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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Madwoman"”.
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Production book of The madwoman of Chaillot
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Production book of The madwoman of Chaillot
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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From pretending to supposing: redeeming the madwoman in Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess
… revises the theory of Gilbert and Gubar in The Madwoman in the Attic, which posits that in nineteenth-century literature, women could only function as diseased, insane prisoners or else as angelic rulers of the domestic sphere; this thesis employs examples from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little …
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Power in Madness : a critical investigation into the musical representation of female madness in the mad scenes of Donizetti’s ‘Lucia’ from Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) and Thomas’s ‘Ophélie’ from Hamlet (1868)
… led to various artistic interpretations of the madwoman, most notably in art, literature, theatre and opera. Opera proved to be the ultimate platform for the musical depiction of female madness, particularly due to the virtuosic vocal capacity of the coloratura soprano. In spite of social and …
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Women and bodily separation in literature from the Victorian era until today
… division was represented through the use of a madwoman and a heroine. In the early 20th century, however, this motif was picked up by female poets, who used duality in order to express the disconnect women often feel from their family, their friends, and, especially, their bodies. In today‟s …
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<i>The blackbird's sonnet</i> and other tales: Stories imagining an art-eco-mad ethic
… about experiences as a white, middle-class Madwoman, this dissertation explores the intersections between Mad studies and EcoJustice education using an arts-based, specifically poetic inquiry and fiction-based research, and autoethnographic approach. Weaving together the creative and …
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Desmontando narrativas e corpos : uma reflexão sobre o corpo no gótico feminino na obra poética de Sylvia Plath e Anne Sexton, e na obra fotográfica de Francesca Woodman e Cindy Sherman
… os monstros, o dopplegänger, o anjo ou a “madwoman” do período vitoriano, conjugam-se com elementos de carácter surrealista (os peixes, as luvas, os espelhos, os cadáveres esquisitos), de forma a ilustrar o modo como o corpo feminino estabelece um diálogo com a geografia do espaço. Neste …
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Over, Then Over Again, Over: A Poetics of Disorder
… the most ineffable identity might be “the madwoman.” Both rejected and romanticized, her diagnosis results from an inability to be contained—she exists in excess—and her pathologization renders self-expression too illogical to be legitimate. At the same time, she lives in a perpetual state …
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The anxiety of authorship among women fantasy writers
… and Gubar's feminist theory evident in The Madwoman in the Attic to the male-dominated, gender biased fantasy genre that works to support and embolden evidence of an existing "anxiety of authorship" among modern women fantasy writers. Anxiety faced by women writers in the fantasy genre is …
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Her kind: Personae in Anne Sexton's poetry
… supplicant, writer-poet, storyteller, and madwoman-witch roles). Third, as one trait of the speakers is their nearly constant attention to the audience in the poems and since the audience changes as the speaker enacts different role-complexes, the audiences in and of the poetry are …
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Absorbing the Worlds of Others: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Adapted Screenplays
… Gilbert’s and Susan Gubar’s notions of ‘the madwoman in the attic’ and ‘the angel in the house’ to portrayals of screenwriters, arguing that Jhabvala purposely cultivates an impression of herself as the latter -- a submissive screenwriter, of no threat to patriarchal or directorial power -- …
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Representation of Madwomen in Mexican Literature: A Comparison Between Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate and Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo
A comparison between two significant female characters from Mexican literature in terms of their mental states. A great emphasis is put on male and female writers' typical way of representing a female character.