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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Fiction Writers"”.
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Interior Music: An Examination of the Sociocognitive Abilities of Fiction Writers
… to investigate the relationship between fiction writing and social cognition: the ability to make inferences about the mental states of others. First, an online survey was administered that assessed beliefs held by the general public about the social cognition of fiction writers compared …
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The modern coterie: Fan fiction writers as a community of practice
… across centuries that can be seen today in fan fiction writing groups online. This dissertation focuses on one group of such writers who are active at the LiveJournal blog site. Through the use of virtual ethnography, data has been collected over a period of four years for the purpose of …
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DADA / USA: connections between the Dada movement and eight American fiction writers
… BETWEEN THE DADA MOVEMENT AND EIGHT AMERICAN FICTION WRITERS The purpose of this thesis is to investigate, within the theoretical framework of intertextuality, the connections between the Dada movement and eight expatriate American fiction writers and to illustrate its impact on their work. …
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Social protest in three novels of Carlos Fuentes
<p>Carlos Fuentes is one of Mexico' s current fiction writers and to many he is controversial in that he delves into several of Mexico's great preoccupations: the Revolution, the search for lo mexicano and the future for this growing country.</p> <p>This thesis is an endeavor to expose and explain …
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A novel way to learn: black educational fiction from reconstruction to the Harlem renaissance
… Way to Learn examines the development of black fiction in tandem with black educational advancement from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance. By reading education in the novels of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sutton Griggs, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Jessie Redmon Fauset, I reveal an …
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NATIONAL SELF AND NARRATIVE OF IDENTITY: CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONALISM IN MODERN PERSIAN LITERATURE AND FILM
… of the Qajarids, the Persian intellectuals and writers such as Akhundzadah, Dihkhuda used pre-Islamic legacy to support their arguments for modernization. Later, the despotic Pahlavi rulers (1925-79) sought to modernize the country but stifled the democratic evolution of polity and employed the …
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The Internet World of Fan Fiction
Fan fiction, the most popular creative outlet for fans, allows the amateur writer an opportunity to be published and receive immediate feedback from peers. As educators, we can learn from the fan communities as they participate in online activities, especially fan fiction. Students are more likely …
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The specter of Salem in American culture
… such a wide range of scholars, dramatists, fiction writers, poets, and amateur sleuths with a subject that so stubbornly resists a final resolution. Although barely nine months passed from the first accusations of witchcraft to the last, those nine months of accusations, confessions, …
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Women and subjugation: An evaluation of feminist rhetoric in selected novels by Mary Karooro Okurut, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Unity Dow, Elieshi Lema and Kaleni Hiyalwa
… rhetoric in selected novels by African women fiction writers namely The Official Wife by Mary Karooro Okurut, Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Screaming of the Innocent by Unity Dow, Parched Earth by Elieshi Lema and Meekulu’s Children by Kaleni Hiyalwa. The focus was to …
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Random Access Memories: Mechanism and Metaphor in the Fiction of William Gibson
… by the spectacles of recall. Many of the fiction writers of the first American generation after television articulate strategies for inhabiting the amnesic spaces of the postmodern world. William Gibson in particular has incorporated this memory project into the majority of his early short …
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Oklahoma history, poetry and anti-communism: the writings of Zoe Tilghman
Zoe Tilghman was one of the early women writers in Oklahoma. Throughout her career she used her own experiences and those of her husband, the famous U.S. Marshal William Tilghman, to write stories that portrayed the West as a place of excitement and adventure. Most of her works were centered around …
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The aviator's (re)vision of the world : an aesthetics of ascension in Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama
… architects, artists, novelists, and science-fiction writers during the 1920s and 1930s. This "golden age" of American aviation was marked by the fantasy that the vision of the world from above would usher in new spatial dynamics from which would emerge the city of the future. I argue that Bel …
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Mediating Moore: Uncertain Origins and Indeterminate Identities in the Work of C. L. Moore
… Moore, one of the earliest female science fiction writers, is widely regarded by SF writers, editors, and fans as one of the field’s most influential founding mothers, with female SF writer Marion Zimmer Bradley claiming Moore as the "mother" of all women who write science fiction. Yet, …
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From Slave Ship to Supermax: The Prisoner Abuse Narrative in Contemporary African American Fiction
… in African American literature in which fiction writers bring to light the voice, critical thinking, and literary production of actual prisoner abuse survivors. This dissertation treats novelists James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, and Ernest Gaines as the contemporary prison's …
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Fiction and travel writing in Ireland, 1750-1840
… aims to show the complex relationship between fiction and travel writing from the middle of the eighteenth century to the eve of the Great Famine. My examination of the intertextuality between novels and travel books including geographical publications and guidebooks reveals how fiction writers …
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'In defense of the human' : the survival of moral optimism in post-war American fiction
… retreat has been particularly marked in American fiction since World War Two.This thesis seems to confront such assumptions about the "American Nightmare", as described in contemporary American fiction, by examining the work of six post-War American fiction writers: three Jews -- Saul Bellow, …
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The significance of space and setting : a critical analysis of selected South African fiction
… space and setting as used by South African fiction writers within the ideological framework of apartheid. Apartheid became the regime's preoccupation since 1948 and its ensuing social divisions impacted negatively on the Africans and the country's literature. The thesis consists of four …
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QUEEN: The Remaking of Character in the Modernist Novel
… is a symptom and symbol of a problem the Modern writers were trying to work out. Despite having an ambivalent or even hostile relationship with the Queen, she is one of the most represented historical figures in Joyce’s and Woolf’s work. Although a historian, I study Lytton Strachey’s …
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Modernism's Scarlet Letter: Plotting Abortion in American Fiction, 1900--1945
… Scarlet Letter: Plotting Abortion in American Fiction, 1900-1945"" credits modern fiction as a principle architect of twentieth-century American abortion politics. Drawing together a wide range of abortion plots from canonical, avant-garde and popular early twentieth-century texts, …
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Uncommon work: Utopia, labor, and environment in late twentieth-century American fiction
… form of environmental rhetoric circulating in fictional and political discourse. Unfortunately, apocalyptic environmental narratives largely registered as redundant among American publics, their mimetic approach to environmental crisis provoking nihilism and despair more than preventative …
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