Essays about: "Jean Rhys"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words Jean Rhys.
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1. Hiding in Plain Sight : A Gynocritical Reading of Rochester’s Narrative in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This essay is the result of a close-reading of the male protagonist’s narrative in Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). His narrative was examined through an interpretive lens layered with a combination of several critical onsets that form the pillars of Elaine Showalter’s theory of a metaphysical female crescent outside of male consciousness. READ MORE
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2. The Dream Interpreter : A Historical and Postcolonial Analysis of the Development of Antoinette Cosway in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This essay will discuss Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea from a postcolonial and historical perspective, to show how Rhys’s recreation of Bertha Rochester’s past (Charlotte Brontë’s madwoman in Jane Eyre) can make her end appear triumphant. The analysis will be based on a combination of aspects from the novel’s contemporary English and Caribbean societies and Edward Said’s thoughts about Orientalism, mainly the binary opposition between Europe and the Orient and the creation of Orientalist knowledge. READ MORE
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3. Transformative literature transferring power: An analysis of authorial control in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Circe by Madeline Miller and Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : By analysing three different works of transformative literature, this thesis aims to explore the different ways in which power may express itself in the context of literature. Wide Sargasso Sea, Circe and Hag-Seed are three novels that, while remaining similar in that they are rewrites of canonised literature such as Jane Eyre, The Odyssey, and The Tempest, are different enough to provide a wide array of examples of rewrites. READ MORE
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4. “Pourquoi êtes-vous si triste” Sasha Jensen? : Technology at Work in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/EngelskaAbstract : .... READ MORE
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5. Who am I and where am I? The idea of identity and place in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : .... READ MORE