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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 ...
A critical comparison of copies of the first three editions of Arden of Feversham
(1968)
This critical comparison of copies of the first three editions of Arden of Feversham includes in the introduction a description of the text, sources and stage history, followed by an examination of the problems of dating ...
Archetypes of the collective unconscious in three novels by John Steinbeck
(1974)
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the influence of work of Carl Gustav Jung on the fiction of John Steinbeck and to illustrate the value and appropriateness of Jung's psychology as a critical tool in explicating ...
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 ...
Tribunal of the mind : images of justice in The faerie queene
(1975)
This thesis surveys the action and structure of Spenser's The Faerie Queene from the perspective of the ideal of justice. Its basic assumption is that fundamentally the poem is an account of the quest for justice in three ...
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 ...