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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Popular Fiction"”.
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Realism, sentimentalism, and popular fiction
… reading of representative examples of Freeman's fiction in their sociocultural and generic contexts leads to a description and estimate of Freeman's corpus that transcends the limited acclaim for her two early short story collections, A Humble Romance (1887) and A New England Nun (1891). American …
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Popular fiction television production in Nigeria: global models, local responses
This thesis explores the ways in which popular fiction television is produced in Nigeria in the 21st century and through it the investigation of social relations in the industry and the analysis of its products. In so doing the thesis also interrogates the assumptions of social theorists regarding …
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Investigating popular fiction development at the University of the Free State academic Library
… staff's perceptions and experiences of the popular fiction collection at the University of the Free State's Sasol Library. The purpose of the study is to examine what these perceptions and experiences mean for the future expansion and development of the leisure collection. The Social …
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Idyll and ideology : a comparative study of British and German popular fiction for girls, 1888-1918
… is a comparative analysis of British and German popular girls’ fiction from 1888 to 1918. In three chapters, it investigates the ways in which relations between Britain and Germany were reflected and played out in this genre, and how they were presented to a readership of adolescent girls. While …
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My life is over now : a novel and critical commentary
… are aspiring to be literary and not on works of popular fiction in this thesis. My reasons for this are fairly straight forward. First of all, it is a matter of personal interest, and the fact that my novel, My Life is Over Now, is a literary work and not a work of popular fiction. Second, as far …
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Invisible Scarlet O'Neil and the Whitman Authorized Editions for Girls: Homefront Representations of the American Feminine and the Feminine Heroic During World War II
… intertwining of propaganda imperatives and adult popular fiction, this dissertation helps bridge the literature gap between propaganda studies and children's popular fiction. Further, the cultural definitions and uses of Denning (1987), Cawelti (1976), and Wright (2001) are extended to examine a …
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Sickly Sentimentalism: Sympathy and Pathology in American Women's Literature, 1866-1900
… that pathologized women’s emotions. The popular fiction of Metta Fuller Victor, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett, and E.D.E.N. Southworth mobilized sentimental style and sympathetic affect to challenge the medical trend of treating female sentiment as a sickness. At the level of …
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Populêre vs. literêre grensverhale : twee beelde van die Angolese oorlog (1966-1989)
… dissertation, a study is made of two bodies of fiction documenting the South African soldier in Angola. The fiction was limited to Afrikaans short stories, as this genre is believed to best reflect the fragmentary, explosive experience of combat. This demarcation also served as a way of limiting …
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The question of value: Reading Stephen King in a literary context
… decision to offer such a prestigious award to a popular fiction writer like King. I contest, however, that popular writing is not always unintelligent or inartistic and that King's writing is an example of popular fiction that also has literary value. My goal in this thesis is to examine some of …
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The Genre Writer's Portfolio
<p>The worlds of genre fiction and literary fiction frequently merge, but in practice, they tend to be taught and published separately. My work attempts to show that the two spheres function best when combined. A writer can use widely popular fiction to promote positive change and reflect on …
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Beyond the Abyss: American Gaslight and Popular Literature
… women to share and discuss their experiences. Popular fiction can bring a wide variety of voices into conversation, including those of women and color and marginalized women, and help women learn to empathize and better support each other in the face of societal oppression. This work provides …
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Invisible Scarlet O'neil and the Whitman authorized editions for girls: homefront representations of the american feminine and the feminine heroic during World War II
This dissertation analyzes the popular construction of femininity in the United States during World War II and the ways in which a set of mass market series books for girls participated in and reflected the persuasive campaigns of government, private industry, and mass media to script feminine …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
In the early part of the twentieth century, popular fiction and film in the form of Westerns and the noir detective story cultivated brands of masculinity through archetypal male characters. This project aims to propose and investigate the existence of a countervailing tradition between the …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
In the early part of the twentieth century, popular fiction and film in the form of Westerns and the noir detective story cultivated brands of masculinity through archetypal male characters. This project aims to propose and investigate the existence of a countervailing tradition between the …
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Dark mirrors and disembodied spirits : gender, sexuality and incest in selected fiction by Daphne du Maurier
… has long been considered chiefly as a writer of popular fiction. She is celebrated as a masterful constructor of plot and acclaimed for her ability to infuse novelistic narrative with a nameless and pervasive frisson of unease, but it is only recently that critics have begun seriously to …
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The American School Discipline Debate and the Persistence of Corporal Punishment in Southern Public Schools
… Pedagogical literature, court reports, and popular fiction show that school discipline was a controversial topic throughout American history. The conflict over corporal punishment in schools led to a 1976 Supreme Court decision, Ingraham v. Wright, affirming the power of educators to use …
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Bolshevizing Britain in the Interwar Imagination
… interprets the emergence of anti-Bolshevik popular fiction (also known as Red fiction) in Britain as manifesting a range of responses to the perceived "lessons" of the Great War. It argues that these responses foreground two opposing interpretations of the Great War in Britain: on the one …
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Culture and crisis: Radical writers and writing in the 1930s
… crisis of the Depression era. In the decade's popular fiction, advertising, travel writing, political discourses, and literature, the desire to represent social difference--particularly class difference--produces a consistently contradictory and unstable cultural terrain. More particularly, …
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An investigation of the resources available for interpreting visual cultural production related to male homosexuality in Britain : 1940 to the present
… Vaughan and David Sockney, detailed readings of popular fiction, literature and literary theory, research in the archives of The Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (1955-7), analysis of British health and fitness magazines and a consideration of the spaces of male …
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The Mystery of Mystery: The Novels of Dashiell Hammett
… writer. Yet Hammett was more than a successful popular writer: he was a creator of a distinct body of fiction that is unique in its vitality, its language, and its vivid and singular vision. Hammett's five novels, all produced within a five-year period, are remarkable in their ability to infuse …
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