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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Femmes Fatales"”.
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The Alluring and Manipulative "Spider Women" of the Silver Screen: Femmes Fatales of the Hard-Boiled Fiction, Classic Noir and Contemporary Noir Periods
This thesis delves into three categories of femmes fatales: the ones of hard-boiled fiction/classic noir and contemporary noir. Moreover, it generates several comparisons among those aforementioned categories, and extrapolates on them. Third wave feminism and how it draws relevance/is significant …
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Southern Noir: Appropriations and Alterations of a Twentieth-Century Form
… a foreboding sense of doom, and deadly seductive femmes fatales nipping at their heels. The understanding of noir as a symptom of urban modernity inextricably linked to cities and cinema stands in stark contrast to the traditional understanding of the south as rural, retrograde, and a repository …
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D. H. Lawrence and the 'Femme Fatale'
… moon, and the cycles of procreation. These many femmes fatales appear repeatedly in the three major novels: Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, and Women in Love. In The Plumed Serpent, Lawrence attempts to shift the balance in favor of maleness. But he lends strength to his enemy, and ultimately …
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The Many Faces of Mildred: A Detailed Analysis
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The Complete Poems of Anne Bannerman
<p>Anne Bannerman (c.1780-1829) spent most of her life in Edinburgh, Scotland and published three volumes of poetry in the early nineteenth century. For my dissertation, I have prepared the first fully-annotated critical edition of Bannerman’s complete works, including <em>Poems </em>(1800), …
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Étude mythocritique de la femme fatale dans Madame Bovary de Flaubert: l'archétype modifié par le thème de la souffrance chez Emma Bovary
Emma Bovary de Flaubert figure parmi les personnages littéraires les plus étudiés de l'histoire depuis la publication du roman Madame Bovary en 1857. Il y a eu, certes, une quantité inestimable d'approches visant une meilleure compréhension de ce personnage complexe, mais l'angle d'analyse adopté …
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Combating the Banality of Evil: Portrayals of the Literary Female Villain in Günter Grass's Danziger Trilogie and Novella, Im Krebsgang.
<p>In Günter Grass's Danzig Trilogy and novella, Im Krebsgang, an antagonistic female type makes a repeated appearance. She appears in the guise of Susi Kater and Luzie Rennwand in Die Blechtrommel, and as Tulla Pokriefke in the other works, Katz und Maus, Hundejahre, and Im Krebsgang. This …