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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"twentieth-century novels"”.
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Doing homework: negotiations of the domestic in twentieth-century novels of teaching
In this project, I analyze seven twentieth-century novels of teaching in order to investigate how notions of “home” and “school” are constructed, connected, and perpetuated in popular teaching narratives. Images of teachers in much of this century’s fiction often rest on views of the school as home …
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The Use of Subordinate Characters as Dramatized Narrators in Twentieth-Century Novels
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Soliciting desire: the ad-man as narrative negotiation between art, desire, and consumer capitalism in twentieth-century novels
… psychological implications of advertising in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Soliciting Desire takes as its primary subjects H.G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay, Theodore Dresier’s The “Genius,” Frederick Wakeman’s The Hucksters, Jonathan Dee’s Palladio, and William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition and …
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Between Species: Biopolitics, Resistance, and Interspeciesality
This thesis examines three twentieth-century novels—Carson McCullers’s Reflections in a Golden Eye, Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale, and Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats—in the context of posthumanist animal studies. A Foucauldian biopolitical lens foregrounds the inextricably linked ways that both …
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'Menschenleer.' The Aesthetics of Humanity in the Novels of Christoph Ransmayr: Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis, Die letzte Welt and Morbus Kitahara
… of a distinctive aesthetics in the late twentieth century novels of the Austrian writer, Christoph Ransmayr. The three novels, Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis, Die letzte Welt and Morbus Kitahara, while quite different in terms of spatial and temporal orientation, share several …
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Samuel Butler’s Way of All Flesh as a Sociological Novel
… of social criticism found in four influential twentieth century novels of rebellion. It will finally be seen that Samuel Butler was not a flawless novelist (or for that matter, a flawless philosopher), but the critical message of his Way of All Flesh far outweighed the strengths or weaknesses …
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Recondite Reading: William Gaddis's Carpenter's Gothic and the Difficulties of Late Modernism
… thesis concerns the perceived difficulty of the novels of William Gaddis, and in particular with his novel Carpenter's Gothic (1985). It also addresses Gaddis's place in literary history and periodization based upon that difficulty. Almost all critics of Gaddis are surveyed as to their commentary …