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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Narrating identity in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex

Piastra, Elizabeth. January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of English, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.
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The Chronotope of Immigration in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex

Elmgren, Charlotta January 2011 (has links)
Jeffrey Eugenides‟ Middlesex can be ascribed to many genres, one of which is the novel of immigration. Mikhail Bakhtin has suggested that each genre, indeed any literary motif, can be defined by its own chronotope, literally “time space,” “the intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships that are artistically expressed in literature.” The essay discusses the chronotope of immigration in Middlesex, and looks at how four specific intersections of time and space, embodied by the four houses inhabited by the Stephanides family, contribute to the unfolding of this particular immigration saga. The four houses can thus be seen to represent the key elements of this novel‟s instance of a chronotope of immigration, which brings up concepts such as assimilation, hybridity and “third space.” The essay also examines the relations of central characters to time, space and each other; the upstairs/downstairs and inside/outside dichotomies within each house providing interesting keys to inter-gender and inter-generational alienation within this chronotope of immigration.
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Queer čtení Hermafrodita: Diskurzy intersexuality v románu Jeffreyho Eugenidese / Queer Reading of Middlesex: Discourses of Intersexuality in the Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides

Hamšíková, Marie January 2016 (has links)
The thesis dedicates to discourses of intersexuality in the novel Middlesex written by the American author Jeffrey Eugenides. For the analysis, the method of queer reading was deployed, within the broader perspective of cultural studies. After introducing the context of the novel, and the theoretical framework, three analytical chapters follow which seek queer moments on the background of critical reviews of the novel. First chapter focuses on heteronormativity, performativity, and identity politics. Second chapter is interested in the confession genre and subject in confession. Third, and last chapter closes the analysis with finding moments of queer pleasure.
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„I was first one thing and then the other.”

Kohn, Ulrike 21 April 2023 (has links)
Der englischsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur widmet sich Ulrike Kohns Beitrag, „‘I was first one thing and then the other‘. Auf der Suche nach der Mitte in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex“, mit dem sich der erste Band der GenderGraduateProjects auch den Queer Studies öffnet. Sein innovativer Anspruch resultiert vor allem aus seiner forschungskritischen Qualität und seinem Charakter als textanalytisch versierter Gegenlektüre zu kritischen Stimmen, wie sie gegen Jeffrey Eugenides' Erfolgsroman Middlesex (2002) in den politisierten Diskussionen um angemessene ästhetische Repräsentationen intersexueller Identitätsentwürfe seit seinem Erscheinen erhoben worden sind. Eine solche gelinge, so der kritische Tenor, dem konventionell binaristischen Roman nicht. Kohns differenzierte literaturwissenschaftliche Analyse des Romans auf der Basis von Gérard Genettes narratologischem Instrumentarium zeigt aber, dass sich Eugenides‘ thematisch und strukturell komplexer, hoch intertextueller Text hinter seiner konservativ-heterosexuellen und männlichen Oberflächenstruktur der grundsätzlichen Problematik, unter dem Diktat binaristischer Epistemik und normativer Limitierungen ʻdas Andere‘ sprachlich je realisieren zu können, immer aufs Neue stellt und hierfür in vielschichtiger Weise Figuren der Spaltung, Transgression, Repetition und des Hybriden setzt. Kohns Lesart verdeutlicht, dass der Roman auf der Ebene der Fiktion mit dem intersexuellen ErzählerProtagonist-Hybriden Cal Stephanides die Modellierung einer intersexuellen Figur und eines positiven Identifikationsraums zwar verfehlt oder verweigert. Indem er in Figuren des Unsagbaren und der Spaltung die Problematik zugleich aber ästhetisch lesbar macht, sensibilisiert er metafiktional für akute Fehlstellen im Umgang mit intersexuellen Menschen und für ihre zwangsläufige Unsichtbarkeit innerhalb eines normativen, exklusiven, binären Systems. Damit erweist sich der Roman – entgegen aller kritischen Stimmen – als kulturkritisch und zeitpolitisch.
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Coming-of-Age in American Fiction

ŠOJDELOVÁ, Jana January 2019 (has links)
The Master's Thesis deals with the theme of coming-of-age in American literature. The aim of the theoretical part is to provide theoretical framework and the subsequent examination of common narrative strategies and themes characteristic of this specific genre. We will focus more closely on the three key themes of identity, sexuality and death. In the practical part of this thesis these main themes and their use will be examined in selected novels of American literature; Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides.
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Beyond the Binaries: Passing as Cisgender in Middlesex, Trumpet, and Redefining Realness

Weiss, Hillary, Weiss 15 July 2016 (has links)
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