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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America"”.
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Chinoiserie in the novels of Robert Hans van Gulik
… considers the cultural transactions that occur in Robert Hans van Gulik's Judge Dee stories, a set of "Chinese" investigative fiction works written by a Dutchman in English. These works are investigated through the interpretive lens of chinoiserie --an extension of Edward Said's Orientalism, …
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Posthumanism in Literature: Redefining Selfhood, Temporality, and Reality/ies through Fiction
… reality, their relation <em>to </em>reality and the ways in which they distort or reinforce our understandings <em>of</em> reality can provide significant insights into our cultural values and beliefs. Using posthumanist theory, I examine how understandings of selfhood and its relations to …
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Margaret Cavendish's Exploration of Consciousness in Her Writings
<p>Writing at a time when women had few property rights, were given scarce educational opportunities, and were viewed as incorrigibly irrational, the largely autodidactic English intellectual Margaret Cavendish is fascinated by knowledge and how to secure for herself a place in the micro- as well …
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Not the Whole Story: Narrative Responses to Contemporary Globalization
… analyzes contemporary global fiction in English (and, in one chapter, new media literatures such as videogame-based narratives) to examine how individuals, communities, and globalized networks manage differences among historical interpretations, ideologies, lived experiences, and …
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'Everything Looks Different up Close': Perception in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood
<p>In the first two books of her MaddAdam series (a projected trilogy), Margaret Atwood explores a series of events from three very different perspectives. A close reading of the two texts suggests that the specific focalizers chosen, and their very different ways of perceiving the world around …
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The Struggle to Re-establish Anglo Superiority in American Modernism and its Collapse into American Tragedy
… study of the impact Anglo race assertion had on American Modernism through the work of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and T.S. Eliot shaping the discourse on American cultural identity. Arthur Miller and his "Tragedy and the Common Man" put an end to Modernism's Anglo stronghold and brought about the …
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Readers in Pursuit of Popular Justice: Unraveling Conflicting Frameworks in <em>Lolita</em>
<p>This thesis examines the competing frameworks in Vladimir Nabokov’s <em>Lolita</em>—the fictional Foreword written by John Ray, Jr., Ph.D. and the manuscript written by Humbert Humbert—in order to understand to what extent the construction manipulates the rhetorical appeal. While previous …
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Who Died: Redefining the Elegy Through Affect and Trauma
<p>This project introduces the claim that death literature, specifically elegies and epitaphs, do not rely on set structure or content, but rather are poetic effects of trauma and affect. Both have been defined and redefined by critical scholars, but there is still a division about their use. The …
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Debating Difference: Haitian Transnationalism in Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic
<p>Blacks who have descended from the nineteenth century Atlantic slave trade have historically debated and worked to claim a sense of cultural identity that reflects their African heritage and their identity as diasporic. I am particularly interested in how people of the black Atlantic claim their …
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Transformation and Restoration: Boyhood Masculinity in Michael Ende's The Neverending Story
<p>Michael Ende’s 1979 novel, <em>The Neverending Story </em>(<em>Die unendliche Geschichte</em> in its original German), follows Bastian Balthazar Bux, a young boy plagued by bullies, as he steals a book called <em>The Neverending Story </em>and runs away from home to read it. As Bastian reads, …
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The Biopolitics of Famine: British Means of Colonial Control
<p>Even the most comprehensive famine accounts rely primarily on large-scale demographic and statistical data, such as census reports and birth and death statistics, creating a “bird’s eye view” of areas plagued with famine and of the perpetrators. Famine literature, if available, allows for a much …
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Mary, Quite Contrary: The Novels of Mary Davys, 1700–1727
… 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> (1716), <em>The Reform’d Coquet</em> (1724), and …
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"Wonderfully ordinary" words from a romantic archive of Elizabeth Jolley's writing for students : Creative process as a garland of fragments
This project, including the visual artworks and poetry developed for the exhibition Wonderfully Ordinary, is the outcome of practice-led research into the creative process. Through creative practice—and the development of a personal and fragmentary process of invention—it aims to generate knowledge …
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