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Smith, Spencer J. "Male Narrative Identity in Young Adult Literature: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Narrative Psychology and Literary Analysis." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1366989257.

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Alexander, Jessica. ""World wisdom" difference and identity in Gertrude Stein's "Melanctha" /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1213987268.

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Choi, Inhwan. "Otherness and identity in eighteenth-century colonial discourses /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3072577.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 173-180). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Hogan, Kathryn J. "Student subjectivity and the study of literature : the possibility of free space /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9388.

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Grieve, Dawn. "Confrontation and identity in the fiction of J.M. Coetzee." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1999. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1246.

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This thesis is an examination of the fictional works of J.M. Coetzee to date. By focusing my gaze upon either the lack of encounter or the encounters between the 'Self' and the 'Other', I explore the relationship between confrontation and the fluid formation and erosion of identity. This exploration takes place against a dual background: the history of the apartheid government in South Africa, the legacy of oppression and the post-apartheid opportunities and challenges; and Coetzee's own acknowledgement of complicity with the past and commitment to a reconciled future. This study not only examines a broad range of criticism on Coetzee but also provides an integrated response to Coetzee's own writing, both fictional and nonfictional. A crack or flaw is revealed in the identity of each of the main characters in the texts. These aporias resist interrogation and establish what I perceive to be a metafictional objective. The limitations of rational engagement are eloquently represented in Coetzee's novels in the presence of the suffering body. It is the aim of this thesis to trace a trajectory which begins in this metalingual space and leads to a metaphysical challenge to Western philosophical tradition. On close textual scrutiny of three of the novels: In the Heart of the Country, Age of Iron and The Master of Petersburg, I have identified widening cracks in the identities of the protagonists. Using a metaphor of leakage, it is my thesis that these gaps offer creative opportunities of sharing which dissolve judgement and allow for imaginative understanding of otherness. This study is then read back into Coetzee's world. It reaffirms the significance of his voice locally and globally, both in the academy and society. I concur with most recent comment that Coetzee's fiction transgresses critical containment and offers metafictional extension to post-colonial theories. This thesis synthesises some of this current debate. The ethical implications of his work are also extended in this thesis, by honouring his commitment to self-scrutiny throughout the novel sequence and in his personal confession in Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life. In the specific narratives of his characters and the stories from his own past, he provides fragments of hope which transcend the confines of all discourse. I conclude that his example invites and encourages a brave response.

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Nissley, Thomas Lane. "Intimate and authentic economies : the market identity of the self-made man /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9517.

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Lam, Law-hak, and 林羅克. "Constructions of black identity in the works of Toni Morrison and Caryl Phillips." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31952070.

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Morris, Dustin. "Ariadne's threads of identity : foreshadowing of social and individual identity theories in John Dos Passos' U.S.A. /." Read thesis online, 2009. http://library.uco.edu/UCOthesis/MorrisD2009.pdf.

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Mori, Makiko. "Toward a literature of the nation China's new intellectual and literary discourses on the people from the 1890s through the 1920s /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1905638671&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Liebert, Elisabeth Mary, and n/a. "Speaking selves : dialogue and identity in Milton�s major poems." University of Otago. Department of English, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20061106.160106.

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In his Dialogue on the State of a Christian Man (1597), William Perkins articulated the popular early-modern understanding that the individual is a "double person" organised under "spiritual" and "temporal" regiments. In the one, he is a person "under Christ" and must endeavour to become Christ-like; in the other, he is a person "in respect of" others and bound to fulfil his duties towards them. This early-modern self, governed by relationships and the obligations they entail, was profoundly vulnerable to the formative influence of speech, for relationships themselves were in part created and sustained through social dialogue. Similarly, the individual could hope to become "a person...under Christ" only by hearing spiritual speech - Scripture preached or read, or the "secret soule-whisperings" of the Spirit. The capacity of speech to effect real and lasting change in the auditor was a commonplace in seventeenth-century England: the conscious crafting of identity, dramatised by Stephen Greenblatt in Renaissance Self-Fashioning, occurred daily in domestic and social transactions, in the exchange of civilities, the use of apostrophe, and strategies of praise. It happened when friends or strangers met, when host greeted guest, or the signatory to a letter penned vocatives that defined his addressee. It lacked a sense of high drama but was nonetheless calculated and effective. Speaking Selves proposes that examining the impact of speech upon the "double person" not only contributes to our understanding of selfhood in the seventeenth century, but also, and more importantly, leads to new insights into some of that century�s greatest literary artefacts: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. The first chapter turns to conduct manuals and conversion narratives, to speech-act theory and discourse analysis, and draws out those verbal strategies that contributed to the organisation of social and spiritual selves. Chapter 2 turns to Paradise Lost and traces the Father�s gradual revelation to the Son, through apostrophe, how he is to reflect, how enact the divine being whose visible and verbal expression he is. Chapter 3 discusses advice on address behaviour in seventeenth-century marriage treatises; it reveals the positive contribution of generous apostrophe and verbal mirroring to Adam and Eve�s Edenic marriage. The conversational dyads in heaven and prelapsarian Eden enact positive identities for their collocutors. Satan, however, begetting himself by diabolical speech-act, discovers the ability of words to dismantle the identity of others. Chapter 4 traces the development of his deceptive strategies, drawing attention to his wilful misrepresentation of social identity as a means to pervert the spiritual identity of his collocutor. The final chapter explores the reorganisation of the complex social-spiritual person in the postlapsarian world. We watch the protagonist of Samson discriminate between the many voices that attempt to impose upon him their own understanding of selfhood. Drawing on spiritual autobiographies as structurally and thematically analogous to Milton�s drama, this final chapter traces the inward plot of Samson as its fallen hero redefines identity and rediscovers the "intimate impulse" of the Spirit that alone can complete the reorganisation of the spiritual self.

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Straight, Nathan Clark. "Natural biographies : ecology and identity in contemporary American autobiography /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3201701.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2005.
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Ojo, Adegboye Philip. "Mortuary tropes and identity articulation in Francophone Caribbean and Sub-Saharan African narratives /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3095268.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.
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Takehana, Elisabet 'Osk. "Chuck Palahniuk and Jean Baudrillard: The terminal state of human subjectivity." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3039.

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Examines Chuck Palahniuk's novel Invisible monsters using the theories of Jean Baudrillard as a lens through which to better understand Palahniuk's commentary on the effects mass media have on human subjectivity in the terminal state.

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Grieve, Dawn. "The shifting frontiers of belonging in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2004. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/821.

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This thesis is an examination of the fictional works of J.M. Coetzee to date. There are two aspects to my argument. First I posit that Coetzee adumbrates the prevailing crisis of belonging in the world and the universal yearning for a sense of connectedness. Secondly, I maintain that Coetzee prompts a review of the demarcation lines that divide and alienate in two ways. He installs boundaries that are shifting and. unstable. He also represents numerous frontier transgressions that expose the permeability of these finite conceptual constructions and reveals their potential for revision. It is my contention that Coetzee exploits the discrepancy between an ideal of stasis and the dynamic nature of reality in order to demonstrate the possibilities inherent in change. The opportunities for reimagining frontiers and expanding a sense of belonging are evident in the aporias that show up in both the fixed notion of frontier and the mutating individual experiences of belonging. This study not only examines a broad range of general cultural theory and more specific critical commentary on Coetzee’s fiction but also provides an integrated response to Coetzec's own writing, both fictional and non-fictional. Coetzee's project can be seen as both metaphysical and metafictional. I concur with most recent critical assessment- that his fiction transgresses critical containment and offers extension to a range of debates, from theories on the ethics of reading to postcolonial discourse. The physical realities that Coetzee traces lie across the bounds of national thinking. He •uses textual representations of the body •as ontological sites that exceed existing epistemological frameworks. It is my thesis that his oeuvre challenges the very conditions upon which Western discursive structures are founded. These transgressive modalities that lie outside familiar socio-political models call for a creative response from the reader. I have identified the traditional African philosophical concept of ubuntu as a useful tool with which to articulate Coetzee 's feint gesture towards a future site of shared belonging. This study argues that the responsibility of the reader is central to this process. Coetzee uses the performative function of fiction to adumbrate his metafictional objective, which is to inspire his readers to ethical action. The overarching claim of this thesis is that Coetzee’s ethical call is to make a difference in the real world. Coetzee’s novelistic methods urge the reader to extend a sense of responsibility beyond hermeneutic engagement with the texts into their own life. Coetzee’s enterprise is , consequently, of great significance in the ongoing debate about the value of literature, the relevance of theory and the need for continuing scrutiny of the agendas of all participants. Similarly, his writing contributes to the vibrant cross-cultural dialogue within South Africa across the wider African continent and globally, and this continues to open up fresh opportunities for belonging.

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Johnson, Toria Anne. "'Piteous overthrows' : pity and identity in early modern English literature." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4197.

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This thesis traces the use of pity in early modern English literature, highlighting in particular the ways in which the emotion prompted personal anxieties and threatened Burckhardtian notions of the self-contained, autonomous individual, even as it acted as a central, crucial component of personal identity. The first chapter considers pity in medieval drama, and ultimately argues that the institutional changes that took place during the Reformation ushered in a new era, in which people felt themselves to be subjected to interpersonal emotions – pity especially – in new, overwhelming, and difficult ways. The remaining three chapters examine how pity complicates questions of personal identity in Renaissance literature. Chapter Two discusses the masculine bid for pity in courtly lyric poetry, including Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Barnabe Barnes's Parthenophil and Parthenophe, and considers the undercurrents of vulnerability and violation that emerge in the wake of unanswered emotional appeals. This chapter also examines these themes in Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Sidney's Arcadia. Chapter Three also picks up the element of violation, extending it to the pitiable presentation of sexual aggression in Lucrece narratives. Chapter Four explores the recognition of suffering and vulnerability across species boundaries, highlighting the use of pity to define humanity against the rest of the animal kingdom, and focusing in particular on how these questions are handled by Shakespeare in The Tempest and Ben Jonson, in Bartholomew Fair. This work represents the first extended study of pity in early modern English literature, and suggests that the emotion had a constitutive role in personal subjectivity, in addition to structuring various forms of social relation. Ultimately, the thesis contends that the early modern English interest in pity indicates a central worry about vulnerability, but also, crucially, a belief in the necessity of recognising shared, human weakness.

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Yeh, Grace I.-chun. "Asian fighters in U.S. minority literature iconology, intimacy, and other imagined communities /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1481671281&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Conway, Jennifer S. Kesterson David B. "The search for cultural identity an exploration of the works of Toni Morrison /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-5191.

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Fitzpatrick, Kristin. "What she carries with her : gender and American national identity in nineteenth-century women's travel narratives /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6616.

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Polk, Randi Lynn. "(Un-)Framing vision: text and image from the new novel to contemporary expressions of identity." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1121274446.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.
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Khoury, Nicole Michelle. "Hybrid identity and Arab/American feminism in Diana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2862.

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In her novel Arabian Jazz, Diana Abu-Jaber attempts to explore the Arab American identity as something new; as an identity that exists related to, but ultimately separate from, the Arab and American identities from which it was originally created. This thesis discusses the emergence of the depiction of the Arab American female identity in the novel, examining how the characters explore issues of race, class, imperialism, and sex within both the Arab and the American cultures as those issues shape female identity. The thesis also presents a rhetorical analysis of the speeches that allow the characters a voice with respect to how identity is shaped and reshaped throughout the novel.

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Guajardo, Paul S. "Identity extremes : the autobiographical impulse of Oscar Acosta and Richard Rodriguez /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9434.

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Biswas, Paromita. "Colonial displacements nationalist longing and identity among early Indian intellectuals in the United States /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1680042161&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Lam, Law-hak. "Constructions of black identity in the works of Toni Morrison and Caryl Phillips." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21161434.

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Deka, Mayuri. "Why should I read this? The Reasons and Pedagogical Tools for a Multiethnic Literature Classroom." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1227642880.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2008.
Title from OhioLINK ETD abstract webpage (viewed Feb. 2, 2010) Advisor: Mark Bracher. Keywords: Literature; Multiethnic; Pedagogy. Includes bibliographical references.

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Shaiman, Jennifer M. "Building American homes, constructing American identities : performance of identity, domestic space, and modern American literature /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3147835.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.
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Gibson, Jordan Leigh Russell Richard Rankin. "Through the lens of the land changing identity in the novels of Bernard MacLaverty /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5250.

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Hiramine, Ann Junko. "The performance of literacy in Asian America : against the normativizing of identity through invisible discursive means /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9379.

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Schroeder, Derek Rolf. "The moor we know Spanish identity in Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quijote" /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1798966421&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Rice-Mills, Faith A. Blackwell Frieda Hilda. "The existential search for national, individual and spiritual identity in selected works of Miguel de Unamuno." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5171.

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Thoman, Dixie S. "Deconstructing the myth of the American west McMurtry, violence, ecopsychology and national identity /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1939351831&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Jones, Caroline E. Tarr C. Anita. "Female sexuality in young adult literature." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1225117161&SrchMode=1&sid=4&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1177689304&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.
Title from title page screen, viewed on April 27, 2007. Dissertation Committee: C. Anita Tarr (chair), Roberta Seelinger Trites, Jan Christopher Susina. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 197-208) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Van, der Vlies Andrew Edward. "In search of self explorations of identity in the work of Paul Auster." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002251.

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Paul Auster is regarded by some as an important novelist. He has, in a relatively short space of time, produced an intriguing body of work, which has attracted comparatively little critical attention. This study is based on the premise that Auster's art is the record of an entertaining, intelligent and utterly serious engagement with the possibilities of conceiving of the identity of an individual subject in the contemporary, late-twentieth century moment. This study, focussing on Auster's novels, but also considering selected poetry and critical prose, explores the representation of identity in his work. The short Foreword introduces Paul Auster and sketches in outline the concerns of the study. Chapter One explores the manner in which Auster's early (anti-),detective' fiction develops a concern with identity. It is suggested that Squeeze Play, Auster's pseudonymous 'hard-boiled' detective thriller, provided the author with a testing ground for his subsequent appropriation and subversion of the detective genre in The New York Trilogy. Through a close consideration of City of Glass, and an examination of elements in Ghosts, it is shown how the loss of the traditional detective's immunity, and the problematising of strategies which had previously guaranteed him access to interpretive and narrative closure, precipitates a collapse which initiates an interrogation of the nature and construction of ideas about individual identity. Chapter Two develops a suggestion that City of Glass was written in response to particular emotional concerns of the author by turning to an examination of the memoir-novel, The Invention of Solitude. This chapter examines the extent to which Auster's Jewishness is implicated in his understanding of identity, and in the techniques with which he expresses his concerns. It is argued that Auster's engagement with texts and memories important to him in order to find a voice adequate to the task which he assumes in The Invention of Solitude, reveals the ethical imperative of recognizing and accepting a relationship to alterity. The influence on Auster of certain Jewish writers, like Edmond Jabes, is considered in the course of the chapter. The third chapter addresses the issue of the description of Auster's work as postmodernist, in the light of what the study has presented as Auster's ethical engagement with alterity. Critical responses to Auster's texts are canvassed, before it is suggested that aspects of the ethical phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas may be useful in considering these important issues in Auster's oeuvre. Chapter Four returns to a consideration of The New York Trilogy, examining its final part, The Locked Room, before discussing In the Country of Last Things and Moon Palace. All three novels are narrated by first-person narrators who, in very different situations, come (consciously and unconsciously) to negotiate their own identities in relation either to other people or to adverse circumstances. The chapter thus considers the manner in which these texts figure Auster's concern with relationships between individuals and otherness. Chapter Five seeks, as a means of concluding the study, to consider aspects of Auster's presentation of the manner in which identity is connected to perception, and to an engagement with that which is other than the self This chapter focuses on Auster's figuration of necessary responses to the otherness of the objective world and to chance as a radical alterity. Beginning with a consideration of an early essay, the chapter explores relevant aspects of Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Leviathan and Mr Vertigo, considers elements in Auster's poetry, and demonstrates the usefulness of exploring the influence on his work of the 'objectivist' poets and aspects of Dada and Surrealist poetics. The seemingly punitive severity of the fates of some of Auster's protagonists is shown ultimately to be positive, and (potentially) redemptive, reflecting Auster's profoundly ethical conception of the responsibilities and possibilities of selfhood.

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Ross, Shawn Adrian. "Gaia, ethnos, demos : land, leadership, and community in early archaic Greece /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10369.

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Rivera, Perez Marianela. "North African immigration in contemporary Spain representations of the struggle for integration and power /." Diss., [Riverside, Calif.] : University of California, Riverside, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1957331761&SrchMode=2&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1269891493&clientId=48051.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.
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BORA', GUIDO. "Groups vs. Individuals in Decision Making: Literature Review and Gift Exchange Experiment." Doctoral thesis, Università di Siena, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11365/1009812.

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Groups make decisions more rational than individuals do. This may depend by several factors. The learning effect of the gaming mechanism has an important role, but above all knowledge of other groups member's preferences. In literature however, results are mixed. I present two experiments in order to test the learning effect in group decision-making. The first one where the learning effect is limited and a second one where the learning effect is bolstered. I find that learning effect is a mechanism that may explain differences in results. Knowledge of part of member’s preferences can have a role in the decision-making process because when there is no learning effect the results are far away from those hypothesized by economic theory. While if the mechanism is expanded, results are similar to the control treatment.

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Mathai, Kavita. "A question of identity : a study of three Indian novels in English of the nineteen eighties /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1886174X.

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McCleese, Nicole L. "The Unconsoled a masochistic imagining of narrative and nation /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2007.

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Reavis, E. "Adolescent Female Identity Development and Its Portrayal in Select Contemporary Young Adult Fiction." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/116.

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This study describes a content analysis of six contemporary young adult fiction novels. Adolescence is a time of great change, particularly for girls. It is during this time that female adolescents develop their voice and identity. As literature reflects the reader’s world, it also affects in part how female adolescents perceive their identity. Latent content analysis was used to code eight variables to determine if select contemporary young adult fiction novels appropriately describe the development of identity among adolescent females. All of the novels included in the study provided sufficient evidence of accurate portrayal of female adolescent identity development, by having examples of at least four out of eight variables, with most having examples of seven out of eight variables.

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Swartwout, Susan White Ray Lewis. "Being human a nonoppositional sex-difference approach to twentieth-century American short fiction by men and women /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9633428.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1996.
Title from title page screen, viewed May 25, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Ray Lewis White (chair), James M. Elledge, Cythnia A. Huff. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-155) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Henderson, Garry Stewart. "A stirring of cultures: The contest for place, belonging and identity in Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2014. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1566.

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The creative work, The Wounded Sinner, and the accompanying exegesis, form a volume of writing that considers aspects of place and belonging in a contemporary Australian context through the agencies of Aboriginality, migration and homelessness. While these issues are present and, at times, contentious in the structure of modern Australian society they have roots in past eras of empire building, racism and the movement from agrarianism to industrialisation. The characters are drawn from my own experiences and, as such, validate both the creative work and give the exegesis substance. Jeanie Bayona is an Aboriginal woman who was raised, from infancy, by an Anglo family in Perth. She and her partner, Matthew, a fellow teacher, move to Leonora in the eastern goldfields, the lands of the ‘dingo dreamers,’ her people. Jeanie is for many years content to exist on the edge of Aboriginal society, reluctant to leave the security of the ‘white’ life she had grown up with. However, her eldest daughter, Jaylene, already enmeshed in both worlds, challenges Jeanie to answer the spiritual calling to embrace her roots. Matthew Andrews is chasing the elusive dream to become a writer while nursing his ailing father in the ancestral home, The Wounded Sinner, in Guildford. He lacks the ability to do either well. Still, it keeps him away from the responsibility of fatherhood three weeks out of four and for that he is secretly grateful. However, five years of commuting from Leonora to Perth has strained Jeanie and Matthew’s relationship, though Matthew rarely sees anything outside of his ego-centric world. Both Jeanie and Matthew engage in new relationships: she with the perverse Ben Poulson and he, the troubled Vince Romano and homeless ex-Vietnam veteran, Lazslo Smith. The central character of the creative work, however, is the old Guildford house, The Wounded Sinner, which symbolises the old establishment values that were, for better or worse, the values that built Australia. Australia is undergoing change which The Wounded Sinner is raggedly reluctant to accept. It remains a bastion of Anglo-Celtic ideals and is personified through Matthew’s father, Archie, as he rails against what he sees as the ‘problems’ of contemporary Australia: the homeless, the Aboriginals and the non-Anglo Australians. The exegesis, titled ‘A stirring of cultures: the contest for place, belonging and identity in Australia,’ explains through the experiences of migrants, Aboriginal Australians and the homeless the problems and difficulties of those who don’t meet the strict criteria of the core values representing Anglo-Celtic society. The contest for place, belonging and identity in Australia as expressed in my creative work, The Wounded Sinner, is exemplified in the exegesis around those aforementioned themes and corroborated throughout by a wide authorship, both present and past. Interspersed through the text, too, are personal reflections of relevant episodes that have contributed to my understanding of Australian society and how I am part of it.

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Linder, James Patrick. "Speculation on Space : spatio-social consolidation and democratic community in turn-of-the-twentieth century American thought /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9323.

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Silverstein, Joni L. "Escapism in the novels of Philip Roth." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 78 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1456299741&sid=6&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Mora, Teresa Aida. "Adios, memories a reconstruction of identity and memory : a case study of L2 /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31945120.

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Moore, Monica Leigh-Anne. "Coming and going, the effects of displacement in novels by Atwood, Poulin, Robin, Urquhart." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0005/MQ42179.pdf.

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Yeung, Mei-yee. "Searching for a cultural identity : Hong Kong fiction from the fifties to the nineties /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19605389.

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Majola, Nontuthuzelo Angelina. "Gender stereotypes versus gender equality: a critical analysis of some characters in Swaartbooi's "UMandisa" and Saule's "Idinga"." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/553.

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The focus of this study will be on gender stereotypes versus gender equality in Swaartbooi's novel “UMandisa” and in Saule's novel “Idinga”. CHAPTER ONE will be the introductory chapter where the aim of the study, methodology, motivation and definition of terms will be given, as well as the biographical outline of Ncedile Saule and that of V.N.M. Swaartbooi. CHAPTER TWO will focus on developing the theoretical framework of the study. Theories are used to advocate a change of approach in the teaching and reading of literature. The theory to be employed in this study will be based on aspects of the female gender and feminism. CHAPTER THREE will explore the issues of gender stereotypes as portrayed in Swaartbooi's “UMANDISA” CHAPTER FOUR will focus on gender equality as portrayed in “IDINGA” by Saule and “UMANDISA” by Swaartbooi. The two novels raised the question of equality between women and men. CHAPTER FIVE will serve as the concluding chapter where the evaluation of the study will be made.

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Conway, Jennifer S. "The Search for Cultural Identity: An Exploration of the Works of Toni Morrison." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5191/.

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Many of Toni Morrison's African-American characters attempt to change their circumstances either by embracing the white dominant culture that surrounds them or by denying it. In this thesis I explore several ways in which the characters do just that-either embrace or deny the white culture's right to dominion over them. This thesis deals primarily with five of Toni Morrison's novels: The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Paradise, Sula, and Tar Baby.

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Hogarth, Claire Milne. "Epistolary constructions of identity in Derrida's "Envois" and Coetzee's Age of Iron." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38204.

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In this thesis, I argue that identity construction is a postal effect: it results from a transmission of some sort, received or sent. I examine three instances of postal effect. In a chapter on Jacques Derrida's "Envois," a collection of fragments presented as if transcribed from a one-way love letter correspondence, I explore the performative force of relayed address. Working from Derrida's account of the literary performative, I point out that the "Envois" letters are addressed to "you" in the singular, which implies an address reserved for a particular subject, but that the postal relay of the collection enacts a repetition of their address. For the reader of the book, this repetition has evocative force which I compare with the force of transference in the context of the psychoanalytic situation. In a second chapter on the "Envois" letters, I examine their haunting effect. The "Envois" letters have an I/we signature that intimates pluralities in the writing subject. I argue that this signature is the effect of a postal relay of another order: a phantom, which Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok define as a gap in the psychic topography of the subject caused by a secret unwittingly received along with a legacy. To a certain extent, the "Envois" letters are written by Plato's "in-voices." In a chapter on J. M. Coetzee's epistolary novel Age of Iron, I explore the gift effects of a posthumous letter. Age of Iron is an epistolary novel consisting exclusively of a single letter written by a dying South African woman, Mrs. Curren, to her daughter, a political objector who has emigrated to the United States. Writing her letter in the knowledge that her death is imminent, Mrs. Curren anticipates her daughter's mourning. Working with J. L. Austin's doctrine of illocutionary forces and Derrida's analysis of the gift event, I postulate two effects of Mrs. Curren's letter, one that annuls the gift in a circular return and another that surpasses this circuit with textual diss

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Mora, Teresa Aida. "Adios, memories: a reconstruction of identityand memory : a case study of L2." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31945120.

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Mellor-Hay, Winifred Mary Catherine. "Writing the gap : the performance of identity in texts by four Canadian women /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ54839.pdf.

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