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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 ...
Reading native literature from a traditional indigenous perspective : contemporary novels in a Windigo society
(2001)
In this thesis I explore three novels by Aboriginal authors, using a perspective that evolves
from traditional Anishnabe teachings about the “Windigo" character. In the Introduction, I
elaborate upon the reasons why a n ...
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 ...
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 ...