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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Genre Fiction"”.
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Breaking the rules : three novels innovating genre fiction
… that straddle the line between literary and genre fiction go unrecognized for important innovations. After establishing the rules and conventions of dystopian fiction, the hardboiled detective novel, and the zombie apocalypse narrative, I attempt to show how three novels subvert these rules …
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The Native new wave: creative sovereignty in twenty-first century Indigenous genre fiction
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Weird History: Genre Mixing in Contemporary American Historical Fiction
… communities, country, and planet. Weird History: Genre Mixing in Contemporary American Literature intervenes in this moment of crisis by interrogating how received narratives of American History are made “weird” in contemporary American historical fiction by mixing it with the tropes of popular …
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Seventy Years of Swearing upon Eric the Skull: Genre and Gender in Selected Works by Detection Club Writers Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie
… “Seventy Years of Swearing upon Eric the Skull: Genre and Gender in Selected Works by Detection Club Writers Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie” shows how the texts produced by Detection Club members Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie challenge assumptions about the value and role of …
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Creature Features and Consensus: Genre Fiction's Critique of Postwar Atomic Technology
… bomb was treated as a plot device in works of fiction, specifically those that would be defined as science fiction and fantasy. By examining these works of "genre" fiction, the intention is to show how the evolving depiction of the atomic bomb became entrenched in the American psyche. By …
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Warlock & the Bully
… title of Warlock & the Bully. It is a work of genre fiction, a self-aware Dark Academia Horror novel that has some comedic elements and is intended for adult or new adult readers. Warlock & the Bully navigates themes of homophobia, sexism, toxic masculinity and how society has changed and not …
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Brawn: the first four chapters
The question of genre may be unimportant when writing or reading fiction, but the marketplace continues to draw those dividing lines. Moreover, there are tropes and techniques to be learned from each discrete genre of fiction. The creative portion of this thesis consists of the first four chapters …
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The Zumbrota
… at the history of the serial detective in crime fiction and examine how serial detectives fit into the discussion of round and flat characters as defined by E.M. Forster and James Wood. Through the discussion of serial detectives as round and flat characters, I ultimately examine the fundamental …
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The Genre Writer's Portfolio
<p>The worlds of genre fiction and literary fiction frequently merge, but in practice, they tend to be taught and published separately. My work attempts to show that the two spheres function best when combined. A writer can use widely popular fiction to promote positive change and reflect on …
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The postmodern structure of consciousness
… questions, considered specifically in the genre fiction categories of detective fiction and science fiction respectively. Those genres were specifically chosen as they best exemplify texts which have epistemological and ontological dominants, and through an analysis of the genres …
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TRANSLATING GENRE: POST-2003 IRAQI FICTION AND CRITIQUES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
This dissertation explores Iraqi fiction written in Arabic and published in English translation since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and occupation. Reading in both Arabic and English, I focus on texts that Anglophone publishers market as genre fiction. Iraqi writers, I contend, use genre fictional …
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Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism
… of affectations of pagan Celticity to his genre fiction, style, and theories of Romance. Overall, my research contributes to Victorian scholarship by showing how creative writers from the 1860s to the 1890s participated in the revival of paganism in ways that respond to and challenge …
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The Margins of the Market: Women Writers and the US Publishing Industry in the Long 1950s
… 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 Petry, Dorothy B. Hughes, Laura Z. Hobson, Shirley Jackson, Carson McCullers, and Dorothy West" represent …
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Reading the middle: US women novelists and print culture, 1930-1960
… it, I argue that the women writers of mainstream fiction in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s summoned carefully circumscribed deployments of critical paradigms such as feminism, antiracism, and anticapitalism to allow their American middle-class audience to elevate their leisure reading to a passively …
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Nuove intersezioni: crimine e storia nella narrativa Italiana al cambio di millennio
… 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 revitalizing contemporary Italian literature. These modalities of writing are considered both …