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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Theory of the Novel"”.
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"The ""unabashed memoranda"" of the prefaces: Henry James's letter to the world"
Through presentation of a close reading of the prefaces and an examination of biographical sources, the thesis contextualizes the prefaces to suggest why James wrote them. Contrary to the usual critical assessment of the prefaces, this dissertation asserts that their primary purpose is not to …
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Metafictional aspects in the narrative of Miguel de Unamuno (Spain)
The present work is a study of metafictional aspects in three novels of Miguel de Unamuno. The first chapter provides a definition of metafiction and positions the idea of metafiction within the Spanish novel. This fictional concept is traced through the history of the Spanish novel beginning with …
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The Novel Novel: Dickens' Reformulations of Shakespeare's Hamlet
From 1830 to the mid 1870s, interest in Shakespeare flourished in England, and an extensive number of scholars have written about this fact. Many of those writers include Charles Dickens in their arguments. In spite of this plethora of research, I propose a new light through which to analyze …
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Playing with Matches: Matchmaking as Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Marriage Plot
<p>This dissertation examines the narrative treatment of matchmakers in British marriage plots across the nineteenth century. In an era of increasing state control over marriage and the rising ideology of romantic marriage, the matchmaker represents the communal courtship practices of the past. As …
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Novel faiths: nonsecular fiction in the late-nineteenth-century U.S.
My dissertation, “Novel Faiths: Nonsecular Fiction in the Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S.,” presents a new theory of the novel genre using an archive seldom put to such ends: late-nineteenth-century America’s outpouring of popular religious fiction. For many scholars, the novel form and the period …
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Goethe and the genteel tradition in America
From the time he first became known in America two contrasting attitudes toward Goethe have been discernible. There was on the one hand a rejection of the poet on moral and political grounds, and opposing this an appreciation of the humanist, poet, and last universal man. In general the pre-Civil …
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George Sand and Rewriting: The Poetics of Intertextuality in George Sand's "Jacques Cycle"
… now, for George Sand scholars, two main images of the Sand corpus have been dominant, “un grand fleuve d’Amérique” and “une grande oeuvre multiforme.” While both images evoke the strength and diversity of styles, approaches and genres in Sand’s literary production, they also suggest a certain …
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Playing with Power: An Autoethnographic Study of "The Last of Us" as a Black Gamer
<p>This research project concerns the types of meaning making that video game players and audiences can derive as active participants in the realm of digital media culture. This dissertation argues that embodied play as viewers and audiences has the potential to relieve the alienation caused by …
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The Craft of Fiction: Teaching Technique, 1850-1930
<p>The Craft of Fiction, 1850-1930</p><p>This dissertation considers two models of authorship active in the British nineteenth century: one that viewed the writing of fiction as the province of genius unconnected with the world of work, and another that saw it as a practice requiring a set of …