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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Historical novel"”.
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Literary Dimensions of National Identity: The Historical Novel of the Late Soviet Period (1960s--1980s)
… popular and ideologically ""safest"" genre of historical novel in the post-Stalin period in two Soviet literatures, Russian and Ukrainian. In this comparative study the author analyzes a set of novels by Russian and Ukrainian writers which center on Kievan Rus', medieval Muscovy, and the period …
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A riotous black man from way down south: an historical novel, exegesis and response to examiners
… concerns and issues informing the writing of the novel b) A Riotous Black Man From Way Down South. This is an historical novel which comprises the first volume of a projected trilogy. It is a bildungsroman based loosely upon the life of John Joseph, the first man of thirteen prisoners tried for …
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We too shall be mothers : her story, our story, history: feminism and postmodernism in the contemporary historical novel
This Master of Arts thesis is in two parts : a novel, We Too Shall Be Mothers, (WTSBM) and an exegesis which positions the novel in relation to several strands of contemporary theory and fiction. The novel is set during the French Revolution in the southern French city of Avignon and in Vienna, the …
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Three English (Re)translations of the Chinese Historical Novel Three Kingdoms (Sanguo yanyi): An Analysis of Social Context, Paratext and Text
… (re)translations within their distinct sociohistorical contexts. The exploration is conducted by contextualizing the (re)translations within the societal ideologies and norms of their respective eras, considering the translators’ experiences, historical contexts, and reader feedback. A …
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Ricardian women, mythogenesis, and webbing: Analysis and application of rhetorical principles of the historical novel in Rosemary Jarman's ricardian cycle
The classic definition of the historical novel largely ignores modern women--centered historical novels which move in cyclic, non-linear fashion and create webs of narrative which interact intertextually. The current study looks at a modern cycle of historical novels (Rosemary Jarman's ricardian …
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La novela histórica de ayer a hoy La tierra del fuego como prototipo ilustre
… seeks to investigate the current status of the Historical Novel as a literary genre through the analysis of the novel La tierra del fuego (1998), by the Argentinian novelist Sylvia Iparraguirre. The main objective of the investigation is to provide an overview of the theoretical approaches and …
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Creating the Present From the Ideological Margins of Society: Pseudo -Autobiographies in Post -Dictatorship Spain
… which contributed to the rise of the new historical novel in Spain. To comprehend the rise of pseudo-autobiography, Chapter one reviews recent theories of historical discourse, the historical novel, and autobiography itself. Chapter two notes that Azana is the first pseudo-autobiography of …
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The Garden of Earthly Delights
The Garden of Earthly Delights is a historical novel set in late 15th century Spain.
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Genre and Politics in the Historical Fictions of William Godwin and Mary Shelley
… to contribute to the critical work regarding the historical fictions of William Godwin and Mary Shelley, specifically considering the importance of Godwin’s unpublished essay on genre, “Of History and Romance” (1797), in the creation of a unique approach to historical fiction, the Godwinian …
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Tapping My Way Through World War II
<p>A historical novel in diary form set in 1945. In it a young woman joins the USO as a tap dancer and entertainer, and travels to Guam, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, and Germany.</p>
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Livingstone's cataract
… the Zambesi River. Livingstone's Cataract is a historical novel that follows Baines's involvement with the expedition. It is written from Baines's point of view, in the first person...
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And Her Increase and Selected Stories
… an oppressive regime in a dystopian future. The historical novel And Her Increase and these widely varying stories coalesce around themes of freedom and oppression, choice and desire.</p>
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Dispossession, Realism and the History of Neoliberalism in Peru and Colombia (1964-2014)
… connections between these fields to study the historical dimension in the Peruvian and Colombian novels of the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, a period marked by rural violence and dispossession that, by abandoning national industrialization, …
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Teaching Ethics in the Information Systems Curriculum
… mini-case studies, contemporary news events, a historical novel called IBM and the Holocaust (Black, 2001a), a Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) ethics grid created by the instructor, and online discussions in WebCT. The students were surveyed at the end of the semester as to the …
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Following Neo-Victorian paths - Il personaggio tra realtà storica e trasposizione letteraria
Lo scopo di questo studio è descrivere il ruolo dei personaggi storici nei romanzi postmoderni, con particolare attenzione al nuovo genere del romanzo neo-vittoriano. Attraverso un'approfondita analisi di "The Prestige" di Christopher Priest e di "Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem" di Peter …
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Nuove intersezioni: crimine e storia nella narrativa Italiana al cambio di millennio
… characterized by elements 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 …
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Rewriting urban narratives of the Australian Great Depression.
… Great Depression is a thesis consisting of a novel, Dadaville, and an exegesis. Inspired by a Max Ernst painting of the same name, Dadaville is set in Sydney in 1931, a city in the grip of brutal poverty. The unemployed riot as they are evicted from homes in their thousands. Among them are …
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