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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Contemporary novel"”.
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The Mexican Experimental In The Contemporary Novel And Film
A focus on the novel and film from Mexico provides analysis of the contemporary experimental tradition. Representations of intersectional feminism, gender, anti-racism, and critical regionalism in the contemporary novel and film from Mexico signal to new understandings of the current avant-garde. A …
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Disposable Life: The Literary Imagination and the Contemporary Novel
<p>This dissertation explores how the contemporary Anglophone novel asks its readers to imagine and respond to disposable life as it emerges in our present-day biopolitical landscape. As the project frames it, disposable life is not just life that is disposed of; it is life whose disposal is …
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Genres of Parody: Autofiction, Horror, and the Contemporary Novel
… culturally significant overlaps between contemporary works of autofiction and horror. I contend that both respective categories exhibit a parodic relationship to their own genres, and I situate this argument within tentative designations that I call Digital Autofiction and Weird Horror. …
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Threads of influence: Greek tragedy and its relevance to the contemporary novel, with specific reference to Donna Tartt's 'The secret history', and my novel, 'The first seven years'
This MPhil concerns the contemporary literary novel and how it has been influenced by the Golden Age of Greek tragedy. It comprises of three parts: the thesis and the novel, hereby presented, and the journal of creative experiences, which was observed at viva. My thesis examines the historical …
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J.M.Coetzee and the Novel: A Return to the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Novel
Scholars argue that Coetzee’s novels critique and disavow the origins and legacy of the novel tradition and its influence on the contemporary novel. They also claim that J.M. Coetzee’s novels herald in the demise of the contemporary novel. These interpretations are motivated by the political …
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The House that Jack Built
The House That Jack Built is a contemporary novel, set on the mythical Caribbean island of St. Anne, that explores enduring themes of American literature such as independence, selfdetermination, and the effects of greed on the independent spirit.
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An interdisciplinary exploration of religion, science and identity
Using the interdisciplinary scope of the contemporary novel, the thesis explores religion, science and identity in a monastic context. The research is presented in two sections: a substantial work of narrative fiction titled Athos, and an essay in the form of a postscript.
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First Cousins: A novel on youth, family, love, faith, and responsibility (Original novel)
First Cousins is a contemporary novel detailing four months in the life of William Reginald "Jack" Jackson, an 18-year old African-American graduate of Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa. Themes of initiation provide the primary focus: as a young adult, William must learn how to carry out …
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The Portmanteau Papers
… Portmanteau Papers is a creative exploration, in novel form, of the social environments, narrative structures, and language that attend the so-called rise of the novel of the eighteenth century. This long-form fiction begins with the prints of William Hogarth, which it investigates as a visual …
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Disco apocalypse : liminal fictoscapes, and, hatricks: where did the white rabbit go?
This thesis comprises a novel, Disco Apocalypse: Liminal Fictoscapes, and an accompanying exegesis, Hatricks: Where did the White Rabbit Go? which together explore socio-political and aesthetic currents in contemporary culture and literature by means of an authorial journey. The ultimate aim of the …
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The PUWP's preferences in the contemporary Polish novel, 1959-1985
… for the development of the Party's views of the contemporary novel and its expectations of the form after Socialist Realism (1949-1955). The course of development of Party requirements of the form is traced from 1959, when the Party announced its new operative ideology at the Third Congress, to …
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Excavating the remains of empire: War and postimperial trauma in the twentieth-century novel
… and Postimperial Trauma in the Twentieth-Century Novel," I investigate the implications of the residual presence of empire in the contemporary novel set in England, by questioning that if it is generally accepted that in the age of imperialism novels co-produced empire, what do they now, in this …
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Narrative Topography: Fictions of Country, City, and Suburb in the Work of Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ian McEwan
… how twentieth- and early twenty-first- century novelists respond to the English landscape through their presentation of narrative and their experiments with novelistic form. Opening with a discussion of the English planning movement, "Narrative Topography" reveals how shifting perceptions of the …
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Realistischer Diskurs und dialogischer Text : eine Strukturanalyse von Peter Handkes Roman "Der Kurze Brief zum langen Abschied"
… is based on two premises: firstly, that the contemporary novel is as much the literary expression of bourgeois consciousness as its predecessor in the 18th and 19th centuries, whose mode of expression was that of realism; secondly, that the paradigm shift from classic bourgeois realism to the …
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Heritage, letters, and public history : Dorothea Fairbridge and loyal unionist cultural initiatives in South Africa, circa 1890-1930'
… is reflected in the narrative dynamics of the contemporary novel, and samples including Fairbridge's fiction are discussed. The heritage paradigm is then applied in a survey of the Fairbridge family and its contribution to public culture. This paradigm is turned to the idea of the inventing of …
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Novel Speculations: Postrace Fictions in the 21st Century
… in American fiction. It examines how American novels respond to the pressures of what has been called the paradox of the postrace era: that our images and rhetoric portray a nation moving toward racial equality while our statistics actually reveal the opposite. I argue that through the use of …
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The tourist
<p>My novel, <em>The Tourist</em>, is not intended to revolutionize modern literature. It is intended to assemble the myriad refractions of my experience, in their myriad tonalities, and make them whole, enduring, literary–and integral in a way that only they can be integral. It is the first …