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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"novel writing"”.
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MAPW Thesis
<p>Excerpt of a novel (<em>The Pilgrimage</em>) in fantasy and historical fiction genres. Includes selected chapters, along with prefatory essay detailing scope of novel, writing process, development of style, and a history of the work.</p>
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Pathos : a metaphoric exploration of cannibalistic, gluttonous and consumptive impulses in fiction writing
… when used as metaphors, operate within fictional writing, by examining them in relation to my thesis novel Pathos. To conduct this examination, the developed metaphors of autophagia / cannibalism, gluttony and consumption are applied to three distinct yet intertwined concepts in the writing of the …
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Playing with Matches: Matchmaking as Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Marriage Plot
… to concerns about the professionalization of novel-writing and the place of women writers within that profession. Through this focus on the neglected figure of the matchmaker, this dissertation reveals the essential resonances between these attempts to construct marital philosophies and the …
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Nuove intersezioni: crimine e storia nella narrativa Italiana al cambio di millennio
… characterized by elements of renewal within the novel-writing tradition and of discontinuity with postmodern culture. It proposes an interpretation of the genres of the historical novel and crime fiction in the last fifteen years, in order to underline the important role played by these types of …
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A Spectre is Haunting Samuel Clemens: A Marxist Critique of Wealth as Resolution in Mark Twain's Novels
… of wealth occurs frequently in Mark Twain's novels, especially at the resolution. Indeed, Twain uses wealth as resolution in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. The repeated use of this formula in the author's …
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Ucwaningo ngegalelo likaWanda, M.E. ekubhalweni kwenoveli ethi: “Kunjalo-ke” kugxilwe kwisakhiwo, abalingiswa nengqikithi
… namagalelo kaWanda M.E. ekubhalweni kwenoveli ethi: Kunjalo-ke kugxilwe kwisakhiwo, abalingiswa nengqikithi. Isahluko sokuqala sethula ucwaningo jikelele ngokucwaningisisa izinjongo zocwaningo, intshisekelo noma inkuthazo yocwaningo. Lesi sahluko sethula nezindlela ezisetshenzisiwe …
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The PUWP's preferences in the contemporary Polish novel, 1959-1985
… of the Party's views of the contemporary novel and its expectations of the form after Socialist Realism (1949-1955). The course of development of Party requirements of the form is traced from 1959, when the Party announced its new operative ideology at the Third Congress, to its last major …
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The representation of the Ghost in contemporary South African novels by black writers
… representations of the ghost in South African novels by black writers. The reading is specific to the context of the ghosts haunting South Africa. I ask: how has the ghost been represented by black South African novelists, and what does it signal/tell? The thesis finds that there is a relative …
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Faulkner, form, and the anxiety of cinematic influence
… two different disciplines: the craft of the novelist, and the less esteemed occupation of the screenwriter. Although renowned for his efforts in the first of these (for which he would win the Nobel Prize for Literature), screenwriting also constituted a major part of Faulkner s work, and saw …
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A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE NOVELS OF JOHN FOWLES
… offers a prismatic view of John Fowles's novels. My approach accords with his major theme: that true perception is "seeing whole." My readings involve, first, a close textual analysis which demonstrates how Fowles uses patterning, counterpoint, symbol and image clusters to suggest the …
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Closing the circle: Neil Gunn's creation of a 'meta-novel' of the Highlands
… of his literary achievement at the end of his novel-writing career. In it Gunn sets out the theoretical concept of all his twenty novels being components of a single, composite, 'Novel of the Highlands', an abstract concept referred to in this thesis as a'meta-novel'. The thesis examines the …
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Abjection in the novels of Marlene Van Niekerk
In this thesis, three of Marlene van Niekerk's novels, translated from Afrikaans into English, are examined, with the focus on the representation of abjection in the texts under discussion.The theoretical point of departure of this study is Julia Kristeva's essay Powers of horror (1982), which …
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Twelve Hearts of Clay and Selected Stories
… writer. Included are a portion of my unfinished novel, Twelve Hearts of Clay, as well as a few of my favorite short stories. "Calluses," my foray into experimental writing, is perhaps the most completed piece in the collection, having found publication in the October 2010 issue of Blue Crow …
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A space for women? Space and place in women's novels, 1790 -1820.
This study examines the emergence of the novel as a writing site for women writers and traces the ways in which women novelists between 1790 and 1820 represented space within their novels. It identifies how women used both the space afforded by the novel, and the representations of space in the …
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"Stratagems to unblind" : reflexivity and existentialism in three novels by John Fowles
… guilt' engendered by the conscious control of novel-writing can be assuaged and a degree of 'authentication' achieved. Reflexivity, in other words, exposes the writer's own 'bad faith' and allows him to be purged of it, alongside his characters who engage in journeys of discovery, leading to …
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The novels of Charles Brockden Brown: irony and illusion
… so there is no effort at simply treating Brown's novels individually. Each chapter instead considers several of Brown's novels from the point of view of a single organizing and recurring technique of execution. Always the effort is made to remain true to the attempt at understanding what Brown is …
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Estudio de la señal electrooculográfica y su aplicación a sistemas médicos asistenciales
… and entertainment needs. In this regard a novel writing system was developed that, controlled by eye movement, enables those people with severe motor disabilities to write on a computer. The computer application is complemented by a game that in addition to entertaining provides training to …