FEMINISM IN SHASHI DESHPANDE’S NOVELS: A THESIS SUBMITTED TO TRINITY COLLEGE (ITALY) In partial fulfillment for the award of the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN ENGLISH Submitted by: Shailaja A. Patil Lecturer in English 1 HKE’ SMT. V.G. COLLEGE FOR WOMEN‚ GULBARGA Dedicated To Sai Samarth My Parents Late Prof A.U.Patil‚ Smt Laxmidevi A.Patil. My Parents-in-law Late Shri Neelkantappa Mugali and Late Smt Ambavou Mugali. To my dear husband Dr.R.N.Mugali. And my son Avinsh.R.Mugali. For Without
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Is Thérèse Raquin a Naturalist novel? Émile Zola is often considered the chief literary theorist of the Naturalist movement and so one would assume that his creative offspring‚ including the novel Thérèse Raquin‚ would display the traits of the genre. Zola may be responsible for many of the conventions that one would associate with Naturalism and so naturally you could extend this logic to argue that his work defines the genre. To the modern reader‚ Thérèse Raquin appears anything but naturalistic
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Pointless Charles Brockden Brown’s novel Wieland is famous as the first American Gothic novel. It was published in 1798‚ at the very end of the Eighteenth Century and just fifteen years after the end of the American Revolution. While the novel was written in a time still dominated by Enlightenment-era thinking‚ the novel questions many of the assumptions of the Enlightenment. The realizations of the limits of the Enlightenment become apparent as the book progresses. The novel offers the characters Wieland
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the epitome of the gothic novel. Towards the beginning of the story‚ the setting takes place in an old and ominous castle‚ which is highly characteristic of gothic literature. Harker’s tribulation begins when “the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle‚” (Stoker 18). There is also a gloomy and menacing tone given to the setting of the novel‚ as in most pieces of gothic literature. This gloom is evident early on in the novel‚ as it reads‚ “Then a dog
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the Maldive Islands)‚ she sees herself as being primarily influenced by‚ as well as being part of‚ the tradition of Euro-American writers. In a brief interview published in the November‚ 1993 issue of San Francisco Focus in which she discusses her novel In order to avoid the trap of reading "A Wife’s Story" as being from a "marginal" group‚ I have found it best to first discuss the crafting of the story as a literary work in the tradition of English/American literature‚ and then move on to the
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The Castle of Otranto – A Gothic Novel Picture of the Title Page of the Second Edition A Dossier by Luisa Hiller‚ Johannes Klein‚ Benjamin Priebst‚ and Claudia Haack Table of Contents: 1. Introduction – The Gothic Novel 2. Horace Walpole 2.1. The Life of Horace Walpole 2.2. The Works of Horace Walpole 3. “The Castle of Otranto - A Gothic Novel“ 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Index of Characters 3.3. Summary of the Plot 3.4. The Characters ’ Appearance 3.5. The Character Constellation
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4. The novel from 1881 to 1914 Over the eighteen eighties there was a split in fiction. The first indication towards it was Henry James’ essay "The Art of Fiction" (1884)‚ which referred to the novelist’s calling as a "Sacred office". Besides‚ there appeared a stratification of fiction due to primary education for all. Parallel to this‚ novelists saw themselves apart from the public‚ as dedicated men. This new modern conception involved dignity and a sense of glory. Another change was from the three-volume
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Jane Eyre can easily be classified as a romantic novel. The term “romantic” usually brings to mind images of love ‚ however‚ it is much more than that. It is filled with emotion and freedom and can also be seen as the main conflict of the narrative because that is what the characters central struggles evolve around which is why “Jane Eyre” which can easily be classified as a romantic novel. Throughout the novel romance can be portrayed in many ways such as Berthas acts of arson. She is known as
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established…. were reluctant to accept general assumptions about women’s inferiority and wanted to scientifically evaluate women and compare their data to men’s.” (11). The paragraph ties in to the rest of the novel because it raises the issue and theme of sexism. However‚ unlike most of the novel‚ it described two men who went against societal views to come to a scientific conclusion about whether or not women were capable of becoming astronauts. This is significant because these were the men who would
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Jane Eyre‚ written by Charlotte Brontë‚ is considered by many to be a "gothic" novel. The use of "supernatural" incidents‚ architecture‚ and a desolate setting helped to decide this classification for Jane Eyre. <br> <br>Many cases exhibited the use of "supernatural" occurrences. For example‚ when Jane Eyre was ten years old‚ she was locked in a room called the "Red Room" for misbehaving. In this room‚ it was written that her uncle passed away there. Because of being told this‚ Jane Eyre believed
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