Browsing Department of Cultural Studies and Languages (HF-IKS) by Author "Drangsholt, Janne Stigen."
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The cult of the perfect mother: An investigation of motherhood and femininity in Joan Didion’s Blue Nights (2011), Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011) and Deborah Levy’s The Cost of Living (2018)
Åtland, Agnes. (Master thesis, 2022)This thesis takes its point of departure in the recognition that contemporary literary representations of female selfhood and motherhood are permeated by a neoliberal discourse of false idealizations, which can be traced ... -
The Narratives We Live by: Investigating the functions of narratives in Rachel Cusk’s Outline and Deborah Levy’s The Cost of Living
Hilton, Tuva. (Master thesis, 2022)This thesis will investigate how narratives work in our perception of reality, ourselves and society through a close reading of the novels Outline by Rachel Cusk and The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy. I will argue that ...