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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"modern novel"”.
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Sacred and Regenerative Space in the Modern Novel
This thesis examines the ways in which Evelyn Waugh, E.M. Forster, and Virginia Woolf represent and use domestic spaces.
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Certain aspects of pioneer life as presented in the modern novel
… <p>It is this last type of pioneer whom the modern novelist has sought to portray and interpret, and in this discussion only those novels which deal with such pioneers will be discussed.</p>
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Towards a modernist aesthetic : dialectical modes of representation in the early modern novel
… contests the widely-held view that literary modernism is a late manifestation of the romantic-symbolist tradition, arguing that the modern novel's self-reflexive preoccupation with the materiality of language is incompatible with the essentialist premises of romantic-symbolist aesthetics. It …
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Jane Austen's Persuasion: A Study of Narrative Art
Jane Austen’s last novel reveals a new dimension of her narrative art; Persuasion contains qualities that resemble those of twentieth century stream-of-consciousness novels. The narrative technique of Persuasion as forerunner of the modern novel differs from Miss Austen’s other novels primarily in …
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Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment Raskolnikov: Image of a Modern Man
As a novelist, Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoevsky portrays his characters skillfully in the play of Rem- brandtesque lighting. Like Rembrandt, Dostoevsky focuses hie attention on the dark side of man, and the only light that is visible comes from within the depths of man himself. When Dostoevsky …
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The novelty of improvisation: towards a genre of embodied spontaneity
… modes being largely ignored or downplayed in modern historical accounts of theatre. This dissertation examines improvisation on its own terms, seeking to understand its unique features, functions and potentials, while freeing it from the heavy shadow of its scripted counterpart. To this end, …
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Silence, Power, and Mexicans in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark
… of minorities. To include immigrants in a modern novel was avant-garde and radical subject matter; and presenting a realistic, likeable Mexican character was unheard of because the colonized and immigrants were largely ignored in American literature, or deliberately overlooked. When they …
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John Barth, Ebenezer Cooke, and the literature of exhaustion
… first visit to Maryland. In 1960 contemporary novelist John Barth wrote a novel, also entitled The Sot-Weed Factor and used Cooke's life and poem as sources. In order to understand why Barth chose these eighteenth-century sources for his twentieth-century novel, one must first examine his …
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A Chinese Writer's Vicissitude in the Political and cultural Context of Early Modern China
… A range of scholars have demonstrated that the modern novel is one of the main tools for propagating the practices and ideologies of standardized language under nationalism. In this dissertation I examine the nature of the nationalist ideologies embodied in the still very young Modern Mandarin …
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Le Naturalisme Zolien Dans Les Rougon-Macquart: Une Fatalite De La Sexualite
… aims to study the basics of the naturalistic novel in the second half of the nineteenth-century France.<br/><br/>Firstly, I have looked back at previous critical studies that were dedicated to the themes of sexuality and/or fatality in Zola's writing. This introductory chapter helped me …
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Death and Dying in the Modern Irish Novel: Studies in Form and Meaning from James Joyce to Anne Enright
This dissertation examines how the modern Irish novel negotiates shifting cultural conceptions of death and dying across the twentieth century. Analyzing a cross-section of important novels — James Joyce’s Ulysses, Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room, Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies, John McGahern’s The …
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Realistischer Diskurs und dialogischer Text : eine Strukturanalyse von Peter Handkes Roman "Der Kurze Brief zum langen Abschied"
… on two premises: firstly, that the contemporary novel is as much the literary expression of bourgeois consciousness as its predecessor in the 18th and 19th centuries, whose mode of expression was that of realism; secondly, that the paradigm shift from classic bourgeois realism to the modern novel …
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Fiction, ideology and history : a critical examination of Hans Grimm's novel 'Kaffernland'
… Grimm deploys the literary conventions of the modern novel, as an epigone he draws on the forms of legend, saga and epic cultivated in the nineteenth century. He alludes to the Icelandic saga also to legitimize a claim to Xhosaland. This first book of the epic, presented as complete, attains a …
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Theological Existentialism In San Manuel Bueno, Mártir
… The author revokes Realism in inert 19th c. novels of third person omniscient narration, drab mundane detailed settings and long character depictions, faithful to reality and instead plants a question of Modern theological existentialism in San Manuel Bueno, máritr, in an invigorating 20c. …
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QUEEN: The Remaking of Character in the Modernist Novel
… prompting her to call for a change in the way novelists depicted character. I study one such character, Queen Victoria, to trace how Woolf and James Joyce reimagined how to depict a historical figure in a novel. What is Queen Victoria in the Modernist novel and why does she begin to appear? She …