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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Generic conventions"”.
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(Re)Animating the Horror Genre: Explorations in Children's Animated Horror Films
… within the children's film genre and its use of generic conventions of horror. While this project does not aim to conflate children's film as a genre and animation as a medium, the scope of this project will be limited to children's animated horror films from 1993 - present day. In order to …
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The Untalented Boyle
… instead.</p> <p>I wrote this novel using novella generic conventions as a constraint. My critical afterword explores the influence of the novella on the modern short novel. Such conventions include repetition, symbolism and authorial intervention. I compare Wescott’s <em>The Pilgrim Hawk</em> to …
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1960s travel fiction and Englishness during the postimperial turn
… during the 60s were using travel tropes and the generic conventions of travel narratives in their fiction, they were rarely doing so to question how the connotations of travel had changed with the end of empire or to investigate in self-critical fashion the role of travel in endorsing imperial …
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"Falling to a devilish exercise": Magic and Spectacle on the Renaissance Stage
… alternately adapting and utilizing its generic conventions to create a new theatrical experience for what had by then become a largely upscale audience. The magus is perhaps the best figure to explain how the taste and prejudice of the popular audiences of the 1580s and 1590s influenced …
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Convenient fictions: the disciplining mechanisms of screenplay structure
… It is my contention that narrative and (most) generic conventions operate as straightening, whitening, and masculinizing devices, so that, even when female/of color/queer characters are plugged into traditional narratives, they become normalized, disciplined, and more in line with cis, white, …
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Al-Jāḥiẓ’s Treatises on the Imamate
… in his writings can be explained in terms of generic conventions. Al-Jāhiẓ argues that the revelation is silent concerning the imamate, and considers that this institution is necessary for the community -and a duty upon the elites- on the basis of Muʿtazilite epistemological and ethical …
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A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE NOVELS OF JOHN FOWLES
… and an exploration of the relationship of generic conventions to quotidian reality. In The Collector chapter I show how Fowles uses the double point of view to reveal the many ways in which freedom may be abused. The chapter on The French Lieutenant's Woman deals with Fowles's understanding …
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Estructura e ideología en la obra de Ángela Carter y Rikki Ducornet. Escribir desde la posmodernidad
… the juxtaposition of different discourses and generic conventions, traditionally separated in the domains of culture. In this sense the first chapter is devoted to the study of the Bildungsroman and its recreation in the conventional structures of Gothic fiction, science fiction, and fairy …
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The Virus in the Garrison: Contagious Disease in Canadian Fiction
… Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy deconstructs the generic conventions of plague narrative in the service of a commentary on the limitations of narrative in disease contexts. Taken together, these texts chart deep anxieties about the outcomes of confronting the porous boundaries of imagined …
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Bolshevizing Britain in the Interwar Imagination
… depiction of ex-servicemen, these novels adapt conventions of archetypal romantic heroism to suit a period wherein heroes were imagined as returning from rather than leaving for war. Bolshevizing Britain moves away from assessments of early interwar British anti-Bolshevik fiction as a static set …
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"I Have Thought Proper to Inform the World": Reading Unconventional Testaments of 18th-Century New England Women
… reading of the record that runs counter to its generic conventions.</p>
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Adolescent time: Adolescence and the formation of Chicano literature
… Villareal’s Pocho (1990)—that rely upon the generic conventions of the bildungsroman and of adolescence to establish legible representations of Mexican American masculinity which were strategically recovered by Chicano activists and scholars. A strategic identification with the protagonists …
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The Margins of the Market: Women Writers and the US Publishing Industry in the Long 1950s
… values given the site of publication and generic conventions. And lastly, I evaluate how publicity and authorship are portrayed in women writers' fiction, how this was undergirded by the threat of violence, and how this violence was countered or subverted. The authors I consider here" Ann …
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Mary, Quite Contrary: The Novels of Mary Davys, 1700–1727
<p>As a relatively unknown author, Mary Davys (1674-1732) has garnered scant scholarly attention and little admiration for her work. Those who have written on Davys’s prose fiction most often mention the last three texts she published, <em>Familiar Letters betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady</em> …