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Title: Becoming Virtuous: Overcoming the Monstrous in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
Author: Atsavinh, Candice
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: The aim of this thesis is to explore the emotional impact that three childhood environments have on the formation of Jane’s identity. These spatial boundaries are how Jane develops an understanding of herself and the ‘other’ while discovering the ...

Title: Coming of Age: The Narrative of Adolescence in David Almond's Kit's Wilderness and Nick Lake's In Darkness
Author: Blaylock, Brook
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: The influence of ancient cultural narratives on contemporary reality, and the construction of literature reflecting the tradition of the past while representing modern cultural realities, remains a common feature of literary expression. However, a...

Title: Explorations of Childhood Gender-Fluidity and the Subversion of Masculinity in Peter Pan
Author: Weber, Ryan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Literature, English literature, Sex role
Description: In declaring Peter Pan as the only child who will not grow up, J.M. Barrie has developed a character with an unmatched capacity for subverting masculine forms of normalization, social acceptance, and gender appropriation. Through Peter’s consisten...

Title: Religious Questioning in Katherine Paterson’s and Judy Blume’s Fiction
Author: Rumfelt, Trina
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Literature, Religion
Description: TRINA RUMFELT. Religious Questioning in Katherine Paterson’s and Judy Blume’s Fiction (Under Direction of DR. MARK I. WEST)Katherine Paterson and Judy Blume both began their careers as children’s authors in the late 1960s and achieved success in t...

Title: THE PROGRESSION OF AGENCY OF THE FEMALE ROLE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Author: Prysiazniuk, Stephanie
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Children's literature
Description: This thesis will analyze four American children’s novels written during the mid to latter part of the nineteen century and demonstrate how a progression of agency of the female role took shape in girls’ fiction during this period in history. With ...

Title: The Education of Dicey Tillerman
Author: Barrier, Julia
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: In Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman Cycle, the various novels from Dicey’s perspective (Homecoming, Dicey’s Song, and Seventeen Against The Dealer) show Dicey’s emotional growth, and the lessons she learns. Dicey learns lessons in trusting people close t...

Title: The Playful Elements in Emily Gravett's and David Wiesner's Postmodern Picturebooks
Author: Warnsing, Abbey
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: Emily Gravett and David Wiesner play with existing texts, narrative structures, visual elements and connectivity in their picturebooks using a variety of metafictive devices that also play with the story, characters, and readers. Both authors crea...

Title: Using Narrative Advising Theory in Interpreting the Roles of Advisors and Guides in African American Young Adult Literature
Author: Kelley, Gina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Education, Higher, African literature
Description: Telling stories has been a popular method of how humans connect interactively and serve a purpose to educate, entertain, influence, warn, and illustrate. In African-American young adult (YA) literature, there are guides that dish out valuable advi...