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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Feminist literary criticism"”.
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Black Women’s Bodies as the Site of Malignity: Interrogating (Mis)representations of Black Women in 16th and 17th Century British Literature
… literature. Drawing from historical contexts and feminist literary criticism, this thesis accentuates a culturally nuanced and intersectional feminist examination of specific texts from the period in question and the extent to which they inform or draw from racist rhetoric. The texts examined will …
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Direito ao grito (explosão): Representações da violência de gênero em contos de Clarice Lispector
This research aims to understand how the literary representation of gender violence is configured in Clarice Lispector's work, based on the relationship between literature and gender, considering the structural nature of gender violence in patriarchal society and its elements highlighted in the …
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The Space in Between: Middle Passage Movement and Black Women's Literature
… work in black geography studies and black feminist literary criticism, I argue that black women writers intervene in what has previously been a male dominated field of criticism on the Middle Passage and use their literature to retell Middle Passage stories anew and isolate specific forms …
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Feminist Theory and Postwar American Drama
… as a critical tool, to be applied to drama. Feminist theory from anthropology, psychology, literary criticism, and film theory is summarized and one theorist from each field is selected to serve as an example of how feminism in that field can illuminate drama written by both women and …
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Sleep and Sleeplessness in the Victorian Novel, Jane Eyre to Dracula
… linked to sleeping and waking states. Drawing on feminist literary criticism, cultural historicism, and medical insight from the early nineteenth-century to the present, I argue that Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and Bram Stoker use sleep and wakefulness as vehicles to navigate gendered …
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The Making and Unmaking of Colette: Myth, Celebrity, Profession
… a radically new interpretation of her life and literary oeuvre. This work is distinguished from previous works on Colette both in its approach and in the scope of its research, relying on extensive archival research revealing unpublished and unstudied aspects of Colette's biography and …
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Reordering The Old Order : a woman's response to Porter's Miranda stories.
… traditional critics have not. As contemporary feminist reader-response criticism proposes, often only when read by a woman can a piece of literature written by a woman be understood fully. Because these works from The Old Order revolve around symbols, images, and events whose meaning can only …
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“Alles, was ich schreibe, steht im Dienst der Frauen.” Zum essayistischen und fiktionalen Werk Hedwig Dohms (1833-1919)
… provides the title quote for this thesis. Her literary work encompasses theoretical essays, polemical pamphlets, dialogues, articles and book reviews, as well as comedies, novellas and novels. Since the rediscovery of her writings by feminist publishers and scholars in the early to mid-1970’s, …
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Literary Relationships: Settler Feminist Readings of Visions of Justice in Indigenous Women’s First-Person Narratives
… the relationships between author and audience—literary projects—and between reader and text—ways of reading—to examine tensions and affinities in Indigenous and settler engagements for justice. My readings respond to two intertwined objectives: prioritizing Indigenous women writers’ visions of …
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Alice no espaço: feminismo e ficção científica: uma leitura do conto “The Women Men Don’t See”, de James Tiptree Jr./Alice Sheldon
… Women Men Don’t See”, de uma posição de leitura feminista. Inicia-se com uma contextualização do aparecimento da crítica literária feminista, nos anos setenta, seguida por uma breve definição e perspetiva histórica da ficção científica, o género literário em que o conto se insere. Num terceiro …