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Showing 1 to 20 of 249 for “"Female characters"”.
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Clockwork Heroines: Female Characters in Steampunk Literature
… Boneshaker (2009), which depicts self-sufficient females battling hardships in America’s last frontier. Chapter 3 looks at how Cassandra Clare’s Infernal Devices series (2010-2013) illustrates female identity as a performance in an age of technological progression and cultural revolutions. The …
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The "unlikely female" characters of the Mabinogi
The female characters of the Mabinogi represent divergent views on medieval gender roles. Some characters are depicted in stereotypical ways — defined in dichotomy, as either Mary or Eve. Other female characters are different, for they portray women who act outside of social norms. These are the …
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Female characters in Jack Kerouac's Fiction
… in both his life and his fiction. His three female-centered novels, Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, and Tristessa show the male protagonists following a pattern of departure from home, experience in a foreign world, and return to home. Maggie Cassidy is Jacky Dulouoz's sexual initiation …
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The Symbolism of Female Characters in Fedor Sologub's Mythopoetics
This study examines the symbolism of female figures and characters in the full range of Fedor Sologub's literary works over the course of his entire career as a writer and demonstrates their importance in conveying the metaphysical subtexts of his works. Symbolic females console or torture, inspire …
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Akane Kurashiki and the Humanization of Female Characters In Video Games
… I wished to further the discussion surrounding female characters in video games, specifically the ways in which games can humanize their female heroines. To do so, I conducted both a qualitative content analysis and an auto-ethnographic exploration into Akane Kurashiki, the lead female heroine …
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Depictions of Queer female characters in contemporary South African documentary film
… growth in documentary film representation, Queer female representation in local fiction film is negligible. Depictions of Queer male identities are comparatively more widespread, yet even these still tend to rely on negative or onedimensional stereotypes. On a more encouraging note, there appears …
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Responses of four adolescent females to adolescent fiction with strong female characters
… of responses of four adolescent girls to the characters in two adolescent novels: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor; and Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson. The novels were chosen because the main characters are strong, independent young females, whose various struggles could provide …
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Family and Nation in Crises: Female characters in Selected Recent South African Novels
… in many South African literary texts where black female characters are dependent on the writer’s knowledge and views about black women. As a result, many scholars have grappled with the phenomenon of black female representation where authors represent female characters in a biased manner. These …
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(N)Onomastics and Malory: Anonymity and Female Characters in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'arthur
… examines the approximately 700 anonymous female characters who appear in Sir Thomas Malory's <italic>Le Morte D'Arthur</italic>, expanding the possibilities for how gender roles might be interpreted based on a wider range of female roles. Primary named female characters such as Guinevere …
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An Analysis of the Changing Roles of Female Characters in Newbery Award-Winning Fiction Since 1964
… by categorizing each major or supporting adult female character into one of five categories of the "Occupational Prestige Rating Scale'' (Appendix A), based mainly on salary ranges. Major or supporting female characters were categorized by the "Leadership Potential Scale'' (Appendix B), based on …
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The Jaded Garden:a cross-cultural comparison of nostalgic female characters by Pai Hsien-yung and Tennessee Williams
… of a comparative analysis of the nostalgic female characters in Pai Hsien-yung's two short stories: "Wandering in a Garden, Waking from a Dream," and "A Celestial in Mundane Exile," and Tennessee Williams's two plays: The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. Beginning with a brief …
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An examination of award-winning Canadian children’s literature from 1982 to 1992 for evidence of gender equality in presentations of male and female characters
This study examined male and female characters in award-winning English language Canadian children's literature for evidence of gender equality. The sample consisted of seventy-eight books that had been winners or runners-up of national awards between 1982 and 1992. Qualitative and quantitative …
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Negotiating the boundaries of gender : construction and representation of women in the work of Michael Ondaatje
… Ondaatje's construction and representation of female characters in four fictional works: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter, In the Skin of a Lion, and The English Patient. The primary focus is on the demarcating lines or 'boundaries' drawn between male and female …
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Images de la femme dans l'oeuvre litteraire de Sembene Ousmane
… male African author, has sought to give to the female characters in his literary works an important role in African Society. This thesis analyses the female characters in Sembene's literary works with the aim of evaluating their importance, the author's attitude towards them and finally …
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El personaje femenino de la novela indigenista
… overall aim of this study was to investigate the female characters in five of the works that have had the most influence on the development of the indigenista novel: Aves sin nido (1889) by Clorinda Matto de Turner, Raza de bronce (1918) by Alcides Arguedas, Huasipungo (1934) by Jorge Icaza, El …
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On the Verge of Change: Eudora Welty's <em>Delta Wedding</em>
… Wedding</em>. This thesis focuses on the female characters who adapt to the absence of the husbands during wartime. Wars are the catalyst for societal change in the novel, and the women must adapt to the new social changes that are encroaching upon the plantation. The chapters explore each …
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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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Listen to the River: Dolores, Ophelia, and Female Resistance in Opera
<p>The music of female characters in the great masterpieces of opera often demonstrates resistance to and undermines the abuse they have historically received in opera plots. The Mexican folktale that my opera, <em>The Tragedy of La Llorona</em>, draws inspiration from plays on many of the same …
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Unveiling Jewett's hidden voice: discovering the aborted future of Dunnet Landing in The Country of the Pointed Firs
… addresses a deeper significance to Jewett‟s female characters than was previously attributed in canonical history. Jewett imbues her women with complexity, but intentionally avoids portraying her females as disproportionately heroic. Indeed, a pervading recurrence of abortions and otherwise …
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Eliza Haywood's Feigning Femmes Fatale: Desirous and Deceptive Women in "Fantomina," <em>Love in Excess</em>, and <em>The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless</em>.
… Haywood's novels, masquerade is often used by female characters as a means by which to gain control or power. More specifically, Haywood's female characters often misrepresent themselves as a means by which to achieve sexual power and even to obtain sexual gratification.</p> <p>Haywood also …
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