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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Fiction--History and criticism"”.
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Wilkie Collins and the conventions of the thesis novel
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Vernuwing van maatskaplike norme as tema in afrikaanse jeuliteratuur vanaf 1985 tot 1995.
… en die hipotese wat getoets word, is dat die veranderde norme in die samelewing gereflekteer sal word in literatuur vir jongmense ten einde hulle te help om as volwaardige volwassenes op te tree. Daar word tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat daar nie in enigeen van die verhale wat ontleed is, enige …
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To be prosecuted, banished, and shot : motives, morals, and the modern American hero
… The distinguishing characteristics of Tom, Jim, and Huck reappear in the central figures of later American novels, novels dealing explicitly with the relationship between human perception and consequent behavior. The contrasting perceptions of Mark Twain's characters provide his novel with …
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Constructing reality from fantasy in The Wheel of Time and Anita Blake.
… of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series and Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series will reveal how fantasy allows the writer to display the individual self outside the mold of gender performance. Due to science fiction's ability to transcend reality, science fiction can depict the …
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Nuove intersezioni: crimine e storia nella narrativa Italiana al cambio di millennio
… of renewal within the novel-writing tradition and of discontinuity with postmodern culture. It proposes an interpretation of the genres of the historical novel and crime fiction in the last fifteen years, in order to underline the important role played by these types of narrative in …