Essays about: "Alice Munro"
Found 3 essays containing the words Alice Munro.
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1. Angels Without Wings – The Feminine Ideal and its Consequences in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” and Munro’s “Too Much Happiness”
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : In this essay, the feminine ideals in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” and Alice Munro’s “Too Much Happiness” are analysed and compared to the ideal of the Angel in the House – an ideal that originates from Coventry Patmore’s poem The Angel in the House and was popularised by Virginia Woolf’s paper “Professions for Women”. In addition, the consequences of this ideal for the characters of Mrs Ramsey, Susan and Sofia are discussed. READ MORE
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2. Gender Construction in Alice Munro´s Writing A Comparative Study of Early and Late Stories
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Abstract: It is civilization, and not biology, that constructs gender. The formation of children into gendered adults is made “naturally” by invisible societal structures and is consequently troublesome to reveal. READ MORE
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3. The Countryside and the City in Alice Munro’s stories “Fiction” and “Wenlock Edge”
University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Sektionen för lärande och miljöAbstract : .... READ MORE