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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Psychology in literature"”.
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Confrontation and identity in the fiction of J.M. Coetzee
This thesis is an examination of the fictional works of J.M. Coetzee to date. By focusing my gaze upon either the lack of encounter or the encounters between the 'Self' and the 'Other', I explore the relationship between confrontation and the fluid formation and erosion of identity. This …
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The Path Toward the Other: Relational Subjectivity in Modern Chinese Literature, 1919-1945
… uncharted territory of relational subjectivity in modern Chinese literature. As a model of identity that positions the self in a web of social interaction, emotional connectivity, relational subjectivity suggests that the self is continually partial, open, and constantly "under construction." …
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Comics carnet : the graphic novelist as global nomad
An interdisciplinary approach is used to identify a new graphic novel genre, 'comics camet', and its key features. The study situates comics camet in a historical context and shows it to be the result of a cross-pollination between the American and French comics traditions. Comics camet …
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"Too disconnected/too bound up": the paradox of identity in Mercé Rodoreda's The time of the doves
Feminist theory has shown how women's lives are paradoxically both marginal to, yet affected by, hegemonic discourses of power. However, as long as women's experiences are viewed singularly along an axis of sexual difference, placing paradox as a trope for female identity risks reinscribing a …
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Moda e identidades modernas : discursos culturales sobre el cuerpo estético latinoamericano en Argentina, Cuba y México, 1800-1920
(Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 2009
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The Search for Cultural Identity: An Exploration of the Works of Toni Morrison
… to change their circumstances either by embracing the white dominant culture that surrounds them or by denying it. In this thesis I explore several ways in which the characters do just that-either embrace or deny the white culture's right to dominion over them. This thesis deals primarily with …
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Poisoners, larcenists, and the mad chambermaid: Villainy in late Victorian detective fiction
<p>This thesis seeks to identify patterns of villainy in late nineteenth-century detective fiction in order to examine middle class conceptions of criminality and the way those models reflect the values of Victorian society. Through a study of more than sixty pieces of short detective fiction, this …