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Hirst, Miriam Laufey. "Fantasy and feminism : an intersectional approach to modern children's fantasy fiction." Thesis, University of Bolton, 2018. http://ubir.bolton.ac.uk/1968/.
Full textDrolet, Cynthia L. (Cynthia Lea). "Four Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500548/.
Full textKnez, Dora. ""The Release" : a creative writing thesis." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60609.
Full textFlegal, Kathleen M. "Magic words the phonology of fantasy neologisms /." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3283.
Full textVita: p. 78. Thesis director: Steven Weinberger. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan. 11, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-77). Also issued in print.
Vaisarova, Julie. "Witches, Warlocks, and...Fulgurites?: Learning Information from Fantasy Fiction." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/470.
Full textNotaro, Anna. "Fluctuations of fantasy : postmodernist contamination in Angela Carter's fiction." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1996. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2969/.
Full textGomez, Melissa Anne. "Influences of Science Fiction and Fantasy Fandom on Bias." W&M ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626814.
Full textSanchez-Taylor, Joy Ann. "Science Fiction/Fantasy and the Representation of Ethnic Futurity." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5302.
Full textMelano, Anne. "On divergence in fantasy." Master's thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/17998.
Full textThesis (MA (Hons))--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2006.
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On divergence in fantasy -- Introduction -- Preliminary -- The thousand and one definitional nights -- Characteristic works: inclusions and exclusions -- Critical objections to fantasy -- Conclusion.
On Divergence in Fantasy explores the ways in which fantasy criticism continually redefines its boundaries, without arriving at agreement. The paper draws on Foucault to suggest that these disputes and dispersions are characteristic of the operation of fantasy critisim as a discursive formation.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Westlake, David Michael. "Fantasy and Imagination: Discovering the Threshold of Meaning." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2005. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/WestlakeDM2005.pdf.
Full textBrooks, Emily Ruth-Diehl. "Hypha." TopSCHOLAR®, 2019. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/3141.
Full textPavlik, Anthony. "A view from elsewhere : the spatiality of children's fantasy fiction." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1891.
Full textHolappa, H. (Harri). "The information-seeking behaviour of science fiction and fantasy writers." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201702231225.
Full textTämän pro gradu -tutkielman aihe on tieteis- ja fantasiakirjoittajien tiedonhankintakäyttäytyminen. Aiempi taiteilijoita koskeva tiedonhankintakäyttäytymisen tutkimus on ollut vähäistä ja luovia kirjoittajia koskeva tutkimus lähes olematonta. Tutkielman metodi on verkkolomakkeella toteutettu kyselytutkimus, jonka painopisteet ovat Likert-asteikollisissa kysymyksissä ja epäparametrisessa tilastollisessa analyysissä. Tutkimuskysymykset ovat seuraavat: 1) Mitkä ovat tieteis- ja fantasiakirjoittajien käyttämät tiedonlähteet ja -kanavat kolmessa tämän tutkimuksen ehdottamassa työroolissa: tutkijarooli, artesaanirooli ja yrittäjärooli? 2) Mitkä tiedonlähteiden piirteet ovat kirjoittajien mielestä tärkeimmät? 3) Miten kirjoittajien genre, kokemus, rahalliseen ansioon yltäminen ja sukupuoli vaikuttavat tiedonlähteiden valintaan? 4) Mitä tiedonhankinnan esteitä kirjoittajat kohtaavat? Kyselylomake lähetettiin 16 englanninkieliselle tieteis- ja fantasiakirjoittamisen foorumille, ja se keräsi 130 vastaajaa yhdeksältä foorumilta. Tuloksista kävi ilmi, että tieteis- ja fantasiakirjoittajien tiedonhankintakäyttäytymistä luonnehtii hakukoneiden, interpersoonallisten lähteiden ja ”itsen” käyttö tiedonlähteenä. Tutkijaroolissa arvoa annetaan myös tietokannoille ja -sanakirjoille verkossa, fiktiiviselle ja tietokirjallisuudelle sekä luonnolle ja ympäristölle. Artesaaniroolin tiedonhankintaa ei hallitse mitkään tietyt lähteet, joskin lähteiden hankinta saattaa olla yleistä. Yrittäjäroolin tiedonhankinta on luonteeltaan interpersoonallisempaa kuin muiden. Tärkein tiedonlähteen piirre tieteis- ja fantasiakirjoittajille on luotettavuus. Tieteiskirjoittajat ovat fantasiakirjoittajia aktiivisempia verkkouutispalvelujen käyttäjiä tutkijaroolissa. Kirjoittamiskokemuksen kertyminen on liitoksissa yleisten kirjastojen, arkistojen ja museoiden käytön lisääntymiseen. Aloittelevat kirjoittajat käyttävät muita ryhmiä vähemmän hyväkseen asiantuntijoita ja tutkijoita. He joilla on 6–10 vuotta kirjoittajakokemusta saattavat olla urallaan vaiheessa, jossa kirjoittajauraan liittyvä tiedonhankinta on yleistä verkon tietokannoista, tietosanakirjoista, medianjakopalveluista ja uutispalveluista. Naispuoliset kirjoittajat hyödyntävät miehiä aktiivisemmin muiden ihmisten kokemuksia tutkijaroolissa ja joitakin kirjoittamaan oppimisen kanavia artesaani- ja yrittäjäroolissa. Rahalliseen ansioon yltäminen korreloi hiukan korkeamman tiedonlähteiden huonon tavoitettavuuden ja myöhäisyyden sietokyvyn kanssa sekä jo entuudestaan tuttujen lähteiden hiukan vähemmän suosimisen kanssa. Tieteis- ja fantasiakirjoittajien yleisimmät tiedonhankinnan esteet ovat ympäristöön ja erityisesti rahaan liittyvät esteet. Tutkielma osoitti, että tieteis- ja fantasiakirjoittajien tiedonhankintaan liittyy piirteitä, joita syvemmin tutkimalla voidaan päästä entistä kokonaisvaltaisempaan käsitykseen ihmisen tiedonhankinnasta. Ymmärtämällä luovien kirjoittajien tiedonhankintaa erilaisissa työrooleissa on myös mahdollista kehittää entistä parempia heille räätälöityjä informaatiopalveluja ja -tuotteita. Tämä pätee erityisesti niihin korkeakoulukirjastoihin, jotka palvelevat kansainvälisesti koko ajan kasvavaa joukkoa luovan kirjoittamisen opiskelulinjoissa olevia
Cupitt, Catherine Anne. "Space opera: a hybrid form of science fiction and fantasy." Thesis, Curtin University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1082.
Full textDegim, Iclal Alev. "TURKISH FANTASY FICTION FILMS THEN AND NOW: AN ANALYSIS OF FANTASY FILMS PRODUCED IN EARLY 1970s TURKEY." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1303.
Full textHall, Rebecca Thomas Ron. "The fantastic and related subgenres in three contemporary novels." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4190.
Full textLopez, Miguel Anthony. "New World Massive." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3675.
Full textChen, Jou-An. "An exploration of nature and human development in young adult historical fantasy." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/282878.
Full textErsoy, Gozde. "Trajectories, thresholds, transformations : coming of age in classic modern fantasy fiction." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13606.
Full textMeyer, Lois A. "Accomplishing shared meaning(s) through group talk : fact, fiction, fantasy or...? /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487687485809177.
Full textHort, Harold 1920. "Fact and fiction, form and fantasy : the novels of Elizabeth Jolley." Thesis, Department of English, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5430.
Full textBleecker, Timothy Jonathon. "The Christian romanticism of George MacDonald : a study of his thought and fiction /." Thesis, Connect to Dissertations & Theses @ Tufts University, 1990.
Find full textSubmitted to the Dept. of English Literature. Adviser: Martin Green. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [261]-269). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;
Freeman, Pamela. "Blood ties: and 'Kings. what a good idea' : monarchy in epic fantasy fiction." University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/403.
Full textPorta, Fernando. "Narrative strategies in H.G. Wells's romances & short stories (1884-1910)." Thesis, University of Reading, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339482.
Full textBrennan, Joseph Carl Linden. "I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy: new approaches to slash fiction." Thesis, Department of Media and Communications, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5872.
Full textLottiaux, Mathieu. "Herméneutique des mondes disjonctifs : le sacré et ses conséquences dans la fantasy et la science-fiction (1950-1989)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Valenciennes, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021UPHF0051.
Full textThe aim of our work is to understand, in a same analysis, the stories of science fiction and fantasy, to extract the transversal mechanisms and to propose, in a same time, a rereading and a hermeneutic. 333 We base our analysis on the hypothesis that the stories of science fiction and fantasy are “sacred stories” (Mircea Eliade) maintained, in the diegesis (fictional world), by a deus otiosus which is called by Marc Angenot, the absent paradigm. By mixing the works of Marc Angenot and Mircea Eliade, we propose the assumption that the diegesis contains a sacred that emerges (hierophanies) by many ways, and depends on the sensibility of the characters (Roger Caillois). However, we can observe recurrent frames (the origin, the paternity, the space, the prediction) and repetitive figures (the apocalypse, the cosmogony, the father, the mother, the landscape, the prophecy, etc.) that imply a social organization of the sacred (Hannah Arendt). In our second part, we observe the fluctuations (Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari ; Roger Caillois) of the sacred in the diegesis and we extract the constants and the variables about the time (Mircea Eliade ; Jean-Marie Grassin ; Jean-Paul Engélibert ; Niccholas Serruys), the space (Anna Bugajska ; Roger Caillois ; Hannah Arendt) and the justice (Roger Caillois ; Hélène Machinal ; Brian Attebery). So, the diegetic space is made up by sacred and profane which allows us to observe transversal mechanisms in the stories. Our last part, we apply the constants and the variables extracted from the second part and centred around the main character and his quest. We chose productions opposed by the critics to reread the division between the science fiction and the fantasy and to propose a new and common perspective, beyond the generic and temporal borders. So the disjunctive worlds appear like “sacred stories” with variables and constants that are a social metaphor of the sacred
Kawakami, Chiyoko. "The hybrid narrative world of Izumi Kyōka /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6670.
Full textBowman, Travis E. "Crossroads and Crow Feathers." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2591.
Full textFenech, Giuliana. "Reconfiguring the reader : convergence and participation in modern young adult fantasy fiction." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3681.
Full textGevers, Nicholas David. "Mirrors of the past : versions of history in science fiction and fantasy." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10511.
Full textHommel, Élodie. "Lectures de science-fiction et fantasy : enquête sociologique sur les réceptions et appropriations des littératures de l'imaginaire." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSEN068/document.
Full textFollowing the research led by Annie Collovald and Erik Neveu on the reading of detective novels, and by Christine Détrez and Olivier Vanhée on the reading of mangas, this thesis studies the reading of the “littératures de l’imaginaire” (« imaginary / non realistic literature », or « speculative fiction »: a publishing category including science fiction, fantasy, and some fantastic stories). After a study of the currently available products on the French market, the field survey, which was conducted through interviews with readers aged 20 to 35, highlighted their reading motivations, appropriations, and receptions. Like mangas or detective novels, science fiction, and more broadly speculative fiction, form a literary genre whose legitimacy is not acquired. It is often perceived as an escape from the real for amateurs, and its fans are sometimes pejoratively assimilated to social outsiders. These questions were addressed in research through different prisms: the reception of publishing categories by the young adults who were interviewed, the reasons to read science fiction and fantasy, various types of receptions and appropriations of the genre, reading paths in speculative fiction, cultural and sociability practices that take place around reading, and the relationship of readers to the ambiguous legitimacy of the genre
Delatte, Isabella Imber. "Roses and Foxes." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors155472117699106.
Full textWylie, Erin N. "The Cunning Folk." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2203.
Full textLundgren, Emily Lundgren. "Trees Struck by Lightning Burning from The Inside Out." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1523953422992737.
Full textWong, Wai-yi Dorothy, and 黃偉儀. "Form, force, and sociality: a study of the literary fantastic with special reference to Angela Carter and MoYan." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31246114.
Full textLeyburn, Boyd Harlan III. "The body in fantasy : how the human body informs science fiction set design." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22980.
Full textMcSporran, Cathy. "Letting the winter in : myth revision and the winter solstice in fantasy fiction." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5812/.
Full textHurst, Edmund. "Dawnsmoke and the influence of character tropes on the construction of fantasy fiction." Thesis, University of Hull, 2017. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16540.
Full textRüster, Johannes. "All-Macht und Raum-Zeit : Gottesbilder in der englischsprachigen Fantasy und Science-fiction /." Berlin : LIT, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb411199866.
Full textSharoni, Josephine. "Vampires and ape men : a Lacanian reading of British fantasy fiction, 1886-1914." Thesis, University of Kent, 2015. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/47511/.
Full textRyan, Jennifer Joan. "Introducing Mr Perky : subverting the fantasy trope of immortality in contemporary speculative fiction." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/30242/1/Jennifer_Ryan_Thesis.pdf.
Full textRyan, Jennifer Joan. "Introducing Mr Perky : subverting the fantasy trope of immortality in contemporary speculative fiction." Queensland University of Technology, 2009. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/30242/.
Full textHebert, Florent. "Défense de la décroissance : savoir, pouvoir et autorité dans la fantasy contemporaine." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOU20069/document.
Full textThis study will focus on the relation between degrowth — a multifaceted movement which takes its roots in deep ecology — and five fantasy novels, The Lord of the Rings (J. R.R. Tolkien 1954-55), The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin 1969), His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman 1995-2000), Enchantment (Orson Scott Card 1999) et Harry Potter (J. K. Rowling 1997-2007). The focus will be on the essence of degrowth, viz., on the one hand, a denial of escalation as a solution and of hoarding as the only form of happiness,and on the other hand, a willing diminishing as a means to improve human condition. More specifically, it is the decrease in power, authority and knowledge that will be studied. The emphasis will be on the representation of these three notions through narrative and stylistic devices, as well as on the various icons and figures embodying them, in order to show the way they set up a constant tension between growth and degrowth. To that effect, the role of both narrator and reader in the creation of the fantastic world will be given due consideration, for it is at the very heart of the fruitful interaction between knowledge and authority, which reflects the protagonist’s rise to power. Thus, the specificity of the fantasy and science fiction approach to these notions will be highlighted
Hao, Ji. ""Double" in traditional Chinese fantastic fictions." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?1438396.
Full textJenike, Elizabeth. "Blood of the Windmaker." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1417439734.
Full textVarnado, Ethan C. "A Wonder Book." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4965.
Full textIbrahim, Wesam. "Linguistic approaches to crossover fiction : towards an integrated approach to the analysis of text worlds in children's crossover fantasy fiction." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.684376.
Full textCrawford, Karie. "Turbulent times : epic fantasy in adolescent literature /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2002. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd41.pdf.
Full textCampbell, Nick. "Children's Neo-Romanticism : the archaeological imagination in British post-War children's fantasy." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2017. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/Children’s-Neo-Romanticism(d8dd7f80-d6a7-4e02-a103-c627adc0fad1).html.
Full textHolcomb, Will. "The Sunken Country & Other Stories." OpenSIUC, 2020. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2735.
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