Dissertations / Theses: 'Reality in literature'

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Howat, Tyler Paul. "Scott Pilgrim's Gaming Reality: An Introduction to Gamer Realism." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1343318875.

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Patnoe, Elizabeth Louise. "Fiction, reality, and female suicide /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487945015619031.

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Stanford, Amanda Theresa. "Outsized reality : how 'magical realism' hijacked modern Latin American fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7847.

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Creative Portion abstract (75%): Literary Fiction Manuscript Souvenirs of the Revolution Against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, betrayal, sexual deviance, rigid morality and a fatal subservience to moral correctness drives the Montelejos clan: complex and self-serving, innocent and deluded, larger than life, an illustrious family line in its final decline. Mariabella Montelejos, who tries to sell her only daughter for the price of a new carriage during the bloodiest part of the Revolution. Her daughter, Portensia Montelejos, who leaves her mother’s body to moulder in the front room after soldiers come at the point of a gun. Gloria Vasquez, celebrated beauty, practising witch, and tormentor of her step-sister, Teresa: ill, gullible, naive, awoken to her destiny by the surreal birth of her daughter. Paulina, a child who once communed with the holy, made an empty vessel by the abuse of her father – and revered as a living saint as she lies dying in a Pueblano convent. The men of the family, weak and susceptible to the mandates of their dying class, are no match for the machinations of such women. Evil abuser Ebner Collins, paralyzed by a jealous man’s bullet in the middle of the Sinai desert. Hernando Vasquez, cowed into marriage by the longing for his dead wife, Evelyn Cuthbert. Guiermo Fuentes de Solis, cuckolded husband. Jaime Vasquez, who hears voices and lives at the bottom of a bottle, unable to save his cousin Paulina. The Revolution is the beginning of the end for Montelejos, and the miraculous will be its undoing. Analytical Portion abstract (25%): An Outsized Reality: How “Magical Realism” Hijacked Modern Latin American Literature With the publication of Gabriel García Márquez’s Cien Anos de Soledad in 1967, Latin American writing captured the world’s attention. Critics, readers, and imitators rushed to discuss and emulate this astounding novel. A whole genre of literature, “magical realism”, was popularized, and with it, critical discussion of its influences, history, genre limitations, and the sheer “imagination” it brought to the forefront of literary debate. In this thesis I will discuss the problems associated with “Western” critical analysis of Latin American writing, specifically as it seeks to define, without a proper context, the literature which draws life from the history and culture of Latin America and categorizes its literature without the cultural understanding required.

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Johnson, Jay. "Issues with Reality| Defining and Exploring the Logics of Alternate Reality Games." Thesis, The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10931461.

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Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), a genre of transmedia experiences, are a recent phenomenon, with the first recognized ARG being The Beast (2001), a promotion for the film A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001). This dissertation seeks to more clearly define and investigate contexts of transmedia narratives and games, specifically ARGs. ARGs differ from more popular and well-known contemporary forms of gaming in several ways, perhaps most importantly by intensive use of multiple media. Whereas a player may experience most or all of a conventional video game through a single medium, participants in ARGs must navigate multiple media and technical platforms— networks of websites, digital graphics, audio recordings, videos, text and graphics in print, physical objects, etc.— in order to participate in the experience of the ARG. After establishing a history of ARGs, the author defines both transmedia and ARGs and begins to build typologies to help distinguish individual examples of the genres. Then, after building the above framework for analyzing transmedia and ARGs, the author explores the relevance of the ARG genre within three specific contexts. These contexts serve as tools to excavate potential motivators from creative and participatory standpoints. The author refers to these motivations as three logics of ARGs: industrial, cultural, and educational. The industrial logic examines the advantages of transmedia and ARG production from the entertainment industry standpoint, in terms of an alternative to franchising and as a way to extend intellectual property (IP), as well as offering interactive possibilities to an engaged audience. The cultural logic examines the relationship between the emergence of digital media, transmedia, and ARGs and the aesthetic appeal of the form and genre as paranoia, puzzle-solving, and collective meaning making within a shifting representation of reality through networked embodiment and challenging long-held assumptions of ontological and phenomenological experiences. Finally, the educational logic of ARGs analyzes the potential and use of the genre as an immersive, constructivist learning space that fosters self-motivated individual and collaborative analysis, interpretation, and problem-solving.

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Wyatt, Andrew L. Wyatt. "Interfacing with Reality: Zeno and the Unstable Narrative." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1463138182.

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Vierra, Sarah Thomsen Jarausch Konrad Hugo. "Representing reality literature, film, and the construction of Turkish-German identity /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,123.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of History." Discipline: History; Department/School: History.

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Owomoyela, Oyekan, Rita Böttcher-Wöbcke, Marion Pape, Cornelia Uschtrin, Stanislaw Pilazcewicz, Shaban Mayanja, Ezenwa Ohaeto, and Joseph A. McIntyre. "Levels of perception and reproduction of reality in modern African literature." Universität Leipzig, 1997. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A32902.

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The ensuing manifestations of reality represent our cultural memory, saved from oblivion in literature. If we accept this as one possible definition of literature, every culture – oral or written – has its cultural memory, in as many facts as there are participants in the cultural progress.

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Holladay, Hilary White. ""Credences of Summer": Wallace Stevens' Concentric Search for Reality." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625395.

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Ogunfolabi, Kayode Omoniyi. "History, horror, reality the idea of the marvelous in postcolonial fiction /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.

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Underriner, Chaz 1987. "The Sound-Poetry of the Instability of Reality: Mimesis and the Reality Effect in Music, Literature, and Visual Art." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849623/.

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This paper uses the concept of mimesis to clarify the debate concerning the representation of reality in music. Specifically, this study defines the audio reality effect and the three main practices of realism as a way of understanding mimetic practices in multiple artistic media, in particular regarding the multimedia works of the "Landscape series." After addressing the historical debates concerning mimesis, this study develops a framework for the understanding of mimesis in sound by addressing the writings of Weiss, Baudrillard, Barthes, Deleuze, and Prendergast and by examining mimetic practices in 19th-century European painting and multimedia performance works. The audio reality effect is proposed as a meaningful translation of Roland Barthes' literary reality effect to the sonic realm. The main trends of realist practice are applied to electroacoustic music and soundscape composition using the works and writings of Emmerson, Truax, Wishart, Risset, Riddell, Smalley, Murray Schafer, Fischman, Young, and Field. Lastly, this study mimetically analyzes "2 seconds / b minor / wave" by Michael Pisaro and Taku Sugimoto and the works of the "Landscape series" in order to demonstrate the relevance of mimesis for understanding current musical practice.

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Mulala, Beatrice M. "African women writers and the struggle for emancipation : image and reality /." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488190109868517.

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Swallow, Andrew Bolton. "The Great War : images of reality in the French novel." Thesis, University of Hull, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305000.

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Glenday, M. K. "The modification of reality in the novels of Saul Bellow." Thesis, University of Kent, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371142.

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Holm, Ronda Marie. "Edna Pontellier's Impossible Dream: Fantasy and Reality in "The Awakening"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626055.

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Haga, Koichi. "The critique of virtual shifting discursive space in Japanese literature, 1960s-1980s." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1682825951&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Nicholson, Jennifer Clare. "Character, evidence and advocacy : representing reality in nineteenth-century law and literature." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.603507.

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The 1836 Prisoners' Counsel Act afforded all prisoners the right to full legal representation. Thereafter, the focus of felony trial proceedings shifted from the accused's character to the forensic scrutiny of evidence by advocates for both sides. This thesis examines the ways in which novels which focused on the presentation and revelation of character remained committed to a character-focused model of representation and how, conversely, writers of sensation and detective fiction began to appropriate the adversarial-evidentiary representational practices which flourished in criminal courts post- l836, and endorsed them as an alternative and more effective means of representing reality.

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Adebayo, Adebanke. "West African Feminism| Maneuvering the Reality of Feminism Using Osun." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10682016.

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West African Women writers are constantly looking for ways to maneuver the patriarchal system within their indigenous cultures. To say maneuvering implies the dilemma in consciously navigating patriarchal epistemology as West African women, which in reality is not exotic to other feminist struggles outside the continent. To deal with the dilemma of constantly maneuvering, this thesis suggest for an indigenous framework. It suggests Osun –a Nigerian goddess– as a response to the theoretical problems and as a methodology to navigating a postcolonial patriarchal worldview in order to express West African feminist discourse. The specificity of Osun is essential, but the fluidity of Osun across borders cannot be undermined as it paves the way for flexibility within feminist and gender discourse and draws upon various gender oppressed experiences. The idea of specificity and fluidity is fundamental to developing Osun as West African feminist discourse because of her ability to transcend space. The combination of specificity and fluidity are necessary within any feminist discourse as it allows for women from different regions to relate and align the tenets to their specific struggles found in the diversity of Osun.

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Phillips, Mary Theresa. "Reality and consciousness : a study of selected novels of May Sinclair." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385391.

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This dissertation considers selected novels of May Sinclair,in the light of her declared interest in the representat:ionN.of reality. It is written from a theoretical position which recognises that the reflection of reality in works of art ;s problematic, but which nevertheless maintains that works of fiction have some relationship with the real world. Using Bakhtin's concept of polyphony, as developed in his study of Dostoevsky's novels, it suggests that a novel is more open to the realitY,:r seeks to represent, in p~oportion to the multipl i.~..~.~f its voices. S, ne 1air cons ide red the re."r,esenta t ion of consc iousness to be the key element in trie representation of reality. The first chapter explores her' representation of consciousness in her novels, e~ploying a close formal analysis of voice and viewpoint, and demonstrating that even in her single consciousness novels, the consciousness of her characters is dialogic. The second chapter extends the study of Sinclair's treatment of consciousness to the more problematic area of the unconscious, demonstrating the variety of methods she employs, and her success in leaving open to the reader the interpretation of her characters' unconscious minds. The third chapter is a reader-orientated approach to the presence of irony in Sinclair's novels, arguing that ironic gaps and signals in the text allow the reader space to assert his/her own voice .. The final chapter interrogates Sinclair's representation of reality from a feminist position which challenges the cultural stereotypes, which inevitably construct even novels written from a feminist perspective, paying par~icular attention to the influence of contemporary.·psychology on Sinclair's representation of female characters. The dissertation .concludes 'by suggesting re.asons why even the feminist movement within literary'st-'~ies has largely failed to reawaken interest in Sinclair's novels. It suggests possible lines for further research and enters a plea for the re-publication of a wider ~ange of her novels.

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Kottage, Robert A. "“Between the Dream and Reality”: Divination in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2310.

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Divination is a trope Cormac McCarthy employs time and again in his work. Augury, haruspicy, cartomancy, voodoo, sortition and oneiromancy all take their places in the texts, overtly or otherwise, as well as divination by bloodshed (a practice so ubiquitous as to have no formal name). But mantic practices which aim at an understanding of the divine mind prove problematic in a universe that often appears godless—or worse. My thesis uses divination as the starting point for a close reading of each of McCarthy’s novels. Research into Babylonian, Greek, Roman and African soothsaying practices is included, as well as the insights of a number of McCarthy scholars. But the work of extra-‐literary scholars—philologists, Jungian psychologists, cultural anthropologists and religious historians whose works explore the origins of human violence and the spiritual impulse—is also invoked to shed light on McCarthy’s evolving perspective.

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Preston, Cynthea Reid. "Marilynne Robinson's housekeeping: The rhetoric of the new women's reality." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/787.

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Newbound, B. P. "Rhetoric and reality in Cecero's Philippics : a study of Philippics 3-4." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375994.

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Kelly, John Patrick. "From Romance to Reality: Faulkner's "Mayday" and "The Sound and the Fury"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625456.

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Gordon, Vanessa Jane. "The novels of Flann O'Brien : myth, reality and the Irish context." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1985. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/bd53e827-cc14-4b53-a68e-3af54b12a1f5/1/.

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This study discusses the two most outstanding features of Flann O'Brien's work: his comic approach, and his thematic and narrative complexity. The first two chapters explore O'Brien's use of comedy throughout his development as a writer, and examine the nature of his humour in its Irish context. Subsequent chapters deal with the four major comic novels individually, studying the author's treatment of his major theme of man's failure to establish himself in a reasonable relationship with reality, and in particular the tonal and linguistic complexity of the narrative used to pursue this theme.

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Frankel, Tara Maylyn. "Weaving Through Reality: Dance as an Active Emblem of Fantasy in Performance Literature." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/37.

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Literature uses dance to reveal underlying messages of fantasy through the themes of the central narrative of female characters. Examining the original texts with respect to their varying adaptations for film and stage, performance literature reveals how directors relate a three-dimensional story to an audience from a two-dimensional world. Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Red Shoes” shows an underlying semiotic code where transitioning from the black and white of reality to the red of fantasy is only accomplished through dancing. Oscar Wilde’s Salome displays an eroticization of the exotic solo-improvised dance that provides a semblance of control for the main character. The story of Giselle reveals a meta narrative describing the desire and plight of the professional dancer. Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, in contrast, provides a world in which dance as a fantasy element cannot exist. Examining the physical elements of these works of literature elucidates the use of dance as a lens that lets the performance become speech.

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Marubbio, M. Elise 1963. "The edge of the abyss: Metamorphosis as reality in contemporary Native American literature." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291692.

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The edge of the abyss: Metamorphosis as reality in contemporary Native American literature, approaches the concept of metamorphosis from a metaphysical and philosophical perspective as a culturally defined reality. It focuses on the works of contemporary Native American writers: Leslie Silko, Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich, who address the metamorphic properties of Time and the metamorphic abilities of Man as a continuing link to the supernatural and natural worlds through stories which descend from a history of oral traditions. The Edge of the Abyss explores the use of language and stories as a cultural survival technique for the retention of tribal ideology and world view. It addresses the fine line which exists between Western and Native American concepts of reality in order to re-define metamorphosis within a cultural context. This thesis uses an interdisciplinary approach utilizing anthropological, sociological, shamanistic, literary, and cultural materials in a comparative analysis.

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Bentley, Paul. "Language, self and reality in the poetry of Ted Hughes and Peter Redgrove." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327039.

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Smith-Bingham, Richard David. "Narrative and vision : constructing reality in late Victorian imperialist, decadent and futuristic fiction." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264168.

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Contreras, Annliss. "A midsummer night's dream : subjective reality as a "House of Mirror"." FIU Digital Commons, 2007. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2429.

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Shakespeare’s artistic and philosophical genius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, particularly how the portrays subjectivity as the contorted and incoherent images inside a “House of Mirrors,” is the focus of this thesis. By viewing the play from the vantage point of the subjective mind and projecting outward, I posit that the play treats human existence as fluid, making “reality” an elusive and indefinable concept. First, I evaluate the play’s depiction of human desire, a perverse formlessness, which having run its full cycle, will turn on itself revealing an inherent weakness in our nature. Secondly, A Midsummer Night’s Dream also complicates matters of social reality as man’s inconsistencies of identity and perception allow for the blurring, violation and ultimate implosion of physical and mental spaces, once again leading us to the “House of Mirrors” not just as a metaphor for subjective perception, but likewise for the complexity and negotiation of life. Lastly, having noted the fluidity of the mental images generated by the play, my analysis concludes by focusing on how the Shakespearean stage synthesizes the “House of Mirrors” and theatrum mundi metaphors to reveal the implications of subjectivity in the playwright’s humanistic philosophy.

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Hentea, Marius. "Social reality and narrative form in the fiction of Henry Green." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34554/.

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Social Reality and Narrative Form in the Fiction of Henry Green contests the dominant reading of Henry Green's fiction as an abstract, autonomous textual production. My thesis situates Green into a number of literary and socio-historical contexts and argues that doing so challenges a number of prevailing critical orthodoxies. I also argue that Green's fiction is formally constructed through a variety of dislocations, from displacing the centrality of plot, undermining the integrity of character, silencing the narrative voice and questioning the authenticity of the self. To relate social reality to narrative form, each of the four main chapters is dedicated to one of four substantive aspects of material reality: age, class, geography and the body. In the first chapter, I examine Green's relationship to the writing of his generation and to the concepts of age and youth. I argue that Green was deeply ambivalent towards generational belonging or the notion that identity could be supplied through one's generation. My second chapter investigates Green's treatment of social class and positions his Birmingham factory novel, Living, against 1930s theories of proletarian fiction and its canonical texts. My third chapter considers sites of authority both in the external world (geographic space) as well as within the novelistic space. The eclipsing of the narrator and the subsequent translation of the imaginative faculty to the reader is a part of Green's strategy to displace sites of authority. My final chapter looks at Green‘s treatment of the physical body and argues that disability is a central aspect of his novelistic practice. The impossibility of unity and wholeness, therefore, sheds light not only on the physicality of modern man but also on wholeness as a mental and linguistic possibility when the times are 'breaking up.'

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Follmer, Carl R. "Envisioning the fascist "reality": ideology in the children's literature of Hitler's Germany and Franco's Spain." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2207.

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This dissertation examines the fascist propaganda for children produced in Hitler’s Germany and the early years of Franco’s Spain. The central aim of this project is to identify the formation of fascist discourse and its construction of political “reality” (or what Kaja Silverman calls a “dominant fiction”) by German and Spanish propagandistic authors. I will also determine the extent to which the fascist thought formed in the works I am studying depends on the national context in which it appears. The fascist children’s literature produced in Germany and Spain provides a body of writing that will allow me to answer if there are literary elements specific to the historical moment and national context in which they were produced, or if fascist writing is the same from one country to the next. For the German context, I will begin by examining works written for children during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). By placing works from Erich Kästner and Wolf Durian into a historical context, I read these books as cultural artifacts that express the views of their authors and reflect those of many democratic supporters of the Republic. Beginning with the first Nazi novels for children and youth that appeared in 1932, I proceed to trace the elements National Socialist authors chose to retain from their left-wing Weimar counterparts, and then put forth a model that explains the influence fascism had on children’s literature in Germany during this time. Once this model is established, I will compare and contrast this body of German writing with the children’s literature produced in Spain between 1939 and 1943, the immediate post-Civil War period, a time-frame that most historians view as the moment when fascist ideology flourished under the emerging Franquist regime. Taking the fascist children’s periodical Flechas y Pelayos (Arrows and Pelayos) as a case in point, I demonstrate the ways in which Franco’s government sought to nationalize the family unit in order to place the children of Spain in the service of the new regime. Finally, I conclude the project by synthesizing my findings of both fascist contexts as they pertain to the creation of “realities” in children’s literature and the subsequent formation of the role of the state.

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He, Zhongxiu. "The prismatic reality of Canada's Cold War novels /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2007. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/9294.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) - Simon Fraser University, 2007.
Theses (Dept. of English) / Simon Fraser University. Senior supervisor: David Stouck -- Dept. of English. Also issued in digital format and available on the World Wide Web.

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Harris, Nicola Joy. "'The means of seeing' : looking at reality in the novels of Thomas Hardy." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1998. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8018/.

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Hardy approached the problem of nineteenth-century realism as an ontological and literary concern largely through images of perception. This thesis suggests that Hardy adopted an innovative approach in an effort to identify the term, and argues that his subversive contribution to the Great Debate occasioned the necessary impetus for the experimental fictions of the twentieth century. In rejecting the orthodox, aesthetic prescriptions established by such authorities as George Eliot and Henry James, it is suggested that Hardy released the Victorian novel from its restricting reliance on ostensibly objective fact and paved the way for a more subjective interpretation of reality and a more introspective kind of narrative. It is contended that Hardy's literary response to a range of optical treatises encouraged his challenging reinterpretation of reality. As a preparatory measure, 'A Pair of Blue Eyes' metaphorically petrifies the perspective; 'Far from the Madding Crowd' interrogates Ruskin's theory of moral perception; 'The Return of the Native' looks at phenomena through an intellectual lens; 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' judges a reality filtered through a sartorially-inclined public eye instructed by Carlyle; 'The Woodlanders', the turning point in the sequence, observes with an eye disillusioned by the evolutionists; 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' creates a reality from the affective eye championed by Comte and Fourier; 'Jude the Obscure' wanders blindly between two literary eras, perceptual incoherences, and dislocations between phenomenal and noumenal compromising the narrative's formal integrity. This thesis maintains that, through an idiosyncratic frame of referentiality as well as regard, Hardy transforms the objective, material world into his own versions of reality, and triumphs over oppressive facts by subjectively appropriating them. Each of Hardy's works offers an alternative yet equally viable perceptual angle from which the creation, form, and function of reality as a psychological, practical, ontological, and literary concern can be judged.

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Jeziorski, Carolyn Ann Marie. "The experience of reality and fantasy from books: the six year old child." Thesis, Boston University, 1994. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27682.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Hausmann, Mark. "Concrete Reality: The Posthuman Landscapes of J.G. Ballard." Chapman University Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/english_theses/3.

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While the fiction of J.G. Ballard has been primarily explored through postmodern criticism, his narratives and settings predict major issues concerning the contemporary discourse of posthumanism. His texts explore the escalating economic, social, and ecological crises converging within the material conditions of human urbanization and late capitalism. Nearly all of Ballard’s novels are as much about locations undergoing a crisis as they are about individuals or communities coming to embrace some extended period of human hysteria. His characters in The Drought, Concrete Island, and Super- Cannes, each progress through ecologically and socially alienating surroundings which invigorate them to act against classical humanism’s hegemonic and anthropocentric tendencies. By applying Henri Lefebvre’s spatial concept of “abstract space” to Ballard’s range of urban settings, this thesis investigates how Ballard’s early, middle, and late, novels continually put materiality, humanism, and technological landscapes, through different ecological and geopolitical crises in order to deconstruct a number of cultural and ideological concerns posthumanist studies seek to address.

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Mahler, Susan Jennifer. "'...art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him...' : ordering reality, an analysis of symbolism in the novels of Chinua Achebe." Thesis, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313589.

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Reider, Noriko T. "Ugetsu monogatari, kaidan, akinari : an examination of the reality of the supernatural in eighteenth-century Japan /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487947501133161.

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De, Gruchy John. "W.B. Yeats's Japan : more myth than reality." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=50844.

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This thesis analyses the development of Yeats's image of Japan from his introduction to Japanese culture through 'Japonisme' in the mid-1880's, until the end of his life in 1939. It also surveys the sources of information that Yeats had on Japan other than the Noh drama, and shows how these sources were as important as the Noh, if not more, in defining his image of Japan as an artistic utopia. Three periods of Japanese history were of particular interest to Yeats: The early nineteenth century, in which most Japanese colour prints were produced; the Ashikaga period (1333-1573), when the Noh flourished, and Heian Japan (794-1100), an extraordinary culture which produced some of the world's greatest works of art. Images of Japanese culture from these periods combined to produce a composite, mythical vision of Japan in Yeats's imagination.

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Phelps, Kelsey W. "From Poe and Hitchcock to...Reality TV?" BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2526.

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This thesis expands the discussion of the mass appeal and sustained success of reality TV by initiating an examination of the direct connections between reality TV and cinematic and written fiction. As reality TV has firmly established itself as a successful genre of entertainment over the last two decades, scholarship has been slow to follow. The majority of existing scholarship focuses on reality TV as a descendant of the documentary and emphasizes the role of the non-professional, the average person, as the star. Reality TV's appropriation of structural elements from general fiction is acknowledged only briefly and the use of specific techniques borrowed from fiction is largely unexplored. Although reality TV is a variation of the documentary, this thesis explores reality TV's creation of its voyeuristic appeal through the appropriation of key elements that come directly from fiction. Specific techniques used to create a voyeuristic appeal in reality programs, such as the morally ambiguous character and the confession, can be traced, respectively, to the surprising sources of Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Allan Poe. Reality TV, in appropriating these techniques from Hitchcock and Poe, has a similar formula for entertainment: the thrill of voyeurism as a sublime experience. The consistent appeal of reality TV cannot be fully understood without an awareness of its connections to these two great artists.

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Hodges, Elizabeth Violet. "An exploration of sight, and its relationship with reality, in literature from both world wars." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:de3c749e-b7b2-49bc-a25e-4c3f28eea47d.

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Writers from both world wars, concerned with the representation of war, wrestled with the predicament of partial sight. Their work reveals the problematic dichotomy that exists between the individual’s selective range of vision and the immense scale of conflict. Central to this authorial dilemma is the question of the visual frame: how do you contain – within the written word – sight that resists containment and expression? The scale of the two world wars accentuated the representative problem of warfare. This thesis, by examining a wide range of World War One and World War Two literature, explores the varied literary responses to the topical relationship between sight and reality in wartime. It examines the war poetry of Wilfred Owen, Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy Parade’s End, The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day, and Virginia Woolf’s novels Mrs Dalloway and Between the Acts alongside less well-known works such as David Jones’s prose-poem In Parenthesis, the two short stories ‘The Soldier Looks for His Family’ by John Prebble and ‘The Blind Man’ by D.H. Lawrence, as well as William Sansom’s collection of short stories Fireman Flower, and Louis Simpson’s war poetry. This thesis, by focussing on the inherent difficulties of reconciling perception and representation in war, interrogates the boundaries of sight and the limits of representation. The changing place of sight in writing from the two world wars is examined and the extent to which discourses of vision were shaped and developed, in the early decades of the twentieth century, by war experience is explored. The critical containment and categorisation of sight that often dominates readings of sight in texts from both world wars is questioned suggesting the need for a more flexible understanding of, and approach towards, sight.

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Plain, Gillian Mary. "Strategies for survival : fiction and reality in British women's writing of the Second World War." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/148.

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Ellington, Scott Arthur. "Reality, remembrance, and response : the presence and absence of God in the psalms of lament." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3057/.

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This study explores the ways in which Israel understood Yahweh to be present by focusing on those psalms of lament which report that God is silent, absent, or hidden and which present him with memories of his presence to save. The study begins by examining the use of memory recitals of Yahweh's creation, the exodus experience of Israel, and the personal experiences of the writer as the primary resources for approaching God in the psalms of lament. Special attention is given to the tension created by the psalmist between the present experience of God's absence and memories of his presence to save. This is then followed by a survey of current writings on God's presence and absence. Next, the study explores issues in Psalms research which relate to the theme of God's presence and absence as it is expressed in the Psalms. Attention is given to the problem of speaking of God acting in human history and to the debate over whether the Psalms have their origin and use primarily in the cultic setting or in the private lives of the community. Also, various understandings of the experiences of presence and absence are considered. This is followed by an exegetical study of seven psalms, with particular attention being given to the tension between experienced absence and remembered presence, the move from lament to praise, and the response to God's salvation of offering testimony before the great assembly. The final part of the study explores the psalmist's use of experiences of reality, memory, testimony, and story as a means of approaching God in the silence in light of the preceding exegetical study.

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Lodge, Keith R. P. "Writing and the rights of reality : usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett." Thesis, Durham University, 2003. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3743/.

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The thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics.

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Kleinberg, Rebecca Marie. "Visions of Reality: A Comparison of Narrative Methods and Perspectives in "The Ambassadors" and "The Good Soldier"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625981.

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Hessman, Travis Michael. "Neither / Nor: Nine Stories and a Novella." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1291178542.

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DeHaven, Javan M. "So Much for Sensation." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1398418971.

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Kawa, Abraham. "Everything at once : postmodern concepts of #reality' in comic book narrative and its adaptations on film." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251679.

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Trude, Brian J. "The Reality of the Provinces and Other Stories." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1460474022.

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Berlatsky, Eric L. "Fact, fiction, and fabrication history, narrative, and the postmodern real from Woolf to Rushdie /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/307.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2003.
Thesis research directed by: English Language and Literature. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Wallace, Brian. "Warriors and warfare : ideal and reality in early insular texts." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6434.

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This thesis investigates several key aspects of warfare and its participants in the Viking Age insular world via a comparison of the image which warriors occupy in heroic literature to their concomitant depiction in sources which are primarily nonliterary in character, such as histories, annalistic records, and law codes. Through this method, the thesis seeks to add to the scholarship regarding organized violence in this era in two principle manners. First, this study will depart from nearly all previous studies of warriors by moving beyond a single cultural milieu and treating them in a ‘pan-insular’ context. Second and perhaps more importantly, in choosing to address the heroic literature as a genre distinct from other contemporary texts, this thesis will allow progress beyond the bulk of pre-existing ‘warfare scholarship’ for this era, which tends to utilize any and all manner of sources as a reflection of historical reality. In considering the context of heroic poetry and sagas, the thesis will allow one to make conclusion regarding its likely authorship and intended audience, as well as the goals of the former and expectations of the latter. Studies of warfare are always of particular relevance, due to their intersection with many areas of history long studied, such as constitutional and legal history, as well as those which have only recently received their due attention, such as questions of group cohesion, violence, and community. This thesis was largely inspired by the attempt by Stephen S. Evans to study the institution of the war-band in a crosscultural reference in his 1997 book Lords of Battle. Evans provided a good analysis of this body in its fifth- through eighth-century Anglo-Saxon and British manifestation but failed to achieve his primary stated goal – a comparison of the image and reality of the war-band. His decision to limit his research to the Anglo- Saxon and Welsh cultural spheres in the era predating the first Viking invasions led him to omit much relevant Irish and Insular Norse material, as well as a great deal of later heroic literature. It was with these two shortcomings in mind that I set out to write a more thorough treatment of the war-band. Yet, what began initially as an attempt to remedy the shortcomings of Lords of Battle soon grew into a slightly more wide-ranging study that has moved beyond focussing solely upon the war-band to look at attitudes about warfare and its participants amongst contemporary audiences and authors during the Viking age insular world.

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van, Malssen Hubertus Marinus George. "Redefining xia : reality and fiction in Wang Dulu's Crane-Iron Series, 1938-1944." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/redefining-xia-reality-and-fiction-in-wang-dulus-craneiron-series-19381944(d3a0ba60-c193-4fa1-bebd-b1697f37c7c9).html.

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This thesis aims to shed new light on the Chinese character xia 侠 and the literature and history of the Republican Era (1912-1949) that revolves around it. Xia refers to either a concept (identifiable with kindness, altruism, righteousness, etc.) or to a person who practices this concept. Ever since its arrival in Chinese texts in the sixth century BC, it has created controversy for some and sympathy for others. In Modern China, xia became the central aspect of a literary genre that reached its zenith in production and consumption in the Republican Era, i.e. wuxia fiction 武侠小说, which can be translated as “using martial arts (wu 武) to obtain xia”. The concept of xia was an integral part of presumably the most widespread literary genre of the time, but why were Republican-era readers so interested in it? Why did they relate to xia and what do the themes of these novels say about the chaotic Republican Era? To answer these questions, this thesis presents a case study of a wuxia pentalogy written by Wang Dulu at the end of the Republican Era and attempts to identify the topics and aspects most reflective of that historical period, showing that, despite the heavy criticism of intellectuals of that time, these “easy” popular novels contain innovative and modern aspects and can become today of great historical importance. The thesis starts with two literature reviews. The first determines that the term xia has not received enough scholarly attention, calling for a reassessment. The second literature review focuses on Republican Era wuxia fiction, showing how there is a gap in scholarship on this period. This is followed by a discussion of the methodology used for the analysis of the case study on Wang Dulu’s Crane-Iron Series written in Qingdao (1938-1944), presented in the final three chapters of the thesis. Chapter one analyses the origins of the term xia in texts from the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) and Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), presenting new interpretations for a more comprehensive understanding of the term. Chapter two gives a historical overview of xia¬-related literature and addresses the historical reasons for the changes that xia underwent throughout Chinese history. Chapter three includes a historiography of the Republican Era in combination with the life of the author Wang Dulu and identifies the aspects of the author’s life that will become important in the textual analysis in the chapters to follow. Chapter four focuses on xia in the Crane-Iron Series. After having collected the terms and identified the semantic spheres that include the Chinese character xia, the chapter demonstrates how the story of one of the series’ protagonist can be seen as an personification of Republican-era China, proving the historical dimension and value of these novels. Chapter five analyses yi 义 (righteousness) and represents the virtuous aspect of xia, concluding that, according to Wang Dulu, for the concept of xia, virtue is more important than being trained in martial arts (wu). Chapter six focuses on the literary figure of the baobiao 保镖 (protector) and is seen as the commercialisation of martial arts not necessarily linked to xia, showing how entrepreneurship and violence were characteristics of the time.

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