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Masculinities in the fiction of Pan Yutong and Li Tianbao
Published 2013“…Li Tianbao is used to the depiction of this type of male characters in his works of fiction. In which the men were being exploited because of the difference of working classes and races, they are considered as practitioners of marginalisation of masculinity. …”
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Halfway houses: liminality and the haunted house motif in popular American Gothic fiction
Published 2014“…Halfway Houses examines popular American Gothic fiction through a critical focus on what I call the ‘haunted house motif’. …”
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Shirley Geok-Lin Lim’s Fiction: A Post-Colonial Hybrid Literature
Published 2003“…This research seeks to examine the nationalistic and hybrid elements that permeate Shirley Geok-Lin Lim’s fiction: three collections of short stories and a novel, Joss and Gold. …”
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Reframing philosophical views on freedom, choice, perfectibility and self-realisation in selected contemporary post-apocalyptic fictions
Published 2021“…More importantly, the selected contemporary fictions, namely Parable of the Talents (1998) by Octavia E. …”
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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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Corpus stylistics and translation studies: a corpus-assisted study of Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness and its Italian translations
Published 2016“…It investigates the role of textual patterns as building blocks of the fictional world and triggers of literary themes. It also investigates the effects of translation on the relation between textual patterns and the fictional world, and discusses the potential consequences of translational alterations on the text’s themes. …”
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Aporia, dissemination, and simulacra as deconstructive tools in analyses of political agendas in selected works of Greg Bear and Joe Haldeman
Published 2021“…Haldeman’s The Forever War (1974), furthermore, was studied via the issue of science fiction, especially the issue of arm race; and Forever Peace (1997) was interpreted in relation to the endangered destiny of humanity on the verge of catastrophic events. …”
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Affect and desire: museums and the cinematic
Published 2010“…This mode of affectivity assumes credibility in fictional museums presented in films; resoundingly these museums are sites of non-conformity, seduction and the irrational.Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s interest in cinema images and the production of new thought, the thesis appraises fictional museums in films. …”
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Traumatic memory in Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen and Vaddey Ratner’s in the Shadow of the Banyan
Published 2019“…Some researchers have examined traumas of the fictional characters as a colonial manifestation of gender, slavery and race in the light of postcolonial, identity, historical, and feminist theories. …”
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Muslim revert narrative and American gaze post 9/11 in Jamilah Kolocotronis' Rebounding
Published 2017“…This paper focuses on the manifestations of the American gaze post-9/11 as portrayed in the fictional narrative, Rebounding, by Jamilah Kolocotronis. …”
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Ethnicity and displacement in multicultural societies: looking for the roots in M.G.Vassanji’s The Magic of Saida
Published 2018“…The return of immigrants from the Western countries into the country of origin is increasingly becoming a dominant theme in Canadian ethnic fiction. This article seeks to attribute this return to the multiculturalism, a system that identifies immigrants upon their ethnicities, race in specific. …”
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Narrating 1Malaysia: nationalism and patriotism in Malaysian literature written in English
Published 2010“…Malaysian literature in English in the 1960s was a product of early Malaysian writers’ endeavour to spearhead a literary tradition of writings that promoted a national identity amongst the diverse races living the country. This task, however, was generally undertaken by those who were more inclined to write about the issues and interests of their own communities rather than those of others living in the country. …”
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