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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"first person narrator"”.
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Strategies of self-disclosure in the first-person narratives of Gabrielle Roy
"All of Gabrielle Roy's first person narratives exhibit evidence of a quest to understand the self. These narratives demonstrate both an evolution in the textual construction of the self portrait and a consistency of perspective with regard to textual self-disclosure. This can be explained by the …
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"Money Only Pays for It" and other stories.
… Finally, the preface talks about the choice of a first person narrator. Each of the stories should stand alone, though they follow the narrator's life for a number of years. Todd Welles is the narrator of all the stories, with the exception of a few. In the stories where Todd does not do all of …
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Out of the body
… All four stories are written in the first-person point of view. The craft essay examines the prevalence and implications of the self-aware first-person narrator in fiction. This particular narrative style was found to be intrinsic to many stories written in the first-person, and this …
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From "The Dead Center Of This Place That Is No Place": The Novel Of Abjection
… the collection of a group sensibility through a first-person narrator. By carefully reading the two novels and exploring these common themes, the narrative mechanisms of the novels operate around abjection. As a result of this reading, the phenomenon that is here explained as breaking-off results …
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The Australian Apology in Fiction: Gail Jones's Sorry
… Australian Reconciliation that my dissertation first attempts to set apart colonial trauma from the Eurocentric trauma model, avoiding in this way any conflation of national tragedies and warning against the Western tendency to trivialise colonial traumatic experiences. It is my contention that …
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How is a Woman Like a Watermelon?: Advocating a Psychological and Comparative Examination of Brautigan's Novels
… of genre, use of memory and a complex first person narrator as an author persona—are better understood. Because of Brautigan's use of the first person, this study advocates an analytical psychological analysis aimed at discerning underlying emotion within apparent personal detachment, …
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"The Ghost of That Ineluctable Past": Trauma and Memory in John Banville's Frames Trilogy
… an innocent woman at the hands of the Trilogy’s first-person narrator. This thesis project examines the central role that the corresponding themes of trauma and memory play within these three testimonial novels as they grapple with the horror of the crime and its guilt-ridden aftermath. Utilizing …
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The Whole Blown Universe
… theme of an expanding/contracting universe: the first part, "Expansion," will consist of poems using an omniscient, third person narrator. The second part, "Retraction," will be made up of poems using first person narration to describe something or someone other than the persona of the narrator; …
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Flack
… and delving into the private life of the first-person narrator. The work, though grounded in fiction, draws on personal experience in the political world. Its goal is to capture a particular moment in American political and social history, when the nation was coming to the end of two long …
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'AS VIVID AS BLOOD IN A SINK': (RE)READING QUEERNESS AND REPRESSION IN TEJU COLE'S OPEN CITY
… by readers and critics alike. Julius, the text’s first-person narrator, guides us along seemingly innocent wanderings throughout New York City, ruminating on history, art, and politics while presenting himself as the enlightened, cosmopolitan ideal. However, the shocking penultimate revelation …
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The Narrators and Narratees of Kazuo Ishiguro
… and <em>Never Let Me Go</em>. In each novel, a first person narrator directs his or her story toward an unidentified narratee. Through their narration, the narrators reveal who they imagine their narratees to be and why they are telling their stories to these particular types of people. In …
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The Purified Vision: The Fiction of Wallace Spegner
… effect. Part I is an analysis of Stegner's first person narrators and his use of the bird motif. The discussion is concerned primarily with the first person narrators, Joe Allston and Lyman Ward, who appear in Stegner's recent fiction. They are assessed as both characters and devices in …
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Negotiating the past in Weimar culture: Neue Sachlichkeit and Irmgard Keun's Das kunstseidene Mädchen
… the past by examining examples of historical and personal memory within Keun’s novel and analyzing the different ways in which characters relate to their past. The protagonist and first-person narrator of the novel, Doris, for example, records her present in a diary that also functions as a means …
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The Forms of Friendship How women’s friendships shape and challenge narrativity in contemporary German and Anglophone literature
… in contemporary novels and memoirs. The first chapter, ‘Surviving Marriage Narratively’ contrasts Lara Feigel’s 2020 adaptation of Mary McCarthy’s 1963 The Group with McCarthy’s original text, looking at portrayals of friendship and of how it inflects women’s narratives after marriage. …
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Identität bei Herta Müller: Schreiben als Mittel der Selbstbehauptung
… subjectivity. Both the author and the first-person narrator in Müller's work gain a certain agency, which empowers them to put up resistance against their oppressors. Additionally, Müller constructs a narrative agency, whose 'authority' regains some of the lost continuity and stability. …
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The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California, 1945-1993
… of institutions in California as well as his first writings that either adopted the state as its subject or used it as a setting for fictional work. Chapter 2 explores a research project that Stegner undertook with funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation and as a member of the Stanford Center …
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The novels of Charles Brockden Brown: irony and illusion
… haphazardness of their execution,"" (vii) or his first biographer, Dulap, who reported that his subject wrote in a furious and artless haste without revision or design, critics have tended to dismiss Brown's artistry and turn to other and for them more interesting matters of his life and cultural …
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Segments
… central character leaves the family farm on her first day of school only to return to face the loss of her innocence. I find it ironic that boys and girls sexually abused by a parent or other family member are not considered incest victims, but incest survivors. Even if one survives the effects …