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Self-evident shams : metafiction and comedy in three of Flann O'Brien's novels
(1998)
The aim of this thesis is to analyse the connections between comedy and
metafiction evident in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman and
The Hard Life. The following pages discuss how these novels express, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Quest for identity : defining the "self" in two novels by Annie Proulx
(1998)
The idea of the “self’ as an autonomous whole is no longer sufficient in
contemporary discussions of identity. Individuals are “subjects,” defining themselves
against and through other subjects and their environments. A ...