Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Popular fiction'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Popular fiction.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
Crowley, Adam. "Liminality in Popular Fiction." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2003. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/CrowleyA2003.pdf.
Full textLam, King-sau, and 林勁秀. "Wang Shuo's fiction and popular culture." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B35319161.
Full textEnglish, Elizabeth Catherine. "Rethinking lesbian modernism : sexuality and popular genre fiction." Thesis, University of London, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540103.
Full textViol, Claus-Ulrich. "Jukebooks: contemporary British fiction, popular music, and cultural value." Heidelberg Winter, 2004. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2772862&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
Full textGapsch, Andrea. "Narrative Techniques in Twenty-First Century Popular Holocaust Fiction." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1618244388233822.
Full textRoach, Katherine. "Between magic and reason : science in 19th century popular fiction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13687/.
Full textBizzotto, Julie. "Serializing sensation : the dynamics of genre in Victorian popular fiction." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2012. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/22fd6aa4-4a07-ab4a-db4f-fb916e00ad69/9/.
Full textVuohelainen, Minna Maria. "The popular fiction of Richard Marsh : literary production, genre, audience." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.499054.
Full textEkwenchi, Ogochukwu Charity. "Popular fiction television production in Nigeria : global models, local responses." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2008. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/9156w/popular-fiction-television-production-in-nigeria-global-models-local-responses.
Full textChristie, Thomas A. "Notional identities : ideology, genre and national identity in popular Scottish fiction, 1975-2006." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/7149.
Full textHowey, Ann F. "Once and future women, popular fiction, feminism and four Arthurian rewritings." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq21579.pdf.
Full textLau, Cheung-cheung, and 劉章璋. "A study of Manga and adolescent popular fiction in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31221142.
Full textVoss, Kellen. "Popularizing Philosophy Through Fiction and Popular Media: A Review and Analysis." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1009.
Full textBachelors
Arts and Sciences
Philosophy
Litherland, Kate. "Pulp : youth language, popular culture and literature in 1990s Italian fiction." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31136.
Full textMargaret, Scanlon. "Popular histories : a study of historical non-fiction books for children." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020570/.
Full textMangham, Andrew. "Violent women and sensation fiction : crime, medicine and Victorian popular culture /." Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41142635d.
Full textLau, Cheung-cheung. "A study of Manga and adolescent popular fiction in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20354010.
Full textByrski, Elizabeth. "Visible signs of ageing : representing older women in Australian popular fiction." Thesis, Curtin University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/251.
Full textZeilig, Hannah. "Older people and their families in 1920s popular fiction : fictions of age and their importance for social gerontology." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313516.
Full textHo, Melanie. "Useful fiction why universities need middlebrow literature /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1619436971&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textLam, King-sau. "Wang Shuo's fiction and popular culture Wang Shuo xiao shuo yu da zhong wen hua /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35319161.
Full textWootton, Lesley Wallace. "Sentimental classism : nature and status in popular nineteenth-century American women's novels /." Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1883699791&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full texto'byrne, Tamsin Kilner. "Empire of the imagination: victorian popular fiction and the Occult, 1880-1910." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.489230.
Full textTyson, A. F. "Dehistoricised Histories: The Cultural Significance of Recent Popular New Zealand Historical Fiction." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of English, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1568.
Full textBacon, Edwin Bruce. "Confronting eternity : strange (im)mortalities, and states of undying in popular fiction." Thesis, University of Canterbury. English, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9680.
Full textPowell, Carolyn Anna. "The secular sacred : sex, transgression and the numinous in popular vampire fiction." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323769.
Full textKanerick, Caroline. "Riding the tosh horse : re-evaluating best-seller popular fiction 1895 - 1920." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444313.
Full textBoland, Stephanie Jane. "Modernism and non-fiction : place, genre and the politics of popular forms." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30162.
Full textWilliams, Anthony Ronald. "Dramatic interpretations of the metropolis, 1821-1881." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298108.
Full textKozar, Seana. "Deliberations between the covers : an audience-centred ethnography of Chinese popular fiction readers /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ34716.pdf.
Full textCamus, Cyril. "Mythe et fabulation dans la fiction populaire de Neil Gaiman." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012TOU20030.
Full textNeil Gaiman’s fantasy works are often deemed postmodernist since they experiment with self-reflexivity and mix it with a supposedly antagonistic impulse towards popular fiction. Typical postmodernist works mostly emphasize their attacks against the fictional illusions of referentiality, character or plot. On the contrary, Gaiman’s works unapologetically remain within the bounds of fantasy, a genre in which imagination and storytelling are paramount–along with their related issues: characterization, plot, emotion and suspense. Thus, Gaiman’s fiction is not experimental fiction enhanced with elements of popular fiction, but actual popular fiction made self-reflexive. Thanks to that peculiar mood, studying Gaiman’s work is a very fruitful means of investigating the distinctive features of popular fiction, and its inherent emphasis on storytelling–or, as Henri Bergson called it, “fabulation.” Both Bergson and Frank McConnell focused on this notion which they saw as the essential link between ancient mythmaking and today’s fiction writing. Gaiman’s fiction mostly relies on such a dialectics between myth, popular fiction and storytelling or fabulation. His fantasy stories constantly rewrite ancient, religious myths, modern myths or the “myths” of popular fiction, and feature many fictional and historical writers, traditional storytellers, or Gaiman’s own personae, so that in paratext as well as in the heart of a narrative, in the quiet and supposedly reliable words of an introduction as surely as on the most striking comics panels, fiction is portrayed as myth, writers as mythical avatars of some archetypal storyteller, and storytelling as the one, quintessential human act
Dzirkalis, Anna M. "Investigating the female detective : gender paradoxes in popular British mystery fiction, 1864-1930 /." View abstract, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3287860.
Full textMaphile, Legopheng Marcus. "Investigating popular fiction development at the University of the Free State academic Library." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33782.
Full textJanicker, Rebecca. "Halfway houses : liminality and the haunted house motif in popular American Gothic fiction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44082/.
Full textStewart, Derek F. "Urban space and the theatrical imagination : the representation of London in the mid-nineteenth-century popular novel (1852-1865)." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=236002.
Full textSkelton-Foord, Christopher J. "Circulating fiction 1780-1830 : the novel in British circulating libraries of the Romantic era; with a check-list of 200 mainstream novels of the period." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362574.
Full textMazur, Christine Teresa. "Gothic fiction, liminality, and popular culture, Stephen King's grotesque social commentary in Salem's lot." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq23418.pdf.
Full textPak, Chiu-shuen Tom. "Stephen King's popular Gothic Gothic meta-fiction, ideology, scatology and (re)construction of community /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37844325.
Full textChakravarty, G. "Imagining resistance : British historiography and popular fiction on the Indian Rebellion of 1857-59." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597394.
Full textPak, Chiu-shuen Tom, and 白昭璇. "Stephen King's popular Gothic: Gothic meta-fiction, ideology, scatology and (re)construction of community." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37844325.
Full textMathew, Imogen. "Stuck at the airport: a guide to finding the public intellectual in popular fiction." Thesis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVA2_TR3bMY&list=PLdn0giYPTOk3y2B2KL2jtS6mHvMPFdj7u&index=8, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/14017.
Full textBraun, Kirsten, and n/a. "Contending With Feminism: Women's Health Issues in Margaret Atwood's Early Fiction." Griffith University. School of Arts, Media and Culture, 2006. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20070212.153530.
Full textFletcher, Elizabeth. "South African crime fiction and the narration of the post-apartheid." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4287.
Full textIn this dissertation, I consider how South African crime fiction, which draws on a long international literary history, engages with the conventions and boundaries of the genre, and how it has adapted to the specific geographical, social, political and historical settings of South Africa. A key aspect of this research is the work’s temporal setting. I will focus on local crime fiction which is set in contemporary South Africa as this enables me to engage with current perceptions of South Africa, depicted by contemporary local writers. My concern is to explore how contemporary South African crime fiction narrates post-apartheid South Africa. Discussing Margie Orford’s Daddy’s Girl and the possibilities of South African feminist crime fiction, my argument shoes how Orford narrates post-apartheid through the lens of the oppression and abuse of women. The next chapter looks at Roger Smith’s thriller Mixed Blood. Smith presents the bleakest outlook for South Africa and I show how, even though much of his approach may appear to be ‘radical’, the nihilism in his novel shows a deep conservatism. The third South African crime novel I examine is Diale Thlolwe’s Ancient Rites and I discuss it in the light of his use of the conventions of ‘hardboiled’ crime fiction as well as rural/urban collocations. In this case, the author’s representation of postapartheid South Africa appears to reveal more about the author’s personal views than the country he attempts to describe. The fourth and final novel I discuss is Devil’s Peak by Deon Meyer. My discussion here focuses on the notion of justice in post-apartheid South Africa and Meyer’s ambiguous treatment of the subject. This discussion of contemporary South African crime fiction reveals what the genre might offer readers in the way they understand post-apartheid South Africa, and how it might be seen as more than simple ‘entertainment’.
Braun, Kirsten. "Contending With Feminism: Women's Health Issues in Margaret Atwood's Early Fiction." Thesis, Griffith University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367275.
Full textThesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Arts, Media and Culture
Full Text
Klein, Michael Joseph. "The Rhetoric of Repugnance: Popular Culture and Unpopular Notions in the Human Cloning Debate." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28074.
Full textPh. D.
Alves, Clarice Greco. "Qualidade na ficção televisiva brasileira: as críticas especializada e popular." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27152/tde-10012013-164608/.
Full textThe present study intends to elaborate a critical diagnostic about the so called quality television on TV fiction, aiming to search, understand and analyze criteria that can serve as basis to the evaluation of fictional productions on Brazilian television. Supported by a theoretical guideline where researches defend quality on television as a subjective matter, this study aims to investigate this concept through an evaluation of the critique. In the case of Brazilian television, one can notice, besides the specialized critics, a great presence of popular opinion which demonstrates a strong public participation related to television fictions, based on the construction of a collective speech which would represent a common sense, in the sense proposed by Kant. Within this context, the analysis embraces two points of view: the one from the specialized critique, divided into journalistic and academic, and the one from the popular critique. With this aim, it intends to analyze the critique through Television Awards establishing a parallel between the ceremonies with a specialized jury and the ones by popular vote, in order to make it possible to discuss the relation between public and specializes opinion. Besides that, questionnaires were applied to journalists and researchers who write about television and to the general public on the internet, reaching to gather information that could help to understand their evaluation criteria. The theoretical structure of the study, which will serve as a model for a critical evaluation of the current forms of participation, is composed by readings of the dialogues among the notion of quality television, discussed by many national and international authors; the importance of critique, taking into account the notion of taste brought up by Bourdieu (2008), related to the Critique of judgment from Kant, with emphasis to the relation between taste and common sense.
McAvan, Em. "The postmodern sacred: popular culture spirituality in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and fantastic horror." Thesis, McAvan, Em (2007) The postmodern sacred: popular culture spirituality in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and fantastic horror. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/188/.
Full textMcAvan, Em. "The postmodern sacred : popular culture spirituality in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and fantastic horror /." McAvan, Em (2007) The postmodern sacred: popular culture spirituality in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and fantastic horror. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/188/.
Full textLaw, G. "Mystery and uncertainty in modern fiction : A comparative parallel case study of the relations between popular mystery forms and modern non-classical fiction." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371196.
Full textHerbig, Art, and Andrew F. Herrmann. "Polymediated Narrative: The Case of the Supernatural Episode "Fan Fiction"." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/757.
Full text