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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"English Literature and Modernity"”.
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The Language of Love and Desire: Convention, Affect, and Intimacy in the Contemporary Romance
… is in dialogue with a much older tradition, and it serves a purpose beyond mere entertainment. In this dissertation, I analyse four works of contemporary romance which demonstrate a keen awareness of the conventions that precede them and offer a range of new imaginative, romantic …
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Becoming “so terribly altered”: Reading transformations of the self in “The Fall of the House of Usher”
… determine the extent of the effect on the reader and the reader's reality, and if it is possible to alter the reader by inducing a transformation. I argue that transformation is possible as a “becoming”. Transformation depends on the text's reflection and verisimilitude to reality, which aids …