menstruate gray blood, and sneak rats into hotel rooms. My …
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Motifs of transformation in four novels of Margaret Atwood
… four novels discussed in this thesis Atwood's female protagonists, all victims of patriarchy, transform themselves, through accessing their creativity, using it transgressively, and overcoming the strictures of patriarchy upon their lives.
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Marina Carr's Hauntings: Liminality and the Addictive Society On and Off the Stage
… of the trapped lives of Marina Carr's female protagonists and their relevance to contemporary Irish women. In her six plays from The Mai to Woman and Scarecrow, each of Carr's female protagonists is trapped either in a liminal state, defined by Victor Turner as a phase in a rites of …
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Narrative, Body and gaze; Representations of Action Heroines in Console Video Games and Gamer Subjectivity
… in the narrative and bodily depictions of female protagonists, by focusing on some of the unique formal features of video games. Secondly, it examines the ways that the repetition of specific images of women create a gendered discourse in the imagined video game community which in turn …
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The Feminine Metamorphosis
… in order to survive. Eight narratives see their female protagonists grapple with challenges such as the pressures of society, the corrosion of girlhood, or the perils of a difficult home-life. The feminine ability to persevere intrigues me, because it never takes the same shape twice. Rather than …
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