Essays about: "heroines"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 20 essays containing the word heroines.

  1. 16. Ruptures of Poetic Language - Applying Kristevan theory to Jean Rhys's "Voyage in the Dark"

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Annica Lindberg; [2012-04-27]
    Keywords : Voyage in the Dark; Kristevan theory; Jean Rhys; poetic language; ruptures;

    Abstract : This essay will be concerned with the fiction of Jean Rhys, focusing, in particular, on her novel Voyage in the Dark, first published in 1934. Rhys's work has in the past sometimes been disregarded as sentimental and purely autobiographical; as pathetic, “sordid” stories about women-in-love. READ MORE

  3. 17. The Strength of Separateness: A study of five women characters in five novels from two centuries

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

    Author : Sofia Wahlstedt; [2012]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the traditional role of women in society through looking at five novels about women by women. To establish what a woman’s traditional place is this thesis compares Coventry Patmore’s poem “The Angel in the House” to Virginia Woolf’s speech “Professions for Women. READ MORE

  4. 18. How to Find Yourself First : Shopaholic, Queen of Babble and Chick Lit as a Genre

    University essay from Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Helen Smedlund; [2010]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This essay focuses on the genre of Chick Lit and two novels in that genre: Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella and Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot. The essay examines the origins of the Chick Lit genre and discusses its influences and the typical trademarks of the Chick Lit novel. READ MORE

  5. 19. Moral Education in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park.

    University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Maria Wartanian; [2010]
    Keywords : Jane Austen; Education; Bildungsroman; Jane Austen; Utbildning; Bildungsroman;

    Abstract : Jane Austen wrote her novels over two hundred years ago. Today many people, especially women, are still affected by them and her characters. READ MORE

  6. 20. Have You Met Miss Jones? : Identity Construction of a Chick Lit Heroine

    University essay from Engelska

    Author : Towe Falk; [2009]
    Keywords : Identity; Chick Lit; Bridget Jones; Postfeminism;

    Abstract : Take a random woman in her mid-twenties, with a crazy mother, a lousy job and no sex life, add some insecurity and a lot of alcohol and wrap her up in pink, and congratulations, you have just created your own chick lit heroine.The question is whether a chick lit heroine is this simplistic, or if she carries an important message to the readers. READ MORE