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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"postmodern literature"”.
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Migratory patterns : stories
… that considers the role of travel in postmodern literature and the ways travel impacts the contemporary writer's use of form and structure in the making of short stories. This dynamic is considered in light of writers such as Henry James and Deborah Eisenberg, and the introduction …
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"The New Millennium's Passion for Standing Live Witness to Things:” The Epidemiology of Isolation, Addiction and Redemption in David Foster Wallace’s <em>Infinite Jest</em>
… why their addictions are central to Wallace’s literature. Lastly, this thesis explores the possibility of redemption despite isolation, addiction and a penchant for self-absorption in a society whose inhabitants have trouble relating to one another. Discussed in conjunction with redemption is …
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Queering Medieval Gender and Sexuality: Pre- and Postmodern Representations of Virginity
… of the medieval virgin in both pre- and postmodern literature and cinema, including women who chose physical virginity as well as spiritual virginity in their quests to be sponsae Christi. I argue that unlike much modern cinema, specifically Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring and Chris …
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Dealings in duplicity : the double in the fiction of John Banville
… the double, as well as attempt to establish the postmodern meaning attributed to it. This is done principally using the works of theorists such as Linda Hutcheon and Patricia Waugh, as well as contributions from Michel Foucault. Chapter 2 will initially discuss the notion of the parodic double …
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Interrogating History or Making History? Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, DeLillo's Libra, and the Shaping of Collective Memory
… I examine these problems as they relate to literature. Much postmodern literature dealing with history is self-consciously aware of itself and history as human constructs, and it uses this ironical self-awareness as a means of exploring the nature of historiography. In my thesis, I examine …
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Signifying Autobiographical Intimacies of Woman, Mother, and Daughter in Alice Munro’s Short Stories
… genre and female narrative at the forefront of literature, suggesting or perhaps confirming a deep connection between women’s experience and vision, and short fiction. Her work can be broadly contextualised within postcolonial and postmodern literature and, more specifically, included in the …
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Re(f)use: The Aesthetics of Waste In American Fiction
… Fiction,' I analyze works of contemporary literature by Pynchon, DeLillo, and Wallace, among others--authors whose attention to garbage (and the sea change in twentieth-century literary aesthetics that this attention suggests) offers a vital new perspective on the key issues of green …
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“Revolution” in the Epic Form in Contemporary French Literature
The basic claim of this thesis is a speculative one: there has been a ‘revolution’ in the epic form in the late twentieth- and twenty-first centuries that challenges how this form has been formulated in French literary theory in the 1960s and 1970s, most notably intertextual theory. Contrary to the …
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Schooling Gender in Rural Pakistan: An Ethnographic study of the Primary School and its Role in Gender Construction
… society. Theoretically, this thesis adds to the postmodern literature specifically regarding the Foucauldian work on panopticism, gazes and disciplinary practices. The gaze is generally focused on vision; but the ethnographic evidence presented here suggests that it also includes an aural …
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Embrutar-se les mans : una aproximació al pensament de la novel·la d'Ian McEwan
… Ian McEwan, fent especial èmfasi en els trets postmoderns de la seva producció enmarcats dins la nova ficció britànica.
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The Seduction of Feminist Theory
… theory, change our understanding of feminism and literature from the turn of the twentieth century to the postmodern era. My second chapter addresses feminism of the Progressive Era and argues that focusing on productive discourse systematically disempowers women. The Progressive Era is primarily …
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Paulo Coelho: Transnational Literature, Popular Culture, and Postmodernism
… vision upon the coinage of the term world literature? Many cultural scholars would argue to the contrary. This dissertation aims at exploring Coelho narratives and their popularity and controversial reception by contextualizing them within the contemporary scholarship on World Literature …
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Between Floors: The Ups and Downs of Mediated Narrative
… theory and practice of print with electronic literature and installation art. I argue that as the medium changes, the narrative is transformed. The narrative can be reconstructed and pieced together as the reader or viewer becomes increasingly involved, even embodied within the work. This …