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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"Three Novels"”.
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Social protest in three novels of Carlos Fuentes
… on these and other social topics as seen in three of his novels: La region mas transparents, La guerte de Artemio Crux, and Cambio de piel.</p>
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Breaking the rules : three novels innovating genre fiction
… apocalypse narrative, I attempt to show how three novels subvert these rules as a means to convey social commentary. Despite their novel approaches to the genres they work within, aspects of each novel has been looked over by literary critics. The novels under consideration are Margaret …
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Time and character in three novels by William Faulkner
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Time and character in three novels by William Faulkner
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Border thinking and the modern Plaasroman: a study of three novels
… to gauge whether, and the extent to which, three modern plaasromans are an expression of border thinking. These novels are Etienne Leroux's Seven Days at the Silbersteins, Etienne van Heerden's Ancestral Voices and Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist. The paradigm of border thinking is …
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"Stratagems to unblind" : reflexivity and existentialism in three novels by John Fowles
… in that they assume that Fowles's reflexive novels can be apprehended as a unified body of work located within a conservative poetics (thought to be peculiar to English fiction) and assimilated to a humanistic moral branch of existentialism. My own method, then, is to attempt to look more …
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“I, Too, Am an Occupied Territory”: Border Crossings and Personal Sovereignty in Three Novels by Dominican American Women
… are intimately and complexly connected in novels by and about Dominican American women. Through readings of In the Name of Salomé by Julia Alvarez, Dominicana by Angie Cruz, and The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, I argue that patriarchal forms of authority remove female autonomy by …
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"""Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick"": Humor and the subversive in three novels by Zora Neale Hurston"
Zora Neale Hurston is a controversial figure, equally praised and criticized for her representation of African-Americans; while some critics emphasize her ebullience and celebration of Black culture, others call her fiction stereotypical and essentialist. Observing the workings of the recurrent …
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Coming-of-age, photography and animalization in El color del crepúsculo, Maquis and La noche inmóvil of Alfons Cervera.
… Maquis and La noche inmóvil, the first three novels of the memory cycle of Alfons Cervera. My study focuses first on the childhood learning of the protagonist in El color del crepúsculo, especially in the role that nature and books play as a refuge for the imagination. In the second …
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Samuels Beckett's The Trilogy and the affirmation of reading
… style of writing. Through a close reading of the three novels, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable, I examine how Beckett's narratives deny the reader any sense of finality in the act of reading, while also affirming the reader's freedom in each unique reading of the literary text. In addition …
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A Woman on the Mind: Aspects of Monomaniacal Love (D'annunzio, Flaubert, Wharton)
This study is a comparative reading of three novels on sentimental education: G. Flaubert's L'(')Education sentimentale, G. D'Annunzio's Il Piacere, and E. Wharton's The Age of Innocence. It chronicles the love obsessions of three young men as they search for the female embodiment of the …
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"The struggle towards self-fulfillment in comparative perspective: The theme of woman's awakening in three realist novels--Gustave Flaubert's ""Madame Bovary"", Kate Chopin's ""The Awakening"", and Arishima Takeo's ""Aru Onna"""
… for self-fulfillment is a major element in three realistic novels: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899), and Arishima Takeo's Aru onna (A Certain Woman) (1919). In these three novels, romantic female characters of the bourgeois class try to free …
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Poverty, Social Isolation, Uselessness, and Loneliness: The Fears and Anxieties of 19th-Century British Governesses
… Eyre, </em>and <em>The Turn of the Screw, </em>novels which span the century (their publication dates ranging from 1814-1898), and comparing them to the historical reality of many middle class women at the time, these fears are revealed to be quite valid. The fears and anxieties displayed by the …
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LIBERATORY EXPRESSIONS: BLACK WOMEN, RESISTANCE AND THE CODED WORD, AN AFRICOLOGICAL EXAMINATION
… created the theory of the Coded Word to analyze three novels by Black women who are unique in their forms of word coding, just as they are characteristically distinct in their forms of expression. The findings for the three novels have resulted in the first three entries into the Glossary of the …
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The documentary novel : fact, fiction or fraud? An examination of three Scandinavian examples of the documentary novel from the 1960s and 1970s
This study seeks primarily to examine three Scandinavian examples of the documentary novel. Initially I endeavour to isolate certain purported characteristics of the genre as a whole by considering which aspects of a narrative have prompted the critics to call it a 'documentary novel'. I then …
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1960s travel fiction and Englishness during the postimperial turn
… explicit literary subject in several key 1960s novels: John Fowles's The Magus (1965), V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men (1967), and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). In these three novels, Fowles, Naipaul and Rhys critique British imperialism by engaging and reinventing the travel narrative …
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And When I Die and other prose
… to this thesis, I critically analyze three novels that focus on characters trying to regain stability in their lives after the death of someone close to them, and then I have discussed how these novels shaped my thesis in terms of theme, mood, and conflict.
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