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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Literary imagination"”.
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Disposable Life: The Literary Imagination and the Contemporary Novel
… operations of disposability, and, by mobilizing literary techniques like intertextual play and uncanny narration, offers up a set of distinctively literary solutions to it. </p><p>The dissertation argues that the contemporary novel disrupts the workings of disposability by teaching its audience …
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Power lines: electric networks and the American literary imagination
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Interrelating with animals: nonhuman selves in the literary imagination
… Imaginative, the latter found in works of the imagination. The present study consisted of a survey and analysis of 46 contemporary children’s books with domestic animal characters, developed using criteria from the theoretical concepts presented on animal selfhood. Significant differences were …
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Prison and Garden: Cape Town, Natural History and the Literary Imagination
This work considers literary treatments of the colonial encounter at the Cape of Good Hope, adopting a local focus on the Peninsula itself to explore the relationship between specific archives – the records of the Dutch East India Company, travel and natural history writing, the Bleek and Lloyd …
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Anxious Records: Race, Imperial Belonging, and the Black Literary Imagination, 1900 - 1946
This dissertation excavates the print and archive culture of diasporic and continental Africans who forged a community in Cape Town between 1900 and 1946. Although the writers I consider write after the Victorian era, I use the term "black Victorian" to preserve their own political investments in a …
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Literary Imagination and Community Mental Health: A Deleuzian Analysis of Discourse in a Fiction Reading Group
… analyzed from the perspective of researcher as literary critic and through the Deleuzian lens of rhizomatic assemblages (Deleuze & Guattari, 1980/2005). This nonlinear, non-hierarchical and non-referential approach re-imagins the relationship among readers, texts and authors. Three themes follow …
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Narratives Of Southern Contact Zones: Mobility And The Literary Imagination Of Zora Neale Hurston And Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
This dissertation examines the literary works of the two Southern women writers, Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, based on the cultural contexts of the 1930s and the 1940s. It discusses how the two writers' works are in dialogue with each other, and with the particular historical …
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History in the literary imagination: the telling of Nongqawuse and the Xhosa Cattle-Killing in South African literature and culture (1891-1937)
… Cattle-Killing. My project examines a range of literary representations of this seminal moment in South African history: novels, plays, and short stories in English or English translation. The period under consideration encompasses the earliest literary responses to the Cattle-Killing and …
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Cultivating Literary Imagination, Developing Empathetic Understanding toward Others: Using Louise Rosenblatt's Reader Response Theory to Teach Literature to Eighth Graders in Southeast Georgia
<p>This study explores how to cultivate literary imagination and develop empathic understanding toward others through using Louise Rosenblatt's Reader Response Theory to teach literature to eighth graders in Southeast Georgia. Louise Rosenblatt's (1938/1995) reader response theory is the major …
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A Proper Secularism: Beyond Ideology in Bulgakov, Trilling, Updike and Pynchon
… and Pynchon,” explores the ways in which the literary imagination pushes beyond ideology, and points towards notions of the eternal, by attunement and fidelity to the material. In the terms of Rowan Williams, “if a proper secularism requires faith; if it is to guarantee freedom, this is …
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The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800
… ideological transition within the cultural and literary imagination from a profession to a way of being. At stake in "The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800" is the idea that surveillance, spying, and state secrecy inform and meaningfully intersect with eighteenth century narrative …
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Decolonizing the Body of the Chosen One: The Bodily Performance of Anakin Skywalker, Buffy Summers, and T'Challa
… fantasy and exists today in the Anglo-American literary imagination as a hero above other heroes. This figure embodies Anglo-American understandings of the Hero's Journey and savior narratives theorized by Joseph Campbell. It is a site of colonial triumph and violence and heteronormative white …
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Not Peace But the Sword: Violence in Contemporary American Catholic Literature
… reader's experience of the work. Drawing on the literary theories of Paul Ricoeur and William Lynch, I demonstrate that Catholic authors use violence in order to unsettle their audience and force their readers to ask questions about the ontological nature of existence. In addition, I investigate …
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Literature Meets Biology: An Evolutionary Approach to Literary Studies
… engages with the relatively young development in literary studies, called evocriticism, which uses scientific perspectives to look at literature. It first gives an overview of the current state of English departments and their decline in numbers, budgets, and cultural relevancy, mostly due to …
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Literature Meets Biology: An Evolutionary Approach to Literary Studies
… engages with the relatively young development in literary studies, called evocriticism, which uses scientific perspectives to look at literature. It first gives an overview of the current state of English departments and their decline in numbers, budgets, and cultural relevancy, mostly due to …
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Aspiring Writers and the Conditions of Authorship, 1870–1914
… a burgeoning publishing industry, and a fledging literary advice industry, there was a large stratum of ordinary people who aspired and attempted to write. Most of these individuals were not writing for a living, so would not have been listed in the census as authors. Many would never have been …
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In Quest of Wisdom: Louise Rosenblatt, H.D., and the Transactional Literary Experience
… the relationship between the transactional literary experience and the experience of being in quest of wisdom in literary studies. It achieves this by constructing a dialogue between two thinkers deeply concerned with aesthetic experience and personalist modes of learning: the …
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While Rome Burned: Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination
… had a powerful hold on the ancient Roman literary imagination. This phenomenon represents a unique confluence between literary tradition and urban reality: Greco-Roman literature offers a wide array of poetic, philosophical and historiographic reflections of cities destroyed by fire, yet …
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William Faulkner's Hebrew Bible: Empire and the Myths of Origins
I propose that William Faulkner's literary imagination is charged by a Jewish sensibility rooted in reverence for the Bible as a text that is as vital and relevant in his time as in any since its composition. The Hebrew Bible's narrative method of compiling, redacting, doubling, and retelling, and …
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Verses on Auschwitz : images of the Holocaust in modern American poetry
… and Second World War have made upon the literary imagination, an extensive review is conducted of the varied critical positions and criteria, both aesthetic and ethical, from which American literary responses have been evaluated. Among the major critical positions is the belief that there …
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