Essays about: "Wide Sargasso Sea"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the words Wide Sargasso Sea.

  1. 1. Hiding in Plain Sight : A Gynocritical Reading of Rochester’s Narrative in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Emma Hennig; [2022]
    Keywords : Jean Rhys; Wide Sargasso Sea; Elaine Showalter; gynocriticism; psychoanalysis; postcolonialism; feminism; cultural theory; Edward Rochester; consciousness; narrative;

    Abstract : This essay is the result of a close-reading of the male protagonist’s narrative in Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). His narrative was examined through an interpretive lens layered with a combination of several critical onsets that form the pillars of Elaine Showalter’s theory of a metaphysical female crescent outside of male consciousness. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Dream Interpreter : A Historical and Postcolonial Analysis of the Development of Antoinette Cosway in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Nathalie Pontén; [2022]
    Keywords : Wide Sargasso Sea; Jean Rhys; Jane Eyre; Colonialism; Patriarchy; Orientalism; Edward Said;

    Abstract : This essay will discuss Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea from a postcolonial and historical perspective, to show how Rhys’s recreation of Bertha Rochester’s past (Charlotte Brontë’s madwoman in Jane Eyre) can make her end appear triumphant. The analysis will be based on a combination of aspects from the novel’s contemporary English and Caribbean societies and Edward Said’s thoughts about Orientalism, mainly the binary opposition between Europe and the Orient and the creation of Orientalist knowledge. READ MORE

  4. 3. Transformative literature transferring power: An analysis of authorial control in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Circe by Madeline Miller and Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Kajsa Reinholdsson; [2020]
    Keywords : rewriting; transformative literature; narrative power; anxiety of influence; wide sargasso sea; circe; hag-seed; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : By analysing three different works of transformative literature, this thesis aims to explore the different ways in which power may express itself in the context of literature. Wide Sargasso Sea, Circe and Hag-Seed are three novels that, while remaining similar in that they are rewrites of canonised literature such as Jane Eyre, The Odyssey, and The Tempest, are different enough to provide a wide array of examples of rewrites. READ MORE

  5. 4. Postcolonialism - 'Other' and Madness in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea : The Mad World of Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason and Antoinette Cosway

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Therese Heikinniemi-Sandstedt; [2019]
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  6. 5. Who am I and where am I? The idea of identity and place in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Matilda Nordin; [2019]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

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