Masaryk University Faculty of Arts Department of English and American Studies English Language and Literature Eva Koubová Boundaries of Femininity: The Eighteenth-Century Novel and its Heroines Bachelor’s Diploma Thesis Supervisor: Bonita Rhoads Ph.D. 2012 I declare that I have worked on this thesis independently‚ using only the primary and secondary sources listed in the bibliography. ……………………………………………
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CLASSICAL BACKGROUND GREEK Background: Mythology‚ Heroic Age‚ Epic‚ Lyric (The Four Schools)‚ Tragedy‚ Comedy. Poetry Prose Drama Homer = Iliad Aristotle=Poetics Sophocles= King Oedipus‚Antigone Odyssey Plato =Republic Aeschylus
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Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten Sofia Sundqvist The Emancipation of Celie: The Color Purple as a womanist Bildungsroman Engelska C-uppsats Termin: Handledare: Karlstads universitet 651 88 Karlstad Tfn 054-700 10 00 Fax 054-700 14 60 Information@kau.se www.kau.se 1(18) Vårterminen 2006 Maria Holmgren-Troy The Emancipation of Celie: The Color Purple as a womanist Bildungsroman In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple‚ the protagonist Celie undergoes a remarkable personal change. She evolves from
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countries. Throughout his advantures‚ Candide’s beliefs and experiences have changed dramatically. The novel reflects a type of writing known as bildungsroman. Bildungsroman is a story in which the main character moves from a state of innocence and inexperienced to a state of wisdom and maturity through his or her experiences. The beginning course of bildungsroman is that the protagonist has some reason to go on a journey such as a bad behavior makes the protagonist to leave from his or her current life’s
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Sensibility: An Ironic Exposé on the Economics of Marriage Sense and Sensibility is the second novel written by Jane Austen and the first to be pub- lished. It is full of satiric wit‚ and for this reason is often grouped with the Juvenilia and Northanger Abbey as an immature effort that Austen made before finding her true literary voice. Irony‚ however‚ makes it easier to pinpoint Austen’s feelings on social customs. In addition‚ her irony is entertaining‚ often making the first books in her canon
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was one of eight children‚ two being daughters and five being sons. When Austen was only 6‚ she was sent to Mrs. Cawley’s school in Oxford because she couldn’t stand to be away from her sister. After Mrs. Cawley’s school‚ they were both sent to the Abbey School in Reading “until age eleven when she returned home to be taught by her father.” (Swisher 16) Austen was involved in the family social life and would help the family and neighbors put on plays by writing prologues and helping with production
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Sensibility’. She started writing First Impressions in 1796; it was initially rejected for publication‚ but later saw print in 1812 as Pride and Prejudice. She began work in 1799 on a novel called Susan which was published posthumously in 1818 as Northanger Abbey. She wrote three other novels as well - Mansfield Park (1813)‚ Emma (1815)‚ and Persuasion(published posthumously in 1818).Her personal life was a happy but quiet one‚ consisting largely of her writing‚ along with the kind of country amusements
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English Speech The bildungsroman genre comprises social and psychological maturity of its protagonist. Harper lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Gwen Harwood’s Father and Child poem both are written in bildungsroman genre. The two texts surround the themes of childhood innocence and maturing to reflect upon universal human experiences. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird focuses on the protagonist‚ Scout‚ and how moves from a state of innocence to one of maturity. At the start of the book‚ Scout
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Jesmyn Ward’s "The Men We Reaped"‚ is a heart-wrenching coming of age memoir and a mourning song‚ as she takes us on a journey through her childhood and upbringing in a poor Mississippi family. We experience the violent‚ tragic‚ and premature deaths in‚ a span of four years of five young men‚ all of whom she loved and cared for‚ to drugs‚ accidents‚ suicide‚ and the unfortunate disadvantages that follow many black men who live in severe poverty. Ward‚ while dealing with the loss of the young men
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“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go‚ if you really want to go.” A bildungsroman is a coming of age novel. “Theme for English B‚” is an example of a bildungsroman. The narrator grows more and more mature after the loss. A bildungsroman needs to have many factors in making a narrator/protagonist/character mature. In “Themes for English B‚” Langston Hughes was told to write a poem that explores in three stanzas the development and maturity a
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