Browsing by Subject "Sex role in literature."
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Blessed Is She: Gender Critique Through Performativity and Portrayals of the Divine in Naomi Alderman’s The Power
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Naomi Alderman’s 2016 novel The Power details the events that occur after women develop the ability to produce an electrical current throughout their bodies. This new physical power allows a matriarchal power structure to ... -
The Heroine Sabrina: Dismantling Binaries in A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Sabrina, the heroine of A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, is an exemplar of ethical, intellectual, and magical power. Although scholarship has focused on male characters in the masque, I argue that this story is about ...