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McCracken, David E. "The Great Plains trilogy. Book one, These God-forsaken lands. Part one (of three), Wayward horse." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1391232.
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Wright, Kenneth Patrick. "The Law and Its Enforcers in Faulkner's Trilogy." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501260/.
Full textDobianer, Nicole S. "Auto-fiction and identity in Esther Tusquets' trilogy." Thesis, University of Kent, 2013. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/55458/.
Full textKneale, James Robert. "Lost in space? : readers' constructions of science fiction worlds." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309071.
Full textGraf, Stephen. "Necessary Fictions : Nietzsche, Anti-Philosophy and Violence in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.519471.
Full textGui, Lihua. "Robertson Davies's innovative use of the trilogy form in his fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0004/NQ35168.pdf.
Full textBagnall, Imogen. "Afrofuturism and Generational Trauma in N. K. Jemisin‘s Broken Earth Trilogy." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194870.
Full textOppelt, Riaan. "The valley trilogy: a reading of C. Loius Leipoldt's English-language fiction circa 1925-1935." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_7246_1257247882.
Full textC. Louis Leipoldt is known as a canonical figure in the history of Afrikaans poetry, He is customarily included in the pantheon of writers such as C.J. Langenhoven who not only established Afrikaans as a standardized national language in the early twentieth century, but also contributed to the idea of the Afrikaner Volk as a distinct nation within South Africa. The recent publication of Leipoldt's Valley Trilogy, three novels written in English in the 1930's now reveals Leipoldt in a very different light. Today, in a time of national transformation, Leipoldt's liberal ideas deserve to be given the broader scope he had intended for them.
Toerien, Michelle. "Boundaries in cyberpunk fiction : William Gibson's Neuromancer trilogy, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix, and Neal Stephenson's Snow crash." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51639.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: Cyberpunk literature explores the effects that developments in technology will have on the lives of individuals in the future. Technology is seen as having the potential to be of benefit to society, but it is also seen as a dangerous tool that can be used to severely limit humanity's freedom. Most of the characters in the texts I examine wish to perpetuate the boundaries that contain them in a desperate search for stability. Only a few individuals manage to move beyond the boundaries created by multinational corporations that use technology, drugs or religion for their own benefit. This thesis will provide a definition of cyberpunk and explore its development from science fiction and postmodern writing. The influence of postmodern thinking on cyberpunk literature can be seen in its move from stability to fluidity, and in its insistence on the impossibility of creating fixed boundaries. Cyberpunk does not see the future of humanity as stable, and argues that it will be necessary for humanity to move beyond the boundaries that contain it. The novels I discuss present different views concerning the nature of humanity's merging with technology. One view is that humanity is moving towards a posthuman future, while some argue that humanity is not discarded, but that these characters have merely evolved to the next step in the natural development of humankind. Both these views deal with constant change, a notion advocated by both postmodernism and cyberpunk.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: "Cyberpunk" literatuur ondersoek die uitwerking wat tegnologiese ontwikkeling in die toekoms op die lewens van individue sal hê. Tegnologie word gesien as tot moontlike voordeel vir die samelewing, maar dit kan ook 'n gevaarlike wapen wees wat gebruik kan word om die mens se vryheid in te perk. Die meerderheid van die karakters in die romans wat ek bespreek verkies om die grense wat hulle inperk te handhaaf in 'n desperate strewe na stabiliteit. Slegs 'n paar individue kry dit wel reg om verby die grense te breek wat deur multinasionale organisasies geskep word vir hul eie gewin. In hierdie tesis kyk ek na 'n definisie van "cyberpunk" en ek ondersoek die invloed van wetenskapsfiksie en postmodernisme op die ontwikkeling van die beweging. Die invloed van postmodernistiese denke kan gesien word in "cyberpunk" se fokus op veranderlikheid eerder as stabiliteit. "Cyberpunk" sien nie die toekoms van die mens as stabiel nie, en die argument is dat dit nodig is vir die mens om verby die grense te beweeg wat vryheid inperk. Die romans wat ek bespreek bevat verskillende sieninge oor die tipe samesmelting wat die mens en tegnologie sal hê. Sommige voel dat die kategorie "mens" permanent agterlaat gaan word, terwyl ander argumenteer dat individue slegs sal ontwikkel tot die volgende stap in die natuurlike ontwikkeling van die mens. Voortdurende verandering is die fokus van beide hierdie standpunte, en dit is ook die belangrikste fokus van beide "cyberpunk" en postmodernisme.
Simpson, Kathryn C. S. "H. Rider Haggard, Theophilus Shepstone and the Zikali trilogy : a revisionist approach to Haggard's African fiction." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2017. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/978289.
Full textPersson, Henrik. "Seldonplanen : En studie av determinism och upplysningsidéer i Isaac Asimovs Stiftelse-trilogi." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för humaniora, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-13309.
Full textEss, Courtneigh. "n Interseksionele lees van Bettina Wyngaard se misdaadtrilogie (An intersectional reading of Bettina Wyngaard’s crime-fiction trilogy)." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8183.
Full textBettina Wyngaard se misdaadfiksie-trilogie, bestaande uit die romans Vuilspel (2013), Slaafs (2016) en Jagter (2019) het ’n vernuwende uitwerking in die Afrikaanse literatuur gehad. Dit kan hoofsaaklik teruggevoer word na die skrywer se gebruik van ’n (swart) lesbiese protagonis. Wyngaard is ook die eerste swart Afrikaanse vroue-outeur wat haar tot hierdie genre gewend het. Haar misdaadtrilogie toon ’n sentrale bemoeienis met die vroulike subjek se ondergeskikte posisie as deurgaans onderdruk weens verskeie identiteitsaspekte (waaronder ras, gender, klas, seksualiteit, kultuur en nasionaliteit tel). Die simbiotiese verhouding tussen identiteit en mag is dus ’n prominente tematiek in die trilogie. Hierdie bemiddeling tussen identiteit en mag toon raakpunte met die interseksionaliteitsteorie soos voorgestel deur Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989). Sy voer aan dat subjekte onderdruk word deur die tussenspel van identiteitsmerkers en sisteme van onderdrukking wat inherent is daaraan. In hierdie verhandeling word die representasie van die vroulike subjek in Wyngaard se misdaadtrilogie uit ’n interseksionele invalshoek in oënskou geneem. Vanweë die gebruik van literatuur as subjek van analise in hierdie verhandeling, word swart feministiese denkskole oor die letterkunde ingereken as ontledingsinstrumente om Wyngaard se trilogie binne die ruim trajek van swart feministiese fiksie te posisioneer. Terselfdertyd word Wyngaard se subjektiwiteit as swart vroue-outeur krities bekyk omdat sy deur middel van haar tekste verantwoordelik is vir beeldskepping en voorstellings van vroulike subjekte. Aangesien Wyngaard se fiksie dikwels identiteitsaspekte ondervang wat verband hou met haar eie subjektiewe identiteit, sal die wyse bekyk word waarop selfdefiniëring en selfaktualisering in haar trilogie tot stand gebring word.Soos reeds genoem, het Wyngaard grense in die Afrikaanse letterkunde versit deur haar tot misdaadfiksie as genre te wend. As deel van populêre fiksie, staan misdaadfiksie tradisioneel bekend as ’n behoudende genre met ’n resepmatige onderbou wat, só beskou, nie gebruik word om progressiewe argumente in te voer nie. Hierdie aspek van die genre staan dus oënskynlik in kontras met die feministiese aard van Wyngaard se misdaadfiksie-trilogie. In hierdie verhandeling word gevolglik ook die funksionaliteit van genre en die impak daarvan op die beeldskepping van die vroulike subjek bekyk. Maniere waarop Wyngaard gevestigde genrekonvensies oorskry in ’n poging om feministiese benaderings te berde te bring, word in die besonder bestudeer.
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Ross, Larry J. "The use of Tolkien's 'The lord of the rings' trilogy in contemporary pre-evangelism." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1235.
Full textIncludes abstract. Appendix A: Pastor's guide to The lord of the rings : a resource for fellow pastors who love "The lord of the rings" / by Larry J. Ross. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-112).
Elhousny, Nadja. ""I believe it." : En luthersk-teologisk analys av Veronica Roths Divergent-trilogi." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-255544.
Full textDenna uppsats undersöker Veronica Roths Divergent-trilogi ur ett luthersk-teologiskt perspektiv. Metoden som används är en text- och läsarcentrerad metod. Med hjälp av post-modern luthertolkning till största delen hämtad från projektet Luthersk teologi och etik - i ett efterkristet samhälle så byggs tre tankefigurer upp; människan och det onda, människan och det goda samt människan och vägen till frihet. Dessa tankefigurer läggs som ett raster över trilogin. Resultatet av denna process visar att det i berättelsen är möjligt att synliggöra lutherska tankefigurer rörande rättfärdiggörelse, skuld, en självutgivande kärlek, förlåtelse och nåd.
Rector, Ann Mansfield. "Gleams of Godlight in the trilogy a study of myth and doctrine in the science fiction of C.S. Lewis /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1985. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
Full textSource: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2846. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as preliminary leaves [1-2]. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [103]-106).
Chau, Ka-wah Anna. "Imaginary spaces in children's fantasy fiction a psychoanalytic reading of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31364986.
Full textChau, Ka-wah Anna, and 周嘉華. "Imaginary spaces in children's fantasy fiction: a psychoanalytic reading of Lewis Carroll's Alice Booksand Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31364986.
Full textStephenson, William John. "Form, parody and history in 'The French lieutenant's woman' and 'A maggot' by John Fowles, and 'To the ends of the Earth: a sea trilogy' by William Golding." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249288.
Full textStenberg, Felicia. "Cooperative Apocalypse : Hostile Geological Forces in N. K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96839.
Full textLagerqvist, Anna. "”Shouldn’t I be in your position?” : En studie av klass och kön i Marie Lus Legendtrilogi." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och idéhistoria, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-105846.
Full textWaddell, Heather. "Reading with thought and effort : Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, and its connections to the works of John Milton and William Blake /." Connect to online version, 2007. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2007/245.pdf.
Full textMounienguet, M'bérah Yannick. "Identité, théâtralité et statut anthropologique de la fiction narrative dans "The New York Trilogy" de Paul Auster et "La Polka, la fabrique de cérémonies, solo d’un revenant" de Kossi Efoui." Thesis, Paris Est, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PEST0021.
Full textThis work concerns the conditions of elaboration of an anthropological knowledge from the discursive forms of the contemporary novel and the representation of the character which this one sets up. It raises a status of this knowledge by putting these forms in connection with the socio-anthropological context which determines their emergence, referring to the aesthetic phenomenon of its reception and its social significance. So, the theatricality concept indicates a disruption of the novel identity as well as the method by which the character crisis expresses itself, "refiguring" the vision of human being and the society. The dissertation is divided in three parts all in accordance with the triple articulation of the Text socio-anthropological method. The first part’s dealing with the mutual influence between literature and anthropology. With the mimesis concept, that first part shows that the novel proposes its own vision of the human being. The second part localizes two levels of theatricality in the novel: the one that puts the identity of that one in the crisis and the over that re-elaborates the mimesis by representing a character totally split. The third part tries to establish correspondences between this double crisis of the character and human beings
Vidal, Filho Elias. "L’ombre de l’obscurité dans Récit d’un certain Orient, Deux frères et Cendres d’Amazonie, de Milton Hatoum." Thesis, Paris 3, 2020. https://bsnum.sorbonne-nouvelle.fr/files/original/1338/6773/These_en_cours_de_traitement.pdf.
Full textDue to the recurrence of diegetic elements – such as active images, scenes, projections and meetings of characters – in Tale of a Certain Orient, The Brothers and Ashes of the Amazon, our work considers these three novels to what shall be referred here as Milton Hatoum’s first fictional trilogy. Indeed, there are certain micro-knots linked together within a fabric, as in a macro-structure that differs in order to be sustainable, in a process of filling and draining, of rebellion from end to beginning. These diegetic elements are representations of emptiness that recount the remains of a ruined path. Guided by the literary fabric, thus confronting the study researches which consider Hatoum’s fictional work as memorialist – and summon up the willingness to address his shortcomings – our analysis deals with the multiple knots stemming from the economy of memory conditions (shades of unconsciousness), mainly the condition of forgotten memory, the economy of forgetfulness. Our work also focuses on other converging lines in Hatoum’s trilogy plot, namely life and death, presence and absence of the body (the father’s and the son’s), accuracy and requirement as to the process of bereavement and legacy, forgiving the unforgivable (illegitimacy and affiliation), all pointed out in questions regarding territoriality, ethnicity and ethico-political/socio-ecological stances. Emptiness shapes the analysed narratives, standing stretched in the space-time continuum of enunciation and utterance until the breaking up (infinite split of the double – unalike, recurred and different – joining at last the chaotic indifference) of narrative voices (and diegetic elements). The serious, traumatic, forgotten or to be forgotten event creates the discontinuity, the unseen, the need to develop the novel, which remains continuously open and germinal. The structural reduction undertaken here by our analysis travels through the surface and plunges into the essence of Hatoum’s works. This reduction aims to reach their specificity and universality, to avoid the part-whole dichotomy and exoticisation, by engaging to understand their infinite process of filling through empty elements. The unsteadiness of the unknown – of the immemorial in the three novels which makes them a trilogy of forgetfulness – characterises the author’s literary project, identifies its lineage and ancestrality in order to integrate it in a transnational literary landscape
A partir da reincidência de fatos diegéticos (tais como imagens agentes, cenas, projeções e atravessamentos de personagens) em Relato de um certo Oriente, Dois irmãos e Cinzas do Norte, o presente trabalho os reconhece como a primeira tríade romanesca de Milton Hatoum – ao encontrar alguns dos micronós entre seus tecidos a reuni-los em uma macroestrutura que se diferencia para se manter, um processo de totalização e esvaziamento, da revolta, do fim ao começo. Tais fatos diegéticos são representações de vazio que traçam os vestígios de um percurso em ruína. Assim, nossa análise opõe-se à corrente de estudos que vê o romance hatoumiano como memorialista, sob sugestão do preenchimento de suas lacunas; antes, orientada pelo tecido literário, trata dos múltiplos entrelaçamentos derivados da economia dos estados da memória (em nuances de inconsciência), essencialmente do estado da memória esquecida, a economia do esquecimento – dos outros feixes dessa trama tríade e, por isso, de nosso trabalho: de morte e de vida, das presenças e ausências do corpo, do pai e do filho, da precisão e exigência pela elaboração do luto e da herança, do perdão do imperdóavel (a bastardia e a filiação), particularizados em problemáticas de territorialidades, pertencimentos e posicionamentos ético-políticos, social-ecológicos. O vazio determina as narrativas analisadas, tensionadas entre os espaço-tempos da enunciação e do enunciado até a fragmentação (a cisão infinita do duplo, dessemelhante, repetido e diferente, finalmente recongregado à indiferença caótica) das vozes narrativas (e dos fatos diegéticos): o acontecimento grave, traumático, esquecido ou a esquecer, que instaura a descontinuidade, a coisa invisível, a necessidade de elaboração, do romance que permanece, contudo, aberto, vão-grão germinal. A redução estrutural que opera nossa tese, atravessados os âmbitos da superfície até o essencial das obras hatoumianas, quer acessar suas particularidades e universalidades, escapar da dicotomia parte-todo e da exotização, lançando-se à compreensão de seu processo infinito de totalização através do elemento vazio: a instabilidade do desconhecido e imemorado dos romances da tríade que os configura romances de esquecimento, define o projeto literário do autor, suas filiações e ancestralidades a inseri-lo em uma paisagem literária transnacional
Weber, Undine S. "Wolfgang Koeppens auseinandersetzung mit der tradition: aspekte der intertextualität in der so genannten nachkriegs‐trilogie." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020833.
Full textAl, Suraihi Abdulrahman. "Le rapport entre l’Histoire et le roman dans les deux derniers volumes des Thibault de Roger Martin du Gard et La Trilogie de Naguib Mahfouz." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030044.
Full textHow is the historical incorporated in the novel and how does this incorporation serve theambition of two novelists who, even though belonging to different cultures, write fictionswhich tell the story of a family through history, and more precisely during the first half of theXXe century? How to understand the relationship between novel and history? Our researchinvestigates how the contamination between them proceeds: between historical facts and theinvented ones, a mutual contamination is used to authenticate the fictive world created by thenovelist, but also to question history. The detailed study of the marks of historicity, namelydates, historical characters and documents, shows us that the fiction historicizes itself, not inrelation to history as an academic genre, but in relation to new writing forms of the press likethe reportage in the case of Roger Martin du Gard and the feuilleton in the case of NaguibMahfouz
Bui, Thi Thu Thuy. "La crise de l’exil chez Linda Lê : l’itinéraire du deuil dans la trilogie consacrée à la mort du père." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO20024.
Full textExile and mourning, in dialectical relation, are of paramount importance in Linda Lê’s books which are populated by misanthropic characters. The trilogy is nourished by the traumatic loss of the father, the country and the language. The writer is deeply affected by the issue of the language. In fact, she deliberately abandoned her native tongue for that of her adopted country thus generating a feeling of betrayal. From her “exile of language”, Linda Lê constructs a “language of exile”: one of obscurity, of confusion, of crisis, aggravated by the death of her abandoned father. Writing is necessary for her in order to go through mourning and is a pharmakon against madness. Heterogeneous in their form, each book of the trilogy corresponds to one stage of grief. Homogeneous in their substance, they represent the different aspects of the father’s quest. Steeped in the personal experience of the author, the trilogy is nevertheless a work of fiction with a part of extravagance and onirism. The construction of the story also reflects the generic indecision, marked by the coherence between memory and imagination, conscious and unconscious. In addition, the trilogy is a testimony to a cultural duality with the Vietnamese past on the one hand and the European present on the other. Finally, the sentimental duality between love and anger is a mark of the “lê-esque” ideology: paradoxical in appearance but logical and philosophical in reality: life is born from death and death is hidden within life
Légaré, Isabelle. "Épistémocritique des insectes sociaux dans les essais de Michelet et de Maeterlinck suivi de La trilogie Antennes et L’Excès." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39639.
Full text劉天枝. "論金庸武俠小說的絕境書寫 :以"射鵰"三部曲為例 = Research on the desperation narrative of Jin Yong's Martial Arts novels : taking the Condor Trilogy for instance." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3954251.
Full textCouture, Diana Maude. "Se reconstruire après une fin du monde : analyse des sociétés post-apocalyptiques dans trois fictions anglo-saxonne récentes." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/33997.
Full text鄺雯怡. "格非復歸傳統的理論建構與文學實踐研究 :以"江南三部曲"為例 =;"Return to the tradition" of Ge Fei : his theoretical exploration and creation practice : a case from Jiang Nan Trilogy." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3954182.
Full textChappell, Shelley Bess. "Werewolves, wings, and other weird transformations fantastic metamorphosis in children's and young adult fantasy literature /." Doctoral thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/226.
Full textBibliography: p. 239-289.
Introduction -- Fantastic metamorphosis as childhood 'otherness' -- The metamorphic growth of wings : deviant development and adolescent hybridity -- Tenors of maturation: developing powers and changing identities -- Changing representations of werewolves: ideologies of racial and ethnic otherness -- The desire for transcendence: jouissance in selkie narratives -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix: "The great Silkie of Sule Skerry": three versions.
My central thesis is that fantastic motifs work on a metaphorical level to encapsulate and express ideologies that have frequently been naturalised as 'truths'. I develop a theory of motif metaphors in order to examine the ideologies generated by the fantastic motif of metamorphosis in a range of contemporary children's and young adult fantasy texts. Although fantastic metamorphosis is an exceptionally prevalent and powerful motif in children's and young adult fantasy literature, symbolising important ideas about change and otherness in relation to childhood, adolescence, and maturation, and conveying important ideologies about the world in which we live, it has been little analysed in children's literature criticism. The detailed analyses of particular metamorphosis motif metaphors in this study expand and refine our academic understanding of the metamorphosis figure and consequently provide insight into the underlying principles and particular forms of a variety of significant ideologies.
By examining several principal metamorphosis motif metaphors I investigate how a number of specific cultural beliefs are constructed and represented in contemporary children's and young adult fantasy literature. I particularly focus upon metamorphosis as a metaphor for childhood otherness; adolescent hybridity and deviant development; maturation as a process of self-change and physical empowerment; racial and ethnic difference and otherness; and desire and jouissance. I apply a range of pertinent cultural theories to explore these motif metaphors fully, drawing on the interpretive frameworks most appropriate to the concepts under consideration. I thus employ general psychoanalytic theories of embodiment, development, language, subjectivity, projection, and abjection; poststructuralist, social constructionist, and sociological theories; and wide-ranging literary theories, philosophical theories, gender and feminist theories, race and ethnicity theories, developmental theories, and theories of fantasy and animality. The use of such theories allows for incisive explorations of the explicit and implicit ideologies metaphorically conveyed by the motif of metamorphosis in different fantasy texts.
In this study, I present a number of specific analyses that enhance our knowledge of the motif of fantastic metamorphosis and of significant cultural ideologies. In doing so, I provide a model for a new and precise approach to the analysis of fantasy literature.
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Huang, Han-Chiang, and 黃漢強. "Translating Science Fictions: A Criticism of Two Translations of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84079682666928423991.
Full text輔仁大學
跨文化研究所翻譯學碩士班
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This thesis focuses on the comparison and analysis of two Chinese translations of Isaac Asimov’s classical science fiction (SF) work: the Foundation Trilogy. The two translations were published in Taiwan in 1980 and 2004, and they were translated by Chang Shih and Yeh Leehwa, respectively. Three aspects are examined: literary, sci-fictional and colloquial. First, when examining the literary aspect, the thesis finds that Yeh’s translation is more complete and accurate. It has vivid dialogues as well as more detailed descriptions of the scenes and characters. Secondly, from the sci-fictional aspect, the imaginary galactic world in the original text is well-illustrated in Yeh’s translation. In order to strengthen the estrangement effect, Yeh deploys some translation strategies, such as coining proper nouns, using correct scientific terms, explicitation, and adopting obsolete words to create novelty. Finally, from the colloquial aspect, translationese is felt more or less in both translations. The thesis also finds that foreignizing translation is a proper strategy to create equivalent effect of estrangement when translating names, exotic expressions, and exclamations. Domesticating translation is preferable to translating units, used to measure length or weight, and symbols. The thesis concludes that the differences between the two translations may stem from the translators’ view of how to translate SF. Chang’s translation is probably affected by Chinese SF writers and norms in his time. Therefore he focuses on the meanings and thoughts while neglecting descriptions and novelty. As a SF writer and promoter, Yeh aims to promote SF in Taiwan and his translation is a step towards his goal. Therefore he follows the original text as close as he could to bring novelty and entertainment to readers.
Liu, Chao-Pi, and 劉朝弼. "Communicating with the Other in Science Fiction: A Case Study of “Ants Trilogy”." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63207987628495139895.
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口語傳播學研究所
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The ideal interaction is the human deepest hope, but when the 21st century has arrived, many kinds of communication technologies weed through the old to bring forth the new, the communication difficult position certainly has not reduced, the peoples’ distance also doesn’t have therefore to pull closer. From the concern about communication phenomenon, this study takes the "ants trilogy" as an analytic text by science fiction writer Bernard Werber, to discourse the communication’s social process, essential factor, and concrete connotation in Chinese glossary. In the general science fictions, communicate with the natural myriad things, the alien and so on are always the attention cores, the communication machines which invented are also regarded as good tools to clarify the misunderstanding; But in a case study of "ants trilogy", the communication technology Rosetta Stone is only a link by many plots. It is unable to exhaust the complex story which grown by strange, suspected, likes and lots kinds of desires. However, it actually causes the communication process between the humanity, people and ants, as well as between ants to be inspected. The knowledge and connotation of communication study are the foundations while this research carries on, and communicating with the other is the emerging vocabulary to describe this kind of phenomenon in this article. The latter’s concept has facilitated the author to introspect the knowledge of communication study further. The conclusion pointed out that we should cooperate and respect for all things outside of us, it’s more fundamental than the thought fusion and the mutual recognition. Just open our mind, sincerely listen, and experience more possibility about otherness, that is the realistic manner what we face the communication difficult position.
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Full textMonfette-Fortin, Kristina. "Les usages du récit dans la fiction biographique : le cas de la trilogie 1984 d'Éric Plamondon." Thèse, 2019. http://depot-e.uqtr.ca/8847/1/032273451.pdf.
Full textChamberlain, Marlize. "The carceral in literary dystopia: social conformity in Aldous Huxley’s Brave new world, Jasper Fford’s Shades of grey and Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy." Diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26525.
Full textThis dissertation examines how three dystopian texts, namely Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey and Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy, exhibit social conformity as a disciplinary mechanism of the ‘carceral’ – a notion introduced by poststructuralist thinker Michel Foucault. Employing poststructuralist discourse and deconstructive theory as a theoretical framework, the study investigates how each novel establishes its world as a successful carceral city that incorporates most, if not all, the elements of the incarceration system that Foucault highlights in Discipline and Punish. It establishes that the societies of the texts present potentially nightmarish future societies in which social and political “improvements” result in a seemingly better world, yet some essential part of human existence has been sacrificed. This study of these fictional worlds reflects on the carceral nature of modern society and highlights the problematic nature of the social and political practices to which individuals are expected to conform. Finally, in line with Foucault, it postulates that individuals need not be enclosed behind prison walls to be imprisoned; the very nature of our social systems imposes the restrictive power that incarcerates societies
English Studies
M.A. (English Studies)
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