Bethan Mai Roper“Everyone loves the Dead Girl”: Gender Performance and Constructed Femininities in Gillian Flynn’s…In 2012, the publication of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl became a literary and cultural phenomenon. Receiving hugely popular commercial…Feb 9, 2020Feb 9, 2020
Bethan Mai RoperSocial Conditioning in Natalia Ginzburg’s Voices in the Evening and Simone De Beauvoir’s The Woman…Social conditioning, in sociological terms, is the process by which individuals are trained unconsciously to adhere to conventions or…Feb 9, 2020Feb 9, 2020
Bethan Mai RoperMemory and Retrospect in Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an EndingPiqueras writes that “our memories are strongly influenced by our feelings, beliefs and the knowledge obtained after living a specific…Feb 9, 20201Feb 9, 20201
Bethan Mai RoperExperimental Narration in the Postmodern Detective Story: What a Carve Up! and Curious IncidentIn postmodern literature, authors utilise a variety of stylistically innovative techniques to reject the ‘traditional’ conventions of the…Feb 9, 2020Feb 9, 2020
Bethan Mai RoperThe Popular Femifesto: ‘Rape Culture’, Social Media and the Methods of the Fourth WaveAs David writes, “there has been a dramatic resurgence of politically engaged and public feminisms in the 21st century” (2016, 13). The…Feb 9, 2020Feb 9, 2020
Bethan Mai Roper‘I WILL: Form functional relationship with responsible adult’: Romance and the Gender Crisis in…The 1990s were marked “by a huge output of gender-related writing” responding to a perceived gender crisis (Ochsner, 2009, 247). As the…Feb 9, 2020Feb 9, 2020