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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"damsel in distress"”.
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Parody and the pen: Pippi Longstocking, Harriet M. Welsch, and Flavia de Luce as disrupters of space, language, and the male gaze
<p>In opposition to a literary tradition of damsel-in-distress female characters, Astrid Lindgren’s <em>Pippi Longstocking</em>, Louise Fitzhugh’s <em>Harriet the Spy</em>, and Alan Bradley’s <em>The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie</em> provide examples of empowered, intelligent, and capable …
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The myth of masculinity in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy
… Western and the attendant mythologies of masculinity that the genre implies. My argument runs counter to readings of McCarthy’s texts that view them as revising or querying the mythologies of American culture, such as the argument laid out by John Cant. The initiation process undertaken by the …
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Exquisite Corpses: Markedness, Gender, and Death in Video Games
… dissertation analyzes gendered death animations in video games and the way games thematize death to remarginalize marked characters, including women. This project combines Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s work on the human subjection to death and Georges Bataille’s characterization of sacrifice to …