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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"War novels"”.
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Spiritual Quest in French and English Post-War Novels
… the face of banal preoccupations and pressures towards conformity, secularization and demythologization, some men pursue a transcendent ideal which starts with an epiphany, a sudden realization of truth. This moment of realization is often the moment of surrender to God's will.
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Childhoods dis-ordered: Non-realist narrative modes in selected post-2000 West African war novels
This study explores how selected West African war novels employ non-realist narrative modes to portray disruptions in the child�s development into adulthood. The novels considered are Chris Abani�s Song for Night (2007), Ahmadou Kourouma�s Allah is Not Obliged (2006), Uzodinma Iweala�s Beasts of No …
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The Great War and the American Novel: Mimesis and Craft in Selected Fiction of Dos Passos, Boyd, March, and Hemingway
… dissertation examines the influence of World War I on American literature and its effects on the American tradition of literary realism. It does so through an analysis of five war novels written by four American authors who had participated in the conflict as combatants or volunteers. These …
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Invisible Humans, Visible Terrorists: U.S. Neo-Orientalism Post 9/11 and Representations of the Muslim World
… intervention and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, as well as promoting the mission of American democracy. This study discusses the theoretical frame and features of U.S. neo-Orientalism and tackles its representations in institutionalized neo-Orientalist writings and American literary and war …
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RESISTANCE AND SOCIAL CONFLICT DURING AND AFTER THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF MALAYA AND SINGAPORE IN THE NOVELS OF CHIN KEE ONN, NOEL BARBER AND LIM THEAN SOO
… has just passed. The traumatic experience of wartime oppression during the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore still leaves an indelible mark on those who lived through that period. This dissertation examines the issue of inter-ethnic social conflict among the Malays, Chinese, Indians …
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'Garden of evil' : images of the enemy in American war literature 1962-1990
… representations of the enemy in threeAmerican war novels: James Jones's The Thin Red Line (1962), LarryHeinemann's Paco's Story (1986), and Tim O'Brien's The Things TheyCarried (1990). While American literary responses to the Vietnam War arethe primary concern of this thesis, The Thin Red Line, …
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Waiting, Part One of a Sarajevo Novel: The Figure of the Siege and the Refugee in a Selection of Twentieth-Century Siege-Exile Literature
… Beginning with a discussion of the siege in post-war literature, the critical section then looks at the double figure of the siege in Camus’s The Plague, before turning to themes of siege and exile in Susan Sontag’s 1993 Sarajevo production of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. It finally examines …
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Eyes In The Text: Surveying The Ocular Aesthetic In Pat Barker's War Trilogy
… published Regeneration, the first of three novels that portrayed the exploits of both factual and fictional characters during the darkest days of WWI. Barker's Eye in the Door (1993), followed by The Ghost Road (1995) for which she won the Booker Prize for Fiction, completed the series that …
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Seeking the other shore : myth and history in the films of Terrence Malick
… films - their intertextuality, from poetry and novels to visual art and music - is also introduced as it plays an important part in all the subsequent chapters. With the release of The New World (2005), I argue that the two recent films should be seen not only as continuing the major themes of …
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Waugh revisited : destabilizing language and structure in Vile bodies, A handful of dust, and Brideshead revisited by Jabe Ziino.
… statements to inform their readings of his novels. The themes and qualities of Waugh's novels are not easily unified across his career; the cynical work of his early career seem very much at odds with the sentimentality and overtly religious concerns of much of his later writings, of which …
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Representaciones de la Guerra Civil Espanola en la novela y el cine: Hacia una comprension del pasado y una reconciliacion con la realidad actual
The Spanish Civil War took place between 1936 and 1939 and exhibited the nations division in terms of class, religion, politics and ideology. Throughout the post-war years of repression and Francoist dictatorship, many people elected to forget about the war or were censured in their attempts to …