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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"twenty-first century literature"”.
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The Modern Vampire as Romantic Hero: Acceptance, Love and Self-Control
… thesis explores the popularity of the vampire in twenty-first century literature and film by evaluating two of the most popular vampire series of the time, L.J Smith's Vampire Diaries series ( 1991 , 2009) and Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series (2005 - 2008); these texts characterize the vampire as …
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American made: The homegrown terrorist and 9/11 myths in the contemporary US novel
… of the "homegrown terrorist" in post-2010 literature to determine whether contemporary novels provide a critique of the national myths reinvigorated in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. To understand how contemporary literature speculates on the causes of …
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Mobile limits and the limits of mobility in French representations of urban space
… through a series of readings on twentieth- and twenty-first century literature, cinema and theory. This project uncovers liminal protagonists in French urban space, analyzes their Certelian practices, and considers what happens when they interact with urban limits in unexpected or unintended …
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“Where foot knocks against/the unburied bones of kin”: Topographies of memory and amnesia in Poland and Spain
… from each country’s respective canon of film and literature pertaining to the Holocaust and Spanish Civil War. The resistance to literary and visual depictions of wartime memory in Poland and Spain poses a multitude of imperative questions that revolve around the denial of national guilt and the …
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Beyond '9/11': counter-narratives of grief in post-9/11 literature
… with a sustained focus on grief in post-9/11 literature. Although there is an emerging trend away from traditional trauma theory as a critical paradigm, few scholars have suggested or applied alternate interpretive frameworks. This study reads literary portraits of grief through a variety of …