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Bc. Petra Voštinárová

Bachelor's thesis

Liberation through Madness: The Functions of Women's Madness in Selected Works by North American Female Authors

Liberation through Madness: The Functions of Women's Madness in Selected Works by North American Female Authors
Abstract:
Tato práce se zabývá vztahem mezi ženami a šílenstvím v dílech severoamerických autorek: Žlutá tapeta (The Yellow Wall-Paper) Charlotte Perkins Gilmanové, Pod skleneným zvonem (The Bell Jar) Sylvie Plath a Z hlubin (Surfacing) Margaret Atwoodové. V těchto dílech jsou duševní poruchy symbolem bezmoci, neboť jsou především výsledkem marných protestů proti podřízenému postavení žen ve společnosti devatenáctého …more
Abstract:
This thesis explores the relationship between women and madness in works by North American female writers: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing. Madness portrayed in these works represents powerlessness as it stems mainly from the futile protests against the subordinate position of women in the society of nineteenth and twentieth …more
 

Keywords

madness Charlotte Perkins Gilman Sylvia Plath Margaret Atwood women psychiatry powerlessness liberation patriarchy
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 14. 5. 2013
Identifier: https://is.muni.cz/th/yxerk/

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 11. 6. 2013
  • Supervisor: Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Prajznerová, M.A.
  • Reader: Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Beneš

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