Essays about: "Susan Gubar"

Found 3 essays containing the words Susan Gubar.

  1. 1. The Bee & the Crown : The Road to Ascension in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath

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

    Author : Stenskär Eva; [2021]
    Keywords : Key words: Sylvia Plath; Emily Dickinson; Outsiders; Threshold; Space; Ascension; Windows; Performativity; Violence; Divine; Walter Benjamin; Gaston Bachelard; Subha Mukheriji; Mircea Eliade; Suzanne Juhasz; Sandra Gilbert; Susan Gubar; Interiors; Pathology; Ecstasy; Fear;

    Abstract : Though born a century apart, American poets Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath share several similarities: Both were born in New England, both fought for their rights by writing, and both broke new poetic ground.          In this thesis, I look at their poetry through a movement in space, which begins with the poets’ precarious position as societal outliers and ends with ascension. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Function of Religion in Jane Eyre from a Feminist Viewpoint.

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Marie-Anne Francoise Taylor; [2015]
    Keywords : religion; ethic of care; ethic of duty; imprisonment; escape; feminist;

    Abstract : This study is a literary analysis of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, which focuses on how female and male characters approach religion. A stark contrast is presented between the two approaches - differing according to gender - which point to two different forms of religion. READ MORE

  4. 3. Writing One’s Self Into Being : An Analysis on Self-authoring as a mean of Agency in Frances Burney’s Evelina – or a Young Lady’s Entrance Into the World

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Euridiki Granouzis Larsson; [2014]
    Keywords : Agency; self-authoring; gendered act; sexuality; two Evelinas; importance of a name; Evelina.;

    Abstract : This essay aims to explore Evelina’s abilities to self-author her life as a tool of agency, self-authoring means to be able to write your own life. Evelina was written by Frances Burney in 1778 and tells the story of a young orphan lady who visits London. She is inexperienced and makes mistakes that can be seen as fatal in the social sphere. READ MORE