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Gender identity in literature

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Every colored girl had been born with one : (un)doing race, gender, and sexuality in James Baldwin's Another Country, 2016

 Item — Call number MU Thesis Cas
Identifier: b7667215
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

Exile, elegy, and gender in Old English elegiac poetry, 2009

 Item — Call number MU Thesis Kel
Identifier: b4175653
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: 2009

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

Re-gendering the monarchy as the queen's three bodies : Spenser's use of the body politic as a metaphor for England's political state and the de-feminization of the English empire in The Faerie Queen, 2017

 Item — Call number MU Thesis Ris
Identifier: b7717404
Introduction [excerpt] In literature, government and its structures are often related to the human body. Edmund Spenser uses the body as a metaphor to represent the body politic of the nation of England in The Faerie Queen .... For example, Britomart's virginity is similar to the powerful political position of England during this time period. All of England's borders were secure and Queen Elizabeth I was successful at maintaining a secure and inviolable nation. Adding to the...
Dates: 2017

Undressing the female plot : women's corporeality in Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth, 2010

 Item — Call number MU Thesis Pac
Identifier: b2825585
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: 2010

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