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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Jeanette Winterson"”.
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Representations of love in the novels of Jeanette Winterson from 1985 to 2000
… you go down." (TP 51) This reference from Jeanette Winterson's "The Powerbook" typifies the value that love is given in her seven main novels. Love is idealised. It is also depicted as unavoidable, as unavoidable as the ice floe and as potentially destructive. Idealised, inevitable love is …
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Queering the Bildungsroman: homosexuality in the bildungsromane of Jeanette Winterson and Alan Hollinghurst and All Girl Live Action
My project is in the field of creative writing and consists of two related parts: a Bildungsroman of approximately 75,000 words and an essay of approximately 20,000 words. My novel,<i> All Girl Live Action</i>, is set between 1986 and 1988 and tells the coming-of-age story of Niamh Donnelly, who …
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Recurrent Structural and Thematic Traits in Jeanette Winterson's "The Passion" and "Sexing the Cherry": Time, Space and the Construction of Identity
… escritas por la autora británica contemporánea Jeanette Winterson. Aunque el tiempo y el espacio son rasgos estructurales y temáticos recurrentes en toda su obra, este trabajo se centra en The Passion (1987) y Sexing the Cherry (1989) por dos motivos fundamentales: por un lado, son las únicas …
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Maneuvers in the Oeuvre: The problem of confession in the works of Foucault, Mishima and Winterson".
… The works of Michel Foucault, Yukio Mishima and Jeanette Winterson demonstrate how writers may foreground their resistance towards discursive penetration despite an ostensibly confessional stance, and establish their works as a site where deliberate incoherence, as much as much, can be produced. …
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The androgynous ideal in twentieth-century feminist literature : Woolf, Carter, Winterson and Harpman
… and fiction, of Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson and Jacqueline Harpman. Androgyny is an idea which is thousands of years old, and an overview of its presence in religion, mythology and psychology is included as background to its representation in the work of these writers. The …
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Intertextualidade (e anti-linenaridade) as obras de Janette Winterson : Oranges are not the only fruit, The passion e Sexing the chery : desafio, ou afirmação de convençõpes literárias?
… que dá a conhecer o background literário de Jeanette Winterson introduz os tópicos e as teorias que subjazem à argumentação desenvolvida ao longo da dissertação. A anti-linearidade, a intertextualidade, o Pós-Modernismo ou a construção da identidade constituem vectores centrais na abordagem …
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Freedom and the city: contemporary British fiction and the cultural politics of disenfranchisement
… close readings of six contemporary authors—Jeanette Winterson, Hanif Kureishi, J.G. Ballard, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and Maggie Gee—I uncover the process by which British writers working after Thatcher came to believe that one of the consequences of this experiment with freedom has been a …
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Threads of influence: Greek tragedy and its relevance to the contemporary novel, with specific reference to Donna Tartt's 'The secret history', and my novel, 'The first seven years'
… Oedipus Rex and Phèdre, readings by DBC Pierre & Jeanette Winterson, and an interview with David Guterson. This journal has proved invaluable throughout my MPhil, both as an inspiration and an aide-mémoire.
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The feminist postmodern fantastic: sexed, gendered, and sexual identities
… selected authors Hélène Cixous, Monique Wittig, Jeanette Winterson, and Angela Carter represent distinct and diverse, culturally specific, literary and feminist traditions, reformulating the relationship between modernism and postmodernism in different ways and with varying degrees of success. …