Social Roles

Cesario Challenges Orsino’s and Olivia’s Petrarchan Notions of Love in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

Shakespeare's 1623 comedic play Twelfth Night complicates sex and social roles, in order to explore further those sexual and social…

2 weeks ago

Redefining Social Roles for Women in the 21st Century

Abstract Globalization, feminism and the labor movement, terms not initially considered jointly as crucially defining self-identity. But as the saying…

4 months ago

Wollstonecraft, Barbauld and Blake: Views on Women and Feminism in Romantic Literature

The events of the French Revolution spurred many Romantic writers to question prescribed social roles, including those of gender. The…

8 months ago

Richard Dyer’s Theory of Movie Stars

The movie star is on the cutting edge of changing portrayals of the self. A relatively recent phenomenon, stars combine…

3 years ago

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