Essays about: "Possession: a Romance."

Found 2 essays containing the words Possession: a Romance..

1. 1. "The Sibyl was safe in her jar, no one could touch her, she wanted to die" : Possessing Culture and Passion in A.S. Byatt's Possession

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Author : Maria Jackson; [2017]
   Keywords : social constructivism; gender identity development; romance novels; self-possession; reader-response theory; Pierre Bourdieu; John Fiske; A.S. Byatt; Possession: a Romance.;

   Abstract : The purpose of the essay is to discuss the power narration has over our gender roles. John Fiske and Pierre Bourdieu´s theoretical texts have been used to discuss the connection between power and culture in A.S. Byatt’s novel Possession: A Romance. READ MORE

3. 2. Re-Imagining the Victorian Woman: Female Representations in Four Neo-Victorian Novels from 1990 to 2010

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

   Author : Guðrún Valdimarsdóttir; [2015]
   Keywords : optimism.; nostalgia; authorship; fictional autobiography; Women s writing; Sexuality; Morgan; Starling; Byatt; Waters; Women in fiction; Historical fiction; Fiction; Neo-Victorianism; Neo-Victorian; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Neo-Victorian literature is a subgenre of historical fiction that is set during the reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 until 1901. There are divergent opinions on the emergence of the genre; however, the time frame established in this dissertation spans from 1990 until the present moment. READ MORE