Essays about: "Bildungsroman"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 essays containing the word Bildungsroman.

1. 1. It Will Seem So Nice and Grown-Uppish : An analytical essay on development towards conservative gender roles in the novel Anne of Green Gables

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

   Author : Elena Firozi; [2023]
   Keywords : Gender roles; conformity; separate spheres; bildungsroman; children s and young adult literature; Lucy Montgomery;

   Abstract : In this essay, an analysis of Lucy Montgomery's bildungsroman Anne of Green Gables has been conducted. The story of the protagonist Anne Shirley’s development into adulthood displays many aspects of the gender roles of the twentieth century in Canada as a result of her gendered upbringing. READ MORE

3. 2. Feminist Practices and Representation of Women Characters in Little Women

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

   Author : Jennifer Koroleva Sundgren; [2022]
   Keywords : feminism; Jo March; Little Women; coming of age; Bildungsroman; Künstlerroman; gender fluidity; art;

   Abstract : This essay focuses on Louisa May Alcott's Little Women as a feminist novel and explores the representations of feminisms in the text. First, I argue Little Women is a novel that presents writing as feminist practice from a Künstlerroman perspective, which highlights Jo March's subversive feminism in the time. READ MORE

4. 3. The portrayal of class and social mobility in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Elina Helleberg; [2022]
   Keywords : Dickens; Great Expectations; Victorian society; class; Pip; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Pip’s transformation to become a gentleman in manners and behaviour in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations illustrates the difference and importance of class in the Victorian society. Through an unknown benefactor, Pip makes a journey from working-class blacksmith apprenticeship in the countryside to gentleman life in the upper-middle class London, with access to economic, cultural and social capital. READ MORE

5. 4. A Contemporary Victorian Patriarchy : A Gender Studies Approach to Gender Nonconformity as a Response to Patriarchal Oppression in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2021]
   Keywords : hegemony; gender nonconformity; bildungsroman; Victorian society;

   Abstract : This thesis examines female gender nonconformity as a behaviour in response to Victorian patriarchal oppression in the female protagonist of Charlotte Brönte's bildungsroman Jane Eyre. Gender nonconforming behaviour is depicted as behaviour that does not obey gender roles or expectations, linking the responsive quality of such behaviours to the traits of hegemonic masculinity exerted by the male characters who represent and perpetuate a patriarchal system: St John Rivers and Edward Rochester. READ MORE

6. 5. Sharing of Narratives : Analyzing how Tara Westover’s Educated Subverts the Genre Conventions and the Value of Autobiography in the EFL Classroom 

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Rebecca Kooijman; [2021]
   Keywords : EFL classroom; teaching of literature; genre conventions; upper secondary school; Autobiography; Bildungsroman; Educated; English 7; text selection;

   Abstract : This essay presents a literary analysis of the autobiography Educated (2018) by Tara Westover. The analysis examines to what extent Westover’s story conforms and subverts the genre conventions of the Bildungsroman and the autobiography. An overview of the genre constitutions is therefore provided. READ MORE