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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 ...
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 ...
(Re)i-magining identity : plural subjectivities in Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani House and Michelle Cliff's No telephone to heaven
(2001)
This thesis uses the concepts, definitions, theories, and poetry of black
women, in particular highlighting those of Africaribbean women, to look at the
construction of identity in two novels by two women of the Caribbean ...
Depictions of race : self and other in Tolkien's and Jackson's Lord of the Rings / by Jonathan Epp.
(2008)
The war between darkness and light depicted in J. R. R. Tolkien’s famous
fantasy. The Lord of the Rings, is the subject of much debate and interpretation. At a first reading, Tolkien’s story can be mistaken as following ...
Fictional and historical narrative strategies in the writings of R.M. Koster
(1996)
This dissertation concerns R.M. Roster's first three novels. The Tinieblas Trilogy,
a fourth novel entitled Carmichael's Dog, and his non-fictional account of Panamanian
history, in The Time o f The Tyrants. The purpose ...
Dawn of discovery : Margaret Atwood's Morning in the burned house
(1996)
Morning in the Burned House, Margaret Atwood's new
collection of lyric poetry, is a carefully structured exploration
of the spiritual dimension of selfhood. The volume is divided
into five sections which each serve as ...
Reading native literature from a traditional indigenous perspective : contemporary novels in a Windigo society
(2001)
In this thesis I explore three novels by Aboriginal authors, using a perspective that evolves
from traditional Anishnabe teachings about the “Windigo" character. In the Introduction, I
elaborate upon the reasons why a n ...
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 ...
Possessing the literary mystery : reading, writing and interpreting the detective process in A.S. Byatt's Possession
(1998)
This thesis investigates how Byatt’s literary mystery Possession uses elements of
antidetective fiction and subverts conventions of the classic detective story. The classic
detective novel is a genre in which the strange ...