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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Political fiction"”.
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After Orwell: Totalitarian Fears and the English Political Novel, 1950-2010
… Orwell: Totalitarian Fears and the English Political Novel, 1950-2010 gives a coherent account of the English political novel after World War II, a critical narrative absent from current scholarship. I contend that George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a touchstone for political …
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"""We the People"" and the Rhetorics of Republicanism in America, 1776--1845"
… republican governments and on emotional fears of political power resting in unworthy and dangerous hands. As these republican visions battled for supremacy they formed an American political fiction that was based as much on liberty as on the desire for control; as much on democracy as on the need …
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El que toma candela del fuego ajeno. Don Juan Manuel y la refundación castellana del mundo cortesano en el siglo XIV
… are part of a coherent and organic literary and political project written from the margins of political power, intended to renew the Castilian courtly world. I have called this project Juan Manuel’s seigneurial clerisy. The topics of his books describe the different fields of knowledge associated …
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Genital sensation: abrasive bodies in feminist performance
… This project proposes the female body as “political fiction” that reflects particular cultural values and considers ideas of feminist re-reading and feminist writing through Irigaray and Cixous (1983). Ultimately the recurrent focuses of this study are difference and female subjectivity …
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Narrative technique and readerships in postcolonial African fiction : towards reception theory
… pages] For sometime now studies of African fiction have neglected to explore what most African writers conceive of as a critical aspect of African literature -- the readerships of African texts. This preponderance in African criticism could probably be explained in terms of the fact that …
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El poder de la memoria en la narrativa chilena actual.
Esta tesis explora la relación entre la memoria y el poder en la narrativa chilena actual a través de dos novelas neopoliciales del autor chileno Ramón Diaz Eterovic, La ciudad está triste (1987) y Nadie sabe más que los muertos (1993). La hipótesis propuesta sostiene que dentro de la historia …
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Consecuencias de la dictadura en las novelas El señor presidente y Muertes de perro
<p>Así surge el problema materia de la presente investigación, cuyo punto de vista básico es que, hay algunos puntos de contacto en la acción causada por el dictador en las dos novelas, pero también hay algunas diferencias, que dan a cada una de las novelas un carácter peculiar.</p><p>El objeto de …