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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Female authorship"”.
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"So what's the joke?" : locating Jewish-American female authorship
… fiction of three contemporary Jewish-American female writers, Grace Paley, Cynthia Ozick and Erica Jong, and locates their writing in the context of their quasi-double-marginalization--the yoking of their Jewishness and femaleness. Their texts illustrate their reaction to a history of …
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Envisioning Women Writers: Female Authorship and the Cultures of Publishing and Translation in Early 20th Century Japan
This dissertation examines the discourses surrounding women and writing in the rapidly commercialized publishing industry and media in early 20th-century Japan. While Japan has a rich history of women's writing from the 10th century onwards, it was in the 1910s that the journalistic category of …
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Female Desire in Contemporary Indian Cinema
… in Bollywood films in the development of female authorship, particularly in the last decade. The journey of women’s representation in Bollywood, from the homogeneous image of a m other, a sister and a wife who is submissive but can also dance or sing beautifully to the independent woman in …
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Unmasked : towards a restoration discourse of female libertinism
… linked male promiscuity to libertinism, and female promiscuity to prostitution. The emphasis is placed on assessing the sexual ideologies embedded in some of the literature of the period. The impact of socioeconomic status in shaping the contrasting identities of the libertine and the …
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Private Reader, Public Redactor: Narrative Strategies of the Nineteenth-Century Female Revisionist
… investigates the vital role of the private female reading experience in the creation of the mid-Victorian British woman writer's authorial persona. In particular, I examine the role of the female redactor, a woman writer who revises a particular text, genre, or convention within a …
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Women Directors in ‘Global’ Art Cinema: Negotiating Feminism and Representation
… as a potential space for the inscription of female authorship and feminist issues. Despite their active involvement in filmmaking, traditionally women directors have not been centralised in scholarship on art cinema. Filmmakers such as Germaine Dulac, Agnès Varda and Sally Potter, for …
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Scribbling Girls, Becoming Writers: A Speculative Mapping of Girl Writer Characters in Classic and Contemporary Adolescent Fiction
… adolescent fiction. While novels about female artistic growth are often defined by developmental narrative frameworks, epitomised by the structures of the *Bildungsroman* and the *Künstlerroman*, my project identifies the process-oriented, embodied, and nomadic nature of writing as an …
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Genius, heredity, and family dynamics. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his children : a literary biography.
… intellectual gifts, faces the challenges of female authorship but finds an acceptable avenue of self-expression in writing educational verses for children through which she can exercise her mental acumen and express her personal fears and struggles publicly. Overlooking Samuel Taylor …
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Women’s Voices in Lebanese Cinema: Crisis, Patriarchy and Empowerment
… through their films. Among them were pioneering female Lebanese film directors such as Heiny Srour (b. 1945), Leyla Assaf-Tengroth (b. 1946), Jocelyne Saab (1948- 2019), and Randa Chahal (1953 - 2008) who used cinema as a platform to present the perspectives of women on the war and, at the same …
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Mourning and Melancholia in Zimbabwean Culture and Cinema
… identity. This thesis also explores the lack of female authorship in literature and film and what this tells us of the role of women in Zimbabwean society. I argue that the black female voice has been silenced through the ions of time and is only being regained very slowly. Thus autoethnography …
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Scottish Gaelic women's poetry up to 1750
… nothing in the text which excluded possible female authorship. The songs were collected from printed and manuscript sources, and one version of each has been included in the appendix. The ascription of some of the songs in printed collections seems doubtful, and in such cases the song has …
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A Confronting of the Gaze: A Study of the Shadhiliyya Yashrutiyya Sufi Order, and its Communities in Amman, Jordan and Calgary, Canada
This study focuses on the history, teachings and culture of the Shadhiliyya Yashrutiyya Sufi order whose roots in North Africa emerge in mid-19th century Palestine with the arrival of its founder, Shaykh Ali Nur al-Din al-Yashruti. To this end, this thesis constructs the biographies of the founder …