Search Results - continuity (fiction)
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Contagion and the subject in contemporary American speculative fiction
Published 2017“…This thesis explores the relationship between the representation of contagion and those it affects offered by contemporary American speculative fiction and the ways in which this representative model has and continues to inform our understanding of real and actual pandemics. …”
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Inexplicable voices: liminal whiteness in Antebellum American fiction
Published 2017“…This thesis examines the repeated appearance of liminal white voices in antebellum American fiction. It identifies a number of white characters who inhabit the boundary between life and death and produce inexplicable voices: talking corpses, ghosts, ventriloquists, spiritualist mediums and non-human bodies. …”
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Transformation of fiction from the Late Tang to Northern Song Dynasties
Published 2015“…Although the spirit of the Tang and Song dynasties differed, yet the literary transformation during this period is marked by a continuation of styles and internal structures. The discussion is placed in the context of the traditional view that holds the incipient fictions of the Tang in high regard at the expense of Song works. …”
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Islamophobia and Muslim minorities in post 9/11 women’s fiction
Published 2015“…This panel presentation sets out to address the issue of Islamophobia in fiction. The main premise of the presentation is to problematise the experience of being a Muslim minority as narrated in post 9/11 fiction by women. …”
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Translating English-language Christian-themed fiction in Taiwan (2000-)
Published 2020“…My case studies show that the introduction of Christian-themed fiction from the Anglophone contexts into the Taiwanese context can be understood as systemic functioning. …”
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Reading Human Subjectivity In Selected Contemporary Science Fiction Texts
Published 2010“…This study engages in a critical reading of subjectivity as portrayed in selected contemporary Science Fiction texts published in the twenty first century. …”
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Between magic and reason: science in 19th century popular fiction
Published 2011“…Yet, I will propose that an equally preeminent figure provides an alternative model of science in fiction. This is the detective. Links between developing scientific disciplines and the emerging genre of detective fiction have been well described to date. …”
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Challenging Implicit Gender Bias in Science: Positive representations of female scientists in fiction
Published 2012“…This paper reviews the critical research on Media representations of female scientists, and argues that more positive role models are found in fiction. This research examines the kind of cultural work such representations might perform, analysing a diverse sample of texts from 1905 to the present. …”
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Re-actualisation of puppet characters in modern Indonesian fictions of the 21st century
Published 2017“…The most intensive identity referencing of puppet characters in the form of hypogramming to continue convention is naming with characters. Third, Indonesian fiction uses puppet stories and characters as cultural references. …”
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Orientalism updated: aesthetics of Orientalism after 9/11 and the war on Iraq between truth and fiction
Published 2018“…While the textual academic debate on Orientalism remains stuck in a deadlock of mutual accusations of deliberate distortion, Orientalism itself continues in the melange of truth and fiction, across the images that dominate and shape our world, strategically making use of the blur of categories to defend itself against such criticism. …”
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Deviation and mobility in female characters stimulated through ‘structure of feeling’ in selected American novels
Published 2015“…I also display how this continuous deviation has led to the presentation of ‘individual mobility’ within the turn of the twentieth-century, and to ‘social mobility’ in the second half of the century. …”
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The reaction against realism in contemporary American fiction: a study of the work of John Hawkes, John Barth and Thomas Pynchon
Published 1978“…Chapter Two examines the fiction of John Hawkes; it traces a development in his fiction from the overtly experimental early novels, to the apparently more straightforward later ones, exposing this apparent return to convention as an illusion, and suggesting that "reality" to John Hawkes has never been less important than in his most recent work, Travesty. …”
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The idea of freedom - from socialist beginnings to a liberal world view in the political and historical fiction of Mario Vargas Llosa
Published 2023“…However, with the abandonment of the author’s radically left-wing side, in both his political commitment and his work, a new, much more critical literary portrayal can be observed in his fiction, regarding the neglect of Sartrean positions and the adoption of Camusian and Popperian criticism regarding revolt, revolution, or ideological destruction. …”
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Exploring trends and tropes in young adult fantasy literature from the U.S. since 2005
Published 2023“…This thesis contends that YA fantasy fiction continuously evolves to adapt to its ageing readership, calls for more diversity, and a circuitous relationship between publishers, authors, and content creators which enables fans to participate in the formation of a YA canon distinct from traditional fantasy literature. …”
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Reading girls reading pleasure : reading, adolescence and femininity
Published 2009“…Reading theory tends to reinforce these fears through a particularly disparaging assessment of popular fictions. The girl‘s identifications with characters in popular fiction continue to worry her familial, educational, psychological and moral guardians.Using a methodology based on the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan, I consider the girl reader as a subject split between her unconscious and the identity she cobbles together through identifications with embodied and representational others. …”
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Living with Star trek: utopia, community, self-improvement and the Star trek universe
Published 2005“…This study identifies and examines the American themes of utopia, community and self-improvement inherent within the fictional text which also form the thematic framework for letters written by fans to express their affection for the series. …”
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Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's snail-sense feminism: a subtle womanist agenda For Nigerian children's and adults' literature
Published 2020“…In this way the thesis can be seen to respond to Adimora-Ezeigbo’s literary oeuvre as an acknowledgement and a continuation of the different feminist models that came before hers and have been developed by Nigerian women writers. …”
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