This dissertation examines Maria Irene Fornes’ and Adrienne Kennedy’s plays, focusing on the female characters’ act of reading and writing on stage. Usually, reading and writing on stage are considered to be passive and static, but in the two playwrights’ works, they are used as an effective plot device that moves the drama forward and as willful efforts by the female characters to develop their sense of identities. Furthermore, in contrast to the usual perception of reading and writing as intellectual processes, Fornes and Kennedy depict these acts as intensely physical and sensual. Julia Kristeva’s and Hélène Cixous’ poststructuralist psychoanalytic theories of language and female sexuality, and Gloria Anzaldúa’s theory of writing the bod...
THESIS 10421This thesis provides a feminist and comparative analysis of the unique ontological posit...
Aim of the dissertation is to investigate how Shakespearean drama has been appropriated by women wri...
Marina Tsvetaeva, Marguerite Yourcenar, and H.D. address the problems of female authority and author...
This dissertation examines Maria Irene Fornes’ and Adrienne Kennedy’s plays, focusing on the female ...
Although Maria Irene Fornes' plays deserve critical attention from a wide range of theoretical persp...
This examination focuses on an investigation of playwright Maria Irene Fornes' repertoire, in the co...
The thesis attempts to theorize the conditions of a feminist practice (or practices) of drama throug...
Adrienne Kennedy is one of the finest avant-garde, American playwrights and her plays have intense s...
This thesis is a study of five playwrights who have engaged with theater in unconventional ways: Adr...
British playwright Sarah Kane had a short career, ending with her suicide in 1999. Critics often att...
This thesis features a range of texts that exemplify my practice. They include experimental prose, p...
The study reveals women self-directed oppression in Maria Irenes’ plays Fefu and her friends, The Co...
This dissertation examines the interplay between patriarchal power structures impinging on different...
Master of EducationThe aim of this minor thesis is to chart the development of a playwrighting proce...
This thesis is a study of a select group of women characters who appear prominently in several twent...
THESIS 10421This thesis provides a feminist and comparative analysis of the unique ontological posit...
Aim of the dissertation is to investigate how Shakespearean drama has been appropriated by women wri...
Marina Tsvetaeva, Marguerite Yourcenar, and H.D. address the problems of female authority and author...
This dissertation examines Maria Irene Fornes’ and Adrienne Kennedy’s plays, focusing on the female ...
Although Maria Irene Fornes' plays deserve critical attention from a wide range of theoretical persp...
This examination focuses on an investigation of playwright Maria Irene Fornes' repertoire, in the co...
The thesis attempts to theorize the conditions of a feminist practice (or practices) of drama throug...
Adrienne Kennedy is one of the finest avant-garde, American playwrights and her plays have intense s...
This thesis is a study of five playwrights who have engaged with theater in unconventional ways: Adr...
British playwright Sarah Kane had a short career, ending with her suicide in 1999. Critics often att...
This thesis features a range of texts that exemplify my practice. They include experimental prose, p...
The study reveals women self-directed oppression in Maria Irenes’ plays Fefu and her friends, The Co...
This dissertation examines the interplay between patriarchal power structures impinging on different...
Master of EducationThe aim of this minor thesis is to chart the development of a playwrighting proce...
This thesis is a study of a select group of women characters who appear prominently in several twent...
THESIS 10421This thesis provides a feminist and comparative analysis of the unique ontological posit...
Aim of the dissertation is to investigate how Shakespearean drama has been appropriated by women wri...
Marina Tsvetaeva, Marguerite Yourcenar, and H.D. address the problems of female authority and author...