In this thesis the roles of the sexually preadtory male character in Jane Austen' / s Sense and Sensibility, Charlotte Bronte' / s Jane Eyre, Anne Bronte' / s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Elisabeth Gaskell' / s Ruth and Mary Barton are analyzed, based on the theory of psychiatrist Karen Horney and the reader-response theory of Wolfgang Iser. The hypothesis is that the male sexual predator represents a reflection of the pursued heroine' / s idealized image, an unrealistically idealized and preferred self-image in Horney' / s terms, and makes the education and vindication patterns of the novels possible.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608971/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 October 2007 |
| Creators | Kuglin, Aysegul |
| Contributors | Sonmez, Margaret J-m |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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