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1. “An accidental heroine” : An Investigation of Gender Representation and Gender-based Stereotypes in Swedish Digital EFL Learning Material
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : The endeavour for gender equality and against gender-based patterns (stereotypes) are topics often discussed in relation to education. Correspondingly, extensive research on textbooks used in schools around the world has been conducted, some of which include the aspect of people beyond the binary. READ MORE
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2. 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 samhällsvetenskapAbstract : 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
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3. Challenging the Gothic Heroine in Vernon Lee's "Amour Dure" and "Dionea"
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : .... READ MORE
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4. 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 humanioraAbstract : 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
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5. Jane Austen’s Exploration of Romanticism: Teaching “older” Literature Through Northanger Abbey in the Swedish Upper-Secondary English Classroom
University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelskaAbstract : This paper argues that Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is a valuable pedagogical resource that can address the Swedish National Agency for Education’s mandate on the coverage of “older” literature in Swedish EFL courses at upper secondary school in a flexible and thorough way. Presupposing that the novel comprises various literary genres and forms, the paper provides a close reading through a proposed perspective on Romanticism, in which a continuum consisting of domestic felicity, courtship and the Gothic is foregrounded. READ MORE