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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"happy ending"”.
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The double life of Jane Fairfax: a study of the shadow novel in Jane Austen's Emma
… the reconciliation,leading to the appropriate, happy ending.
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Ground zero : three novellas
… is an ironic romantic comedy, in which the happy ending is, on reflection, deeply problematic. "Ground Zero" is darker in tone, dealing with dissolution and disintegration. "Pesadilla Beach" involves memory and different generations in the same community. These stories are told through …
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[tombstone]
… stories are obsessed with death, finality, and endings, which reveal more about a person's true self than where they began. When asked "what is a story?", Diane Williams replied, "Can a story be a dream come true?" The stories collected here are dream-like as well, simplistic and estranged from …
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Dark Doubles and Dual Audience: What Uncanny Doppelgangers in Children’s Literature Teach Readers
… add a twist to ensure positive messages and a happy ending.
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Ironic images of motherhood in contemporary French cinema
… through that role to the grandmother depending on her daughter for survival. By presenting the spectator with such a large variety of maternal imagery, Ozon, Lvovsky and Bruni Tedeschi are each able to criticize what society demands of mothers. Mothers are expected to bear sole …
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An Alternate Spirit of the Age: George Colman the Younger's Production of Romantic-period Identity
… literary pastiche and genre-mixing, and the happy ending. This dissertation argues that the textual processes that emerged from the early Romantic-period theater composed a system of moderate conservative containment that helped to define and develop an alternate spirit of the age and …
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With Cordelia in His Arms: The Impact of Gender Roles in Shakespeare's King Lear
… unjust. Despite original sources for the plot's happy ending and Cordelia's survival, Shakespeare consciously chooses to kill her. The question remains: why? I propose that due to the play's overt saturation with language and themes directly pointed toward a discussion of gender, Shakespeare …
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Once Upon a Time in a Single-Parent Family: Father and Daughter Relationships in Disney's The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast
… to defeat the sea witch and achieve the film's happy ending--the creation of a traditional family. The fairy tale of "Beauty and the Beast" begins with a father who is educated, respected, and wealthy before hardship strikes. Beauty's request for a rose is what starts the adventure as she must …
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"Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen
… slash fiction proposes for the heteronormative endings typical of the popular romance genre, specifically within the works of Ann Herendeen.
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Bessie Head : re-writing the romance : journalism, fiction (and gender)
… an idealistic, and unrealistic, romance with a happy ending, I suggest, in this thesis, that one can read the novel, in the light of Head's earlier work, as being a radical subversion of the romance.