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Buckles, Mary Ann. "Interactive fiction : the computer storygame adventure /." Diss., Connect to 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1985. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p8517895.

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Dindar, Samima. "Alexandre goes south: A novel – and – An essay, ‘The modern adventure novel’." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2017. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2008.

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When asked what sort of novel I was writing, I always said ‘a modern adventure novel’. And then I began to question myself about the meaning of these three words together, the substance and the definition of a modern adventure novel. Does such a thing exist? In my novel ‘Alexandre Goes South’, Alexandre is a thirty-year-old Parisian from a family that enjoy wealth and privilege, facts that provide a setting but play only incidental roles in the events that unfold. Alexandre goes through a series of crises, which propel the journey that launches him onto the road to manhood. The novel begins at

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Parrott, Deborah, and Reneé C. Lyons. "Adventure Driven Non-Fiction Spawns Reading and Scientific Learning." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2374.

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Modern day children's and young adult non-fiction is replete with books which highlight scientific efforts (treks, safaris, journeys, expeditions) to confront environmental challenges , such texts prevalent in Siebert and Orbis Pictus listings. This presentation will build school librarian awareness of such adventurous selections, provide text-based activities conducive to collaborative efforts with science teachers (multiple grade levels will be addressed), and introduce reading promotion plans and activities based in these award-winning works of literature. First, as an icebreaker, attendees

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Molino, Nicolene Chloe. "Dog wars : a Victorian steampunk adventure." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001815.

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We're in an alternate universe, circa Dickensian London. Leofric Lieven, a local crime lord, is about to find the past catching up on him. The Romany Carnival has come to town, and a gypsy woman, his former lover and partner in crime, demands from him a favour which will redress his betrayal of years before: he must secure a stolen object and return it to her. But things go horribly wrong when local delivery boy Cards Bennish is kidnapped by Leofric’s competitor before he can deliver the goods that will cover Leofric's debt to the gypsy. In this world, humans can shape shift into animals, enti

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Hayes, Timothy Scott McGowan John. "Stories of things remote replacing the self in 19th-century adventure fiction /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1464.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Apr. 25, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English and Comparative Literature." Discipline: English; Department/School: English.

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Puncekar, Alex J. "The Bright Garden." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1495189855840834.

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Wagenaar, Peter Simon. "The shadowed corners of sunlit ruins: Gothic elements in twentieth century children's adventure fiction." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002293.

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This thesis examines the way in which children's adventure fiction makes use of Gothic features, how these features have been modified for a younger audience and how these modifications have been influenced by other developments in children's and popular fiction: Chapter One sets out to define the nature of Gothic and isolate those aspects of it relevant to the proposed study. It puts forward a theory to account for the movement of Gothic trends into later children's fiction. Chapter Two examines the use of landscape, setting and atmospheric effects in Gothic and the way in which children's fi

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Stringam, Jean. "Canadian short adventure fiction in periodicals for adolescents, Canada, England, the United States, 1847-1914." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0007/NQ34842.pdf.

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Bertini, Federica <1989&gt. "Manliness and Masculinity in Victorian Fiction for Boys: the School Story and the Adventure Story." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/7834.

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La tesi si propone di analizzare la rappresentazione del concetto di mascolinità nel romanzo Vittoriano per ragazzi, con particolare riferimento ai generi della school story e del romanzo d’avventura, accomunati da simili intenti didattici e morali e da un medesimo pubblico di lettori – nello specifico, gli autori si rivolgono esplicitamente a un pubblico maschile. Si può indubbiamente affermare che la letteratura per ragazzi costituisca un indicatore della temperie socioculturale di un dato periodo storico, contribuendo allo stesso tempo a influenzarne costumi e convenzioni. I romanzi per rag

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Bube, June Johnson. ""No true woman" : conflicted female subjectivities in women's popular 19th-century western adventure tales /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9508.

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Cupitt, Catherine Anne. "Space opera: a hybrid form of science fiction and fantasy." Thesis, Curtin University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1082.

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This thesis considers space opera as a hybrid form of science fiction and fantasy.“Falling Stars,” the creative component which includes fantasy, space opera and science fiction stories, constitutes a spectrum of speculative fiction. In order to illustrate the similarities and difference between the genres represented in the spectrum, I focus on the central figure of the alien other and the ways in which such a figure can be gendered and embodied. The space opera novella combines motifs of both fantasy and science fiction within the figure of the cyborg, Orlando, who is transgendered and hyper

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Haunstetter, Denise. "Digitally Implemented Interactive Fiction: Systematic Development and Validation of “Mole, P.I.”, a Multimedia Adventure for Third Grade Readers." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002409.

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Fleetwood, Carolyn. "Imarill of the star : an illustrated children's novel." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2002. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/273.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Sciences<br>Liberal Arts

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Karlin, Adam. "Undertow." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2613.

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A short story collection that explores themes of culture, history, race, movement, stagnancy, and freedom. All stories are connected by elements of water, swimming, rivers, or wetlands. All contain characters seeking to escape their circumstances, with varying degrees of success. For some characters, the arc of their development lays in their movement; for others, it lays in their learning to live with a lack of movement.

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Dewald, John. "Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1631.

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Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum is the first edition of a book for all audiences but especially targeting children. The story follows Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum as they explore wonderland, encountering famous characters including the Queen of Hearts, the Catepillar, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the White Rabbit, as well as a set of new characters at well. The account is entirely fictional, and any character or event that bares any resemblance to a real person or something that happened in real life is completely and only a coincidence. I would like to give a special thanks to all my friend

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Marinho, Alcyane. "As diferentes interfaces da aventura na natureza : reflexões sobre a sociabilidade na vida contemporanea." [s.n.], 2006. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/275255.

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Orientador: Heloisa Turini Bruhns<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Fisica<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T22:31:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marinho_Alcyane_D.pdf: 10179750 bytes, checksum: 229cce75f16e3c4123c58203d0d01e34 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006<br>Resumo: O lazer está sendo entendido como um interessante ponto de partida para aguçar a compreensão das mais variadas relações que se estabelecem entre os seres humanos, desde que não seja considerado de forma isolada, mas em profunda conexão com outras esferas da vida humana. O

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Magnuson, Markus Amalthea. "The Dig : De grafiska äventyrsspelen som flyktigt medium." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Filmvetenskapliga institutionen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-179044.

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Farouk, May. "Les Tribulations de la fiction chez Jean Echenoz : le retour du roman d'aventures : formes et enjeux contemporains." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030128.

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Vers le début des années 80, on assiste, sur la scène littéraire française, à un renouveau romanesque que le Nouveau Roman, trop centré sur les jeux de langage, semblait avoir démodé. On assiste également à une résurgence du roman réaliste, social, musical, policier et d’aventures. C’est précisément cette problématique du retour, notamment celui du roman d’aventures, que cette thèse tente d’exposer et surtout d’interroger à travers l’étude de l'oeuvre très représentative d’Echenoz. En renouant avec le genre classique, notre auteur n’hésite pas à en modifier la configuration et les enjeux. La m

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Habel, Chad Sean, and chad habel@gmail com. "Ancestral Narratives in History and Fiction: Transforming Identities." Flinders University. Humanities, 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20071108.133216.

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This thesis is an exploration of ancestral narratives in the fiction of Thomas Keneally and Christopher Koch. Initially, ancestry in literature creates an historical relationship which articulates the link between the past and the present. In this sense ancestry functions as a type of cultural memory where various issues of inheritance can be negotiated. However, the real value of ancestral narratives lies in their power to aid in the construction of both personal and communal identities. They have the potential to transform these identities, to transgress natural boundaries and to reshape c

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Schmidl, Helen. "Från vildmark till grön ängel : Receptionsanalyser av läsning i åttonde klass." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-8538.

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The subject of this dissertation is Swedish upper secondary pupils’ reception of novels read as part of their literature instruction. The main purpose is to study and compare the reading of female pupils with that of male pupils and to analyze to what extent attention is paid to their private reading experiences in the literary teaching. What strategies do the students use to interpret and discuss fiction? And what is the relationship between their private reading habits and the way fiction is studied at school? Consequently, the subject field of this qualitative study concerns not only teenag

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Broadhurst, Kieron. "Adventures in the Irreal: Science Fiction, Utopia and Contemporary Art Practice." Thesis, Curtin University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81387.

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Adventures in the Irreal is a practice-led investigation which explores the speculative possibilities of science fiction from within a contemporary art practice. As part of this process two methods for creating science fiction artworks are developed. These methods are then utilised in the creation of three science fiction artworks, with each artwork offering a unique, speculative approach to utopian aspects of its real world subject matter.

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Zadworna-Fjellestad, Danuta. "Alice's adventures in wonderland and Gravity's rainbow a study in duplex fiction /." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm, Sweden : Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1986. http://books.google.com/books?id=Q5laAAAAMAAJ.

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Forss, Christoffer. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : A Feminist Bildungsroman." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-27301.

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This thesis has two aims. The first one is to elucidate how Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) functions as a Bildungsroman, and the other one is to demonstrate how the novel also has a coming of age aspect based on feminism. Whilst Alice matures in the traditional sense, she also in parallel does so as a stronger female fighting for gender rights with signs of feminism. The feminist angle as well as the surreal world of Wonderland makes the novel a not very obvious Bildungsroman in a genre dominated by male protagonists. For Alice to be a young female child who ends up in a fantasy world

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Barreiro, Idegar Alves. "O narrador e a presença da sátira menipéia em "The adventures of Tom Sawyer" /." Assis : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94122.

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Orientador: Cleide Antonia Rapucci<br>Banca: Heloisa Helou Doca<br>Banca: Sérgio Augusto Zanoto<br>Resumo: Nossa pesquisa busca verificar a presença da sátira menipéia na obra The Adventures of Tom Sawyer de Mark Twain e discutir a atuação do narrador na mesma. É uma obra aparentemente elaborada para jovens, mas também tece críticas às normas pré-estabelecidas e abarca fantasia e humor inserindo-se nas características abordadas por Bakhtin. As raízes da sátira menipéia estão embasadas na carnavalização, a qual abriga um sentido ambivalente e se traduz em ritos cômicos e festejos populares de c

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Barreiro, Idegar Alves [UNESP]. "O narrador e a presença da sátira menipéia em The adventures of Tom Sawyer." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94122.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-07-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:07:46Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 barreiro_ia_me_assis.pdf: 2278877 bytes, checksum: 4c4bea83dd40428a92a61112081fe584 (MD5)<br>Secretaria da Educação<br>Nossa pesquisa busca verificar a presença da sátira menipéia na obra The Adventures of Tom Sawyer de Mark Twain e discutir a atuação do narrador na mesma. É uma obra aparentemente elaborada para jovens, mas também tece críticas às normas pré-estabelecidas e abarca fantasia e humor inserindo-se nas caracterí

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Lahtinen, Lauri. ""Humanity is Unnatural!" Feminisms and Science-Fiction Strategies in Joanna Russ’s The Female Man and The Adventures of Alyx." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23558.

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While acknowledging that Russ’s work is problematic in some regards, the aim of this thesis is to counter the criticism of Russ’s oeuvre as outdated and sometimes stuck in second-wave feminist positions, instead demonstrating how Russ’s use of sci-fi strategies such as cyborgism, possible-worlds theory, utopianism, and concretised metaphors in The Female Man and The Adventures of Alyx enables her to move beyond second-wave feminist positions and anticipate third-wave feminism in ways that are still relevant today.

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Atkinson, Adam Humanities &amp Social Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "The provocation of Saul Bellow : perfectionism and travel in The adventures of Augie March and Herzog." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38676.

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A consistent feature of Saul Bellow???s fiction is the protagonist???s encounter with one or more teaching figures. Dialogue with such individuals prompts the Bellovian protagonist to reject his current state of selfhood as inadequate and provokes him to re-form as a new person. The teacher figure offers a better self to which the protagonist is attracted; or, more frequently in Bellow, the protagonist is repelled by both his teacher and his own current state to form a new, previously unrepresented self. This thesis argues that Bellow???s self inherits and modifies the perfectionist philosophy

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Millet, Baudouin. ""Ceci n'est pas un roman" : l'évolution du statut de la fiction en Angleterre de 1652 à 1754." Lyon 2, 2004. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2004/millet_b.

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Cette étude porte sur les discours théoriques et les dispositifs rhétoriques auxquels la fiction de langue anglaise a recours pour se légitimer, dans un contexte de ferme condamnation morale et de mépris de la part des doctes. Ces discours et ces dispositifs se déploient dans des titres, des préfaces et au coeur même des récits. Les auteurs les mobilisent pour affirmer que leur récit contient une vérité morale ou, le plus souvent, pour présenter ce dernier comme un compte-rendu factuel. Cette revendication de l'historicité fait intervenir la figure du narrateur témoin, garant de la véracité de

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Dickason, Robert. "Les Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : étude narratologique et adaptations audiovisuelles." Rennes 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994REN20011.

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Le mythe holmésien ne cesse de prendre de l'ampleur. Le phénomène du grand détective repose, en partie, sur ses considérations narratologiques. Une stratégie narrative réunissant intrigues, personnages, narrateur et lecteur s'allie à des techniques littéraires caractéristiques du genre du nouveau détective. L'évolution du mythe de nos jours se traduit par des adaptations "fidèles" des adventures of Sherlock Holmes diffusées à la radio et à la télévision<br>The myth of Sherlock Hholmes is still growing. This phenomenon has its origins, in part, in the narrative technique of conan doyle which co

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Olsson, Simon. "Äventyrsgenrens funktioner från fiktionsprosa till interaktiv fiktion : En intermedial jämförelse mellan fyra verk." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-39172.

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The purpose of this thesis is to apply the adventure formulas laid out by John G. Cawelti and the dramatis personae written by Vladimir Propp to the traditional adventure books Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jour (1874) and Treasure Island (1883) and the interactive fictions The Secret of Monkey Island (1990) and 80 Days (2014), both in the adventure genre. After they have been applied, I will compare Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jour with 80 Days and Treasure Island with The Secret of Monkey Island by how the formulas and dramatis personae work and evolve in the fictions. To start thi

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Palewska, Marie. "Un romancier d'aventures à la Belle Epoque : paul d'Ivoi (1856-1915) et ses "Voyages excentriques"." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030013.

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Publiés en volumes chez l’ancienne librairie Furne entre 1894 et 1917, les « Voyages excentriques » de Paul d’Ivoi constituent une collection prisée par la jeunesse à la Belle Epoque. Ces romans d’aventures inscrits dans la lignée de Jules Verne sont très représentatifs de leur temps, avec des intrigues enracinées dans un contexte politique proche du moment de leur écriture. Soucieux de contribuer à la formation patriotique et morale de leurs lecteurs, ils s’appliquent à soutenir l’œuvre coloniale de la France, à promouvoir les valeurs de la République française et à célébrer le rayonnement du

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Hannedouche, Cédric. "Construction et déconstruction d'un héros de roman policier du début du XXème siècle : les Aventures extraordinaires d'Arsène Lupin." Thesis, Artois, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016ARTO0009.

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La simple évocation du nom d’Arsène Lupin suscite l’assurance d’un divertissement mené jusqu’à son terme jubilatoire. Il ouvre en nous les portes d’un imaginaire plaisant, fait de mystères historiques, de richesses et d’aventures mémorables. Aussitôt le nom fabuleux prononcé qu’émerge une silhouette qui nous agrée, celle bien connue d’un cambrioleur rieur, séducteur et justicier. Un personnage au-dessus des lois et des toits, hors du commun, frondeur et dont les multiples aventures posent les pierres fondatrices d’un art nouveau en littérature. Apparu pour la première fois en 1905, au sein du

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Ghosh, Arundhati. "From Holmes to Sherlock: Confession, Surveillance, and the Detective." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1376495997.

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Platero, Vázquez Carmen. "Objetos mágicos: los objetos como transformadores de la Subjetividad virtual en la creación de aventuras interactivas en sistemas de realidad mixta." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/352714.

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Dentro de las experiencias interactivas en tiempo real, y en concreto de los sistemas de realidad mixta, buscamos nuevas formas de comunicación en la ficción interactiva que enriquezcan la experiencia de usuario. Partimos de la Narratología y de ciertos objetos arquetípicos que podríamos considerar mágicos, cuyos usos y propiedades otorgan a los protagonistas de las historias poderes y potencial para convertirse en héroes y abrir un pasaje al mundo de la aventura. Estos objetos cotidianos, son extraídos de las historias y convertidos en tangibles, permitirán al usuario dentro de la experiencia

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Kampf, Raymond William. "Fauxtopia." VCU Scholars Compass, 2004. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/749.

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To all who come to this fictitious place:Welcome.Fauxtopia is your land. Here, age relives distorted memories of the past, and here, youth may savor the challenge of trying to understand the present. Fauxtopia is made up of the ideals, the dreams and the fuzzy facts which have re-created reality... with the hope that it will be a source of edutainment for all the world.Ray KampfFauxtopia DedicationApril 1st, 2004

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Long, Kim Martin. "The American Eve: Gender, Tragedy, and the American Dream." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277633/.

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America has adopted as its own the Eden myth, which has provided the mythology of the American dream. This New Garden of America, consequently, has been a masculine garden because of its dependence on the myth of the Fall. Implied in the American dream is the idea of a garden without Eve, or at least without Eve's sin, traditionally associated with sexuality. Our canonical literature has reflected these attitudes of devaluing feminine power or making it a negative force: The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, and The Sound and the Fury. To recreate the

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Rao, Giridhar A. "Beyond the sense of wonder science fiction as adventure fiction." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/1255.

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CHEN, YI-PING, and 陳意平. "A Study on the Writing of Adventure Fiction of Formosa." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/f7vm8a.

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碩士<br>國立臺中教育大學<br>語文教育學系碩博士班<br>104<br>The geographical location of Taiwan is unique, which many different groups of immigrants lived in Taiwan for centuries. These groups’ cultures play important roles in Taiwan’s history. and deserves to be known and cherished. There are eleven books of “Adventure Fiction of Formosa”. The whole series of stories are in the background of the Taiwan’s history and culture. The writers re-explain the meanings of history and culture on the aspects of literacy by infusing the elements of reality and fantasy into the stories. Books of “Adventure Fiction of Formosa”

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Roberts, James. "The ludic mode of Pangamonium: an exegesis on the novel: ' Pangamonium '." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/37899.

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This thesis has two components : a novel and an exegesis. Pangamonium is a comic novel that parodies and satirises adventure romances and travel accounts as well as global imperialisms. Francis, an American journalist who has lived in Australia, travels to a tiny Asian country, Panga, a kingdom that has been taken over by a military dictatorship. There he meets Easter, an African on a quest to find the grave and buried treasure of his pirate ancestor. The odd couple endure a comic odyssey together and ultimately liberate a group of enslaved children from a vibrator factory. The Ludic Mode of P

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Roberts, James. "The ludic mode of Pangamonium: an exegesis on the novel: ' Pangamonium '." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/37899.

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This thesis has two components : a novel and an exegesis. Pangamonium is a comic novel that parodies and satirises adventure romances and travel accounts as well as global imperialisms. Francis, an American journalist who has lived in Australia, travels to a tiny Asian country, Panga, a kingdom that has been taken over by a military dictatorship. There he meets Easter, an African on a quest to find the grave and buried treasure of his pirate ancestor. The odd couple endure a comic odyssey together and ultimately liberate a group of enslaved children from a vibrator factory. The Ludic Mode of P

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Chigidi, Willie L. "A study of Shona war fiction : the writer's perspectives." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3118.

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This thesis is an in-depth study of Shona fiction about the liberation war in Zimbabwe. It looks at the way Zimbabwe’s liberation war is portrayed in Shona fiction and focuses on the factors that shaped writers’ perspectives on that war. It is argued that Shona war fiction writers romanticised the war and in the process simplified and distorted history. The researcher postulates that writers’ perspectives on this liberation war were shaped by factors that include the mood of celebration and euphoria, the dominant ideology of the time, the situations of independence and freedom, and literary co

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Robertson, Janice. "At the crossing-places: representations of masculinity in selected 21st century children's texts." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26205.

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This study explores the representations of masculinity in selected contemporary children’s adventure literature. According to John Stephens (2002:x), a problem for boys, both in narrative fictions and in the world, is that hegemonic masculinity ‘appears simultaneously to propose a schema for behaviour and to insist on their subordination as children, to conflate agency with hegemonic masculinity, and to disclose that, for them, such agency is illusory’. This issue, among others, forms the basis of the research as this paradox is particularly evident in texts that fall within the adventure genr

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Tremblay, Étienne. "La vraisemblance historique dans le roman Nicolas Perrot de Georges Boucher de Boucherville." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/23948.

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Nicolas Perrot ou les coureurs des bois sous la domination française (1889) est un roman qui évoque la vie d’un coureur de bois à l’époque de la Nouvelle-France (autour de 1669). L’auteur George Boucher de Boucherville est bien connu pour son roman Une de perdue, deux de trouvées, mais le roman à l’étude dans ce mémoire a longtemps été oublié avant d’avoir été édité pour la première fois en un seul volume en 1996. Comme devant tout roman historique, le lecteur doit se questionner sur le rapport que l’auteur entretient avec la vérité historique. Ce mémoire se penche sur l’authenticité des infor

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Trauvitch, Rhona. "Adventures in fictionality: Sites along the border between fiction and reality." 2013. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3589200.

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This project is a narratological study of the border between fiction and reality, and the traversing thereof. I postulate that the permeability of this border is the consequence of textual acts: Cataloged Fabulations, Second-tier Fictionals, and Rhizomatic Fabrications. These are akin to speech acts in that fictional entities gain nonfictional status by means of an implicit contract at the heart of the textual act. Having laid out the narratological foundation of the textual acts' power, I argue that the narratological bears on the ontological through performative speech acts, as portrayed in

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Goebel, Luke B. "The Adventures of Eagle Feather: A Collection of Stories." 2010. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/530.

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Luke Goebel wrote this collection of fiction in his final year enrolled at the M.F.A. Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. These stories were wrought after studying with Sam Michel, Noy Holland, as well as other faculty members at UMass Amherst, and after a summer of study with Gordon Lish. The themes that recur throughout these stories are: fathers, America, Bald Eagles, feathers, Native American mythology and legend (obsession with Native Culture), as well as sex and sexual awakening/revulsion, and, of course, the road.

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Tremblay, Chantale. "La reconstruction "moldue" d'un "wonderland" : comment la magie de la lecture opère-t-elle?" Mémoire, 2011. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/4081/1/M11927.pdf.

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À l'aube du XXIe siècle, la littérature merveilleuse connaît un regain de popularité, particulièrement avec la venue de phénomènes éditoriaux tels que la série Harry Potter. Les sept romans de Joanne Kathleen Rowling, publiés entre 1997 et 2007, sont l'objet d'une popularité toujours croissante à chaque nouvelle publication. L'intérêt pour la littérature merveilleuse n'est cependant pas nouveau, particulièrement en Grande-Bretagne; en effet, ce point du globe a été le berceau d'une vague d'engouement pour la littérature merveilleuse tout aussi forte environ 150 ans plus tôt, avec la publicatio

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Potter, Mary-Anne. "The worlds between, above and below : "growing up" and "falling down" in Alice in Wonderland and Stardust." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/11870.

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The purpose of my dissertation is to conduct an intertextual study of two fantasy texts — Alice in Wonderland by Victorian author Lewis Carroll, and Stardust by postmodern fantasy author Neil Gaiman — and their filmic re-visionings by Tim Burton and Matthew Vaughn respectively. In scrutinising these texts, drawing on insights from feminist, children’s literature and intertextual theorists, the actions of ‘growing up’ and ‘falling down’ are shown to be indicative of a paradoxical becoming of the text’s central female protagonists, Alice and Yvaine. The social mechanisms of the Victorian age tha

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