Essays about: "bildungsroman"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 29 essays containing the word bildungsroman.
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6. “I’m always a girl” : Studying Veronica Roth’s Divergent as a Bildungsroman from a Feminist Perspective
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/EngelskaAbstract : .... READ MORE
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7. The Moral of the Story: Growing up in A Gossip’s Story, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre and Little Women
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : In nineteenth-century literature, the heroine is often a young woman growing up and learning about the restrictions of gender and society. If she learns from the mistakes she is inevitably going to make, she may be rewarded … with a suitor? How does this correlate, who are the heroines and who are the suitors? This essay aims to answer these questions, along with evaluating parents in literature and assessing their relationships with their daughters to see if that has any effects on their marital outcomes. READ MORE
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8. Staying True to You: Finding the Feminist in Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : Anne Shirley, the girl and young woman made famous around the world by L. M. Montgomery in the early twentieth century, has been a companion and role model for countless young women. READ MORE
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9. No (Wo)man's Land - The Making of a Room of One's Own in Monica Ali's Brick Lane
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : In this essay, I uncover and examine a number of different strategies applied toward self-realization in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003). I filter Ali’s modern day bildungsroman through the lens of Virginia Woolf’s understanding of self-realization as a gendered process as well as through Homi K. Bhabha’s postcolonial theory. READ MORE
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10. Jane Eyre: Victorian Women’s Madness Maze
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Madness has always been a difficult concept to define as different sorts of behaviors have been considered madness in different times as well as different geographical, social and cultural contexts. In other words, the concept of mental illness is socially constructed. Madness is one of the main themes in Jane Eyre and appears throughout the novel. READ MORE
