Blar i Department of Foreign Languages på emneord "Gender"
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The Discomfort of civilization: Destabilizing the Bildungsroman in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out and Jacob's Room
(Master thesis, 2016-05-17)Throughout her authorship Virginia Woolf was fascinated by the relationship between the individual and society and with finding literary forms to express the changing conceptions of selfhood, of subject formation, and of ... -
Explorations of Gender Identity; A Study of Masculinity and Gender Predicaments in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree
(Master thesis, 2012-05-15)Cormac McCarthy's male-centered prose has engendered debate amongst scholars. Are his lack of female characters an expression of misogyny? And does McCarthy simply regenerate gender stereotypes? By using insights from queer ... -
Instinct or Insight in Dystopia. Reading Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler through a Darwinian Lens
(Master thesis, 2011-11-20)Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author known for novels such as The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace. Octavia Estelle Butler is an American author who has won several awards for her work. The novels I have selected for this ... -
Irish triangles - gender and nationalism in James Joyce's Ulysses
(Master thesis, 2010-05-18)In the first chapter, I explore the numerous mythic and discursive formations that represented Ireland as a woman, made contemporary by the Irish Literary Revival and British caricatures, among others. Molly Bloom, though ... -
Science Fiction as Political Texts: Examining how critical dystopian narratives by Ocatvia Butler and Eleanor Arnason Undermine the system
(Master thesis, 2018-05-25)Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvordan science-fiction, i tekst form, kan bli brukt til å undergrave seksuell forståelse i amerikansk kultur. Ved å bruke Tom Moylan og Raffaelle Baccolini sitt teoritiske arbeid om kritisk ... -
'This Is How You Made Me': The Current State of Hypermasculinity in Mainstream Rap through the Lens of Jay-Z's Lyrics
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)