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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"VanderMeer"”.
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Lucille excerpts
… by Cormac McCarthy, and Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. The craft paper uses the book Wonderbook: The Illustrative Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction by Jeff VanderMeer to analyze how setting and character form worldbuilding within the three chosen novels. This thesis also contains …
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(De)composing Transhumanisms: Fungal and Trans Ecologies in Jeff VanderMeer's <em>Annihilation</em>
… the novel <em>Annihilation </em>(2014) by Jeff VanderMeer and situates the biologist’s transformation and transition in the book in a trans ecological framework. By expanding on foundational texts such as Jackson Jesse Nash’s “‘I Am Not Returning Home’: A Transgender Reading of Jeff VanderMeer’s …
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Gathering Futures: Speculative Fiction as a Map for Transforming the Climate Crisis
… Guin, Octavia E. Butler, N. K. Jemisin, and Jeff VanderMeer. By mapping the way characters adapt to new systems of living, my dissertation pivots to applied scholarship: can humanity implement these ideas and how? As the climate crisis defines this century, another ecocritical text is the last …
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The Biologist and Area X as Posthuman Characters in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
… I examine the posthuman elements evident in Jeff VanderMeer’s novel Annihilation (2014). I explore the different techniques VanderMeer uses to blur the boundaries between human and nonhuman both in the main character, the biologist, as well as the setting of the novel, Area X. The analysis is …
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A Social Analysis of Indiana Politics and Politicians, 1896-1920
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T20:25:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709223.pdf: 17700380 bytes, checksum: 30bb4c1a7a129bc599d58f582d4dcef8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Neuroimaging Depression Risk in a Sample of Never-Depressed Children
Children of mothers with a history of depression are at significantly higher risk for developing depression themselves. Although numerous mechanisms explaining this relationship have been proposed (Goodman & Gotlib, 1999), relatively little is known about the neural substrates of never-depressed …
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Secondary Traumatic Stress and Alexithymia in High-Risk Professionals
This study investigated the role that cognitive deficits in emotional processing (i.e., alexithymia) play in the development of traumatic responses, such as secondary traumatic stress (STS), following work with clients who have experienced trauma. Using a prospective cohort of novice counselling …
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Unravel. A novel – and – A diverse palette: Cosmic horror and weird fiction with/out Lovecraft. A critical essay
… to the human in the first book of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, Annihilation (2014a). In both cases, Unravel is examined in comparison to these two pieces, and as far as it both challenges and is indebted to Lovecraft's work. Unravel destabilises the conflicting …