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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Male Protagonists"”.
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Masculinity on the run: history, nation and subjectivity in contemporary mainland Chinese cinema
… from this era are `on the run'; that is, male protagonists' ambiguous relationships with dominant discourses of nation, history and new formulations of subjectivity cause them either to flee from Maoist collective identity categories or more actively to move towards discourses of the …
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Thackeray's Moral Landscape: The Aesthetic Principles of William Makepeace Thackeray
… aesthetic into a moral philosophy. Thackeray's male protagonists such as Henry Esmond, Clive Newcome, Pendennis, and, in a rougher form, George Osborne and Rawdon Crawley, must choose between women who are presented to them and the reader as different types of art works. The "sublime" women, …
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Female characters in Jack Kerouac's Fiction
… in both his life and his fiction. His three female-centered novels, Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, and Tristessa show the male protagonists following a pattern of departure from home, experience in a foreign world, and return to home. Maggie Cassidy is Jacky Dulouoz's sexual initiation …
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We Bare All
… All is a collection of nine short stories with male protagonists, both children and adults, who encounter various decision making situations. The children face opposition-- sometimes a common occurrence such as confronting a bully, and sometimes a strange situation such as burying a corpse. The …
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Assertiveness as a Characteristic of Females in Male-Female Relationships in Selected Adolescent Novels from 1967-1976 and 1977-1986
… descriptive study dealt with the subject of female assertiveness in male-female relationships as portrayed in adolescent novels. The hypotheses were that a more contemporary attitude toward women would be reflected in the past decade's literature for adolescents by featuring women who act more …
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Masculinity In Comparative Black Literatures
… the New World. In chapter 4, I examine how Black male writers recognized the diversity within Africa and the Diaspora and consequently created masculine characters who reflected their local cultures. In Chapter 5, I analyze texts by Black women that critiqued Black men for silencing Black women in …
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Wild woman: representations of female 'deviance' in modern and contemporary Italian fiction
… the cultural and literary representation of female characters labelled “deviant” in Italian fiction. From the cultural context of nineteenth-century Italy up to that of the present day, I consider the figures of the ugly woman, prostitute and female terrorist in selected texts by nine Italian …
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Tudor women writers fashioning masculinity
… texts by women writers into dialogue with their male-authored counterparts. It argues for a more nuanced approach that recognises that the concepts of masculinity and femininity can only be fully understood when studied in relation with each other. The first chapter explores how, notwithstanding …
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When Men Cry: Male Demonstrations of Grief in Beowulf, The Song of Roland, and Sir Orfeo
… thesis is to explore some of the reasons for male tears and displays of grief in three works of medieval literature. While male mourning appears in hundreds of medieval texts and is a topic worthy of extensive exploration, I have narrowed my focus to three works: Beowulf, The Song of Roland, …
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This is Africa: Whiteness and Representations of the other recent Hollywood Films
… Dyer's key theories on the white heterosexual male image in film, I look specifically at representations of whiteness in both films' male protagonists: Dr. Nicholas Garrigan (Last King) and Danny Archer (Blood Diamond). Both men use the phrase, 'This is Africa' (TIA) in conversation with white …
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Food for Sympathy: Illness, Nursing, and Affect in Victorian Literature and Culture
… In Bildungsromans, their sympathy for disabled male companions enabled socially and economically disenfranchised male protagonists to reconstruct wounded masculinity as a hegemonic masculinity model. Destabilized social identities, on the other hand, culminated in novelistic examples of …
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The New Man: Evolving Masculinity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's <em>This Side of Paradise</em>, "Winter Dreams," and "The Swimmers"
… especially, the work place, the American male felt nervous, anxious, and emasculated. In response to what Greg Forter calls the feminizing effects of bourgeois modernity, early twentieth-century America saw the emergence of a new form of manhood that is best described by Forter as "hard, …
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'Scarecrows of Chivalry': The Literature of Post -Imperial English Masculinity
… in the works of Kingsley Amis and John Wain the male protagonists confront the crucial task of re-establishing their masculinity in a devolving England no longer able to venerate cosmopolitan gentility, making visible the necessary entanglement of new-fangled masculinity and national tradition. …
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On a Quest for Manhood: Re-Imagining Medieval Masculinities and Male Maturation in Contemporary Arthurian Adaptations for Adolescents
… discourses about masculinities and male maturation, highlighting, in particular, how Arthurian adaptations published between 1998 and 2007 are connected to turn-of-the-century men’s movement discourses and the boy crisis debate. I also discuss the ways these recent Arthurian …
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Heroes, villains and more villains : representations of Arab men on Australian screens
This thesis examines the representation of Arab male protagonists in three Australian crime drama productions: East West 101, The Combination and Cedar Boys. Since 2007 Australia has seen a notable increase in the inclusion of Arab and Muslim male characters in various serials and films, …
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Imagined nation and imagined womanhood in the Shaw Brothers' musicals
… epics and huangmei musicals often center on female characters. Sometimes the male protagonist is cross-dressed by actresses. Hence they are categorized as the female genre or the feminine genre. The female genre was pervasive not only in Hong Kong, but also in diasporic Chinese film markets …
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Beyond postmodernism: London fiction at the millennium
… takes the form of an analysis of the work of male writers writing male protagonists. By comparing the earlier novels of Kureishi and Thomson to their later work, along with an analysis of texts by Homby and Haddon, it is suggested that texts can be read in light of a move towards a …
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Representations of Elite Masculinity in Medieval Castilian Narrative
… must transcend our understanding of the male subject as a fixed point of reference; rather, he is to be understood as a mobile and multivalent construct in constant negotiation with cultural artifacts. I understand masculinity to be the set of socially constructed meanings and values …
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Thinking Skills in Young Adult Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Thirty Novels
… with an attempt at an even distribution between male and female protagonists, first and third person point of view. A large number of novels were examined to determine the presence or absence of protagonists whose thinking abilities determined their actions .</p> <p>Thirty novels were found to …