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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"David Mitchell"”.
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Get yourself connected: time, space, and character networks in David Mitchell's fiction
<p>This thesis explores the works of novelist David Mitchell, paying specific attention to the ways in which he uses his narratives 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 …
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Moments of excess: Type 1 diabetes and the myth of control in adolescent fiction for girls
… of crisis—exemplifying what disability scholars David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder (2000) refer to as “disability as a material metaphor,” and ultimately furthering what American author Jeffery Bennett (2019) refers to as diabetes’ “crisis of signification.”</p>
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Utopian connectivity to paranoid collapse: complex networks and global social ecologies in 20th-century fiction
… of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, James Joyce, and David Mitchell, I analyze strengths and vulnerabilities of such systems. Gilman’s perfectly controlled and aggressively managed ecosystems are undercut by potentially catastrophic losses in biodiversity. Joyce’s celebratory view of networks and …
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A Study of the Association of the Investment Tax Credit With Investment Spending
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the association that existed between the investment tax credit and investment activity during two periods: the period surrounding the date when the credit was originally enacted and the period surrounding the date when the credit was increased from …
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The Religious world of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
This thesis explores the last decades of legal paganism in the Roman Empire of the second half of the fourth century CE through the eyes of Symmachus, orator, senator and one of the most prominent of the pagans of this period living in Rome. It is a religious biography of Symmachus himself, but it …