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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Writing women's lives : the fictional aesthetic of Alice Munro
(1997)
When questioned by interviewers about matters of craft, Alice Munro is usually vague in
her responses, once insisting that she has "no idea how to write a story" (The Globe and Mail)
E. I). Her reluctance to make any ...
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 ...
Daguerreotype as analogy for Whitman's Leaves of Grass
(1993)
We commence our examination of the kaleidoscopic range
of connections between Whitman and the daguerreotype with a
simple, unpretentious news column by Whitman entitled "Visit
to Plumbe’s Gallery". This leads to ...