Essays about: "Jeanette Winterson"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Jeanette Winterson.

  1. 1. The Mother’S Complex Character In Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Tove Welander; [2023]
    Keywords : feminist fiction; characterisation; Jeanette Winterson; gender norms; heterosexual norms; patriarchal structures.;

    Abstract : Jeanette Winterson’s debut novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is regarded as an epitome of feminist fiction. The novel centres around Jeanette, a young homosexual girl, and her mother Louie who does not accept her daughter’s sexuality. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Devil Led Us to the Wrong Crib : Paranoid and Reparative Reading in Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Berfin Sekerci; [2020]
    Keywords : Attachment theory; Jeanette Winterson; Melanie Klein; mother-daughter relationship;

    Abstract : This essay analyzes the issues of attachment between Jeanette Winterson and her adoptive mother in the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. My argument is that the memoir demonstrates a movement from what Sedgwick calls the paranoid position of reading to the reparative position. READ MORE

  4. 3. Abandonment, jealousy and self-invention: : an exploration of the adaptation process in Jeanette Winterson’s ​The Gap of Time

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Jennifer Sundelin; [2020]
    Keywords : Adaptation theory; adaptation process; Jeanette Winterson; The Gap of Time; Shakespeare; The Winter s Tale;

    Abstract : This essay explores the adaptation process in ​The Gap of Time ​by Jeanette Winterson, a novel basedon​TheWinter’sTaleb​yWilliamShakespeare.Itisadiscussionandanalysisofthe novel; put in contrast to the play, and an exploration of the different emerging elements and themes in ​The Gap of Time. READ MORE

  5. 4. 'That was yesterday, this is today' : Challenging the heteronormative dominant discourse by incorporating Jeanette Winterson's novel 'Written on the Body' in the EFL classroom

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Sara Modén; [2018]
    Keywords : Queer studies; Written on the Body; heteronormativity; fundamental values; societal norms; literature; Upper Secondary School; EFL classroom; English 6;

    Abstract : Winterson’s Written on the Body is an experimental and provocative novel that challenges the reader’s mindset as well as society’s heteronormativity by implicitly questioning societal norms and fundamental values. With an unusual protagonist as a point of departure, upper secondary school students in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom can discuss important political and social issues and giving them the chance to become more open-minded and inclusive towards all people regardless of one’s sex, gender, and, or sexuality. READ MORE

  6. 5. Mutable Mirrors: Aesthetic Readings of Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : George Emory Juge; [2018]
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