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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Violence in literature."”.
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The Justification of Violence: An Analysis of Literary and Cinematic Representations of Extreme Violence, and Attempts to Justify Them
This thesis examines the concept of fictional violence in literature and film. This subject has been approached by dividing the research into three main subtopics. The first explores the combination of humour and fictional violence, more specifically the effect humour has on the presentation and …
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Domestic Violence and Empire: Legacies of Conquest in Mexican American Writing
… that writers can symbolically represent domestic violence to critique unjust gender relations as well as iniquitous US policy toward Mexican Americans. I use the term domestic violence because it most closely describes the double voiced discourse women engage to critique communities that condone …
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Wayward Women, Virtuous Violence: Feminine Violence in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature by Women
This dissertation examines the role of "acceptable" feminine violence in Restoration and eighteenth-century drama and fiction. Scenes such as Lady Davers's physical assault on Pamela in Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) have understandably troubled recent scholars of gender and literature. But …
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Women, Violence, and the "Arab Question" in Early Zionist Literature
This dissertation examines the themes of rape and domestic violence in Zionist literature on the "Arab Question" published in Hebrew from the last years of Ottoman rule in Palestine through to the 1929 riots that erupted during the British Mandate. By bringing to light the import of rape and …