Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Degrees "M.A., English Literature"
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Feminine power through the performance of gender and identity : subverting patriarchal standards and the gender binary
(2021)This thesis examines strategies for exercising feminine power within patriarchal settings; in particular, it addresses the ways in which female characters access varied forms of power through gendered performances that ... -
Mirrors and windows : recognizing the experience of a woman of color in Jane Eyre
(2021)This thesis aims to present the character of Bertha in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre as a representation of feminism and Jane's transformation into an independent player in her relationship with Rochester by examining the ... -
The role of composition and literature in the secondary education classroom : revisiting the pedagogy
(2021)Currently, high school ELA teachers are expected to use literature and composition together during instruction and planning. This expectation is completely different from first-year college English courses, as literature ... -
"The truth in masquerade": masking and self-making in literature
(2022)This thesis analyzes scenes of “masquerade” in three literary texts, the Oresteia of Aeschylus (458 B.C.E.), Eliza Fowler Haywood’s short novel Fantomina; or Love in a Maze (1725), and Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in ... -
“The Thought of Being a Part of What You Could Not Become”: Colonial Education and the Resistance of Young Minds
(2021)This project engages with the colonizer’s use of the colonial education system to penetrate the colonized people’s pre-colonial cultural systems and the way it leads to the destruction of any already-formed understandings ...