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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"female gothic"”.
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Mermaid in the Bathtub: A Speculative Southern Female Gothic Novel
<p>Mermaid in the Bathtub is a Southern female gothic novel set in 1931 rural East Texas. Minnie is a seventeen-year-old woman, married off so her father can find work during the deepening depression and failure of their cotton crop. She is betrothed to Thomas, the Pastor’s son, and doesn’t quite …
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The Contemporary Female Gothic: Hauntings From the Home to the Colonial Landscape
… original conceptions of the haunted home in the Gothic genre. I look at the tradition of the Gothic genre in U.S. literary history, acknowledging its significance to first-wave feminist discussions of madness as a response to societally imposed domestic roles, and then at works that focus on …
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Keeping "body and soul together": Rosa Coldfield's gothic voice in absalom, absalom!
Within the context of the female gothic genre, Rosa’s hysteric personality allows her voice to control aspects of the story and the narrative that would be limited to her as just a peripheral character, the spinster aunt. The first section of this essay, “Absalom, Absalom! as Rosa’s Text,” argues …
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Spectres of Women in Wuthering Heights
… feminine ghost, an archetypal figure of the female Gothic, using theoretical frameworks from poststructuralism and psychoanalysis. I propose a feminist interpretation of the novel which emphasizes the catalyzing effect of the haunting scene and its reversals– and which keeps Brontë, herself …
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Gothic heroines and cultural trauma in 20th Century literature and film
… filmmakers have adapted common features of the Gothic literary tradition - the imperiled but investigative heroine, the attractive but coercive villain, and the portrait of a female predecessor - to address massive traumas that have been repressed by, but which continue to affect, modern …
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Soviet Gothic-fantastic: a study of Gothic and supernatural themes in early Soviet literature
This thesis analyses the persistence of Gothic-fantastic themes and motifs in the literature of Soviet Russia between 1920 and 1940. Nineteenth-century Russian literature was characterized by the almost universal assimilation of Gothic-fantastic themes and motifs, adapted from the fiction of …
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Desmontando narrativas e corpos : uma reflexão sobre o corpo no gótico feminino na obra poética de Sylvia Plath e Anne Sexton, e na obra fotográfica de Francesca Woodman e Cindy Sherman
O objectivo desta investigação é o de examinar o modo como Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Francesca Woodman e Cindy Sherman exploraram a representação do corpo da mulher, à luz do gótico, mais especificamente, dentro do enquadramento do gótico feminino. Consequentemente, a obra poética de Sylvia Plath …