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    Abjection of the female body in The Cutting Room and The Bullet Trick : the contemporanization of the patriarchal system by Tregnaghi, Gisela Leylén

    Published 2014
    “…The aim of this thesis is to discuss two of the works written by Louise Welsh, The Cutting Room (2002) and The Bullet Trick (2006), using Gothic and feminist criticism in order to back my hypothesis that the depiction of female bodies as abjects that the author makes in these novels has a direct correlation with current mechanisms, such as pornography, prostitution and sex trafficking, which result in the contemporanization of the patriarchal system in our culture. …”
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    Parodic metafiction : an approach to self-reflexive fiction in two works by John Barth by Kofman, Gustavo E.

    Published 2016
    “…The texts proposed for this study –Perseid and Bellerophoniad, in Chimera (1972) by American author John Barth– share specific rhetorical and narrative elements that allow us to frame this analysis within the theoretical notions referred to before. …”
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    The seeds of discontent of an epoch seen through the eyes of Pat Barker’s hero : Billy Prior in her Regeneration trilogy by Rosso, María del Carmen

    Published 2013
    “…This thesis analyses Billy Prior, the main fictional character in Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy, a young man who does not know any boundaries and who challenges the concepts and ideas that had been the foundations of his society until the beginning of the XXth century. Authority, sex, class divisions, gender roles and the war are the main areas of discussion. …”
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    Contemporary American queer drama : pushing the limits to remain at the borders by Badenes, Guillermo

    Published 2016
    “…This analysis studies three queer plays belonging to Asian-American, Chicano and African-American playwrights who aim at transgressing hegemonic standards of normality and reject the idea of accommodating to society expectations. By doing so, these authors challenge American drama from the point of view of subject matter, characterization and dramatic structure, highlighting difference at the center of their plays. …”
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