Working against closure : sexuality and the narrative endings of Little Women and Jacob Have I Loved
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Title:
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Working against closure : sexuality and the narrative endings of Little Women and Jacob Have I Loved |
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Author:
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Gravett, Amber
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Advisor:
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Stadler, Gustavus T.
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Department:
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Haverford College. Dept. of English |
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Thesis (B.A.) |
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2003 |
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Abstract:
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Both Little Women and Jacob Have I Loved focus on the time of adolescence, when young adults are beginning to experience sexual feelings, but cannot yet express them in socially-acceptable ways, such as marriage. Although both texts allow their female protagonists freedom to express their sexuality in non-conventional ways, thereby leading the reader to expect certain independent qualities from them, the endings of both novels remain conventional in confining the protagonist to a proper lifestyle expected of women. However, by using D.A. Miller's theory on the effects of closure in a novel, which maintains that a novel's closure does not subscribe full meaning to the text as a whole, it becomes possible to again, even in the novel's closure, view these female protagonists as the independent heroines the reader admired. |
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Subject:
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Sex in literature
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Subject:
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Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Little women
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Subject:
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Paterson, Katherine. Jacob have I loved
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Terms of Use:
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
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Permanent URL:
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http://hdl.handle.net/10066/645
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Gravett, Amber.
"Working against closure : sexuality and the narrative endings of Little Women and Jacob Have I Loved".
2003. Available electronically from
http://hdl.handle.net/10066/645.
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