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Gendering the muse : reinscriptions of patriarchal authority and the delegitimization of female authorship in selected Stephen King works
(2009-04)This thesis examines representations of masculinity and authority in selected Stephen Kings works: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Bag of Bones, Misery, and The Tommyknockers. These texts reinscribe writing and authority ... -
Ghosts of Margaret Atwood and Henry James : an analysis of the relationship between surfacing and "The Jolly Corner"
(1985)In the writing of several critics and scholars comparisons have been made between Margaret Atwood^s Surfacing and the supernatural tales of Henry James. This present study is based on the special relationship that appears ... -
The Heroine's reclamation of the girlish and the portrayal of girl-power in Sailor Moon
(2009-08)This thesis considers the value of 1990s girl-power as demonstrated by the cartoon Sailor Moon. Girl-power and the girlish body were often chastised in 90s popular culture for providing girls with a negative example of ... -
"I'm with you now, I'm with you ..." : Michael Corleone as gangster figure in Mario Puzo's and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather texts / by Carmela Coccimiglio.
(2006)This thesis examines the construction of the gangster figure as embodied by Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, The Godfather Part II and The Godfather Part III. The examination of Michael is ... -
Image, symbol, and the life of the imaginaton in the works of Sinclair Ross
Until very recently, studies of the works of Sinclair Ross have over-looked his literary artistry to focus on his place among those writers whose time and place is the Canadian prairie during the Depression, Ross’s ... -
Implications of the themes of the "living" and the "dead" in four decades of Patrick White's novels
(1988)A lifelong search into the very nature of reality and the soul has led Australian Nobel Prize-winner Patrick White to investigate some of the explanations which man has been attempting to provide since time immemorial. The ... -
"Lord I know I been saved" : religious experience in James Baldwin's Go Tell it on the Mountain / by Andrew Connolly.
(2009)"The world of Go Tell It on the Mountain is a theological world. Not only do the characters themselves follow a theology, but a version of the Christian God arguably appears as a character in the novel. Rather than promote ... -
Matrix : from representation to simulation and beyond
(2006)The issue of representation remains a key area of exploration for critical theory and philosophy during the 20th century. Broadly speaking, the project, in part, of post-structural and Postmodern theorists has been to ... -
Mimetic roots of Flannery O'Connor's The violent bear it away
(1998)Literature from classical antiquity to the end of the eighteenth century was predominantly mimetic; that is, the general function of literature was to present a heightened imitation of reality, and, in particular those ... -
Modern transcendental vision of William Heyen
(1993)This paper shall attempt to outline William Heyen's Transcendental Vision. Chapter One, sections one to three, defines Transcendentalism, explores the visions of two well known American thinkers, Ralph Waldo Emerson and ... -
The mother figure in the history plays of William Shakespeare
(1976)I have chosen the topic of the mother figure in the history plays of William Shakespeare because it is a subject that has not received as much attention as other, perhaps more important aspects of Shakespeare's work that ... -
Narrative structure in three novels of the Vietnam War
(1988)This thesis analyzes the process by which three American novels about the Vietnam War—David Halberstam*s One Very Hot Day^ Gustav Hasford*s The Short-Timers, and Stephen Wright's Meditations in Green—attempt simultaneously ... -
Ordinary lives : extraordinary narratives, the transformation of character and theme in the fiction of Carol Shields
(1997)The primary objective o f this thesis is to examine the ways in which the ordinary lives that Carol Shields describes in her fiction are transformed into extraordinary narratives. I will use three of Shields’ novels as ... -
Performing (and) identity in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus and, Wise Children
(1999)In her last two novels, Nights at the Circus and Wiise Children, Angela Carter examines some of the complex factors involved in the construction of identity, both within the fictional world, and for readers in their ...