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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"literary fiction"”.
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The different shades of liars: four chapters of literary fiction with craft essay
… involved in writing about the passage of time in fiction narratives. The second part of this thesis is the prologue and first four chapters of a literary fiction novel. The story follows Virginia, a seventeen-year-old who recently moved to a new town in rural South Georgia for her father’s work as …
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Reading Between The Lines: An Account Of The Cognitive Gain From Literary Fiction
… the cognitive value of a close reading of literary fiction which I believe has been overlooked in the philosophical literature. I first outline an account of literary fiction in terms of the standard features of both literature and fiction. The diverse philosophical positions which hold …
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Creating suspense and surprise in short literary fiction: a stylistic and narratological approach
… and crucial elements of interest realised in literary fiction, are analysed closely in a sample of short stories, so as to develop a detailed explanation of how these forms of interest are created in literary texts, and to propose models for them. Creating suspense involves more conditions, …
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From whodunnits to literary fiction: The charting of an author’s transition from crime writer to literary novelist
… by means of an exploration of the terms ‘crime fiction’ and ‘literary fiction’. Focusing on the perceived conventions and boundaries of the two genres and some important sub-genres, it explores the extent to which such perceptions not only reinforce the notion of a divide between novels labelled …
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Courting Death
A blend of literary fiction and folktale, Courting Death is a novel about women at the fringes, marginalized women, and women who have been direct targets of gender-based violence. The narrative draws from conventions of traditional African oral storytelling and the conventions associated with …
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Los macroactos literarios de ficción y las relaciones intertextuales diferidas en la constitución de la Literatura: a propósito de la literatura medieval
… appeal to receptors is seen in a wide variety of literary works. This problem is highly important to explore syntactic and pragmatic literary construction in Literature as a macro literary fiction act. The presence of this macro literary fiction act is frequently materialized in the so called …
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Populêre vs. literêre grensverhale : twee beelde van die Angolese oorlog (1966-1989)
… dissertation, a study is made of two bodies of fiction documenting the South African soldier in Angola. The fiction was limited to Afrikaans short stories, as this genre is believed to best reflect the fragmentary, explosive experience of combat. This demarcation also served as a way of limiting …
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Simultaneous Diversity: Discontinuity, Entanglement, and Contemporary American Fiction
… Entanglement, and contemporary American Fiction" investigates how the rhetoric of discontinuity entangles contemporary evolutionary theory, social theory, science studies, and literary fiction. The dissertation's main focus is a partial taxonomy of the heterogeneous field of contemporary …
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Modeling Narrative Discourse
… the conversational networks to be found in literary fiction as a key aspect of discourse coherence; by isolating and analyzing these networks, we are able to comment on longstanding literary theories. The second approach proposes a new set of discourse relations that are specific to …
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Bridezilla Descends Upon Tokyo and Other Strange Stories
… Stories</em> is a collection of dark slipstream fiction that blends elements of horror into literary fiction. Ghosts, zombies, babies with hinged jaws and shark teeth expose themes like identity, motherhood, and relationships that maintain a literary tradition of dedication to character over …
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Ethnographic encounters and literary fictions: crossover and synergy between the social sciences and humanities. Statement in support of application for Doctor of Philosophy by published works (1998-2012)
… the humanities, in particular, the production of literary fiction.
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Lot 17 and Other Stories
… of five compositions, which is a collection of literary fiction that explores the form of the short story. The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate various methods of storytelling, exploring magical realism in "The Floating,” absurdism in "Lot 17,” realism in "Fatness”, southern gothic in …
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FOUR STORIES : A STUDY IN GENRE
Genre is a label of classification imposed on literary works, usually as a means to understand how to market a project. The traditional form - "literary fiction" - is the most common, but a visit to any bookstore will demonstrate that there are so many more options. This collection contains my …
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Island time and other stories
… thesis is a collection of ten works of short fiction linked through their setting in the Cayman Islands. The stories explore a diverse set of viewpoints and experiences present on the island, spanning across genders, races, socioeconomic statuses, time periods, nationalities, industries, and …
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Esoterika
… without rhyme or reason. It goes from the literary fiction settings of "A World Apart," "Crash" and "All Good Things..." through haunted tales like "The Quiet Man," and the various "Supernatural" stories. It dips through science fiction in "The Games" and "The Revelation," and ends in the …
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A regenerate science : paradigms for science and theology in recent American fiction.
… for integrating science and theology as seen in literary fiction. First, I offer a theoretical approach to integrating science and theology, show some recent anxieties about science and religion, and provide a short history of literature and science. Second, I study the works of Flannery O'Connor …
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Dreamfaire
… Bonpland. It combines elements of detective fiction, speculative/science fiction, satire, and literary fiction in order to tell a complex, formally experimental story, the solution to which raises questions about the nature of reality. The formal changes help to place the novel in …
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What We Understand to Be Ghosts
… Poetics through the practice of writing short fiction. The stories collected in the thesis explore these ideas by taking advantage of different approaches to narrative form and content and exploring current trends in literary fiction including fabulism, flash-fiction, and non-narrative fiction. …
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Cracking
… on plot structure and five chapters of a nonfiction memoir about my experiences growing up transgender in the South. The craft paper explores alternative plot structure techniques used to convey transgender narratives in the nonfiction memoir She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer …
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