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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"realist fiction"”.
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George Eliot’s Generative Economies: transactional maternal sacrifice in social realist fiction, 1853-1894
… body in mid-to-late nineteenth-century social realist fiction, taking George Eliot’s work as its primary case study. Using recent work in sacrifice studies as a framework, I illustrate the ways in which maternal sacrifice underpins canonical Victorian narrative structures. The thesis draws on …
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Constructing Urban Experience: American Realism, the Periodical Press, and the Late-Nineteenth-Century Cityscape
Much realist fiction employing these emblematic urban spaces appeared serially in magazines alongside articles about developing American urban centers. By bringing together both the physical and publication contexts of realist fiction, this study offers a new reading of realism as embedded in …
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The path of Lucius Park and other stories of John Valley
… addresses the issue of perspective in realist and magical realist fiction, with special emphasis on magical realism and belief. The stories are a mix of realism and magical realism, and are unified by characters and the fictional setting of John Valley, FL.
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Disabled Subjects: Disability Gender and Ethical Agency in Victorian Realism
… and melodramatic forms, the specific focus on realist fiction offers a fresh perspective on disability's ethical function. Realism's investment in interiority disrupts the often cliched association between physical disability and emotional excess, providing a de-sensationalized though no less …
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Gothic Slumming: Realist Writers and Gothic Texts in Progressive Era America
<p>During the Progressive Era, American realist and naturalist writers frequently employed the gothic mode. In contrast with critics who contend that the gothic is a subversive or disruptive mode, I suggest that the relationship between realism and the gothic is one of collaboration rather than …
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The writing and research of the novel 'The Shaded Side'
… issue of appropriation of research in realist fiction and the requirement for writers to understand and take responsibility for their choices of representation.
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Optative Regret in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Andrew Miller argues that in realist fiction, there exists the concept of optative regret,which is when a character becomes aware of and yearns for alternate versions of him orherself that may have become realized if different choices had been made in his or herpast. George Eliot's Middlemarch …
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"Is it time we move through or space?": literary anachronism and anachorism in the novels of Elizabeth Taylor
… stylistic engagements with time and place in her fiction. Blending theme with chronology, the study attaches a particular topic to each decade between the 1940s and the 1970s: war and its aftermath are considered in Taylor’s 1940s novels; the servant-figure in those of the 1950s; feminine …
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They Say You Can't Get Fat on Love
The following is a collection of fictitious short stories that challenge commonly-held biases by highlighting the harsh, abrupt crises that occur when characters learn what they believe to be true is erroneous. The creation of these individual worlds emphasizes the characters’ history, worldview, …