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The Early Novels of Konstantin Fedin
… been made in this study to examine in depth the early novels of Konstantin Fedin. The novels discussed are Goroda i gody, Brat'ja, Poxiscenie Evropy, and Sanatorij Arktur, so that the period covered is from 1924 to 1940. Attention was paid primarily to Fedin's artistic method in an endeavour to …
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The Primary Narrators of Charles Dickens' Early Novels
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Kurt Vonnegut's Early Novels: Searching for Meaning in a Meaningless World
<p>This thesis investigates three novels by Kurt Vonnegut: <em>The Sirens of Titan, Cat’s Cradle</em>, and <em>God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater</em>, and the philosophical stance which informs these works.<em> The Sirens of Titan</em> represents Vonnegut’s cosmology as well as his first attempts to …
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The Vanishing Garden: Dickens's Use of Pastoral in the Early Novels
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A Moral Being in an Aesthetic World: Being in the Early Novels of Kurt Vonnegut
… notions of being in four of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels using Martin Heidegger’s aesthetic phenomenology. The four novels that this paper will address are Player Piano, Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Breakfast of Champions. Player Piano and Sirens of Titan are Vonnegut’s first two …
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Gambling with virtue: The moral ramifications of female gaming in the early novels of Frances Burney
… uses gaming as a fundamental element in her early novels; the trials her heroines experience during their forays into society all include the presence of gaming in some form. The proximity of gaming, as well as the social and moral implications of indulging in such behavior, negatively …
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Empty heroics, low comedy and pointless death: Structures of melancholy in the early novels of Kurt Vonnegut
… of melancholy in five of Kurt Vonnegut's early novels, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions. The thesis attempts to give new readings to each of the novels by drawing on critical approaches to melancholy and by viewing each text as …
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'Spells That Have Lost Their Virtue': The Mythology and Psychology of Shame in the Early Novels of George Eliot
George Eliot's early novels Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner, resist or rewrite English cultural myths that embody shame as a method of social control, especially myths from the Bible related to the doctrine of election. Eliot employs a two-level structure …
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The expanding significance of the shrinking hero in the novels of Marguerite Duras.
… in the characters, be they men or women. The early novels, harmonious and cerebrally conceived, show a masculine, ordered interpretation of reality. With the middle and more recent works, wordy theorizing is replaced by a muted, poetic introversion of experience. The emergence of the psychotic …
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Hermann Hesse as Ambivalent Modernist
… and Rousseau and applies it to three of Hesse's early novels, Unterm Rad, Peter Camenzind, and Knulp. The third chapter examines Der Steppenwolf as an ambivalently Modernist autobiography, using Eugene Stelzig's notion of Seelenbiographie. The last chapter examines Hesse's two final novels, Die …
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James Barke: Politics, Cinema and Writing Scottish Urban Modernity
This thesis examines the early works of the Scottish novelist, playwright, would-be screenwriter, commentator and political agitator, James Barke, to argue that he was a more significant figure on the Scottish literary scene than his place in the canon would suggest. The purpose in so doing is to …
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Futures far and near : the science fiction of Olaf Stapledon
… twentieth century science fiction, including the early novels, Last and First Men (1930), Odd John (1935), and Star Maker (1937). Stapledon, however, did not consider himself to be a science fiction writer, and drafted these three novels largely in ignorance of genre science fiction. An …
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Futures far and near : the science fiction of Olaf Stapledon
… twentieth century science fiction, including the early novels, Last and First Men (1930), Odd John (1935), and Star Maker (1937). Stapledon, however, did not consider himself to be a science fiction writer, and drafted these three novels largely in ignorance of genre science fiction. An …
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"What's the Use of Trying to Read Shakespeare?": Modes of Memory in Virginia Woolf's Fiction and Essays
… use of direct allusion and quotation in her early novels, culminating with her masterful use of the dialectic memory of Shakespeare to critique the British Empire in <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em>. The third chapter examines <em>The Years</em> and <em>Three Guineas</em> as Woolf’s effort to engage …
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In the Vanguard: The Colombian Novel Between the Wars
… Chapter Three analyzes Jose Felix Fuenmayor's early novels, Cosme (1927) and Una triste aventura de 14 sabios (1928). Both explore occult realities and constitute a radical stand against logic and reason. The former is mainly based on Jungian psychology; the latter on science fiction and …
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All life converges to some centre: alienation and modernity in the early Ayi Kwei Armah
… representations of existential alienation in two early novels by the Ghanaian author Ayi Kwei Armah. The introductory chapter extrapolates an account of how the representational strategies of existential alienation produce specific effects on the act of self - writing. From there, the paper …
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Philosophical inheritances : Nietzsche and the twentieth century American novel.
… Secondly, I argue that F. Scott Fitzgerald's early novels are shaped by Nietzsche's concept of the free spirit, a prophetic voice that provides society with new values in response to nihilism. Thirdly, I demonstrate how Zelda Fitzgerald offers a life-affirming philosophy in her only published …
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An investigation into the effects of the Victorian notions of duty and obedience on the domestic novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge.
Charlotte Mary Yonge wrote a number of domestic novels, between 1844 and 1901, sixteen of which are considered in this thesis. They accurately portray contemporary Victorian middle-class life and attempt, by means of lessons in moral behaviour, to instruct the reader in the importance of duty and …
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Frances Burney d’Arblay and Anglican Womanhood, 1752 – 1840.
… inheritances and disrupted lineages, reflect her early reading of David Hume, and tacitly acknowledge Stuart rights while defending Hanoverian legitimacy on Humean grounds of peace and stability. If her early novels display a hope that contested identities can be reconciled, it does not survive …
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