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Mending The Gaps: Margaret Fuller's Transnational Identity And The Cultivation Of A World Order, Jennifer Pennacchio
Mending The Gaps: Margaret Fuller's Transnational Identity And The Cultivation Of A World Order, Jennifer Pennacchio
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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Open, Clear Decisions: Virginian Woolf's Orlando And Clarissa Dalloway As Bisexuals, Sarah Brey
Open, Clear Decisions: Virginian Woolf's Orlando And Clarissa Dalloway As Bisexuals, Sarah Brey
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
In Orlando Virginia Woolf, shows Orlando as a person with a clear conscience who knows what he/she wants. Like Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway, who is also often regarded as a lesbian because she loves Sally fondly her whole life but chooses to marry Richard, Orlando loves Sasha regardless of what changes her body undergoes, but chooses to marry Shel. Neither Clarissa nor Orlando is forced into marriage. Both choose to marry and abandon their active lesbian tendencies because they know what is most comfortable for them. As bisexuals they show the confusion of desiring both sexes, and instead of …
Peace-Weavers And The Soldiers Who Court Them: The Sexual Development Of Women In Shakespear's Plays, Sara Ben-David
Peace-Weavers And The Soldiers Who Court Them: The Sexual Development Of Women In Shakespear's Plays, Sara Ben-David
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
This paper moves beyond current psychoanalytic readings of the women in Shakespeare's plays as either Mother or Other to consider instead the extent to which their sexual development from girlhood into womanhood rehearses what Jacques Lacan describes as man's progression out of the Mirror Stage, through the acquisition of language and the recognition of sexual difference, and into a unified subjectivity. The author argues that Shakespeare's own understanding of sexual difference is predicated, in the case of femininity, upon the model of the feminine peace-weaver which he would have found in Greek mythology, particularly in Ovid's Heroides. It is with …
Defining Henry James's Feminine Perceptions And Characterizations: Alice James As Model For Isabel Archer And Claire De Cintre, Edvie Marie Clark
Defining Henry James's Feminine Perceptions And Characterizations: Alice James As Model For Isabel Archer And Claire De Cintre, Edvie Marie Clark
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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Exploring Sexuality Within The Modernist Bildungsroman, Mathew J. Kochis
Exploring Sexuality Within The Modernist Bildungsroman, Mathew J. Kochis
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
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