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"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. ...
Christianity and lesbian subjectivity in texts by Alice Walker, Jeanette Winterson & Carla Trujillo
(2005)
This thesis focuses on the ways in which Christianity seeks to limit lesbian
subjectivity in three novels: Alice Walker's The Color Purple (1982), Oranges Are Not the
Only Fruit (1985) by Jeanette Winterson, and What ...
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 ...
Cage by any other name : enclosures in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus
(2002)
In this study of Sights at the Circus, I analyze Angela Carter's
critique of the literal, figurative , and theoretical "cages" in which the
system of patriarchy encloses women. I appropriate the three phases of ...
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 ...
Reading Canada Reads
(2009-11)
The CBC Radio One program Canada Reads launched in 2002 and has had a significant impact on the Canadian book industry from its beginning. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the methodologies of Canada Reads and the ...
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 ...