Women in literature
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works which discuss the representation of women in literature. Works on women authors as a class of persons are entered under Women authors. Collections of works written by women are entered under the subdivision Women authors following the name of national literature and genre, e.g. American fiction--Women authors. Collections of works in two or more literary forms written about women are entered under Women--Literary collections.
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Authorial control : the female narrative voices of Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson, 2006
Item — Call number MU Thesis Lap
Identifier: b2233154
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees.Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts...
Dates:
2006
Converting the daily bread : finding feminine power through food studies and everyday theory in Joyce's "The Sisters" and "The Dead", 2019
Item — Call number MU Thesis Shi
Identifier: b7929337
[Introduction -- excerpt]
Joyce scholarship on Dubliners asks a lot of questions exploring the male characters' moments of reflection, revelation and trials to define the possibility of their identity and influence in the overall work. But what of the various women who are often the foundation of the scenes and the events? Is their purpose only to provide sustenance, hospitality and listen these reflexive male progratonists? Certain moments in "The Dead" summarize the...
Dates:
2019
Creating Gloria Gilbert : gender, class, and social constructs in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned, 2010
Item — Call number MU Thesis Rho
Identifier: b2825595
Introduction [excerpt]
One of the most popular American authors of the Jazz Age is F. Scott Fitzgerald. A man who became somewhat more of a legend, scholars and citizens alike study Fitzgerald not only for his own sensational life but also for the characters he created who, some would argue, imitate that life. Fitzgerald lived through a sensational decade, the 1920s, which Matthew J. Bruccoli, a renowned Fitzgerald scholar and literary historian, appropriately describes, "The Twenties have been called a...
Dates:
2010
Gender issues in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and Jane Campion's The Piano, 2011
Item — Call number MU Thesis Mur
Identifier: b4482649
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees.Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts...
Dates:
2011
Haunting space and place in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House' and Helen Oyeyemi's White is for Witching, 2020
Item — Call number MU Thesis Nad
Identifier: b7930275
Introduction [excerpt]
I argue that Jackson and Oyeyemi escape the underlying patriarchal connontations of the novel and writing by creating temporal spaces within their texts for the purpose of discussing gender issues facing middle-class women at their time. By placing temporal space within the houses, Jackson and Oyeyemi demonstrate that both social norms and change are born in the home. Analyzing the writing techniques of these authors, I address the social commentary made within each novel. In Chapter 1, I...
Dates:
2020
Malory's enchanting women : gender and chivalry in Sir Thomas Malory's La Morte d'Arthur, 2011
Item — Call number MU Thesis Whe
Identifier: b4482636
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees.Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts...
Dates:
2011
Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead (1938) : examining documentary poetics, witness-bearing, and searching for the female voice, 2022
Item — Call number MU Thesis Pic
Identifier: b7930852
Abstract
Muriel Rukeyser's book of poetry, The Book of the Dead (1938), focuses on detaling the industrial tragedy of the Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. This thesis examines the poet's use of documentary poetics as a channel for witness-bearing to victims of the tragedy. Rukeyser uses testimonial documents, doctors' reports, and interviews to support her overview of the tragic events through her writing. Several of Rukeyser's twenty...
Dates:
2022
Oranges, lemons, and the decline of the traditional mother figure in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, 2012
Item — Call number MU Thesis Car
Identifier: b5596203
Abstract
In my thesis, I examine the use of the British nursery rhyme, "Oranges and Lemons," in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four in relation to the decline of the "traditional" mother figure in Oceania. George Orwell felt that if women continued to work after World War II, then the traditional family would be destroyed and children would not have the moral upbringing that only a mother could provide. In the fascist society of Oceania, good,...
Dates:
2012
"She holds the world together" : how women work in One Hundred Years of Solitude, 2008
Item — Call number MU Thesis Ang
Identifier: b2233147
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees.Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts...
Dates:
2008
Speak up : sexual articulation in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, 2013
Item — Call number MU Thesis Sci
Identifier: b7666528
Introduction [excerpt]
Taken together, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and chosen narratives from The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler help readers and viewers to identify the impact articulation has on marginalized sexualities and the driving movements of women's histories. It is important to note that these two works have not been examined next to each other in the past. I argue that sexual articulation occurs...
Dates:
2013