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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Contemporary Fiction"”.
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Matrilineaology: Mother-daughter relationships in contemporary fiction
This thesis examines Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina, Louise Erdrich's The Beet Queen, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club to attempt to answer questions such as, "How do a mother's experiences prior to the birth of her daughter affect the way that she …
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Make-believe : claiming the real in contemporary fiction cinema
This thesis examines the ways in which certain contemporary fiction cinema posits its narratives as real. Looking at a broad overview of realist movements through the history of cinema, it draws out the codes and conventions which filmmakers have employed and suggests that realist cinema is …
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Recycled alterity: Familiar dehumanisation in the contemporary fiction of genetic posthumanism
… of “improving” the human form. However, recent fiction on bioengineering themes envisages not a programme of enhancement, but rather the creation of a new genetic class system in which cloned or engineered human-like organisms form an oppressed and abused minority. These organisms – which I term …
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The vigilante strain and the spaces of the state in contemporary fiction
… the analysis of the vigilante in select works of contemporary fiction. Vigilantism is a concept that has no stable definition and varies in terms of the vigilante’s characteristics, motivations and aims. Popular culture manifestations of the vigilante portray the figure as an avenger, seeking …
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Re-Imagining America: Twenty-First Century Disaster And Salvation In Contemporary Fiction
This thesis explores four contemporary novels set in the American South and analyzes the understandings of American pasts, perceptions of current social and political crises, and projections of possible future paths they contain. Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones tell …
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Labyrinths : navigating Daedalus' legacy : the role of labyrinths in selected contemporary fiction
… of labyrinths in late twentieth-century fiction, focalised through four salient texts: Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose (1980), Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor (1985), Jeanette Winterson's The Passion (1987) and Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves (2000). These novels target specific usages …
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Is that what you’re wearing? Gender diversity in contemporary fiction, a novel and exegesis
… Is That What You’re Wearing? Gender Diversity in Contemporary Fiction, A Novel and Exegesis is a creative writing doctoral thesis which critically interrogates the signifiers and tropes that are employed to produce gender diversity in contemporary fiction, and their effects and impacts. The …
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Whiteness as currency: colorism in contemporary fiction of the Anglophone Caribbean and the Cape
… South Africa, specifically through the lens of contemporary literature written by authors whose work displays a particular sensitivity to these intersections. I am especially interested in the paradoxical relationship between derision and desire that accompanies aspirations towards whiteness and …
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A study of portraits of the artist in contemporary fiction: critical selfconsciousness as a characterising feature of twentieth-century writing
… Selfconscious novels expose themselves as fictions rather than imitations of reality. Thus the art-work becomes a portrait of the artist who invents it, not a photographic study of the solid surfaces which enclose him. The selfconscious novel is also a portrait of art: it seeks to …
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Constructions of Space in Fiction of Neil Gaiman
… to demonstrate how constructions of space in contemporary fiction can be analysed to reveal the underlying politics and cultural commentary of the work. Each of the titles selected juxtaposes an ostensibly ‘real-world’ setting with fantastical elements, such as magic, myths, or ‘other’ worlds. …
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The Riddle of Turandot
… entitled The Representation of Older Women in Contemporary Fiction. Feminist theorists argue that it is difficult if not impossible to represent feminine subjectivity within the constraints of a phallocentric language. In my essay I will show that the fictional portrayal of older women is even …
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A Collection of Misfits
… informed introduction which places my works of fiction within the larger conversation of contemporary fiction. These short stories explore numerous ways in which characters fail to connect to the world around them. Characters falter with relationships, religion, and fitting in. The collection …
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Blackland Prairie
… emerging role of place as a narrative agent in contemporary fiction. The preface is followed by six original short stories. “Parts” depicts the growth of a boy's power over his family. “A Movie House to Make Us All Rich” involves the sacrifice of familial values by the son of Italian immigrants …
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Earhart County: The Making Of A World War Two Wondertale
… and unknown aircrew, as well as post-war and contemporary fiction, aircraft manuals and books detailing the various aeroplanes flown throughout the war. Research was also made into the Russian wondertale and Vladimir Propp’s morphology. The result was the novel Earhart County, a novel which …
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Get yourself connected: time, space, and character networks in David Mitchell's fiction
… to emulate and remediate global networks and contemporary fiction tropes. Though his novels are rarely set in the immediate present, Mitchell's creations are connected in ways that specifically evoke social networks, Internet databases and new media. He has created an insular universe through …
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"I can give you something for that": Exploring the medical paradigm in mental health through contemporary American literature
In this paper, I analyze two contemporary fiction novels, My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh and My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell, through the lens of the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Moshfegh satirically critiques …
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An examination of voice in contemporary Canadian fiction and Ballistics : a novel
… the term “voice” is used in the discussion of contemporary fiction – as it frequently is – its meaning is taken to be understood intuitively, and more often than not no further elaboration is either required or offered. In these essays – augmented by my novel, Ballistics, which has more than …
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Racial prejudice toward Asian Americans in U.S. children's literature.
… toward Asian Americans. The sample consisted of contemporary and historical fiction books for children in two age groups: preschool through grade three and grades four through six, which are listed under Asian American fiction category in three multicultural bibliographies. The findings confirmed …
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Aktualizace řeckých mýtů v současné anglosaské literatuře a jejich kritický ohlas
This thesis focuses on the ways in which contemporary fiction reinterprets and updates ancient Greek myths, and how these modern retellings reflect the cultural and social values of today's world. The analysis centers on three novels - A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes, and Circe and The Song of …
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On the Come: A novel
A creative, book-length work of fiction written at the end of the 20 th Century, this dissertation invariably converses in narrative concerns common to contemporary fiction, such as character point of view, plot and theme; however, in a narrower focus, specific issues of story and story telling and …
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