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Showing 1 to 20 of 174 for “"Jeanette"”.
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Representations of love in the novels of Jeanette Winterson from 1985 to 2000
… you go down." (TP 51) This reference from Jeanette Winterson's "The Powerbook" typifies the value that love is given in her seven main novels. Love is idealised. It is also depicted as unavoidable, as unavoidable as the ice floe and as potentially destructive. Idealised, inevitable love is …
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Queering the Bildungsroman: homosexuality in the bildungsromane of Jeanette Winterson and Alan Hollinghurst and All Girl Live Action
My project is in the field of creative writing and consists of two related parts: a Bildungsroman of approximately 75,000 words and an essay of approximately 20,000 words. My novel,<i> All Girl Live Action</i>, is set between 1986 and 1988 and tells the coming-of-age story of Niamh Donnelly, who …
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Transcriptional response and DNA adduct analysis of murine liver exposed to aflatoxin B₁ by Jeanette Louise Allen Fiala.
Human dietary exposure to aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), especially in areas where significant hepatitis B infection is concurrent. Susceptibility to this carcinogen varies among species. Neonatal mice, like rats and most other species, are highly sensitive to the …
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Recurrent Structural and Thematic Traits in Jeanette Winterson's "The Passion" and "Sexing the Cherry": Time, Space and the Construction of Identity
… escritas por la autora británica contemporánea Jeanette Winterson. Aunque el tiempo y el espacio son rasgos estructurales y temáticos recurrentes en toda su obra, este trabajo se centra en The Passion (1987) y Sexing the Cherry (1989) por dos motivos fundamentales: por un lado, son las únicas …
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Cover stories & undercover stories apartheid South Africa 1969-1984
… forces decide to send the bomb that killed Jeanette and Katryn Schoon on the 28th of June 1984? This dissertation argues that the targeting of Jeanette Schoon was neither random nor thoughtless, but rather was the result of years of intelligence work. Therefore, this dissertation traces a …
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Rising: A Feature Film
… boarding school for boys, due to his mother’s (Jeanette) promotion. Ezra soon fits in with a group of boys, lead by alpha male Tony, and is even offered a university scholarship by the school dean, Father Mason. However, Ezra develops a relationship with another boy, Gary, and after several …
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Joan
… Years' War. Joan's themes, "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella" and "He is Born," are both familiar French carols. In addition to these two themes, the piece begins with a solo offstage horn (God), which is then joined by the brass section in a triumphant clarion call. Thematic material …
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Maneuvers in the Oeuvre: The problem of confession in the works of Foucault, Mishima and Winterson".
… The works of Michel Foucault, Yukio Mishima and Jeanette Winterson demonstrate how writers may foreground their resistance towards discursive penetration despite an ostensibly confessional stance, and establish their works as a site where deliberate incoherence, as much as much, can be produced. …
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The androgynous ideal in twentieth-century feminist literature : Woolf, Carter, Winterson and Harpman
… and fiction, of Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson and Jacqueline Harpman. Androgyny is an idea which is thousands of years old, and an overview of its presence in religion, mythology and psychology is included as background to its representation in the work of these writers. The …
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Intertextualidade (e anti-linenaridade) as obras de Janette Winterson : Oranges are not the only fruit, The passion e Sexing the chery : desafio, ou afirmação de convençõpes literárias?
… que dá a conhecer o background literário de Jeanette Winterson introduz os tópicos e as teorias que subjazem à argumentação desenvolvida ao longo da dissertação. A anti-linearidade, a intertextualidade, o Pós-Modernismo ou a construção da identidade constituem vectores centrais na abordagem …
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We too shall be mothers : her story, our story, history: feminism and postmodernism in the contemporary historical novel
… and relationship, which are also evident in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion (1987). The research material for this thesis has come from a range of sources. Primary sources include field visits to the European cities of Avignon and Vienna. Secondary sources include literary theory, novels, …
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Freedom and the city: contemporary British fiction and the cultural politics of disenfranchisement
… close readings of six contemporary authors—Jeanette Winterson, Hanif Kureishi, J.G. Ballard, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and Maggie Gee—I uncover the process by which British writers working after Thatcher came to believe that one of the consequences of this experiment with freedom has been a …
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Representations of Space/Place and their Relationship to Trauma in Contemporary Women’s Writing
… Maggie O’Farrell, Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne, Jeanette Winterson’s memoir Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? and The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. <br/>This study advances a theory of an inter-relationship between Anthony Vidler’s notion of the uncanny and Michel Foucault’s concept of …
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The Time Helix: Nonlinear Narrative Structures and the Paradox of Delayed Simultaneity
… study primarily focuses on the following novels: Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time (2015), Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011), Ariel Lawhon’s I Was Anastasia (2018), Kate Morton’s The Clockmaker’s Daughter (2018), Ali Smith’s How to Be Both (2015), and Bernardine Evaristo’s …
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Threads of influence: Greek tragedy and its relevance to the contemporary novel, with specific reference to Donna Tartt's 'The secret history', and my novel, 'The first seven years'
… Oedipus Rex and Phèdre, readings by DBC Pierre & Jeanette Winterson, and an interview with David Guterson. This journal has proved invaluable throughout my MPhil, both as an inspiration and an aide-mémoire.
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The feminist postmodern fantastic: sexed, gendered, and sexual identities
… selected authors Hélène Cixous, Monique Wittig, Jeanette Winterson, and Angela Carter represent distinct and diverse, culturally specific, literary and feminist traditions, reformulating the relationship between modernism and postmodernism in different ways and with varying degrees of success. …
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Labyrinths : navigating Daedalus' legacy : the role of labyrinths in selected contemporary fiction
… Rose (1980), Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor (1985), Jeanette Winterson's The Passion (1987) and Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves (2000). These novels target specific usages of the trope, whereby the physical event of the labyrinth and its navigation, coupled with the labyrinthine text, …
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Retextualized transculturations: The emergence of La Malinche as figure in Chicana literature
… Sosa Riddell, Delia Islas, Gloria Herrera and Jeanette Lizcano, and Adelaida R. del Castillo (Chapter III); Lucha Corpi, Carmen Tafolla, Ines Hernandez Tovar, Sylvia Alicia Gonzales, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Cordelia Candelaria, and Angela de Hoyos (Chapter IV); and Lupe A. Gonzales, Norma Alarcon, …
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Enclosed Edens, Contested Waters & Failed Utopias: An Ecocritical Reading of Epistemic Land Claims in Okanagan Literature
… works by writers, including Susan Allison, Jeanette Armstrong, Jason Dewinetz, George Bowering, Nancy Holmes, Patrick Lane, John Lent, Alice Barrett Parke, Harold Rhenish, Laisha Rosnau and Dania Tomlinson. This dissertation aims to trace the contexts that inform the finding and making of …
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From exclusion to inclusion : Young people’s trajectories from home to street to reintegration in the Kagera region, Tanzania.
This thesis examines what causes children and young people to leave their homes, how they experience their situation on the streets and as domestic workers, and what facilitates them to reintegrate into their local community. A mixed methods approach was used, combining both qualitative and …
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