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McDonald, Brian Jay. "Fictional liberalism, novel democracy : the post-war American novel and the state of American liberal democracy." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24936.

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That the fundamental tension between liberalism and democracy, the two founding imperatives of the American political tradition, has been an important theme of the American novel is obvious when one considers the contribution that writers of the stature of Melville, Hawthorne, Twain, James, Dos Passos, and Steinbeck have made to the discussion of liberal democracy in America. Richard Rorty has recently offered the view that there is little value in exploring the work of contemporary novelists for their assessments of the state of American civil and political life since, “in America, at the end

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Walsh, Richard. "Novel arguments : reading innovative American fiction /." Cambridge (GB) : Cambridge university press, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb369680734.

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Burns, Thomas Laborie. "Perceptions of power in the contemporary American novel." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1996. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/106431.

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Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, 1996.<br>Made available in DSpace on 2013-12-05T20:30:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 105060.pdf: 13255341 bytes, checksum: 75e7081637c701bbd84ed70a5310eff2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1996<br>Este estudo tenta delinear como o poder - tanto institutional quanto representacional - é percebido na ficção norte-americana do período pós-guerra até o presente. O trabalho examina romancistas representativos e analisa uma série de trabalhos individuais dentro de seu conteúdo histórico. Na primeira parte, teorias sócio-políticas

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Beaverson, Gregory J. "Going Outside : A Novel." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1365603327.

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Yoon, Ji Young. "Contesting Americanness in the Contemporary Asian American Bildungsroman." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18357.

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My study examines contemporary Asian American narratives of subject formation through the theoretical lens of the Bildungsroman. A European genre originating in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteen-century Germany, the conventional Bildungsroman is a literary tool whose main objective is to depict an idealized subject's modern socialization. As Franco Moretti nicely captures in his study of the Bildungsroman, The Way of the World, the genre's significance is, above all, its successful representation of a reconciliation of an individual's revolting desires and society's regulatory demands. While

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Manoharan, Marcella Frydman. "New Money in American Novel: 1920 - 1936." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11029.

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This dissertation examines representations of the distinction between new and old money in 1920s American novels. New money is earned or acquired, while old money is inherited. The distinction itself reveals the ethos out of which it emerges; the sources of money only become important when money appears to be on the loose, circulating, and ending up in unpredictable hands. In the context of increased access to liquidity, the distinction of new and old money expresses a conflict over social legitimacy and the definition of an American elite. This concern with legitimation, in turn, gives rise t

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Kinard, Mary Helen. "Conversions| Stories toward a novel." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527965.

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<p> <i>Conversions</i> combines the first four chapters of a novel with a thematically paralleled sequence of stories. The novel portion introduces the characters of Judy, Walt and Carino, all of whom appear in the stories. The novel follows Judy from the east coast to California in response to her brother Walt's debilitating motorcycle accident. In conjunction with the stories, the novel explores and illuminates Judy's relationship with a number of characters, most centrally, Carino, a Vietnam veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, in a world where renegade bikers hell-bent fo

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Green, Jeremy Francis. "The fiction of Don DeLillo : language, identity, politics." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281937.

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Tran, Elizabeth. "Dragon Tiger Goat: A Novel." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1584453224864606.

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McDonald, Brian Jay. "Themes of corporatism in the postwar American novel." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ54936.pdf.

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Benson, Josef D. "Failed Heroes: Hypermasculinity in the Contemporary American Novel." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3975.

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My study highlights a link of U.S. American hypermasculinity running through Cormac McCarthy's two novels Blood Meridian (1985) and All the Pretty Horses (1992), Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon (1977), and James Baldwin's Another Country (1960). My literary interpretations of these texts suggest that U.S. American hypermasculine man originated in the American frontier and transformed into a definition of hegemonic masculinity embraced by many southern rural American men. These southern rural American men then concocted the myth of the black rapist in order to justify the mass murder of Afric

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Brindley, Nicola. "Writing complexity : the American novel and systems realism." Thesis, Keele University, 2014. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/3216/.

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Although the relationship between literature and science has been a major focus of research in the last few decades, the influence of complex systems science on recent American fiction has not yet been comprehensively documented. I argue that a significant body of that fiction is systems-aware and thus represents the world as a network of complex systems. In the first section of the thesis, I claim that the origin of systems fiction can be found in the nineteenth-century social novel, which displayed significant knowledge of system function. Despite the narrative challenges posed by the comple

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Bell, David James. "Take a Picture: A Novel." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ucin1116246020.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cincinnati, 2005.<br>Advisor: Brock Clarke. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed May 20, 2008). Keywords: Novel; Fiction; American; Funerals; Funeral Directors; Small Towns; Midwest. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

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Elston, James C. (James Cary). "Bearclaw: a Novel." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500777/.

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Written in the tradition of American political suspense thrillers such as "Fail-Safe" and "Seven Days In May," "Bearclaw" uses their idealistic and nationalistic elements to tell a story of an American President eager to lead the world's peoples in a quest to achieve man's "highest destiny," the conquest of space. Believing that this common goal will cause mankind to come together in a spirit of brotherhood, he misreads the historical purpose of the United States and, in the end, refuses to recognize the obvious truths of human frailty and ambition even though he has been victimized by them. T

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Green, Charles. "The Gospels of Faith and Doubt: A Novel." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282167934.

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Wilkes, Kristin. "God and the Novel: Religion and Secularization in Antebellum American Fiction." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18713.

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My dissertation argues that the study of antebellum American religious novels is hindered by the secularization narrative, the widely held conviction that modernity entails the decline of religion. Because this narrative has been refuted by the growing field of secularization theory and because the novel is associated with modernity, the novel form must be reexamined. Specifically, I challenge the common definition of the novel as a secular form. By investigating novels by Lydia Maria Child, Susan Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Hannah Bond, I show that religion and the novel form are no

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Hebble, Susan Morrison. "Playing grown-up : adulthood in the contemporary American novel /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9841205.

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DeToy, Terence. "It's All In the Family?Metamodernism and the Contemporary (Anglo-) -"American" Novel." Thesis, Tufts University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3728511.

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<p> This dissertation examines the function of family as a thematic in the contemporary Anglo-American novel. It argues that contemporary aesthetics increasingly presents the family as an enabling platform for conciliation with the social totality: as a space of personal development, readying one for life in the wider social field. This analyses hinges on readings of Jonathan Franzen’s <i>Freedom</i> (2010), Zadie Smith’s <i> NW</i> (2012), A. M. Homes’ <i>May We Be Forgiven</i> (2012) and Caryl Phillips’ <i>In the Falling Snow.</i> In approaching these novels, this pro

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Kitamura, Katie. "The aesthetics of vulgarity and the modern American novel." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424932.

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Annesley, James. "Blank fiction : culture, consumption and the contemporary American novel." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321347.

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Le, Brun Fiona Jane. "Representations of female sexuality within the contemporary American novel." Thesis, Keele University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242290.

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Maguire, Elliott Anna. "Ecodomesticity : imagining the landscape in the American domestic novel." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/66702/.

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Derbesy, Philip. "Reading Cinematic Allusions in the Post-1945 American Novel." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case158653951934268.

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Carboni, Andrea <1994&gt. "Movement in the American and French Novel, 1830s - 1920s." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/17752.

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Possiamo considerare il movimento e le dinamiche spaziali come un elemento distintivo della letteratura americana e francese? Il rapporto di ciascun paese con il movimento è una costante culturale? Mentre i francesi sono radicati nella loro tradizione e vedono il movimento come un mezzo per spostarsi dalla provincia a Parigi, ad esempio, gli americani hanno un rapporto molto più dinamico con lo spazio. Esplorano, fuggono, si muovono e vagano per diventare e crescere. Analizzerò quattro paia di romanzi: "Illusions perdues" di Balzac e "Martin Eden" di London; "La Bête humaine" di Zola e "The Am

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Davies, Helen D. F. "Shapes half-hid : psychological realisation in the English and American Gothic novel." Thesis, University of Kent, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329059.

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Zalduondo, María M. "Novel women gender and nation in nineteenth-century novels by two Spanish American women writers /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3037032.

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Santantasio, Christopher Rinaldo. "Just Friends: A Novel." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587119918388178.

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Garland, David Travers. "American Dream Screams: Success Ideology and the Hollywood Novel between the two World Wars." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625568.

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Isani, Arif Ali. ""Pym" and the Popular: Form and Structure of the Novel." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625986.

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Fucile, Frank Anthony. "Terra Sacra: Lethal Environments and the Modern American War Novel." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550153886.

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This dissertation uses the military, technological, and environmental context of the Civil War, the First World War, and the Second World War to explain the evolution of American literature in the era of total war through eight key novels and related visual media. Because industrial weapons and massive draft armies had the capacity to destroy whole landscapes, visual and material artifacts of these wars emphasized the relationship between humans and the wastelands of war. When official rhetoric after each war emphasized regrowth and rebirth, redefining battlefields as sacred ground, the war

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Patterson, Tracy J. "Privileging privilege the African American middle class novel: a genre in the African American literary tradition." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1996. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2868.

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This paper asserts the existence of the African American middle class novel as a genre in the African American literary tradition that has heretofore been neglected by literary critics. The premise of this argument is that conventional African American literary studies privilege novels concerned with the African American folk to the exclusion of portrayals of African Americans of middle and upper socio-economic class and cultural groups. A study of the Modem Language Association's catalogue of African American criticism and a review of novels widely accepted as representative of African Americ

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Olsen, Thomas Grant. "Novel incest: Negotiating narrative paradox." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289116.

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Novel Incest: Negotiating Narrative Paradox, investigates how representations of incest disrupt not only family relationships but narrative conventions as well. The conventions governing a narrative's structural movement from beginning to end are upset in ways that often mimic the destruction of family lineage that incest causes. Each narrative instance of incest marks reconsideration not only of Western kinship systems and, more recently, the discourse of bourgeois family structures, but also of specific aspects of the rhetoric of fiction. This history of family and narrative disruption is sk

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Wood, Virginia Lee. ""Tigers Born in the Same Year": Novel and Critical Analysis." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703374/.

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The dissertation consists of a critical analysis as well as the novel Tigers Born in the Same Year. The critical analysis interrogates the relationship between Asian American subject position in the United States, the history of Asian American literatures, and the conflict between inherited binary narratives and nuanced, specific story-telling. In order to move beyond such narratives as struggling with the label "model minority," wrestling between "Asian" and "American," and being "Asian enough," it is necessary to synthesize these literary and sociocultural inheritances with nuanced, specific

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Martin, Patricia L. "Minority protagonists in the young adult historical fiction novel." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2007. http://165.236.235.140/lib/PMartin2007.pdf.

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Hibbard, Allen E. "Writing differently somewhere else : studies in the American expatriate novel /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9333.

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Boyd, Joan. "From realism to magical realism : the American Vietnam War novel." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.551596.

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This thesis argues that changes in the form of the novel in post Second World War America, particularly certain novelists' considerations of realism as a viable mode of expression, have had a profound and lasting effect on Vietnam War literature and have been sustained into the twenty first century by a new generation of writers from ethnic minority groups. It examines prior criticism and points of view concerning the work of a number of established authors and considers the recent opinions on contemporary writers addressing the Vietnam experience for the first time. Where necessary the work w

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Jessee, Margaret Jay. "Narrative, Gender, and Masquerade in the American Novel, 1853-1920." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/222893.

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Narrative, Gender, and Masquerade tracks the way the American novel of manners structures itself on representations of a pair of purportedly opposite and opposing women, the fair, innocent girl and the dark, tempting seductress. This opposition increasingly merges into sameness even as the novel in which it appears labors to keep the two characters separate in order to stabilize its textual architecture of thematic and formal binaries. Presenting itself as a text closely related to a social reality, the American novel of manners is structured as a masquerade: purporting to reveal as it conceal

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McNicholas, Joseph. "Corporate culture and the American novel : producers, persuaders, and communicators /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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MILLER, JEFFREY WILLIAM. "NOVEL RESISTANCE: CULTURAL CAPITAL, SOCIAL FICTION, AND AMERICAN REALISM, 1861-1911." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1023305969.

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Leingang, Brian P. "Moving On: A Novel." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1184075562.

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Stoneberg, Michael R. "What If You're Lonely: Jessica Stories." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1408368983.

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Messano, Miriam <1997&gt. ""The Big Sleep": How Raymond Chandler Gave Fresh Life to the American Crime Novel." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21105.

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This thesis examines how Raymond Chandler’s first noir fiction changed the common conception that all crime novels are the same. The first chapter focuses on the author’s life, providing the background to his creation of The Big Sleep and his leading character, Philip Marlowe. The second chapter presents an explanation of how The Big Sleep was written. Then it proceeds to explain the differences the novel has with its 1946 movie version, and how they can be considered two stories with different purposes from each other. Thereafter the focus shifts to an analysis of the figure of detective Phil

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Holmström, Josefin Maria Kristina. "Transatlantic Italy and Anglo-American periodical writing, 1848-1865." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275892.

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This is a thesis about English and American imaginative identification with Italy in the period 1848–1865, facilitated by and expressed through periodicals and newspapers. At the centre of the thesis sits New England magazine The Atlantic Monthly, which during the Civil War emerged as a vehicle for abolitionist literature, but which also published extensively on Italy. The Risorgimento, the movement that sought Italian unification, triumphed in 1861—the same year that the battle of Fort Sumter signalled the start of the American Civil War that would last until 1865. This thesis investigates th

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Mavromatidou, Eleni. "The Role Of The (Postcolonial) Intellectual/Critic: Textualization Of History As Trauma: The African American And Modern Greek Paradigm." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1213616340.

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Shade, Jessica Perelmuter Pérez Rosa. "Woman as victim in the Spanish American naturalist novel, 1889-1919." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,755.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 18, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Romance Languages (Spanish)." Discipline: Romance Languages; Department/School: Romance Languages.

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Wanambisi, Monica Nalyaka. "Eight major exemplars of the twentieth-century american novel, 1900-1959." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1987. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1069.

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This dissertation is a study of twentieth-century American novels which can be used in a course by Kenyan and other East African students and teachers. The selected novels can be studied as models for exemplification of the most significant developments and trends in longer American narrative fiction in the period covered by the study. Because of time limits and for purposes of presenting quality fictional works to be covered in one semester, eight novels were analyzed in this study. These are: Sister Carrie (1900) by Theodore Dreiser, The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sun Al

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Kollm, Stephanie. "Divorce and the American novel the shifting definition of modern marriage /." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1827193691&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Miller, Jeffrey W. "Novel resistance cultural capital, social fiction, and American realism, 1861-1911 /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=ucin1023305969.

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Hales, Scott. "Of Many Hearts and Many Minds: The Mormon Novel and the Post-Utopian Challenge of Assimilation." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1399374574.

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Helyer, Ruth. "Hyper-masculinity : the construction of gender in the postmodern novel." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1835.

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This thesis takes as its subject the superficial nature of the normative masculine gender role. To investigate the creation of this role I have attempted to bring some understanding of recent theorisation of the postmodern, and of gendered identity, to readings of selected contemporary fiction. I have chosen to focus on several contemporary American texts. In a bid to avoid essentialising masculinity ever further I attempt to embrace the self-reflexive way in which these novels are written in conjunction with the various postmodernisms posited by Fredric Jameson, Jean-Francois Lyotard, John Fr

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