Essays about: "Feminist Criticism"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 68 essays containing the words Feminist Criticism.

  1. 6. ”a text… that shares my wonder”: A Survey of Three Contemporary Examples of Creative Criticism

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

    Author : Sara Dahlberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Literary criticism; Creative Criticism; Affect; Rita Felski; Anne Carson; Doireann Ní Ghríofa; Vivian Gornick; The hermeneutics of suspicion; Paranoid Reading; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In the last few decades, dissatisfaction with the prevailing critical paradigm ¬– what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as early as 1997 dubbed “paranoid” or “suspicious” reading – has grown significantly. This thesis is a survey of three recent works, The Albertine Workout (2014), Unfinished Business: Notes of A Chronic Re-Reader (2020), and A Ghost in the Throat (2020), that emerge from this discontent. READ MORE

  3. 7. My Body, My Image: The Digital Staging of the Female Self : A posthuman feminist analysis of female self-representation on Instagram

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Jessica Rische; [2022]
    Keywords : cyberfeminism; posthuman feminism; participatory action research; focus group discussion; female self-representation; digital photo-practices; Instagram;

    Abstract : In recent years, the use of social media has grown significantly, yet associations between digital photo-practices and female self-representation in cyberspaces remain unknown. This thesis aims to assess how female self-images shared on Instagram are being associated and evaluated. READ MORE

  4. 8. Representations of gender in Wuthering Heights : An analysis of Masculinity and femininity and women as the abject

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Saga Vindelhag; [2022]
    Keywords : Feminist Literatur analys; Feminist litteraturs analysis. Wuthering Heights; female authors;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to analyse gender representations in Wuthering Heights byusing French literary criticism. French literary critics thought that the language ofliterature was predominantly phallocentric as male authors, who helped shape thatlanguage, dominated it. READ MORE

  5. 9. A Heroine of Change and Consolidation : Elizabeth Bennet: A Harbinger of Change in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Dianne Lesley Magtulis Cano; [2022]
    Keywords : marriage; wedding; tradition; change; wealth; money; female characters; women; love; patriarchal society; gender bias; 18th century; 19th century; feminism; feminist; heroine;

    Abstract : Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular literary since it was published due to the concept of shifting social structure. Marriage is one of the most critiqued concepts by different scholars, giving their views on what would be the implication portrayed by Elizabeth Bennet and her influence on Mr. Darcy to marry for love. READ MORE

  6. 10. Breaking the Bell Jar: Teaching Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Feminist Literary Criticism to Upper Secondary School Students

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Jeanette Rolfsson; [2022]
    Keywords : The Bell Jar; Sylvia Plath; feminist literary criticism; literature teaching; upper secondary school; English education; ESL; mental health; fundamental values; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This paper studies how Sylva Plath’s The Bell Jar can be read from a feminist perspective and, in turn, what some possible benefits and potential risks of teaching the novel and feminist literary criticism to upper secondary school students of English in Sweden are. This paper also discusses how the novel can be a means to discuss the fundamental values of upper secondary school, in terms of equality, but also the topic of mental health. READ MORE