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Kidd, Catherine. "Bestial rooms : a work of prose fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0001/MQ39923.pdf.
Full textHerrmann, Andrew F. "On Being a Homeless Work of Fiction." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/749.
Full textPerkins, Aaron M. "Fictions, enabling fictions, and autofiction within painting; or, "This painting is a work of fiction", I said." Thesis, Griffith University, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/419477.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Queensland College of Art
Arts, Education and Law
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Riegel, Christian Erich. "The work of mourning and Margaret Laurence's Manawaka fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0010/NQ59554.pdf.
Full textGalletly, Sarah. "Work, class and gender in Canadian fiction, 1890s-1920s." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2012. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=25538.
Full textBrazil, Kevin. "The work of art in postwar fiction, 1945-2001." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f8102451-09cf-4f92-8e6e-e7c1ced2641c.
Full textByrnes, C. "The work of Ian McEwan : a psychodynamic approach." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311137.
Full textSchwarz, Henry. "Subvisible meaning structural invention in the work of 5 Brazilian novelists /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1697706611&sid=8&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textWong, Man Olive, and 王旼. "Men at work: masculinity, solidarity and solitude in Conrad's Fiction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31952446.
Full textCarr, John Leonard. "Leigh Brackett : American science fiction writer--her life and work /." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1291223654.
Full textWong, Man Olive. "Men at work : masculinity, solidarity and solitude in Conrad's Fiction /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21161768.
Full textTovey, Julie Anne. "Bible of Dreams : the cultural work of Sylvia Plath's short fiction." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.392167.
Full textBarchow, Winberg Martin. "Fiction and revolutions Thematic work – an including and engaging pedagogy situation." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-33121.
Full textThe purpose of this work of development is to provide a proposal on how teachers can engage and motivate more students to strive to achieve the goals in Swedish and history in high school. Based on previous research, various theorists, the curriculum of primary education in 2011 and the new curriculum for Swedish history and form a development that is based on a thematic approach in which literature is central to the theme and where teaching materials are replaced with various diverse elements that movie, museum visits, guest speakers, etc. The theme is called revolutions of the era and deals with 1700 - 1800 with a focus on French Revolution, ideologies and the social currents that result from it. Students work in groups and with three individual tasks. Theme work spans six weeks and a total of 30 hours. The issues were the subject of the essay is: How can you work educationally to get more students interested, engaged and make them feel included in order to seek to achieve the goals? How can we as teachers work pedagogically to have more time with their students? How can one based on different learning theories to create a larger context and give a greater motivation for students in their teaching?
Hibbert, Jeffrey D. "Room for Possibilities: James Joyce and the Rhetorical Work of Fiction." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2008. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/16019.
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The resurgence of interest in James Joyce's politics over the past decades reveals Joyce as a politically astute, if not active, writer. But Joyce's politics were never easily codifiable or traceable to a set of ideologically fixed positions. Instead, this dissertation argues, Joyce uses the novel as a space where political debate can be dramatized, and the novel becomes a form of deliberative rhetoric regarding future possibilities. For Joyce, the practices of rhetoric and aesthetics are complexly intertwined and interdependent, though they remain, in many ways, oppositional and contrary. Joyce and other modernist writers often viewed rhetoric as a discursive form that limited rather than expanded possibilities. But at other moments, Joyce presses rhetoric into the service of aesthetic (and vice-versa) since deliberative rhetoric and poetics (as defined by Aristotle) both attend to the possibilities of future action. This dissertation traces Joyce's evolution from a young socialist writer engaged in rhetorical experiments with the essay to his later dramatization of Irish political oratory in Ulysses. Joyce began his career as a self-described "socialist artist" in 1904, but would consciously eschew socialism within the next few years. This dissertation locates Joyce's early political rhetoric in his essay "A Portrait of the Artist" and the abandoned novel Stephen Hero as unconscious remainders reemerging in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In the later text, aesthetics attempt to replace rhetoric as a means of creating radical materialist consciousness, but the later text also re-incorporates and reimagines its earlier incarnations. The earlier texts remain as "symptoms" around which the later is written. Drawing on the definitions of "symptom" in psychoanalytic and Marxist theoretical practice, this dissertation argues that A Portrait of the Artist functions as a text because it includes, even though it attempts to rewrite, the political and rhetorical work of its antecedents. In crafting the "Aeolus" chapter of Ulysses, Joyce returns to the art of rhetoric to dramatize the arguments surrounding Irish labor, politics, and language in 1904 Dublin. Unlike his work in A Portrait of the Artist, Joyce presents oratory as a staging ground for reasoned debate and discussion regarding the future course of Irish history. Whereas rhetoric was an unconscious remainder of socialist politics in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, rhetoric is consciously applied in the work of the characters in the episode who are preoccupied with the consequences of the Irish language movement and middle-class industrialization. This dissertation ultimately argues against positions that view rhetoric as a weak surrogate for aesthetics or as a discursive limitation that must be overcome for aesthetics to produce valuable contemplative effects. Aesthetics in Joyce's fiction has productive rhetorical purposes: to lead readers to contemplate false oppositions, consider the means by which history is produced, to attend to the process of political decision-making, and to deliberate about the consequences of actions.
Temple University--Theses
Dorsett, Margaret H. "Fall Line: a work in progress." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46032.
Full textAn experimental novel, based on the critical theories of Jacques Lacan and Helena Cixous, which explores the exclusion of women from the cultural ideal, and their redefinition as cultural "others" in Western American Society.
The novel incorporates three separate narratives: two first person narratives (Paula Tjunic and Kate Hargrove) and one third person narrative. The two first person narratives examine entire lifetimes. The third person narrative recounts one night in a bar. The first person narratives are written in opposing columns, and are designed in blocks and gaps so that each character can be heard separately, and the reader can interact with the text as a third cultural "other."
A short examination of the theories of cultural "other" in relation to women in the American West, is included in the preface of the novel.
Master of Arts
Ovenden, Laura. "'Bereiche der Sprachlosigkeit' : language, silence and power in the work of Elisabeth Reichart." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246488.
Full textParris, Brandy. "Emotional labor, women's work, and sentimental capital in nineteenth-century American fiction /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9316.
Full textArthur, Erica. "Emasculation at work : white-collar protest fiction in the 1950s and 1990s." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401544.
Full textWesterman, Jennifer H. "Landscapes of labor : nature, work, and environmental justice in Depression-era fiction /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3342624.
Full text"May, 2009." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 195-212). Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2009]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Online version available on the World Wide Web.
Pawlak, Solange. "A Work of Speculative Fiction : Intertextuality in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-30479.
Full textTerry, Tobin F. "All Sorts of Shorts." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1239378783.
Full textRivers, Bronwyn Anne. "Mid-nineteenth-century women novelists and the question of women's work." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365499.
Full textMcDonald, Maria H. "The fiction of connection, structures and emptiness in the work of A.S. Byatt." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0002/MQ28235.pdf.
Full textMorton, Karen. "A life marketed as fiction : an analysis of the work of Eliza Parsons." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2005. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20088/.
Full textFeatherstone, Kerry. "Not just travel writing : an interdisciplinary reading of the work of Bruce Chatwin." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324590.
Full textSarvestani, Mehrak Kamali, and Mehrak Kamali Sarvestani. "Fictional Uncertainty in Modern Persian Literature: Polyphony, Becoming, and Ambiguity in Shahriar Mandanipour's Work." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/596122.
Full textLaffer, Alex. "A poetics of empathy : discussion of migrants in and around a work of fiction." Thesis, Open University, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.694539.
Full textDaldry, G. "Charles Dickens and the form of the novel : 'Fiction' and 'narrative' in Dickens' work." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370478.
Full textCOUTINHO, ALEXANDRE MONTAURY BAPTISTA. "TESTIMONY AND FICTION: THE PLACES OF SPEECH IN THE WORK OF ANTONIO LOBO ANTUNES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5961@1.
Full textTestemunho e ficção: os lugares da fala na obra de António Lobo Antunes discute a possibilidade de análise dos procedimentos de escrita utilizados por António Lobo Antunes em sua obra. A partir da leitura de quatro romances publicados na última década, a tese marca um dos projetos que particularizam a escrita de ficção do autor: a representação da subjetividade como constructo verbal e a apresentação de personagens criados pelas próprias vozes narrativas, articulados como texto. Neste processo, produzir o verossímil em detrimento do verdadeiro é a estratégia utilizada pelo escritor para conferir aos relatos uma densidade que ponha em tensão as idéias de testemunho e de ficção. O emaranhado de vozes - cuja ação está na base dos romances analisados - aponta para a construção de personagens que são, ao mesmo tempo, lugares discursivos e emblemas da impossível realização de um projeto de vida. Demonstraremos, a partir deste encaminhamento, o modo com que Lobo Antunes encena veementemente a falência dos mitos que sustentaram a vida moderna, chamando a atenção para formas discursivas que formatam a vida contemporânea.
Fiction and testimony discusses the possibility of an analysis of the writing procedures used by António Lobo Antunes on his work. After reading four novels published during the last decade, the thesis highlights one of the projects that specify the writing of fiction of this Author: the representation of subjectivity as a verbal construct, and the presentation of characters created by the narrative voices themselves, articulated as a text. In this process, to produce the believable to the detriment of the truthful is the strategy used by the writer to grant to the accounts a density that put under strain the testimonial and fictional ideas. The entangled voices - whose action is the basis of the novels analyzed - points to the building of personages which are, at the same time, discursive places and emblems of the impossible fulfillment of a life project. We will show, from this reasoning, the way Lobo Antunes passionately stages the debacle of the myths supporting modern life, calling the attention to the discursive ways that format contemporary living.
Colby, Robin B. ""Some appointed work to do" : women and vocation in the fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell /." Westport (Conn.) ; London : Greenwood press, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb370337745.
Full textJohnson, Alfred B. "Net work : social networks, disruptive agency, and innovation in Howells, Fitzgerald, Heller, Pynchon, and Gibson." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1343471.
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Wood, Susan M. "Seeing into the mirror the reality of fiction in the work of Carrie Mae Weems /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4900.
Full textThe entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on November 6, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
Tait, Lisa Olsen. "Mormon Culture Meets Popular Fiction: Susa Young Gates and the Cultural Work of Home Literature." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1998. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTNZ,25499.
Full textBurgoyne, Mary M. "'At work on short stories' : the making, marketing, and reception of Joseph Conrad's early short fiction." Thesis, St Mary's University, Twickenham, 2016. http://research.stmarys.ac.uk/1167/.
Full textMartinez, Nistal Clara. "Rewriting the limits between history and fiction : Jorge Luis Borges in the work of Leonardo Sciascia." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29011.
Full textDuncan, Alasdair John. "Who are the MySpace generation and how can they be represented in a work of fiction?" Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/20176/1/Alasdair_Duncan_Thesis.pdf.
Full textDuncan, Alasdair John. "Who are the MySpace generation and how can they be represented in a work of fiction?" Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/20176/.
Full textDavie, Rosalind. "The other side of silence : the life and work of Mary Webb." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2018. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/5711/.
Full textHobbs, John Michael. "In the light of Oliveira Martins : the literary inheritance of Oliveira Martins in the work of Guerra Junqueiro, Teixera de Pascoaes and Miguel Torga." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313695.
Full textGronewold, Laura. "Chick Lit and Its Canonical Forefathers: Anxieties About Female Subjectivity in Contemporary Women's Fiction." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/238894.
Full textPeters, Matthew. "La Rue House." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2006. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/441.
Full textAndersen, Kat L. "Lonely Game." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2686.
Full textWyllie, Barbara Elizabeth. "A study of the work of Vladimir Nabokov in the context of contemporary American fiction and film." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326244.
Full textBöhnke, Dietmar. "Shades of Gray: Science Fiction, History and the Problem of Postmodernism in the Work of Alasdair Gray." Galda und Wilch, 2004. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A32037.
Full textRiehs, Daniel. "Make Your Data Work for You: True Stories of People and Technology." Thesis, Boston College, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/422.
Full textTechnology should enhance the human experience. Instead, it often alienates people from aspects of life that are considered most important. Artists are separated from their works, friends are separated from each other, and human ingenuity is filtered though computers before it can impact the world. These five short stories focus mainly on alienations inherent to communications and media technology, but also touch on database management and copyright concerns. Some take place in the present day; others present views of the future. All five stories use fiction to explore the truth of humanity's absurd relationship to technology
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2006
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: College Honors Program
Németh, Andrea. "Mothers and daughters, representations on the adoption triad in contemporary popular and literary fiction : theory and original work." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0035/MQ27368.pdf.
Full textBarlow, Gillian, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and of Communication Design and Media School. "Jigsaw : looking at identity, post-colonialism and driving." THESIS_CAESS_CDM_Barlow_G.xml, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/260.
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Welch, Edward. "A Catholic novelist in context : suggestions for a reassessment of the work of Francois Mauriac." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:73570115-4495-4492-a21f-59ee6b6543d0.
Full textWohlfart, Irmengard. "Translation studies perspectives on Patricia Grace's Potiki the original work and the German translation : dissertation submitted to the University of Auckland in partial fulfilment of the degree of Professional Master of Arts in Translation Studies, 2007." Click here to access this resource online, 2007.
Find full textFuerst, Carl. "The lattice-work gun-stinging insect| The story of genre in the science fiction novels of Philip K. Dick." Thesis, Northern Illinois University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3639966.
Full textThis dissertation examines the authorial techniques used by Philip K. Dick to establish his work as science fiction. It focuses on four of his novels (two relatively minor novels in The Cosmic Puppets and Solar Lottery, and two major novels in The Man in the High Castle and Valis). These novels represent four important stages in Dick's career, and in his conception of science fiction as a genre of storytelling. Throughout this dissertation, emphasis is placed on how these novels express their science fiction identity on the language level, from the structure of their sentences, to the organization of their chapters, to the specific generic elements (including pseudotechnology, pseudohistory, and pseudotheology) that each novel includes.
This project provides close readings of each novel. These readings are shaped by narrative theory, and they are informed by Dick's total body of work, and, more generally, 20th Century American science fiction. The result is a view of science fiction that sees the genre less as a product of plot elements (faster-than-light travel, telepathy, aliens, and so on), and more as a grammar that evokes a specific kind of relationship between reader and work. It also identifies a trajectory to the development of Dick's ideas about science fiction. Over the course of this study, it becomes clear that, in Dick's earlier works, science fiction is presented as an effective means of apprehending the universe. In Dick's later works, however, we can locate an increasing cynicism in the ability of science fiction to offer real meaning to its readers. In the end, while Dick's later novels might relate a rather pessimistic view of science fiction's potential, his career as a whole reflects a dynamic and open-ended search for significance, purpose, and underlying truth.