Wide Sargasso Sea Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Postmodernism Postmodernism - correct answer aesthetic, cultural *metafiction* (narrative within narrative) *self-reflexivity* *blurring of boundaries* (no high & low culture) *sheer play and existential commitment* *pastiche* (Comic Mona Lisa) (pieces of art alluding to what came before, revisit old style vs. Modernism, reinvent everything) *linguistic scepticism/deconstruction* (poststructuralism: meaning collapsed, my pen is not your pen) Meaning = unstable Not just literature, als...

I provide a 1,500 word meditation on Jean Rhys’s daring and unconventional novel Wide Sargasso Sea. My reflection focuses upon the slow violence of slavery, exploring its insidious impacts upon Antoinette and other white creoles in the text. This essay builds towards the conclusion that the significant delay between slavery and its repercussion on white creoles could easily serve to conceal the causal connection between the two. However, in Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys makes this relationship v...

De drie in de titel benoemde boeken uitgewerkt: samenvatting, tijd, plek, genre, thema's en personages. Beknopte literatuurgeschiedenis (5 blz)

Wide Sargasso Sea - Critical Analysis & Thematic Overview.

This is an assignment for the literature and theory module of English literature at Brighton university. It analyses the books Is There Nowhere Else We Could Meet by Nadine Gordimer, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, and Discourse on the Logic of Language by Marlene Nourbese Philip using the post-colonial theory.

A 1st class essay exploring women's trauma and madness in Emily Dickinson's poem 'There's a Certain Slant of Light', Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. Thoroughly researched, eloquently written, and fully referenced. Extract: Alas, female anxieties of identity loss, entrapment and surveillance continue today, forcing women either to submit to liminal half-lives or to violate gender norms. The latter entails a life of pu...

Comprehensive summaries of 10 books commonly found in AP Lit curricula. Includes characters, plot, themes, quotes, etc. Featured books: Jane Eyre, Beloved, The Great Gatsby, and more! Ideal for test prep.

Comprehensive in-depth textual analysis of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. The analysis is categorised into characterisation, relationships, themes, literary device/ technique. Relevant quotes are highlighted. Written by an IB 45/45 Pointer.

This is an A* AQA A Level English Literature Coursework answer. This essay received 46/50 and is approximately 2500 words and 8 pages (inc bibliography). The question answered was a comparative essay titled 'Compare and contrast how women are subjugated for male gain in Wide Sargasso Sea and Dracula.' Please do not reproduce these documents without the author’s permission.

These notes contain a detailed analysis of quotes from Part Two of Wide Sargasso Sea. They have been laid out in table format so that they are easy to turn into que cards and are great of the WJEC As exam in hitting A01 and A02.