Browsing by Author "Bolf-Beliveau, Laura"

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    • Anything dead coming back to life hurts : Beloved, Bastard out of Carolina, and Gods in Alabama as contemporary female gothic. 

      Paruolo, Melissa (2011)
      The contemporary Female Gothic is characterized by the highlighting of the monstrosities of patriarchal ideology's failures in order to point to a more positive space created by the agency of the female heroine and her ...

    • Constructing contemporary ethnic American identities by reconceptualizing ancient narratives. 

      Seagraves, Meredith R. (2014)
      For many ethnic Americans, forming a cultural identity is a complicated and arduous endeavor. Entrenched in an environment in which mainstream ideologies leave ethnic practices and histories vulnerable to marginalization, ...

    • Deconstructing the domestic sphere : the American sentimental novel as feminist metafiction. 

      Hull, Abbey (2018)
      Since the late twentieth century, sentimental literature has seen a resurgence in literary study, with many nineteenth-century American women writers receiving critical attention for the first time. However, this attention ...

    • Life in a doorway. 

      Freeman, Charlotte (2012)
      Life in a Doorway is a story about Brianna Fairchild who is a senior graduating from high school. The week before graduation her twin brother Hayden dies in a tragic accident at the school. Brianna, who was estranged from ...

    • Regicide 

      Abel, Robert D. (2021)
      REGICIDE is a Young Adult fantasy novel inspired by the works of Sarah J. Maas, Cinda Williams Chima, and Brandon Sanderson. It follows three different young adults as they struggle to come to terms with who they are versus ...

    • Rid of me 

      Lang, George (2023)
      In the novella Rid of Me, Ridley Royko is a smart, 15-year-old teenager with a parent problem. His mother and father do not trust him and tear him down constantly about his grades and his behavior. When he hears them ...

    • Side effects may include time travel. 

      Cady, Dorothy L. (2014)
      Alexi Anna Mackey is a thirteen-year-old with all the problems of growing up: her little brother, Mikey, annoys her as often as not; she's a little clumsy, which makes her chosen sport of pole-vaulting a bit challenging; ...

    • Supernatural bodies : the intersection of Nigerian feminism and body autonomy. 

      Crystal, Jacob Allen (2019)
      Many Nigerian women are depicted in literature as possessing little to no personal agency. Due to socio political issues, these women are often relegated to the margins of discourse surrounding Nigerian literature. Because ...

    • Ties that bind. 

      Pate, Amanda M. (2018)
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    • Whist, quadrilles and social hierarchy : Pride and prejudice as a game. 

      Gaches, Sheri (2012)
      Jane Austen begins her novel Pride and prejudice by informing readers that what they are about to read is a story about competition. Throughout the novel, Austen's audience becomes aware of the elements of competition in ...

    • Young men and dead girls : a rhetroical analysis of true crime. 

      Compton, Alyssa T. (2019)
      There are a startling number of shows in the 21st century that depend on the imagery of dead women as a component of storytelling. From shows that focus on serial killers to podcasts about men accused of murder, the image ...