Essays about: "the female protagonist of the bildungsroman"

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1. 1. A Contemporary Victorian Patriarchy : A Gender Studies Approach to Gender Nonconformity as a Response to Patriarchal Oppression in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2021]
   Keywords : hegemony; gender nonconformity; bildungsroman; Victorian society;

   Abstract : This thesis examines female gender nonconformity as a behaviour in response to Victorian patriarchal oppression in the female protagonist of Charlotte Brönte's bildungsroman Jane Eyre. Gender nonconforming behaviour is depicted as behaviour that does not obey gender roles or expectations, linking the responsive quality of such behaviours to the traits of hegemonic masculinity exerted by the male characters who represent and perpetuate a patriarchal system: St John Rivers and Edward Rochester. READ MORE

3. 2. Divergence of Genre and Gender: A Study on Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games Trilogy

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Hanna Kenne; [2017]
   Keywords : Suzanne; Collins; Gender; Genre; Bildungsroman; Dystopia; Young; Adult; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Suzanne Collins’ trilogy The Hunger Games is, thus far, one of the 21st century’s most well known young adult series, and Collins has been praised for challenging things such as gender stereotypes and genre limitations. It has been labelled as a contemporary young adult dystopian novel, and has a strong female protagonist. READ MORE

4. 3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : A Feminist Bildungsroman

   University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Christoffer Forss; [2013]
   Keywords : Alice s Adventures in Wonderland; Lewis Carroll; Charles Dodgson; Bildungsroman; Feminism; Feminist; English; Fiction; Literature;

   Abstract : This thesis has two aims. The first one is to elucidate how Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) functions as a Bildungsroman, and the other one is to demonstrate how the novel also has a coming of age aspect based on feminism. READ MORE

5. 4. "Gender and Genre" : A Feminist Exploration of the Bildungsroman in A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man and Martha Quest

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Camilla Brändström; [2009]
   Keywords : Bildungsroman; development; adolescence; Bildung; identity; independence; feminist literary critique; Doris Lessing; James Joyce.;

   Abstract : The predominant focus on the male protagonist in the Bildungsroman genre has provoked feminist critics to offer a re-definition of the genre, claiming that the female protagonist's development differs in significant ways from the traditionally expected course of development (i.e. male). READ MORE

6. 5. The Journey from Innocence to Experience : Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials as a female Bildungsroman

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Lisa Nordlén; [2009]
   Keywords : Bildungsroman; Buckley; Campbell; development; female; His Dark Materials;

   Abstract : In this essay the main aim is to consider Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials with its female protagonist as a Bildungsroman. The principal source of the study is Jerome Buckley’s Season of Youth – The Bildungsroman from Dickens to Golding. READ MORE