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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Male authors"”.
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The Relationship Between Use of Characters and Authors' Sex in the 1982 Young Authors Manuscripts
… between number of characters used by female and male authors. The sample of the study consisted of 84 females and 54 males in southwest Missouri whose manuscripts were selected for the 1982 Young Authors Conference at Southwest Missouri State University. The two-way analysis of variance …
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African male voices: representation of women images in selected isiZulu literary texts; reality or idealism?
… transformation has had an impact on how male authors represent women in isiZulu literary texts. Literary feminist philosophy was employed to highlight whether their depiction is real or idealized. The study concluded that gender inequality was still prevalent in the depiction of women …
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The Augustae of the Theodosian Dynasty (379 - 455 CE): An Enquiry into their Portrayal by the Contemporary Textual Sources.
Between 379CE and 455CE seven female members of the Theodosian Imperial Family were elevated to the role of Augusta (Empress), thereby enhancing their ability to influence events and causing their deeds to be recorded by the contemporary historians, clergymen and poets. This dissertation explores …
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Approaching Author Identity through First-person Pronouns and Metadiscourse : A study of opinion articles in US news media
… which first-person pronouns are used by the authors of opinion articles, and which social variables influence or at least correlate with their choice of first-person pronouns the most, as well as to study the contexts in which these pronouns are used. The second goal is to establish which …
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Female slave portrayals in child and young adult historical fiction by African American authors
… This exploration juxtaposed portrayals of female slaves developed by African-American female authors with portrayals created by African-American male authors. Historical fiction for children and young adults was collected and analyzed using literary criticism and literary theory that is …
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Redefining ‘Chick-Lit’ and Women’s Publishing within Trade Publishing in South Africa
There is a clear imbalance between female- and male-penned fiction and non-fiction within local and international publishing, as shown by high-profile statistics like the VIDA and Stella counts. The aim of this research is to investigate the representation of female authors (often grouped together …
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Cunning Authors and Bad Readers: Gendered Authorship in "Love in Excess"
… novel reveals connections between discourses of authorship and gender. Male and female characters, along with the narrative voice, employ the same strategies to author texts that engage the reader’s desires. Variations in these strategies are linked to but not determine by the author’s gender. I …
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"So what's the joke?" : locating Jewish-American female authorship
… fiction of three contemporary Jewish-American female writers, Grace Paley, Cynthia Ozick and Erica Jong, and locates their writing in the context of their quasi-double-marginalization--the yoking of their Jewishness and femaleness. Their texts illustrate their reaction to a history of patriarchal …
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Mediating Moore: Uncertain Origins and Indeterminate Identities in the Work of C. L. Moore
… L.: Lucille) Moore, one of the earliest female science fiction writers, is widely regarded by SF writers, editors, and fans as one of the field’s most influential founding mothers, with female SF writer Marion Zimmer Bradley claiming Moore as the "mother" of all women who write science …
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‘I used to be subversive, but now I’m gay’: representations of queer identities on the American stage from the postwar to the 1990s
… that shaped the manifestations of ‘gay’ male identities on the American stage from the postwar to the 1990s, I will offer extended analysis and close reading of selected texts. I will examine Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Suddenly, …
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What are Grade Twelve Students Reading? Surveying Saskatchewan English Language Arts B30 Teachers
… full-length text selections are primarily dated, male-dominated, and reflect the voices of British or American male authors. To conclude, a case for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy is made for possible transformation of text selection and/or teaching of full-length texts. Key Words: curriculum, …
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Katherine Mansfield and Visual Culture
… primarily on the drama, poetry, and novels of male authors, with Virginia Woolf being the only significant exception to this rule. I propose that this engagement with the visual in modernist fiction has a different social and cultural significance in the works of women writers. With reference …
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From the Womb to the Word: Pregnancy and Pregnancy Metaphors in 16th and 17th Century English Literature
… I aim to demonstrate that mothering and authorship were congruent activities for female writers. Conversely, I argue that male writers of the period who employed metaphors of gestation did so not to try to claim biological maternal spaces and capacities as their own, but rather, they …
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Playing the Game: Violence and the Revolt Against Normative Masculinity in John Updike's Rabbit Run, Norman Mailer's an American Dream, and Phil Andros's $tud
… examples of Cold War literature by white male authors, Norman Mailer's An American Dream (1965) and John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), and examine them through the lens of the lesser-known gay pulp $tud (1966) by Phil Andros. Although $tud's gay hustler protagonist Phil seems to be a …
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Migritude: Migrant Structures of Feeling in a Minor Literature of Globalization
… a disparate yet distinct group of contemporary authors whose work describes the condition of being a migrant under globalization with a critical feminist and anti-imperialist politics and poetics. It is a global justice movement that sees literature as a form of cultural activism. Migritude …
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Parental Portrayals in Children's Literature: 1900-2000
… in each successive time period of publication. Male authors were expected to portray more egalitarian parental roles, and the race and sex of the young characters were not expected to influence parental portrayals. Award-winning books were expected to represent more egalitarian parental roles. …
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The woman singer and her song in French and German prose fiction (circa 1790-1848)
… selected case studies, I establish how, for some authors of this period, the singer constituted an important cipher for female artistic empowerment. Although substantial research on the cross-fertilization between music and literature exists, this specific motif has so far received very little …
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Technologies of gender: Soviet literature and film in the 1920s and 1930s
… Soviet cyborg (in Donna Haraway’s terms), first male, then female. In the twenties, in order to combat mortality and render the body perfect, male authors engage in writing about sophisticated technologies based on experimental scientific and medical research (as in Pilnyak’s 1928 A Matter of …
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The social affirmation of "woman" in selected texts by Buchi Emecheta and Alice Walker
… patriarchal societies the relationships between male and female have always been determined by social mores put in place by men. By the same token, there has been a strong tradition in African literature that has only recently been really challenged that writing of both fiction and non-fiction is …
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The sins of the father: a study of patrilineality in Colm Toibins' The Heather Blazing and Dermot Bolger's The Valparaiso Voyage
… my thesis explores two narratives written by male authors from the Irish Republic in an effort to determine if (and how) an ongoing and often heavily resisted "feminist" and gendered "revolution" (Clare 4) has shaped men's relationships to forms of power in contemporary Irish writing. My study …
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