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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"twentieth century narrative"”.
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Unlived Lives in Twentieth Century Narrative: Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen, Kazuo Ishiguro
… and national history. Those alive at the mid-century, she observed, were consequently more aware than ever before of ‘unlived lives’: the opportunities they might otherwise have had, the people they might have become in a lifetime of peace, and the decades they might have spent with the …
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The Ethics of Collective Knowledge Production: The Individual and Club Membership in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Narrative
The nineteenth-century realist novel offers profound insights into the social processes through which knowledge is constructed. This study views the novel as an experimental forum for interrogating various paths to social incorporation, as the singular protagonist is absorbed into a wider cast of …
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The eyewitness in American specular narrative : empiricism, representation, and the gaze
… dissertation, I investigate American specular narrative which displays a significant level of visual empiricism and examine the implications of the eyewitness perspective such narrative assumes. Based on the epistemological assumption that "to see is to know," specular narrative imagines an …
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Buddhism and the state in Burma: English-language discourses from 1823 to 1962
… state in Burma: its core focus is a postcolonial narrative produced largely by Burmese lay Buddhists writing in English, a narrative that I examine with reference to two other Anglophone discourses – a nineteenth and early twentieth-century colonial European narrative and a mid- twentieth-century …