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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"Male Characters"”.
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Emotional Awareness of Kate Chopin's Male Characters
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New Men for New Women: Male Characters in American Women's Writing, 1794--1878
… aim, these novels valorize similarly constituted male characters, the ""new men"" of my title. New men define themselves by affectionate family relationships and cooperative ties with friends and community, in contrast to the competitive, money-mad aristocrats they supplant. Together with the …
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Confronting Manhood: The Struggle of Male Characters in the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines.
… of the characteristics of manhood in Black males. Chapter One focuses on <em>The Sky Is Gray</em> and follows the young hero as he makes his transition from child to a young man understanding manhood. The second chapter looks at <em>In My Father's House</em>, exploring the relationship …
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The Missing Mirror: A Critical Content Analysis of Multicultural Children's Literature with Black Male Characters
… the achievement gap lingers on, with Black males often performing poorly on national assessments of reading proficiency (Tatum, 2005). Although Black males are highly literate, they may feel alienated from traditional school systems and classroom reading selections (Kirkland, 2013). One of …
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What the Children Are Reading: A Content Analysis of Minority Male Characters in Preschool Children's Libraries
… was to explore representation and depiction of male characters of color in children's picture books within early childhood classrooms libraries. Ten early childhood classroom libraries were inventoried and picture books with males of color were analyzed using a framework for the critical …
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Through the Female Perspective: An Analysis of Male Characters in Jane Austen’s <em>Northanger Abbey</em>
… Abbey</em> with a central focus on the female characters, the narrator, the lack of education of upper-middle class women, and overall satire of gothic tropes. This essays turns away from the predominantly feminine focus by delving into an analysis of the male characters, who are often …
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WOMEN WRITERS AND THE GENEALOGY OF THE GENTLEMAN: MASCULINITY, AUTHORITY, AND MALE CHARACTERS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVELS BY WOMEN
… their authority not by overtly opposing their male critics and society’s patriarchal structure, but by rewriting the persona of the gentleman—the poster boy for eighteenth-century society’s moral, masculine, and patriarchal values—and thereby advocating for novels as an important site for …
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Gendered readings and interpretation in selected short stories by Isabel Allende, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Luisa Valenzuela
… fiction encounter texts in which a male-identified reading is subverted, critical work tends to focus its attention only rarely upon the implications of such a subversion for the male characters in such texts. Many short stories by Isabel Allende, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Luisa …
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The centrifugal discourse of myth : women and the 'saving illusion' in selected works of Joseph Conrad
… of this thesis is to demonstrate that the women characters in Joseph Conrad's works function in the narratives to present a 'saving illusion' which is in contrast to masculine existential despair. The women characters are characterised by 'being' not 'becoming'. They are also frequently …
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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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Dangerous men: the crisis of masculinity in Romantic women's fiction
… heroes and villains. Their richly drawn male characters are deeply embedded in late-Georgian controversies over men’s status, responsibilities, and behavior, reflecting what I term the “crisis of masculinity” in the Romantic period. I argue that before Jane Austen and Lord Byron – …
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A New Man: Masculine Confusion and Struggle in the Works of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton’s male characters offer an important commentary on the evolving situation of the man in American society. Wharton did not wish for women to usurp all social positions from men but rather to claim their rightful position alongside them. Characters such as Lawrence Selden in <i>The …
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Walking Through Fire: Black Men’s Quest for Autonomy in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and King Hedley II
<p>This paper explores Black male characters in August Wilson's <em>Two Trains Running</em> and <em>King Hedley II</em>. Characters in these plays seek personal autonomy through economic stability. They seek these things during the turbulent times of the 1960's and 1980's in Pittsburgh, …
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Masculine Fantasies In Selected Novels by Charles Dickens
<p>This dissertation explores Dickens characters that subvert dominant ideals of Victorian masculinity, in order to clarify both the nature of masculine anxieties (loss of autonomy, feminization, surveillance, and so on) and the existence of fantasies that allow vicarious escapes from such …
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Blending Birth and Behavior: Masculine Representations of Patriarchy and Capitalism in the Eighteenth-Century Novel of Manners
… exists an apparent oversight, which leaves the male characters within this type of literature viewed, at best, as basic narrative devices or, at worst, leaves them simply ignored. With this omission in mind, I intend to trace the various types of masculine figures typically found in the …
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"They Don't Make'em Like They Used To": Cultural Hegemony and the Representation of White Masculinity in Recent U.S. Cinema
… purpose of this work is to illuminate how white male hegemony over women and minorities is inscribed through the process of film representation. A critical interrogation of six film texts produced over the last decade yields pertinent examples of how the process of hegemonic negotiation works to …
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LA DIFFÉRENCE DES SEXES DANS L’OEUVRE D’AGOTA KRISTOF
… shows human existence as pointless and her main characters’ lives are defined by loss of vital relationships, nostalgia and lack of meaning. The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the female characters and their personal relationships. Until now, the critics have focused on the trilogy, …
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The Girls Who Had to Grow Up: Reflections on Motherhood and Dual Identity in Lewis Carroll's Wonderland and J.M. Barrie's Neverland
… connected within the texts, primarily in the characters' dual roles as dictated by the gendered expectations of Victorian society. While in the imaginary world, both Alice and Wendy experience mini-versions of their future lives. They exist as girl and mother simultaneously. Carroll, by …
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Crafting Oppression of Women in Novels by Writers of Color
… novels, to create oppressive situations for female characters in their work. In writing about these novels, the aim is to see how authors use fictional characters to illustrate actual female oppression. The novels drawn from different cultures, share the depiction of female oppression.</em></p> …
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