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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"PS American literature"”.
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'Lyric realism' to 'Epic consciousness' : poetic subjectivity in the work of Edward Dorn
… late 1950's to Gunslinger, his mock epic of the American West written between 1968 and 1974. The overall background premise to the present study is that, in this period, Dorn's work develops from a form of lyric, in his early work, to the construction of a multiple and epic consciousness within …
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Making Home : (Re)Writing Motherhood and Identity in African American Women’s Fiction
… and diasporic homemaking within four African American women’s novels of the twentieth century. Combining black feminist critique, maternal theory and historical enquiry, the work develops across four chapters, beginning with Paule Marshall’s 1959 novel Brown Girl, Brownstones, and progressing …
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American made: The homegrown terrorist and 9/11 myths in the contemporary US novel
… of the "homegrown terrorist" in post-2010 literature to determine whether contemporary novels provide a critique of the national myths reinvigorated in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. To understand how contemporary literature speculates on the causes of …
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Cultural Identity and the dilemma of "in-betweenness" in selected Arab-American and Jewish-American novels.
… conceived as an exile for citizens. The Jewish-American and Arab-American narratives under study demonstrate this aspect of ‘home as exile’ and reflect the amount of culminating suffering and anxiety that direct the native’s gaze towards the West. The liminal situation between home as ‘exile’ …
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The Story Less Told: Representations in the Inter-War Years of the American White Working Class by Four Female Authors
This thesis will study novels written in the interwar years by four female authors: Anzia Yezierska, Fielding Burke, Grace Lumpkin, and Myra Page. While a general overview of these authors’ biographies, writing styles, themes, and approaches to issues surrounding race and religion will be provided, …
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A Specific Elsewhere: Locating Masculinity in Jack Kerouac's On The Road
… to experience the more marginalised aspects of American society. This dissertation offers an interpretative exploration of the ways in which Kerouac’s chronicling of his travels in On the Road: The Original Scroll presents images of, and the search for, a subjectively authentic experience of …
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The haunted house of memory in the fiction of Stephen King
… apparitions and suggests they may be less para-psychological and more psychoanalytical in nature. The second part, 'Creative Engagement', demonstrates the influence King's writing has had on my own work by providing an extract from a new novel, Without Warning, a sequel to my first book, Summer …
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Serialisation, Settings, Characters: a comparative case study of gender roles in society, as addressed in selected novels by Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and Edith Wharton
… change. Despite cultural differences between the American and the British societies portrayed , Hardy, James and Wharton as major authors of their time share a number of concerns about male and female interactions within vastly changing societies. Furthermore, this investigation aims to establish …
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Gender, Madness and the Search for Identity in selected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
In this thesis I engage with the subject of identity and how it is formed and undermined in the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. In many of the novels and short stories a tension exists between two opposing forces. The first is the pursuit of a social identity which values inherited wealth and familial …
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Fetishising the Dominant Culture in Migration Narratives: Examining Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran, Bharati Mukhejree’s Jasmine and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
This thesis addresses the ideological underpinnings in the migration narratives of Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003), Bharati Mukhejree’s Jasmine (1989) and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003) in order to reveal how certain meanings become more legitimate than others. In …
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The Influence and Subversion of the Southern Folk Tradition in the Novels of William Faulkner
… folk and vernacular elements, such as Jason Compson’s vernacular consciousness, the storytelling in Absalom, Absalom! or the trickster figure in the Snopes novels. I will be using Ed Piacentino’s The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor for secondary research and Mikhail Bakhtin’s The Dialogic …
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The Sites of Uncertainty: The Politics and Poetics of Place in Short Fiction by James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner
This thesis is a study of the poetics and politics of place in the short stories of James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner. In an introduction, three chapters, each examining the short fiction of a writer, and a conclusion this thesis explores various aspects of understanding and …
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Literary urbanism, visuality and modernity
Literary Urbanism and the Symbolist Aesthetic argues that the modern city influences urban writers to develop particular literary-visual practices that translate urban experience into poetry and prose. Chapter one considers how urban planning in Paris during the Second Empire inspired Charles …
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Special relationships: Anglo-American love affairs, courtships and marriages in fiction, 1821-1914
Special Relationships examines depictions of love affairs, courtships and marriages between British and American characters in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American short stories and novels. I argue that these transatlantic love stories respond to shifting Anglo-American cultural, …
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Subjectivity In American popular metal: contemporary gothic, the body, the grotesque, and the child
This thesis examines the subject in Popular American Metal music and culture during the period 1994-2004, concentrating on key artists of the period: Korn, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Tura Satana and My Ruin. Starting from the premise that the subject is consistently portrayed as …
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SOUNDS POWERFUL West African Islamic Considerations in African American Song
… discussions. It examines aspects of African American music from a West African and Islamic perspective. The introduction explains how Jungian analytical psychology is adopted as a primary research methodology. In the first chapter, Islamic elements are identified in African American song in …
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William Blake's American legacy: transcendentalism and visionary poetics in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman
This thesis examines William Blake's American legacy by identifying a precise American interest in Blake that can be dated from Ralph Waldo Emerson's early reading of Songs of Innocence and Experience in 1842. Chapter one will show that the New England Transcendentalists - primarily Emerson, but …
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Alice Walker’s Womanist Fiction: Tensions and Reconciliations
… regards to its specific concerns with African American women’s rights, identities, and self-actualisation, and points towards its more overarching concerns with human relations and sexual freedom, as expressed in each of Walker’s seven novels. The seven novels discussed in the thesis are The …
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(Extra)Ordinary evenings in New H(e)aven: the religious element in the poetics of Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was profoundly affected by Nietzsche’s declaration of the death of God and his poetry reflects an ongoing struggle to understand what it means to be a poet in an age of disbelief. Although Steven’s early poetry suggests that this loss of belief created a sense of crisis in the poet, …
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