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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Patricia Highsmith"”.
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"A Story in an Obscure Corner of the Front Page": Patricia Highsmith, Pamela Moore, Joyce Johnson and the Negotiatory Politics of Sexual and Gender Insubordination in Post-War America
… My research fills this gap by analysing Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 The Price of Salt (Carol), Pamela Moore’s 1956 Chocolates for Breakfast and Joyce Johnson’s 1962 Come and Join the Dance. What is at stake in my problematisation of these novels’ marginalised status is their potential for …
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Acquaintances and Other Stories
… of several authors, including Kristen Roupenian, Patricia Highsmith, Clair Vaye Watkins, among others.</p>
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"Existential Realism: Modernism and the Ethics of Agency in the Franco-American Existentialist Tradition, 1937-1955"
… of novels by John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Patricia Highsmith, I show how such immersive narratives invite readers to inhabit characters’ agency. These novels illuminate a dimension of character agency that has gone overlooked in the prevailing modernist accounts of twentieth-century …
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Railspace: A Geocritical Study of the Railroad through American Literature and Culture
… M. Cain, and <em>Strangers on a Train </em>by Patricia Highsmith—and their filmic adaptations work together to form the passenger car as a contested railspace of fear and unease. The mobile Hell on Wheels that stations itself at the terminus of construction in the American West along the …
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Female Voice and Agency in Film Adaptations
… on a Train</i>. Book (Author): Patricia Highsmith (1950). Film (Director): Alfred Hitchcock (1951)<br/><i>The Sixth Sense</i>. Book (Author): Original Screenplay. Film (Director): M. Night Shyamalan (1999)<br/><i>Live Flesh</i>. Book (Author): Ruth Rendell (1986). Film …
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Reading the middle: US women novelists and print culture, 1930-1960
"""Reading the Middle: US Women Novelists and Print Culture, 1930-1960"" is about feminist protest as a core value of the American bourgeoisie, bringing gender studies, digital humanities, and American literature and print culture together in analyses of a collection of thirty-plus novels of …