Essays about: "heroine"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 37 essays containing the word heroine.

  1. 16. Building and generating facial textures using Eigen faces

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Robert Krogh; [2016]
    Keywords : Eigen face; Principal Component Analysis; PCA; Texture; Procedural Generation;

    Abstract : With the evolution in the game industry and other virtual environments, demands on what comes with an application is higher than ever before. This leads to many companies trying to to procedurally generate content in order to save up on storage space and get a wider variety of content. READ MORE

  3. 17. Transgression and Tradition : Redefining Gender Roles in Elizabeth Gaskell´s North and South

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Anna Algotsson; [2015]
    Keywords : North and South; Elizabeth Gaskell; Victorian women; gender norms; transgression; gender spheres;

    Abstract : This essay argues that Elizabeth Gaskell challenges the limiting gender roles of the Victorian era through giving her heroine, Margaret Hale in North and South, both the traditionally female qualities of virtue and selflessness and the traditionally masculine qualities of independence and action. The essay also argues that Gaskell’s heroine balances between the feminine and the masculine world as to not appear “unwomanly”, but rather subtly influencing the readers and calls for changing gender norms. READ MORE

  4. 18. The Byronic Heroine of North and South

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

    Author : Stina Lisnäs; [2015]
    Keywords : Byroic hero; Elizabeth Gaskell; North and South; female stereotype;

    Abstract : This essay argues that the protagonist of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1855), Margaret Hale, is a Byronic heroine. The counter argument that any such comparison is impossible because of her sex is refuted and examples are given of how Margaret is not portrayed like the other young women of the novel. READ MORE

  5. 19. Steeling the Show : A Comparative Analysis Between Victorian and Neo- Victorian Heroines From a Feminist Perspective in Terms of Gender Equality

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping

    Author : Marcus Asplund Brattberg; [2014]
    Keywords : Blood in the Skies; G.D. Falksen; comparative literature; Victorian; Neo-Victorian;

    Abstract : In this essay, the concept of gender equality is explored in terms of progressive heroines in neo-Victorian literature. In order to elucidate in what way a progression has been made, the comparative analysis is predicated upon second wave feminism. READ MORE

  6. 20. ‘WONDER WOMAN HAPPY MAGIC FUN SWORD GIRL SEXY! SEXY! FIGHT! FIGHT!’

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Gustav Thoreson; [2014]
    Keywords : Wonder Woman; Gail Simone; Parody; the Dialogic; Masquerade; Mimesis; Luce Irigaray; Mass Culture; M.M. Bakhtin; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : In this thesis I explore the conceptual relationships between Parody, the body and space in via the writer Gail Simone’s version of the comic book heroine Wonder Woman. I develop a critical re-imag(e)ination of performativity, space and the body in contemporary mass culture via Gail Simone’s Wonder Woman. READ MORE