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The Author Is Legion: Transformative Work and Fan Fiction as a Literary Meta-Genre (thesis)
Transformative work must be understood first and foremost as a style and meta-genre defined by its relationships. The relationship between texts, with changes and variations from one incarnation to the next. The relationship ...
"Passing Like Cherry Blossoms:" Silence in Chinese-American Literature (thesis)
This thesis was born out of the desire to see myself, a Chinese-American person, represented in contemporary American fiction. In the publishing industry today, books written by
and about people of minority racial or ethnic ...
Right Person, Right Time (thesis)
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The Hierarchical Perception and Denigration of Animals in Early Modern English Drama (thesis)
Ethical qualms concerning animals exist beyond practical questions that one faces in modernity. Our thoughts on animals seep into our culture; our rituals, our stories, and our values influence and are influenced by non-human ...
Obeah Women, Mediums, and Witches: Spirituality in the Colonial and Postcolonial Gothic (thesis)
This thesis traces the evolution of Self versus Other in terms of religion throughout the colonial and postcolonial Gothic. I begin with an examination of colonial Gothic texts which function in the delegitimizing way that ...
History, Fiction, and Meaning: A Study of Graham Swift's Waterland
As he continues to write and develop as a novelist, the now-empty niche of Swiftian criticism will undoubtedly fill up quite quickly. In determining to write this thesis on an author so recent and therefore so little ...
Dreams and Dreaming in Fred Chappell's Midquest
Dreams emerge as prominent motifs throughout Fred Chappell' s many poems, novels, short stories, and essays. . . . These statements hold equally true for Chappell's Midquest. A "verse novel," as the poet calls his carefully ...
Discovering F. Scott Fitzgerald's Wise and Tragic Sense of Life
The youthful illusions Fitzgerald alludes to in This Side of Paradise exist in both Amory Blaine, the novel's protagonist, and in Fitzgerald himself speaking through the novel's
omniscient narrator. With an attitude of ...