Sökning: "Charlotte Brontë"

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  1. 1. Cultural Clash and Gender Roles : Exploring the Quest for Equality in Jane Eyre and Things Fall Apart

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Författare :Anne M Johansson; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Gender; cultural clash; equality; religion; colonialism; Genus; kulturkrock; jämställdhet; religion; kolonialism;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to analyze the intersectionality between themes of cultural clash and gender roles within the novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, accentuating their common quest for equality. This essay offers a historical and cultural analysis, divulging the gender norms prevalent in Victorian England and pre-colonial Nigeria, serving as a backstage to the characters’ adaptations and struggles. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Galen eller levande begravd inompatriarkala strukturer? : – En komparativ studie av motivet den galna kvinnan i gotisk litteratur

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Författare :Evelina Gustafsson; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Victoria Mas; De galna kvinnornas bal; den galna kvinnan; galenskap; hysteri; female gothic; patriarkala strukturer; genuskontrakt; genussystem;

    Sammanfattning : Uppsatsens syfte är att studera hur Victoria Mas roman De galna kvinnornas bal (2022) anspelar på traditionen female gothic och motivet den galna kvinnan i en kontext av 1800-talets patriarkala strukturer. Romanen studeras därför i relation till Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyre (1847), Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) och Selma Lagerlöfs Spökhanden (1898), för att urskilja hur motivet den galna kvinnan har använts i 1800-talets klassiska gotiska litteratur, och om några signifikanta skillnader förekommer i Mas (2022) moderna roman. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Disrupting Dominant Discourses: : Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get Out

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Författare :Nimrod Numan; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Jane Eyre; Get Out; Dominant discourses; Othering; Gothic; Hybridity; Double Consciousness; White Privilege; Racial Performance; Visual metaphor.;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines the theme of hybridity in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. Both the narrative text in the novel and the script with visual elements of the film use the concept of hybridity through Gothic motifs: a mad non-white woman in the attic in Jane Eyre and a psychological place in Get Out, where members of a white family hypnotise black people in order to exploit their physical capabilities. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Grannarne och Jane Eyre. En komparativ studie.

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Katarina Ludwigs; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Fredrika Bremer; Charlotte Brontë; comparative study; byronic hero; strange woman; Sappho; Mary Howitt; Fredrika Bremer; Charlotte Brontë; Sven Linnér; religiös världsbild; illustrativ jämförelse; genetisk jämförelse; Sapfo; konfrontationer; byronsk hjälte; Mary Howitt;

    Sammanfattning : The Swedish author Fredrika Bremer's novel Grannarne was published in 1837, and the English translation The Neighbours was published in London in 1842. This novel as well as other novels by Bremer which were published in English in the 1840s, were widely read and they were very popular with readers as well as with literary critics. LÄS MER

  7. 5. "I have alluded to him, Reader". Categorising literary references in Jane Eyre (1847)

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Författare :Olivia Nordgren; [2022-02-17]
    Nyckelord :Charlotte Brontë; Jane Eyre; allusions; references; structuralism; dimensions of the text; textual and extratextual; allusioner; referenser; strukturalism; textdimensioner; textuellt och extratextuellt;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines the use of references to real books within the narrative of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847). Jane Eyre is one of the most densely allusive novels of its time, which is well-documented, but there is a limited focus on the use of allusions and references woven into its narrative, as opposed to the references woven into the textual side of the prose itself. LÄS MER