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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, ...
Writing the ascent : narrative and mountaineering accounts / by Justin Allec.
(2009)
Mountaineering is an activity traditionally practiced in remote areas of the world by a select few participants. Upon returning from an expedition, some mountaineers retrospectively publish their account as a testament of ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...