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Item Female Masculinity in Willa Cather's A Lost Lady(Department of English, 2017) Marasini, AnitaThis research explores nature of female masculinity and background of man and woman. This paper finds problems of woman in Victorian period because of misunderstanding and extension of autocracy in Willa Cather's A Lost Lady. Mrs. Forrester lust for autonomous and powerful life. In the beginning of her life story, she has attachment domestic life with older husband. They stay discriminatory behavior but Marian Forrester presents a 'female masculinity' in the beginning to the end. Mrs. Forrester shows female masculinity in the end of paper and bonds woman being executive. So, this research brings a concept on masculinity derived from Judith Butler, Cora Kaplan, Michel Foucault etc. to notice implication and valorize the condition of female masculinity. Key Words: Masculinity. Money, Marriage, Rejection, Sexual, PowerItem A Postmodern Reading ofJohn Updike’s Rabbit at Rest(Department of English, 2007) Dhakal, DipakJohn Updike’sRabbit at Restraises thepostmodern issues like subversion of narration, celebration of fragmentation, pastiche, dissemination and so on. The novel depicts thecondition of American people in the later phase ofthetwentieth century as symbolizedby Harry ‘Rabbit’Angstrom. Rabbit, inhis mid50s, is living in Condo Florida. His son Nelson, wife Janice, and children come to staywith himand disaster unfolds as Rabbit has a serious heart attack and it is discovered that Nelson has been embezzling to feed this cocaine habit. The novel presents the contemporary issues of 1980s like sexually-obsessed thoughts, the confinement of marriage, the realities of marital obsessed Americans, family disintegration, sexually transmitted diseases, drug addictionsand so on. These issues themselves become the determining factors of postmodern novel. This thesis examines how Updike’s America is moving forward in the course of time along with all these societal problems.