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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"female authors"”.
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Hausfreund: Female and Male Concepts of the Literary Figure in the Writings of Female Authors of Realism
… suggests alternative relational structures. His female counterpart, the Hausfreundin, emerges as a counter-image that transcends traditional female roles. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach integrates bourgeois Hausfreund figures into aristocratic milieus, where they act as mediators between the nobility …
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The Story Less Told: Representations in the Inter-War Years of the American White Working Class by Four Female Authors
… novels written in the interwar years by four female authors: Anzia Yezierska, Fielding Burke, Grace Lumpkin, and Myra Page. While a general overview of these authors’ biographies, writing styles, themes, and approaches to issues surrounding race and religion will be provided, the thesis’ main …
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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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A Study of Sex Stereotyping in Characters Created By Fifth and Sixth Grade Young Authors in Their Stories
… prose manuscripts submitted to the 1983 Young Authors' Conference sponsored by Southwest Missouri State University and the Springfield Chapter of the International Reading Association. This represented all the stories written by fifth and sixth grade authors that had human characters with male …
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Lord Byron and women's writing
… been given to his connections with influential female authors whom he held in high regard. While there have been some tangential or cursory explorations of Byron’s engagement with women’s writing, this thesis offers a more sustained attempt to map these textual interactions. In doing so, I …
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The Contested Space of Black Female Sexuality: Communal Norms and Female Sexual Agency in Sub -Saharan Francophone Novels
… specifically white males controlling black female sexuality. Most of the female authors in this study offer formal solutions to the elimination of gender oppression in the aesthetic realm, solutions that imagine alternative communities where female sexual agency is an ideological position.
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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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An analysis of the way black African women function in cohabitative relationships as portrayed in ten selected African short stories
… the researcher only looked at how black African female authors of short stories depict the experiences of black African women in cohabitative relationships. It seems to be highly likely that the experiences of black African women in cohabitative relationships, both positive and negative, may be …
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An Analysis of Authors, Characters and Dependency of Women Protagonists in the Short Stories of Selected Literary Anthologies
… evaluated textbooks in terms of frequency of female authors, frequency of female protagonists, and frequency of dependency in female protagonists in selected modern American short stories. The study was limited to selections in Scott, Foresman and Company textbooks used in eleventh grade …
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Types of Poetry Written By the 1983 Young Authors
… through six who were selected for the 1983 Young Authors' Conference at Southwest Missouri State University. The sample of the study consisted of nineteen male and female authors who composed a total of three hundred fifty-eight poems. The types of poetry forms included: free verse, haiku, …
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Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Lady Jeune's Views on Victorian Culture, Society and Education
… participation in politics and the advancement of female education, and how her views represent a uniquely female and aristocratic perspective that has not been examined by contemporary scholarship. Numerous scholars have examined Victorian Hellenism as a masculine discourse, but the field has not …
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Transatlantic intimacies: The homoerotic affect worlds of nineteenth-century print culture
… and British künstlerroman novels written by female authors. This alternative discourse was communicated affectively to initiated readers by way of metaphorical descriptions of painting, music, accompanying illustrations, and photography, and these novels all participate in the work of moving …
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Wicked widows, crazy spinsters, and competent heroines : the single woman in sentimental fiction
… almost all subsequent arguments about antebellum female authors. What critics have not done is given particular attention to the models of single women that appear in sentimental fiction. This study aims to examine such models: the aggressive, evil mother-surrogate, the eccentric fool, and the …
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Women's actions, women’s words: female political and cultural responses to the Argentine state
… by nineteenth and twentieth century Argentine female authors. Written from a specifically female standpoint, these novels and short stories articulate women’s grievances with the political developments addressed in part one.
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Sex positionality : a history of the role of gender and race in mid-to-late-twentieth-century evangelical sex literature.
… from 1967 to 2016 and argues that evangelical authors created different rhetorics, ideals, and sexual ethics based on their gendered and racial positions in evangelicalism. I first look to gender and argue that in the 1970s, female authors more readily connected sex to the salvation of the …
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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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The Visual Exchange: The Intersection of Vision, Gender, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… during the long nineteenth century by male and female authors, including Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl (1806), The History of Mary Prince (1831), Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), and Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm (1883). Despite the rich scholarship in recent …
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The Relationship Between Use of Characters and Authors' Sex in the 1982 Young Authors Manuscripts
… difference 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 …
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Sickly Sentimentalism: Sympathy and Pathology in American Women's Literature, 1866-1900
… to challenge the medical trend of treating female sentiment as a sickness. At the level of narrative, this challenge took the form of deviating from the domestic and marriage plots prevalent in women’s popular fiction of their period. Through forms of sentimental writing my selected authors …
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Ourself Behind Ourself, Concealed: The Thematic Importance Of Doubling In Nineteenth And Early Twentieth-Century American Gothic Literature
… fragmented psyches which likewise imprison both authors and their subjects. Gothic texts, therefore, present a fitting backdrop for the display of the collective fears and unpleasant realities characteristic of nineteenth and early twentieth-century America, and in doing so they provide an …
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