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A Secret Cunning In The Fens: Subversive Female Identity And The Plight Of Grendel's Mother, Candice Rae Sequine Roark Jan 2012

A Secret Cunning In The Fens: Subversive Female Identity And The Plight Of Grendel's Mother, Candice Rae Sequine Roark

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Readings built upon the foundation of traditional gender studies and structural binaries have consistently influenced how scholars understand female identity in Early Medieval Germanic texts. This thesis endeavors to dismantle these traditional readings and consider ways in which female identity can be reexamined wihin a post-structural framework.


The Materiality Of The Female In Shirley Jackson's Short Fiction, Lydia Marie Pearson Jan 2008

The Materiality Of The Female In Shirley Jackson's Short Fiction, Lydia Marie Pearson

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Shirley Jackson's fiction continues to be placed within the gothic horror genre because of its supernatural and horror images. I contend the major focus of her work is her critique of the social norms constructed for women by an archaic and inauthentic patriarchial system of rules and domestic expectation for women that result in madness for the resisting female.


The Power Of Voice: Cultural Silencing And The Supernatural In Women's Stories: Allende's The House Of The Spirits, Kingston's The Woman Warrior, And Morrison's Beloved, Katie Suzanne Skrove Jan 2002

The Power Of Voice: Cultural Silencing And The Supernatural In Women's Stories: Allende's The House Of The Spirits, Kingston's The Woman Warrior, And Morrison's Beloved, Katie Suzanne Skrove

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This thesis focuses on a study of the female voice and silencing as well as on the use of the supernatural in selected works of literature from three different cultures: Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, and Toni Morrison's Beloved.


Hitchcock's "Rebecca": A Rhetorical Study Of Female Stereotyping, Elizabeth Irene Langenfeld Jan 1999

Hitchcock's "Rebecca": A Rhetorical Study Of Female Stereotyping, Elizabeth Irene Langenfeld

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"They Say She Is Veiled": A Rhetorical Analysis Of Judy Grahn's Poetry, Damaris Hawkins Jan 1997

"They Say She Is Veiled": A Rhetorical Analysis Of Judy Grahn's Poetry, Damaris Hawkins

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No abstract provided.