Women's writing on madness. by Lam, Sze Wing.

“…This essay will focus on three female writers’ works involving madness: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. …”
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In the name of emancipation : debilitating patriarchal vision in Djuna Barnes's Ladies Almanack and Nightwood. by Lim, Yan Ling.

“…The focus of this essay is on the possible subversion of the binary through the excessive and ironic use of visuality against the phallic vision by the female author Djuna Barnes. …”
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Sylvia Plath's search for an identity. by Ng, Gina Hsaw Teng.

“…This essay examines Sylvia Plath’s search for an identity with the aid of Existentialism. …”
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The (post)modern debate in chuck palahniuk’s survivor, choke and pygmy. by Kaur, Gurveen.

“…His commentary on the effects of postmodern society on individuals in his writing has deemed his fiction to be regarded as existentialist, transgressive, and most commonly, nihilist. However, this essay proposes that there are elements of modernism in his texts as well. …”
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The demise of the self as an allegory for the shift from modernism to postmodernism in jean rhy’s novels. by Loe, Steffi Wen Xin.

“…This essay intends to examine the treatment of the self in the novels of Jean Rhys, namely Quartet, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie and Good Morning, Midnight - and how identity in its protagonists play a pertinent role in exposing the shift from a Modernist to a Postmodernist exploration of the self. …”
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Reading and writing genders : explorations of androgyny in early modernist poetry. by Khew, Tessa Yu Ping.

“…Eliot’s seminal work The Waste Land was described, by his contemporary James Joyce, as having “ended the idea of poetry for ladies”. This essay challenges current readings of The Waste Land as a masculinist poem by using ecriture feminine as a selective interpretative strategy. …”
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Madness across genres by Tan Yiwen

“…Can film never match up? In my essay, I seek to prove that not all adapted films are inferior to their precursor texts.…”
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Femininity and the destabilization of the hegemonic masculinity in the sun also. by Yong Min Hui Vicki.

“…In the exploration of the relationship between the two supposed binaries of the masculine and the feminine, it led me to question what we commonly believe to be absolute truths about gender and gender relations. My essay thus examines the notions of masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club where ideals of masculinity are espoused and the Other—be it women or femininity—is rejected. …”
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The waves between the acts: the perception of music in the works of Virginia Woolf. by Tan, Mindy Minli.

“…Where we would only have been able to guess in the past, modern science has revealed links between music and the brain that will now help us to understand how Woolf attempts to unify – both characters and reader – in the shared experience of music. This essay is a simultaneous study on how music affects the brain, and why Woolf’s works affect us: it will investigate the works of Virginia Woolf and the bearing music and sound have on her writing, and answer the questions of why and how Woolf strove to the condition of music in her literature. …”
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“Mirror, mirror on the wall, am I female or am I not?” Intertextual dialogue through writing the female body in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea... by Natasha St Clare Alvar

“…She intertextually refeeds us the violence in Wide Sargasso Sea through this gap into Jane Eyre.. Hence, in my essay, I hope to explore the ceaseless flow between the two novels, through the dialogue created between the texts and the critique on patriarchal discourse created through imagery, symbolism and style of the female body.…”
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