Reclaiming the Female Suicide Narrative: Rebirth, a Plunge, and the Absurd
This thesis looks at female suicide in literature from the 1890s to 1970s in the novels The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, and Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion. Looking at these female-penned novels in comparison the canon of Western literature, they all clearly indicate...
Main Author: | Wax, Shelby T |
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Format: | Others |
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Scholarship @ Claremont
2016
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Online Access: | http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/822 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1910&context=scripps_theses |
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