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Ground zero : three novellas
This thesis consists of three novellas linked thematically through setting and era, East Vancouver in the 1980s and early 1990s. "Midsummer" 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 …
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The women in the novellas of Clemens Brentano
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Character Change and Stability in Three Novellas by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer: A Study of Symbols
… stability in three of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's novellas, Jurg Jenatsch (1874), Der Heilige (1879), and Die Hochzeit des Monchs (1883). The characters exhibiting change, Jurg, Thomas, and Astorre, are compared and contrasted with those exhibiting stability, Lucretia, Heinrich, and Ezzelin. Each …
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The festive wound : L'Anormâle and El Quemado : twin fictions
… Wound is a pair of thematically related short novellas. Their theoretical underpinning is concerned with the interstices, or liminal moments, where polarities dissolve in inversions and admixtures of pat understandings. The Festive Wound can be construed as the paradoxical product of its twin …
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Thomas Bernhard as Nestbeschmutzer, criticisms of society and self in Wittgenstein’s Neffe, eine Freundschaft and Holzfalien, eine Erregung.
… will concern the criticisms levelled in the novellas. I have chosen the novels Holzfallen eine Erregung and Wittgenstein’s Neffe, eine Freundschaft, as both were written during the turbulent eighties, further reinforcing the importance of historical and social influence on the author. I have …
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Road Stories
Road Stories is a collection of three novellas that explore the pull, allure, sanctuary, serendipity, and adventure of life on the open road. The novellas examine how for some, the road holds the promise of a new day, an improved life, a better opportunity, or a deeper love; while for others, it is …
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The Elusive "Poem of the World": The Task of the Reader and the Problem of Knowledge in Heinrich von Kleist's Novellas "Die Marquise von O..." and "Das Erdbeben in Chili"
… of text and reader when analyzing Kleist’s novellas, specifically "Die Marquise von O…" and "Das Erdbeben in Chili." I will then attempt to establish a link between Kleist’s unique reaction to the philosophical debates concerning epistemology and aesthetics that were taking place during his …
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The Elusive "Poem of the World": The Task of the Reader and the Problem of Knowledge in Heinrich von Kleist's Novellas "Die Marquise von O..." and "Das Erdbeben in Chili"
… of text and reader when analyzing Kleist’s novellas, specifically "Die Marquise von O…" and "Das Erdbeben in Chili." I will then attempt to establish a link between Kleist’s unique reaction to the philosophical debates concerning epistemology and aesthetics that were taking place during his …
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Grenzüberschreitungen : Eine untersuchung ausgewählter Novellen Hans Grimms im Zusammenhang mit der kolonialen Grenzproblematik
… is the concept of liminality within selected novellas of the German colonial author Hans Grimm (1875-1959). Boundaries and frontiers are an omnipresent key issue within colonial literature. Within the postcolonial German literary studies field, however, liminality has so far been given only …
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The mother(land) through narrative and nostalgia : the role stories play in the crafting of imagined (exiled) communities
Comprising three novellas and critical research, this project defines and examines the possibilities of creative writing to expound upon and provide insight into issues of citizenship, belonging and memory. This interplay of narratives (creative and critical) speaks to the complex and intertextual …
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BACK 2 LIFE
<p>Back 2 Life is a collection of novellas featuring a woman named Vennie Rodriguez and her two adult daughters, Socs and Sara. The woman owns a struggling beauty shop in Albuquerque's South Valley, and one day, she uncovers the body of a toddler buried in the playground across the street from her …
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Aesthetic detail in the works of Nella Larsen
In the novellas Quicksand and Passing, Nella Larsen uses the often maligned detail to explore issues of gender, race, and sexuality. Female body parts, women's clothing, and skin color are particularly reiterated and fetishized. These evocative descriptions function symbolically and at times act as …
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Sharing Beds
… Beds, a collection of three interconnected novellas, follows young women navigating family and romantic relationships, missing sisters and mothers, sticking to routines, making new homes, adopting stray cats, reading books and trying to write. These characters feel most close to reality when …
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L'idéologie d'Ousmane Sembène : de l'œuvre écrite À l'œuvre filmée
… Sembène, five are adaptations of his novels and novellas. In the case of Guelwaar, his sixth and last adaptation, it is the novel which he adapted to the film of the same name. Sembène, who considered himself to be a "modem griot", felt that cinema was a more effective medium to reach his people …
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A Hypothetical Exploration of Survival, Colonisation and Interplanetary Relations Around the planet Mars
Three novellas exploring the short and long-term implications of Martian colonisation and an explication. The first part examines the necessity of a robust and mentally-fit crew along with the relationships between corporatism. The second, which happens a century later, explores the health effects …
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Renegades, Slaves, and Pirates: the Representation of Mediterranean Corsair Wars and Barbary in early modern Western Literature and Culture
… as well as Romance epics, Baroque novels, novellas, dramas, and comedies. Through this study, I show how corso’s discursive representation ended up playing a crucial role in shaping European understanding of the Western Mediterranean at the time. My study contributes to enriching the …
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A fabulist’s alternity & Lovecraft and the grotesque sublime
… explores an area of aesthetics through three novellas by the American writer, H. P. Lovecraft (1890 – 1937), analysing Lovecraft’s use of the sublime and the grotesque. This analysis employs the sublime as explained by Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797) in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of …
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Controversial Politics, Conservative Genre: Rex Stout's Archie-Wolfe Duo and Detective Fiction's Conventional Form
… and <em>The Doorbell Rang</em> (1965) and the novellas "Not Quite Dead Enough" and "Booby Trap" (1944) from Stout's Nero Wolfe series demonstrates his use of detective fiction for both the expression of political viewpoints and the muting of those political messages.</p>
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Ellas Se Fugan Del Museo: La Narrativa Femenina Frente a La Imagen De La Mujer en Publicaciones Ilustradas Espanolas Del Fin De Siglo
… their coexistence in popular collections of novellas (El Cuento Semanal, La Novela Corta), in particular those by authors such as Carmen de Burgos and Angela Barco; and third, the more indirect connection between the images in mass-produced magazines (Blanco y Negro) and the textual response …
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