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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Fictitious character"”.
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"Die Willkuer der Ichsucht": Jean Paul's "Clavis Fichtiana" and the critique of German idealism
… Fichte's growing influence. Through the fictitious character of Leibgeber, an enthusiastic Fichtean eventually driven mad by his own philosophy, Jean Paul tried to demonstrate the absurdity that resulted from following Fichte's principles through to their logical conclusion. The ultimate …
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How to be a hero: a rhetorical analysis of superman's first appearance in Action Comics
… Comics no. 1. Superman’s lack of distinguishing characteristics, dual identity, and embodiment of American culture allowed the character to become a vehicle for Siegel and Shuster, persuading children to be a helper of those in need and champion of the oppressed. Varying panel size and choosing …
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A Wonder Whose Origin is not Known: The Importance of the Orphan Hero in Otherworldly Film
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the importance of the orphan hero in film and his resonance with the American people. It explores the orphan and the American identities, the archetypes found in myths, and the hero in American culture. The three heroes (Batman, Anakin Skywalker, and Harry …
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From meme to memegraph: The curious case of Pepe the Frog and white nationalism
1 PDF file (iv, 118)
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Detecting Masculinity: The Positive Masculine Qualities of Fictional Detectives.
Detective fiction highlights those qualities of masculinity that are most valuable to a contemporary culture. In mysteries a cultural context is more thoroughly revealed than in any other genre of literature. Through the crimes, an audience can understand not only the fears of a particular society …
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¿Qué significa ser LGTB en televisión estadounidense actual? estudio de cuatro personajes LGTB
This research seeks to observe LGBT characters created in recent years on American television that show a new type of representation for each part of the LGBT community, one that is closer to the way people identify themselves, less offensive and more diverse.
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Breaking out the monster in Lara Croft
1 PDF file (v, 60 pages)
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Batman and the superhero fairytale: deconstructing a revisionist crisis
1 PDF file (iii, 62 pages)
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Animating Sun Wukong: Shanghai Animation Film Studio's Havoc in Heaven and Symbolic Transformation on the Eve of the Cultural Revolution
This paper attempts to deconstruct the complex intersection of Maoist-era propaganda and Chinese folk-art traditions in the years before China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) by interrogating the symbolic transformation of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, into a hero who justified rebellious action. …
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"Reader" in Jane Eyre
This thesis is designed to show the development of feminist power of Jane Eyre, the heroine of Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre, by examining how her reader is addressed in the totality of this novel. The main body of this thesis will follow the four parts of Jane Eyre’s different period of her …
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From future homemaker of America to the lesbian continuum: the queering of Mary Ann Singletone in Armistead Maupin's Tales
… century America. This paper mainly examines the character of Mary Ann Singleton and the "queering" of her character. The writings of Michael Foucault, Judith Butlter, Adrienne Rich, Eve K. Sedgewich, and Simone de Beauvoir are vital in understanding how a straight woman journeys onto the lesbian …
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The humanization of Falstaff: audience experience and response in <i>Henry IV</i>
… and responses of the audience to a dominant character in a Shakespearean drama which is text as well as playscript. It is less a total reading of <em>Henry IV</em> than an interpretation of Falstaff’s progress through it, particularly when that progress is interwoven—as it so frequently …
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An analytical study of the character of Sir John Falstaff
<p>This monograph is an analytical study of the character of Sir John Falstaff in The First and Second Parts of Henry The Fourth, and The Merry Wives of Windor, by William Shakespeare, its purpose being to assist in an accurate portrayal of the character upon the stage. It is, then, an acting …
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Taran: An individuated hero for the collective unconscious
<p>This study analyzes Lloyd Alexander's <em>The Prydain Chronicles</em> through a Jungian lens. Previous scholarship on Alexander's works has briefly considered archetypal criticism, but not extensively. Bruno Bettelheim's thoughts are used intermittently throughout the thesis. This study …
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Taran: An individuated hero for the collective unconscious
<p>This study analyzes Lloyd Alexander's <em>The Prydain Chronicles</em> through a Jungian lens. Previous scholarship on Alexander's works has briefly considered archetypal criticism, but not extensively. Bruno Bettelheim's thoughts are used intermittently throughout the thesis. This study …
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Murky Impressions of Postmodernism: Eugene Gant and Shakespearean Intertext in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River
… reading habits of Wolfe the author and Gant the character. I also scrutinize the plurality of Gant's methods of cognition as a reader who interprets texts, communicates his connections with texts, and wars with texts. Further, I assess the cumulative effect of Wolfe's having blurred the …