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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Others in European languages, literature & related subjects"”.
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Empty heroics, low comedy and pointless death: Structures of melancholy in the early novels of Kurt Vonnegut
This thesis explores structures of melancholy in five of Kurt Vonnegut's early novels, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions. The thesis attempts to give new readings to each of the novels by drawing on critical approaches to melancholy and …
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The sins of the father: a study of patrilineality in Colm Toibins' The Heather Blazing and Dermot Bolger's The Valparaiso Voyage
Inspired by Anthony Clare's notion of a "masculinity in crisis", my thesis explores two narratives written by male authors from the Irish Republic in an effort to determine if (and how) an ongoing and often heavily resisted "feminist" and gendered "revolution" (Clare 4) has shaped men's …