Austen, Charlotte ve Anne Bronte, ve Gaskell'in romanlarında cinsel açıdan avcı özellikleri gösteren erkek karakterin rolü.

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Tezin Türü: Doktora

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2007

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: Ayşegül Kuglin

Danışman: MARGARET JEANNE M. SÖNMEZ

Özet:

In this thesis the roles of the sexually preadtory male character in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Elisabeth Gaskell's Ruth and Mary Barton are analyzed, based on the theory of psychiatrist Karen Horney and the reader-response theory of Wolfgang Iser. The hypothesis is that the male sexual predator represents a reflection of the pursued heroine's idealized image, an unrealistically idealized and preferred self-image in Horney's terms, and makes the education and vindication patterns of the novels possible.