Friday, January 04, 2008
12:30 am by M. in
Scholar
Some recently presented US dissertations:
A tale of a 'half fairy, half imp': The rape of Jane Eyre
Jaekel, Kathryn S., MA. IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2007. 45 pp.
Advisor: Hickok, Kathleen
Beyond sexual repression: The paradox of anorexia nervosa in Charlotte Brontë's 'Villette' and 'Shirley'.
Sanchez Ares, Rocio, MA. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, 2007. 81 pp.
Advisor: Elliott, Dorice Williams
'No bright lady's shadow': 'Villette' and the disruption of mid-Victorian constructions of gender and society.
DeSantis, Vanessa, MA. SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE, 2007. 75 pp.
Advisor: Charles, Persis
A typological analysis of 'Jane Eyre' and 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (Bronte, Charlotte, Stowe, Harriet Beecher).
Newell, Sheila I., MA. UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON-CLEAR LAKE, 2007. 64 pp.
Advisor: White, Craig
Envy and jealousy in the novels of the Brontës: A synoptic discernment.
McCann, Margaret Ann, PhD. MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY, 2007. 371 pp.
Advisor: Hoeveler, Diane
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The thought of being exposed to this type of post-modern academic crap makes me glad I did not read Bronte, etc in an English Lit class. I wonder how many students interest in the Engl Lit Classics is ruined when they are required to write analysis like that.
ReplyDeleteHi Michael,
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't call it crap, even if the subject matter is not to your taste or mine (which some aren't). These people have put in a lot of time and effort in these papers and they might even like Jane Eyre. The great thing about Jane Eyre is that it allows lots of different readings and thus a wide variety of people are drawn to it for some reason. Whether they agree with each other's views or not - well, that's an altogether different matter.