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Tewahia:ton tipaacimowin -- : two stories seen intertribally, the first novels of Ruby Slipperjack and Thomas King
(1997)
Ruby Slipperjack's Honour The Sun (1987) and Thomas King's
Medicine River (1989) are the two novels I discuss. Slipperjack's
novel investigates the adolescence of a female protagonist known as
the Owl, who passes through ...
Cadences of voice, conversations of change : the poetry of Bronwen Wallace
(1996)
The primary objective of the thesis is to examine three fundamental elements of
Bronwen Wallace's narrative poetry: stories, conversations and voice. Wallace
employs these methods to probe the moral, personal and political ...
Alternative music : jazz and the performance resignification of identity in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees and Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley
(2001)
In this thesis, I argue that Jazz, a music which finds its basis in improvisation, not
only functions as music, but as an extremely potent means of political resistance to a
number of systems by and through which identity ...
Applications of chaos theory to history in the novels of Michael Ondaatje : disorder within order in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter and In the Skin of a Lion
(2001)
This is a thesis studying Literary Chaos Theory and its use in explicating
the novels of Michael Ondaatje. The paper concentrates on elements of Chaos
theory, such as ‘strange attractors,’ ‘bifurcation points’ and ...
From ethnic towards transnational : The green library by Janice Kulyk Keefer
(2002)
This thesis argues that The Green Library by Janice Kulyk Keefer can be
read as a Canadian national narrative. In the novel, Keefer sets a task to explore how
ethnic minorities in Canada (Ukrainian Canadians in this case) ...
"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 ...
Boethian influences in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
(2003)
While John L. Tison Jr. recognizes Shakespeare as writing in the consolatory fashion, he
highlights Henry VI, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Coriolanus, and Romeo and Juliet as examples
while failing to include Timon of Athens. ...
Weaving the literary quilt : the layering of narrative in Thomas King's Truth & Bright Water
(2004)
This thesis explores the ways in which Thomas King
layers levels of textual and symbolic narrative in order to
show that truth is a relative concept that cannot be
strictly bound by conventional, essentialist beliefs.
In ...
First impressions : reconstructing language and identity in Pauline Johnson's "The Cattle Thief," Jeanette Armstrong's "Indian Woman," and Beth Cuthand's "Post-Oka Kinda Woman"
(2004)
In this thesis, utilizing the works of contemporary post-colonial critics and
authors, I argue that poetry is a medium through which Aboriginal women can reclaim
control over the construction of Aboriginal female identities. ...