Her intelligence, courage, and determination to protect others make her an iconic character in science fiction. Played By: Sigourney Weaver Also ranks #1 on 20 Female Action Movie Heroes Who Could Go Toe-To-Toe With Anyone Also ranks #1 on The Strongest Survivors In Horror Movie...
She is also known for her essays, including A Room of One's Own (1929), in which she wrote the much-quoted dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolf became one of the central subjects of the 1970s movement of feminist criticism ...
Luci Christian Main Genre Anime Seasons 2 Creator Akihito Tsukushi 7 Fuu Stands As Equals With Her Male Companions Series that feature a female lead paired up with two male protagonists aren’t rare for action anime. Yet, Samurai Champloo’s Fuu Kasami is one of the only heroines...
but the heroine, the winged woman Fevvers, cleverly avoids the stereotypically passive role – as damsels in distress – usually imposed on female characters in Gothic fiction; for even if she is constantly persecuted by lecherous as well as homicidal males, she ...
womanhood, instead of writing, as a vocation: selflessness, sacrifice, subordination, repression, christian --> guilt of self-development woman's heroism in Romola, Middlemarch Women are greater dissemblers than men when they wish to conceal their own emotions. By habit, moral training, and mod...
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them. —Iain Banks 3 I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and...
And this in a movie where a nude, sinewy Christian Bale drops a chainsaw down a spiral staircase to cut short the life of a prostitute. But as with “I Shot Andy Warhol,” she manages this by getting specific. Harron revels in the details of Yuppie Patrick Bateman’s world — the ...
Chapter 1 Female Novelists and Their Male Characters, 1750-2000: An Introduction Chapter 2 Happy Men?: Mid-Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and Ideal Masculinity Chapter 3 Male Privilege in Frances Burney's The Wanderer Chapter 4 The Medium Makes the Man: Anne Plumptre's Something New and The ...
I’m not certain, since this is only my first novel, but it seems to me that all writing, fiction and otherwise, is personal. Writers have a personal slant on what they are writing just as readers have a personal spin on what they read. A lot of Rachel’s story is personal to me...
This chapter looks at the assumptions made about the 'fictionality' of prose fiction implicit in the contemporary historical novel. In particular it argues... LG Wilson 被引量: 0发表: 2015年 Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy: Wordsworth, Kant, and the Making of the Post-Christian Imagination...