Feminist literary criticism
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
A feminist enquiry into female representations of the sublime in Moby-Dick, 2018
Item — Call number MU Thesis Mor
Identifier: b7877115
Introduction [excerpts]
I utilize Barbara Freeman's text, The Feminine Sublime, to understand how females can embody what Kant and Burke define as the sublime. Although Freeman focuses on female authored texts, my argument reinterprets her theory for nineteenth-century male authored texts. Ultimately, the "feminine sublime" shows how female presence can be represented through a third category, the sublime, in addition to the...
Dates:
2018
Dysfunctional relationships, performance and performativity : a comparison of contemporary dramas with Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, 2014
Item — Call number MU Thesis Nag
Identifier: b7607922
Abstract
This thesis examines Edward Albee's drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and compares contemporary dramas on how women still suffers [sic] from the same problems with gender and society today. Taking Judith Butler's concept of performance and performativity, the outlook of the females are the same. This thesis takes Butler's ideal but converts them [sic] into a new idea. Butler believes one...
Dates:
2014
Female-centered, post-colonial bildungsromans, 2011
Item — Call number MU Thesis Wil
Identifier: b4175551
Introduction [excerpt]
In this paper, I will examine the reception histories of Ice-Candy-Man and Nervous Conditions, the major nationalist and feminist theories that have influenced the criticism of the novels, and the scholarship's emphasis on the political in the novels to show how, so far, the literary questions of genre and form have been ignored in favor of the political. Next, I will critically look at the historical background of the...
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
How to polish the "perfectly polished floor" and write about it, too : life, death, and the domestic aesthetic, or poemesticity, of Linda Pastan, 2012
Item — Call number MU Thesis Mon
Identifier: b5596206
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:
2012
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
The feminist gothic : an analysis of The Handmaid's Tale, 2018
Item — Call number MU Thesis Dib
Identifier: b7876913
Preface [excerpt]
Margaret Atwood's acclaimed novel The Handmaid's Tale has piqued the interest of many Americans, most recently due to its eerie anticipation of current politics. Since the main plot point of the text is the forced removal of women's rights, feminists today feel strongly about the subject matter. While the text is typically analyzed through a feminist lens and much has been written about the novel on points of oppression and women's rights, there is more to...
Dates:
2018
The historical foundations of the "good" mother versus the "bad" mother in a rhetorical enthymematic debate of what it means to "have it all" in the twenty-first century, 2013
Item — Call number MU Thesis Sea
Identifier: b7607917
Introduction [excerpt]
Feminist theorists have long been evaluating the representation of the mother, both in literature and in a cultural context, through media and other contemporary sources.... By drawing on insights from feminist theories and the rhetorical theory of the enthymeme, this essay will uncover the history and meaning of constructed gender roles pertaining to mothering, why we accept them as the norm, and will conclude by discussing how society can disengage from the dominant discourse and...
Dates:
2013
The poem and the pomegranate : how ancient Greek myth influences feminist theory in Eavan Boland's "The Pomegranate" and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's "Persephone Suffering from SAD", 2016
Item — Call number MU Thesis Sor
Identifier: b7667391
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:
2016
Waiting for the world to be made through folklore, food, and feminism : an analysis of Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, 2020
Item — Call number MU Thesis Bal
Identifier: b7930294
Introduction [excerpt]
Zora Neale Hurston is a renowned author, folklorist, anthropologist, and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. Hurston infused Southern vernacular and poetic expression to produce an unprecedented narrative voice.... I argue that Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is a modern folktale intended to expose and reconstruct the repetitive paradigms of racial and gender ... inequality while creating a new consciousness of egalitarianism.
Dates:
2020