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Heroines of Spenser.
… is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, many of the heroines are likenesses of her. Though Spenser's work is epic poetry, his heroines are discernible types possible to any era, but so ideal that their occurrence is rare. In true Renaissance tradition, Spenser glories in the discovery of women as if …
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Heroines, Anti-Heroines and New Women: The Early Drama of Michael Field, 1884-1895
… to these little known dramas and their eponymous heroines, carefully locating each one within both the context of the Fields’ lives, and the wider socio-cultural and political contexts which surround each play. It is the contention of this thesis, that through their dramatic writing, the Fields …
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Thomas Hardy's Tragic Heroes and Heroines
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T21:09:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004128.pdf: 17137340 bytes, checksum: d5596fede1dc7dac97228304f6690211 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Clockwork Heroines: Female Characters in Steampunk Literature
<p>Steampunk is a progressive literary genre that evokes, imitates, and re-imagines the nineteenth century and favors the Industrial Revolution ideals of science and technology. In a historical framework, it mixes nineteenth-century conventions and retrofuturistic machinery with science fiction and …
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Embroidering Biblical Heroines in Seventeenth-Century England
… and the subject matter of praiseworthy biblical heroines played a role in shaping the young English girls for their future role as wives and mothers.
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Navigating Heroines Between Scylla and Charybdis: Austen's Narrators
… through narrative techniques she preserves her heroines from imprudent marriages. Austen's heroines do not fall madly in love at first sight, but rather they acquiesce to marriage through reason and discernment. She endows her heroines with qualities that make them worthy of her interference in …
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Edith Wharton's Heroines: Studies in Aspiration and Compliance
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Naming Venus: An Exploration of Goddesses, Heroines, and Famous Women
… named after famous women, female first names, heroines, or goddesses. However, 45% of those names are European in origin — and only 2% come from South America.</p> <p>My capstone project, Naming Venus — which can be accessed at this link: <a …
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Gothic heroines and cultural trauma in 20th Century literature and film
Analyzes how 20th Century British writers and Hollywood 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 …
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This Book Will Destroy You: A Critical Comparative Analysis of YA Heroines
… formulaic and predictable. YA commonly centers heroines who embody characteristics associated with female likability, resulting in the loss of authentic representations of teenage girls. Characters who do not personify these archetypes are often regarded as foils to the loveable protagonist, …
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Wicked widows, crazy spinsters, and competent heroines : the single woman in sentimental fiction
Since the 1970s, a number of critics have given critical attention to sentimental fiction. In 1977 and 1985 respectively, Ann Douglas and Jane Tompkins set the terms for almost all subsequent arguments about antebellum female authors. What critics have not done is given particular attention to the …
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Narrative, Body and gaze; Representations of Action Heroines in Console Video Games and Gamer Subjectivity
Gender and video games has become a hot topic for scholars and lay people a like in recent years. Despite this universal interest in the subject, little has been done to document the way in which formal features of video games affect the ways in which women are represented in-games or situate video …
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Heroines, victims and survivors: female minors as active agents in films about African colonial and postcolonial conflicts
This thesis analyses the representations of girls as active agents in fictional films about African colonial and postcolonial conflicts. Representations of these girls are located within local and global contexts, and viewed through an intersectional lens that sees girls as trebly marginalised as …
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The representation of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women as heroines in the novels of four Jewish-American women writers
… whether a coherent picture of Ultra-Orthodox heroines emerges through a consideration of the similarities and differences between the four texts’ depictions of the Ultra-Orthodox societies in which their characters function. This will include the writers’ use of some recurring tropes: the …
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Royal Rhinestones: The Beauty Pageant and Female Beauty in American Literature
… and analyze how beauty affects the lives of heroines of American literature, reflecting how beauty influences the lived experiences of American women. While heroines of novels are often beautiful, little attention has been paid to why these heroines are beautiful and what this beauty means. I …
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The transforming heroine: becoming a wife in the Austen marriage plot
… the use of character transformation in her heroines, Jane Austen uses marriage plot novels to romantically idealize the role of being a wife. In particular, heroines Catherine Morland, Marianne Dashwood, Elizabeth Bennet, and Emma Woodhouse lose autonomy and become more limited within their …
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"Traitorous Bodies": Cartesian Dualism in Romance Novels by Susan Johnson and E.L. James
… Descartes’s theory of mind/body dualism to the heroines in Susan Johnson’s Seized by Love and E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey reveals not only a separation between the heroines’ minds and bodies, but proves that both heroines are depicted as distinctly body. As such, serious complications …
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