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Mazhar, Syeda Faiqa. "A study of the theme of borderland in Nadine Gordimer's fiction." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/134375.
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This doctoral project is an analytical study of South African writer, Nadine Gordimer's fiction produced from 1949 to 1994. She presents a theme similar to the post-colonial critic, Homi Bhabha's notion of borderland which he propounds as a place of creativity and cultural hybridity in his work The Location of Culture (1994). The "borderland" in Gordimer's fiction acts as a liminal space and becomes a connective tissue in her characters' lives. It emerges in the form of crossing physical frontiers and mental barriers which existed in South African society. Through moments of transition, Gordimer makes her characters aware of a liberal person's marginal position, between the reactionary colonial past and the "inbetween-ness" of the borderland in radical future of South Africa. Along with this introductory background, Chapter One establishes the dual working of physical and psychological processes through which Gordimer develops the theme of "borderland" in her fiction. The subsequent three chapters focus on the variety in the presentation of "borderland" encounters in her fiction written before and after Sharpeville (1960). The thesis concludes that the dual development of physical and psychological processes is a central narrative strategy which determines a link between chronology and the presentation of "borderland" in Gordimer's fiction.
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Malka, Ruth. "Fonction auteur et auteur-fiction chez André Gide." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121561.
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Since its publication, André Gide's works mainly generated biographical analyses. As Gide's texts are first-person narratives and as the stories written recall the author's life experience, especially as far as homosexuality is concerned, it is tempting to think that each book he wrote is somehow autobiographical. The point of this thesis is to question those analyses which seem to forget an essential dimension: fiction. Instead of thinking that each text is a mirror reflecting Gide's image, we are going to see how the author set himself in his fiction. Gide takes a posture: through his literary work, he doesn't show himself as he is, neither as he thinks he is, but rather as he would likely to be seen. The author-function established correspond to the author's invention of his own character: the author is created through fiction. The role Gide would like to endorse consists in defending pederasty. He is the one who creates gidian immoralism, a new ethics both hedonist and antimoralist. As Gide writes against social conventions and protestant moral, he establishes himself the prophet of a new religion. The posture Gide takes frees him from the guilt he inherited from his protestant upbringing for being a homosexual, trying to persuade not only his readership but also himself that he is right of doing so.<br>Depuis sa parution, l'œuvre d'André Gide a principalement suscité des analyses biographiques. Comme les textes gidiens sont écrits à la première personne et que les diégèses présentent des similitudes avec la vie de l'auteur, notamment en ce qui concerne l'homosexualité, il est tentant de penser que chaque ouvrage relève d'une forme d'autobiographie. L'objectif de ce mémoire est de montrer les limites de ces théories en s'appuyant sur une dimension qu'elles oublient, à savoir la fiction. Au lieu de voir dans chaque texte une projection de soi, il s'agit d'y déceler une mise en fiction de soi. Gide prend une posture : grâce à son écriture, il se donne à lire à son lectorat non pas tel qu'il est ni tel qu'il pense être, mais tel qu'il aimerait être perçu. La fonction auteur mise en place par Gide correspond à l'invention de son propre personnage : l'auteur est créé par la fiction. Le rôle que Gide cherche à endosser est celui du défenseur de la pédérastie. Il est celui qui établit l'immoralisme gidien, une nouvelle éthique hédoniste et antimoraliste. Se dressant contre les conventions sociales et la morale protestante, s'établissant prophète d'une nouvelle religion, la posture que prend Gide lui permet de se débarrasser de toute la culpabilité que lui a laissée son éducation puritaine en regard de l'homosexualité, à la fois aux yeux du lecteur et à ses propres yeux.
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Mooney, Susan. "Drawing bridges : publicprivate worlds in Russian women's fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60561.
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This thesis questions how Russian women's identity is attached to the textual use of public/private spaces in contemporary literature by Russian women writers by drawing from feminist theories. I. Grekova and N. Baranskaia portray female protagonists in their everyday lives, public and private worlds overlapping. While these heroines create stable support systems with other women, male figures enter as interruptive forces in women's lives. Hospital settings in several works by Russian women allow comparisons between women's fictional hospital experiences and those of Muscovite women interviewed. In L. Petrushevskaia's stories, women protagonists' identities are linked to the uncertain quality of locale and the tenuous relationships which transpire in it. Russian women's identity expressed in fiction may change as the self-perceptions of a younger generation of Russian women writers evolve toward a new, gendered concept of self.
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Oliveira, Bruno Lima de. "A autoficção no campo da escrita de si: a construção do mito do escritor em Nove noites, de Bernardo Carvalho, e outros procedimentos autoficcionais na prosa brasileira contemporânea." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2010. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1821.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>A literatura brasileira contemporânea apresenta como uma de suas características o retorno do autor, explicado pela participação do escritor, no século XXI, no circuito midiático. A presença assídua de escritores em programas de rádio e televisão, em lançamentos de livros, em feiras literárias, em palestras e congressos etc. confere-lhes uma identidade imagética suficientemente forte para despertar nos leitores o desejo por conhecer mais amiúde o que eles têm a dizer para além do texto literário. Sua participação como personagem literário, no entanto, apesar de conter referências autobiográficas, está longe de representar uma verdade biográfica, mas, ao contrário, cria uma aura de indecisão a respeito das referências narradas. A autoficção, desse modo, seria uma crítica à noção de sujeito e ao demasiado apelo do real em nossos dias. Bernardo Carvalho é um autor exemplar de uma escrita autoficcional. Nove noites é um romance que, além de fornecer signos extratextuais importantes para a construção de uma identidade autoficcional, textualmente baralha os conceitos de verdade e mentira, ficção e realidade, resultando num texto híbrido, característico da mitificação a que se submete o autor contemporâneo. O presente trabalho, preocupado em ofertar uma novidade para os estudos literários, amplia o corpus analisado e não se limita à análise do já canônico Bernardo Carvalho. Sete outros autores somam-se a este para uma maior abrangência do panorama da literatura brasileira contemporânea. Clarah Averbuck, Milton Hatoum, Ivana Arruda Leite, Marcelo Mirisola, Cíntia Moscovich, João Gilberto Noll e Silviano Santiago completam a pesquisa em torno da autoficção<br>The contemporary Brazilian literature presents as one of its features the return of the author, explained by the participation of the writer, in the twenty-first century, in the media circuit. The constant presence of writers in radio and television programs, book launches, literary fairs, lectures and conferences etc. gives them an imagery identity strong enough to awaken in readers the desire to know in a more detailed way what they have to say beyond the literary text. His participation as a literary character, however, although it contains autobiographical references, it is far from being a "true" biography, but, instead, it creates an aura of indecision about the narrated references. The autofiction thus would be a criticism of the notion of subject and the exaggerated appeal of the real today. Bernardo Carvalho is an example of an author writing autofiction. Nove noites is a novel that, in addition to providing important extratextual signs to build an autofictional identity, literally shuffles the concepts of truth and lie, fiction and reality, resulting in a hybrid text, characteristic of myth-making submitted by the contemporary author. This work, concerned about offering something new to literary studies, extends the corpus analysis and it is not limited to the analysis of the already canonical Bernardo Carvalho. Seven other authors are added to him for a more comprehensive panorama of the contemporary Brazilian literature. Clarah Averbuck, Milton Hatoum, Ivana Arruda Leite, Marcelo Mirisola, Cíntia Moscovich, João Gilberto Noll and Silviano Santiago complete the search about the autofiction
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Langston, Jessica. "Writing herself in : mother fiction and the female Künstlerroman." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79957.
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This project examines the 'mother-writer problem' within contemporary Canadian fiction by women. Using three novels that tell the story of a mother who is also a writer, Margaret Laurence's The Diviners, Audrey Thomas' Intertidal Life and Carol Shields' Unless, I will outline the manner in which the roles of mother and writer are negotiated by the authors and their central characters. Further, I will investigate how creating a narrative about a female artist who is also a mother challenges and changes the structure and content of the standard female kunstlerroman. Finally, this thesis will attempt to determine how or if such challenges and changes improve the portrait-of-the-female-artist novel.
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阮佩儀 and Pui-yee Yuen. "A study of the Art of Mu Shiying's fiction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31222134.
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Nicolas, Agathe. "La grande saga de l’industrialisation de la fiction : le renouveau créatif de la franchise Harry Potter." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL024.
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Le constat d’une difficulté est à l’origine de cette thèse : est-il encore possible de parler de clôture de la fiction face au fonctionnement contemporain des franchises fondées sur le développement transmédiatique d’univers transfictionnels ? Cette thèse traite des problématiques de création dans le cadre des industries culturelles : quelles sont les influences de l’industrie sur la création d’une fiction ? Quelles sont les influences de la fiction sur les médiations et les représentations de l’industrie ? Quelles sont les conséquences de l’industrialisation sur les circulations de la fiction ? Comment comprendre la permanence d’une figure d’auteur dans un régime de création collective ? L’étude se structure autour de quatre hypothèses principales, correspondant à autant de parties : tout d’abord, il est désormais nécessaire de parler de « fictions industrialisées », dans la mesure où la fiction, ses formes et ses contenus sont façonnés par l’industrie. Réciproquement, on constate l’émergence d’une « industrie narrativisée » : l’industrie participe de la création culturelle mais devient aussi objet culturel marqué par les codes de la fiction. La proposition de la notion de « fiction totale » rend nécessaire de repenser les notions de participation et de convergence qui, paradoxalement, ne sont pas incompatibles avec le concept d’autorité ; ainsi, il semble que l’ouverture de la fiction soit le symptôme d’un verrouillage institutionnel accru. Enfin, cette thèse pose l’hypothèse de l’émergence d’une nouvelle forme d’auctorialité, fondée sur l’assimilation de la figure d’auteur à un triple produit<br>One main question originated this PhD Thesis : is it still possible to talk about the closure of a fiction when contemporain franchises work on continual developments and expansions ? This document questions the concept of fiction through the notion of cultural industry. How is the creation of fiction influenced by its industrial environment ? What consequences does fiction have on its industrial environment ? What does industrialisation do to the circulation of fiction ? How does evolve the notion of authorship in this collective environment for creation ? Our study is structured around four main hypothesis, which are each studied in a dedicated part of this thesis : firstly, we underline the relevance of the notion of « industrialised fictions » ; indeed, fictional contents and formats’ evolutions are deeply linked to industrial developments. Furthermore, these contents and formats are sometimes shaped accordingly to their potential industrial developments. Reciprocally, we emphasize the notion of « narrated industry » : industry participates in cultural creation and is a cultural creation contaminated by fiction. A new notion is therefore necessary : the « totalizing fiction ». We worked on a renewed approach for the notions of convergence and participatory cultures which are, paradoxically, strongly linked to the concept of authority : the oppenness of fiction would be the symptom of an institutional lockout. Finally, this thesis defines the appareance of a new form of authority, shaped on the assimilation of authorship to a product : the author is produced as a figure, as a comercial and cultural object and as a self-creation
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Bush, Douglas Paul William. "Selling a Feeling: New Approaches Toward Recent Gay Chicano Authors and Their Audience." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366247518.
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Barlow, Jenna Elizabeth. "Womens historical fiction after feminism : discursive reconstructions of the Tudors in contemporary literature." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86303.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Historical fiction is a genre in a constant state of flux: since its inception in the
nineteenth century, it has been shaped by cultural trends and has persistently
responded to the way in which history is popularly conceptualised. As such, historical
novels have always revealed as much about the socio-political context of their
moment of production as they do about their historical settings. The advent of
feminism was among the most significant movements which shaped the evolution of
the women’s historical novel in the twentieth century, prompting as it did a radical
shift in historiographic methodology. As feminist discourse became embedded in
popular culture in the latter decades of the twentieth century, this shift in turn allowed
authors of historical fiction the opportunity to reconsider the ways in which women
have been traditionally represented in both historical narrative and fiction. The
historical novel thus became a site for exploring the female perspective of history, a
perspective that had been denied or ignored by more male-centred historical
narratives. This dissertation will assess the impact wrought by the popularisation of
feminist discourse on the genre of women’s historical fiction during the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries. An examination of a selection of contemporary women’s
novels set during the Tudor era will prove particularly useful in executing this
assessment, not least because of the Tudors’ unprecedented popularity as the focus of
literature and film in the last decade. More significantly, the women of this period
have proven to be ideal subjects for their authors to imaginatively reconstruct in the
mould of third wave feminist icons in the twenty-first century. By examining how
Tudor women have been represented in the contemporary historical fiction of Jean
Plaidy, Philippa Gregory, Mavis Cheek, Suzannah Dunn and Emily Purdy, this
dissertation will demonstrate the ways in which popular feminist discourse has
impacted on the development of women’s historical fiction in the last century,
focusing specifically on texts published within the last decade. Three key aspects of
the genre will be assessed in detail in this regard: the author’s self-conscious feminist
intervention in the characterisation of her historical heroines; the shift in the narrative
perspective adopted and the deployment of postmodern literary devices; and the
representation of female sexuality. The evolution of the genre as a whole will also be
examined in some detail, and the shifting parameters of modern feminisms will be
interrogated in order to fully understand their manifestations in popular culture.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Historiese fiksie is ’n voortdurend veranderende genre: sedert die ontstaan daarvan in
die negentiende eeu is dit beïnvloed deur kulturele neigings en het dit aanhoudend bly
reageer op die manier waarop die geskiedenis populêr gekonseptualiseer word. As
sodanig het historiese romans altyd net soveel oor die sosiopolitieke konteks van hulle
produksiemoment as oor hul historiese milieus onthul. Feminisme was een van die
betekenisvolste bewegings wat gedurende die twintigste eeu die evolusie van die
historiese roman vir vroue sou beïnvloed, en het sodoende aanleiding gegee tot ’n
radikale verandering in historiografiese metodologie. Namate feministiese diskoers in
die latere dekades van die twintigste eeu deel van die populêre kultuur geword het, het
hierdie verandering op sy beurt die skrywers van historiese fiksie die geleentheid
gegun om die maniere waarop vroue tradisioneel in sowel historiese narratief as fiksie
uitgebeeld is, te heroorweeg. Die historiese roman het dus ’n terrein geword waarop
die vroulike perspektief op die geskiedenis verken is, naamlik ’n perspektief wat deur
meer manlik-gesentreerde historiese narratiewe ontken of geïgnoreer is. Hierdie verhandeling sal die impak evalueer wat die popularisering van
feministiese diskoers op die genre van historiese fiksie vir vroue gemaak het tydens
die twintigste en een-en-twintigste eeue. ’n Ondersoek na ’n seleksie van
kontemporêre vroueromans wat in die Tudor-tydperk afspeel, is veral nuttig in hierdie
verband, onder andere as gevolg van die Tudors se ongekende gewildheid as die
fokus van letterkunde en film in die afgelope dekade. Wat meer veelseggend is, is dat
dit blyk die vroue van hierdie tydperk was ideale subjekte wat verbeeldingryk deur
hulle outeurs gerekonstrueer kon word in die vorm van derdegolf-feministiese ikone
in die een-en-twintigste eeu. Deur te ondersoek hoe Tudorvroue uitgebeeld is in die
kontemporêre historiese fiksie van Jean Plaidy, Philippa Gregory, Mavis Cheek,
Suzannah Dunn en Emily Purdy sal hierdie verhandeling die impak demonstreer wat
populêre feministiese diskoers in die afgelope eeu op die ontwikkeling van historiese
fiksie vir vroue gemaak het, met die fokus spesifiek op tekste wat in die afgelope
dekade gepubliseer is. In hierdie verband sal drie sleutelaspekte van die genre
uitvoerig geassesseer word: die skrywer se selfbewuste feministiese ingryping in die
karakterisering van haar historiese heldinne; die verskuiwing in die
vertellingsperspektief en die ontplooiing van postmoderne letterkundige tegnieke; en
die uitbeelding van vroulike seksualiteit. Die evolusie van die genre as geheel word
ook beskou, en die veranderende parameters van moderne feminismes word ondervra
sodat hul manifestasies in die populêre kultuur ten volle verstaan kan word.
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Prindle, Paige Ann. "Publishing, property, and problematic heiresses representations of inheritance in nineteenth-century American women's popular fiction /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3355845.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.<br>Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 7, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-258).
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Letsetsengui, Marthe Prisca. "Les fictions d'auteurs dans la littérature francophone et contemporaine d'Afrique noire, des Caraïbes et du Québec." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018STRAC009.
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Qu’est-ce que « les fictions d’auteurs » ? Nous désignons par cette thématique un ensemble de textes littéraires qui met l’accent sur la fabrication d’un personnage écrivain et la réception du livre fictif. Ce phénomène est né dans la littérature française à la suite de deux publications consécutives sur la mort de l’auteur. Ces actes de décès de l’auteur ont donc engendré la parade de fabrication de l’auteur dans le roman français pour tenter de lui redonner vie. Ils ont introduit le principe de l’immanence entrainant l’effacement de l’auteur au profit de l’écriture. Ainsi, sans chercher à confronter les différents champs littéraires, cette thèse constitue un panorama des éléments d’identification d’un personnage écrivain dans le roman francophone et un moyen pour l’auteur de dévoiler aux lecteurs les dessous de son métier d’écrivain. Pour saisir l’ancrage de ce romancier fictif dans le texte francophone, cette étude s’appuie sur la sociologie littéraire et la poétique littéraire<br>What is "author's fiction"? By this theme we designate a set of literary texts that focuses on the making of a character writer and the reception of the fictional book. This phenomenon was born in French literature following two consecutive publications on the death of the author. These acts of death of the author have thus generated the author's production parade in the French novel to try to revive him. They introduced the principle of immanence leading to the erasure of the author in favor of writing. Thus, without trying to confront the different literary fields, this thesis constitutes a panorama of the identifying elements of a writer's character in the French-speaking novel and a means for the author to reveal to the readers the underpinnings of his writing profession. To capture the anchor of this fictional novelist in the French text, this study is based on literary sociology and literary poetics
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李仕芬 and Shi-fan Lee. "The male characters in the fiction of contemporary Taiwanese women writers." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31235979.
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Palmer, Beth Lilian. "Strategies of sensation and the transformation of the Press, 1860-1880 : Mary Braddon, Florence Marryat and Ellen Wood, female author-editors, and the sensation phenomenon in mid-Victorian magazine publishing." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:30a509c7-2ba3-4477-9d3e-801f61e1b8c1.
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This thesis examines the processes of writerly and editorial literary production undertaken by women sensation authors in the 1860s and 1870s. This focus represents a shift from the prevailing critical emphasis on the consumption of sensation fiction to the realm of production and therein allows the thesis to analyse the ways in which sensation operates as a set of rhetorical and linguistic strategies for women writers in the changing publishing conditions of mid-to-late Victorian society. I consider the ways in which sensation is an idiom that permeates all aspects of magazine publishing in this period and demonstrate how it could be adapted and become an empowering discourse for women writers and editors. Furthermore, this thesis sees sensation as an important component in the transformation of the press in the 1860s and 1870s. By analysing the specific ways in which sensational strategies were appropriated and transformed, this thesis reassesses the role of sensation in the creation of women’s writing in the second half of the nineteenth century, and consider its legacies in later ‘New Woman’ writers. I achieve this by examining three women editors, who were part of the transformation of magazine publishing in the period. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915), Ellen (Mrs. Henry) Wood (1814-1887), and Florence Marryat (1837-1899) all operated as writers and editors in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. They produced varying types of sensational fiction that they serialised in their own monthly magazines, Belgravia, Argosy, and London Society respectively. Sensation provided a dynamic and flexible means for these women author-editors to assert their status in the context of the expansion of the press in the 1860s and 1870s. I argue that their work invites a more fluid and generous critical definition of sensation.
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Bode, Katherine. "In/visibility : women looking at men's bodies in and through contemporary Australian women's fiction /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://adt.library.uq.edu.au/public/adt-QU20060120.161127/index.html.
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James, Sarah J. "Not without my body : feminist science fiction and embodied futures." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14613.
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This study explores the interaction between feminist science fiction and feminist theory, focusing on the body and embodiment. Specifically, it aims to demonstrate that feminist science fiction novels of the 1990s offer an excellent platform for exploring the critical theories of the body put forward by Judith Butler in particular, and other feminist/queer theorists in general. The thesis opens with a brief history of science fiction's depiction of the body and feminist science fiction's subversions and rewritings of this, as well as an overview of Judith Butler's theories relating to the body and embodiment. It then considers a wide range of feminist science fiction novels from the 1990s, focusing on four key areas; bodies materialised outside patriarchal systems in women-only or women-ruled worlds, alien bodies, cyborg bodies and bodies in cyberspace. An in-depth analysis of the selected texts reveals that they have important contributions to make to the consideration of bodies as they develop and expand the issues raised by theorists such as Butler, Elisabeth Grosz, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva.
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Mthembu, Lumumba. "A case for contemporary third literature: the black experience in the postmillennial fiction of three Kwela authors." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/3322.
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This study seeks to uncover the manner in which the young black experience is constructed in three novels by Sifiso Mzobe, Kgebetli Moele and K. Sello Duiker. Young Blood, Untitled and Thirteen Cents all feature teenage narrators navigating the social milieu of South Africa in the twenty-first century. My analysis is informed by Frantz Fanon’s postcolonial theory because South Africa’s socio-economic landscape conforms to the divisions laid out in The Wretched of the Earth. I contend that post-apartheid South Africa is developing in a manner that is symptomatic of the Fanonian post-independence African state. My close reading of the novels teases out the conditions under which young black subjects must survive and express themselves. I look into the roles of the community, the government, the family, and the school in shaping this experience. Naturally, my discussion segues into questions of sexuality and gender as they intersect with race. I demonstrate how these texts fail and succeed as works of Third Literature, a genre derived from Third Cinema, which I have adapted due to its Fanonian ideological underpinning. Third Literature is a fundamentally revolutionary and activistic genre which seeks to pave the way for social change. In this regard, I concern myself with the recommendations these three authors may have for the readers of their texts. In conclusion, these texts demonstrate that racialized identities are social constructs with measurable experiential effects. However, there are ways of actively resisting or even
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Boettcher, Anna Margarete. "Through Women's Eyes: Contemporary Women's Fiction about the Old West." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4966.
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The myth of the West is still very much alive in contemporary America. Lately, there has been a resurgence of new Western movies, TV series, and fiction. Until recently the West has been the exclusive domain of the quintessential masculine man. Women characters have featured only in the margins of the Western hero's tale. Contemporary Western fiction by women, however, offers new perspectives. Women's writing about the Old and New West introduces strong female protagonists and gives voice to characters that are muted or ignored by traditional Western literature and history. Western scholarship has largely been polarized by two approaches. First, the myth and symbol school of Turner, Smith, and followers celebrated American exceptionalism and rugged male individualism on the Western frontier. Second, the reaction against these theories draws attention to the West's legacy of racism, sexism and violence. The purpose of the present study is to collapse these theoretical fences and open a dialogue between conflicting theoretical positions and contemporay Western fiction. Molly Gloss's 1989 The Jump-Off Creek and Karen Joy Fowler's 1991 Sarah Canary selfcritically re-write the Old West. This study has attempted to explore the following questions: How can one re-write history in the context of a postmodern culture? How can "woman," the quintessential "Other" escape a modernist history (and thus avoid charges of essentialism) when she has not been in this history to begin with? In this study I analyze how these two contemporary feminist authors, Molly Gloss, and Karen Joy Fowler, face the dual challenge of writing themselves into a history that has traditionally excluded them, while at the same time deconstructing this very historical concept of the West. Fowler's and Gloss's use of diverse narrative strategies to upset a monolithic concept of history-- emphasizing the importance of multiple stories of the Old West-- is discussed in detail.
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Hill, Geoffrey Burt. "'A breeding-ground of authors' : South East Asia in British fiction, 1945-1960." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708370.
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Ford, Peggy Kathleen Ollar. "Authors, Protagonists, and Moral Decision Making in Contemporary Young Adult Realistic Fiction: a Content Analysis." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278823/.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate if there is a difference in the way male and female authors of contemporary realistic fiction for young adults portray decision making by their male or female protagonists. Questions asked in the study were: (1) Do female writers of contemporary young adult realistic fiction employ an ethic of justice or an ethic of care for male protagonists involved in moral decision making? (2) Do female writers of contemporary young adult realistic fiction employ an ethic of justice or an ethic of care for female protagonists involved in moral decision making? (3) Do male writers of contemporary young adult realistic fiction employ an ethic of justice or an ethic of care for male protagonists involved in moral decision making? and (4) Do male writers of contemporary young adult realistic fiction employ an ethic of justice or an ethic of care for female protagonists involved in moral decision making? Content analysis was used as the method of collecting data. The sample consisted of 194 novels written from 1989 to 1998, 53 of which contained a moral dilemma. A discussion of the novels included examples of moral dilemmas, alternative solutions, dilemma resolutions, and resolutions based upon care or justice. Analysis of the data revealed: (1) Female writers employ an ethic of care and an ethic of justice for male protagonists involved in moral decision making. (2) Female writers prefer an ethic of care for female protagonists involved in moral decision making. (3) Male writers prefer an ethic of justice for male protagonists involved in moral decision making. (4) Male writers prefer an ethic of justice for female protagonists involved in moral decision making.
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López, Enrique G. "The intersection of ethnicity and sexuality in the narrative fiction of three Chicano authors : Oscar Zeta Acosta, Arturo Islas, and Michael Nava /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487951907956695.
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Mbatsha, Thembisa. "A critical analysis of the screen adaptation of Saule’s Unyana womntu." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1018674.
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This research will concentrate on various aspects of the screen adaptation of “Unyana womntu” (Saule, 1989). This study comprises of six chapters. In Chapter 1 of this study, the research aims and objectives are formulated. The research methods that are to be followed will involve a thorough reading of the written text, as well as a comprehensive repetitive viewing of all the episodes of the screen version. In the final part of Chapter 1, background information is provided on the personal life of the author as well as on his contributions to the African literary tradition. Background information on the production of the screen version is also provided. In the Chapter 2, the theoretical aspects of the phenomenon of literary adaptation are discussed. This discussion provides a framework for the analysis of the adaptation of “Unyana womntu” (Saule, 1989) in the remaining chapters of this study. The aim of this chapter is to identify and discuss the most important principles which come into play when the written text is adapted into a screen production. Since the screen production belongs to the genre of the performing arts, this chapter is introduced with a discussion on the performing arts and on the drama, in particular. The section will be concluded with a discussion on the different sub-types of the drama which can be found, including the screen production. The main emphasis is on an analysis of the basic features and principles of the drama in screen format. Since the screen play Unyana Womntu (1998) is based upon a novel by the same title, the literary features of the novel are to be discussed here as well. The specific features of the Xhosa novel will also receive attention.
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Tagore, Proma. "The shapes of silence : contemporary women's fiction and the practices of bearing witness." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36793.
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This dissertation examines the complex and multi-faceted ways in which contemporary minority women's fictions may be thought of, both generically and individually, as practices of bearing witness to silence---practices of giving testimony to the presence of lives, experiences, events and historical realities which, otherwise, have been absented from the critical terrain of North American literary studies. For the most pact, the texts included in this study all tell tales of various, and often extreme, forms of sexual, racial, gender, colonial, national and cultural violence. Through readings of select works by Toni Morrison, Shani Mootoo, Arundhati Roy, Louise Erdrich, M. K. Indira, Mahasweta Devi and Leslie Feinberg, I argue for the ways in which these fictions may be understood as situated within the bounds of a genre---a genre that attempts to provide an account of what we might call "the half not told." I examine these fictions, both generically and specifically, as texts which have the ability to make several important critical interventions in the field of literary studies. Firstly, these texts have the potential to negotiate the impasse that feminist and postcolonial literary scholarship finds itself in around debates about the relationship between theory, activism and experience---as well as in debates about the relationship between violence, beauty, culture, subjectivity and desire. Secondly, the fictions under study help to challenge our very definitions of witnessing. Witnessing, in these works, is not simply a matter of "speaking out" against violence, but rather the issue of making space for the affective and emotive dimensions of various kinds of silences and silencings. Finally, in attempting to chart more precise vocabularies with which to assume readings of these narratives, my thesis also helps to think about the ways in which reading, writing and storytelling may, themselves, be seen as profoundly ethical undertakings that seek to give evidence
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Slagle, Judith Bailey. "Romantic Appropriations of History: The Legends of Joanna Baillie and Margaret Holford Hodson." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. http://amzn.com/1611475090.
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Introduction: The Historical Tradition of Baillie, Scott, Hodson and Southey -- William Wallace : "A Terrible Beauty" -- Exploration and conquest : Columbus, Balboa, and Pizarro -- National and Domestic Heroines : Margaret of Anjou and Lady Griseld Baillie -- Gothic Interactions : The Miscellaneous Legends of Baillie and Hodson.<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1035/thumbnail.jpg
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Glover, Jayne Ashleigh. ""A complex and delicate web" : a comparative study of selected speculative novels by Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing and Marge Piercy /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2007. http://eprints.ru.ac.za/1001/.
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Hoffman, Megan. "Women writing women : gender and representation in British 'Golden Age' crime fiction." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11910.
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In this thesis, I examine representations of women and gender in British ‘Golden Age' crime fiction by writers including Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey and Patricia Wentworth. I argue that portrayals of women in these narratives are ambivalent, both advocating a modern, active model of femininity, while also displaying with their resolutions an emphasis on domesticity and on maintaining a heteronormative order, and that this ambivalence provides a means to deal with anxieties about women's place in society. This thesis is divided thematically, beginning with a chapter on historical context which provides an overview of the period's key social tensions. Chapter II explores depictions of women who do not conform to the heteronormative order, such as spinsters, lesbians and ‘fallen' women. Chapter III looks at the ways in which the courtships and marriages of detective couples attempt to negotiate the ideal of companionate marriage and the pressures of a ‘cult of domesticity'. Chapter IV considers the ways in which depictions of women in schools, universities and the workplace are used to explore the tensions between an expanding role in the public sphere and the demand to inhabit traditionally domestic roles. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the image of female victims' and female killers' bodies and the ways in which such depictions can be seen to expose issues of gender, class and identity. Through its examination of a wide variety of texts and writers in the period 1920 to the late 1940s, this thesis investigates the ambivalent nature of modes of femininity depicted in Golden Age crime fiction written by women, and argues that seemingly conservative resolutions are often attempts to provide a ‘modern-yet-safe' solution to the conflicts raised in the texts.
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Spergel, Julie. "Canada's "second history": the fiction of Jewish Canadian women writers." Hamburg Kovač, 2009. http://d-nb.info/997540079/04.
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Anandan, Prathim. "Child/subject : children as sites of postcolonial subjectivity and subjection in post-Independence South Asian fiction in English." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711768.
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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.
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Chan, Suet Ni. "Women at crossroads : a study of women's search for identity in twentieth century Chinese-American fiction." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2009. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1095.
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Hall, Karen Peta. "Discovering the lost race story : writing science fiction, writing temporality." University of Western Australia. English and Cultural Studies Discipline Group, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0216.
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Genres are constituted, implicitly and explicitly, through their construction of the past. Genres continually reconstitute themselves, as authors, producers and, most importantly, readers situate texts in relation to one another; each text implies a reader who will locate the text on a spectrum of previously developed generic characteristics. Though science fiction appears to be a genre concerned with the future, I argue that the persistent presence of lost race stories where the contemporary world and groups of people thought to exist only in the past intersect in science fiction demonstrates that the past is crucial in the operation of the genre. By tracing the origins and evolution of the lost race story from late nineteenth-century novels through the early twentieth-century American pulp science fiction magazines to novel-length narratives, and narrative series, at the end of the twentieth century, this thesis shows how the consistent presence, and varied uses, of lost race stories in science fiction complicates previous critical narratives of the history and definitions of science fiction.
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Minucci, Andrea. "“There’s More to Life ThanSitting There SimplyInterfacing” : David Foster Wallace and his Reader in a Literature afterPostmodernism." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-169390.
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David Foster Wallace felt that literature was at a historical crossroad, and thatpostmodernism had passed the point which it could still be considered a'revolutionary' cultural phenomenon. He felt that the capitalistic machinery of TVand advertisement had absorbed the postmodernist techniques of pastiche,deconstruction and rejection of a distinction between high and low culturalmodels, to a point where there was no longer a difference between reality and itsown representation. Something that represented a problem for both youngnovelists and readers.This thesis analyses Infinite Jest as a response to this very problem, trying tounderstand in which way Wallace wanted to get over postmodernism, establishinga new kind of literature that highlights the artificiality of reality, by using differenttools than postmodernism. Cross-referencing media and literary studies, my thesisargues that Infinite Jest is a novel that emphasizes the fact that it is a construct. Ishow how the book acknowledges, and gives value to the subjectivity of everyhuman experience, but still stressing the idea that all the data that the reader isreceiving is and will always be heavily mediated information. Therefore, I showhow Wallace uses his characters as if they were human recording devices, creatingin this way a book that is some sort of hybrid between literature and TV.Furthermore, I explain how, by means of narrative devices (such as a disruptiveand incomplete plot, hundreds of endnotes), Wallace wanted to restore thecommunicative function of a text, making himself sure that the reader is invited toactively cooperate in the formation of the novel's meaning, ultimately meeting,and engaging into a dialogue with the author's consciousness in the novel'slanguage, breaking that state of self-consciousness and isolation into which thereader has been condemned by postmodernism and capitalism. Showing that“There's more to life than sitting there simply interfacing”1 David Foster Wallace; Infinite Jest; media studies; Postmodernism; Image-fiction Television; intermediality; transmediality; narratology; heteroglossia. 1 David F. Wallce, Infinite Jest, (Back Bay Books 2016), p. 14.
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Ng, Po-chu. "Writing about women and women's writing a study of Hong Kong feminine fiction in 80s and 90s = Shu xie nü xing yu nü xing shu xie : ba, jiu shi nian dai xiang gang nü xing xiao shuo yan jiu /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36259019.
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Hawryluk, Lynda J., University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and of Communication Design and Media School. "Call waiting." THESIS_CAESS_CDM_Hawryluk_L.xml, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/6.
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This thesis examines the life and career of Bret Easton Ellis, and the influences of his work on the author's development as a writer. Part one encapsulates a novel written specifically for this thesis. 'Call waiting' is a harsh look at modern friendships, the role of work in these relationships and the proliferation of shallow communication through the advent of email. A critical reflection follows, examining the process that led to the novel's creation. Three specific areas are focussed on: the direct influence of Ellis' novel 'The rules of attraction' on the overall themes of 'Call waiting', the realisation of the project and the various editing changes and narrative developments that arose during the writing of the novel, and an examination of the inspiration behind the novel's creation. Part two considers Ellis' role in the literary world of the 1980s, his own complicity in the creation of a career as a celebrity author, and the carefully manufactured persona Ellis presents to the world. In Part three the thesis is concluded with a close analysis of the publication of Ellis' controversial novel 'American psycho'. This chapter explores the negative publicity the novel attracted and the possible causes of the ensuing backlash against the author.<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Oberhausen, Tammy. "The Southern Misfit and the Dream of Escape in the Fiction of Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor." TopSCHOLAR®, 1990. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1791.
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The misfit and the dream of escape are popular motifs in American literature, particularly in the literature of the South. Critical studies of works employing these themes have largely ignored the connection between the two. The Southern misfit – the Southerner who fails to or refuses to conform to his society’s strict standards – often dreams of escaping the restrictions of the South for some Northern “promised land.” In the works of two Georgia writers, Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor, the related themes receive different treatments. Carson McCullers’s misfits in the novels The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Member of the Wedding are adolescent girls who fail to meet their society’s expectations to be ladylike and free of personal ambitions, and McCullers seems sympathetic to her misfits’ longing to escape. In Flannery O’Connor’s short stories, her misfits are often intellectuals who feel unappreciated and alienated in their “culturally stagnant” hometowns, but O’Connor usually demonstrates that the real problem of these intellectuals is not the restrictions of the South but the characters’ own lack of self-awareness.
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Allen, Melanie. "The Short Fiction of Bobbie Ann Mason: Exposing the Problems in American Society & Searching for Some Solutions." TopSCHOLAR®, 1990. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2113.
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Bobbie Ann Mason uses her fiction to portray the problems in American society. She devotes most of her time to average persons who are suffering from the rapid changes that society is going through. These characters at times seem lost and helpless, but ultimately they do not give up hope for a brighter future. Through social problems such as divorce, lack of communication, loss of identity and place, obsession with the past, submersion in rock music and TV, loss of ritual, proliferation of objects, lack of education, and the need to face mortality, these characters still seem to have hope and strength. There are serious problems to deal with, but there is also a future that can possibly bring better times if the problems can be solved successfully.
But Mason's world is not completely pessimistic and not all of her characters are miserable. Many of them take advantage of the changes in society, and improve their lives. Also, there are still positive values left. They are not as obvious, but they are still there if a person takes the time to look. Not everything has changed for the worse. For example, Mason seems to suggest later marriages. Early marriages lead to discontentment and more
than an abundance of problems, and most of Mason's characters who married younp. are very dissatisfied with their lives. Mason also stresses the fact that most people have the freedom of choice since people no longer have to behave in a certain manner, and society is more accepting than it once was. Mason also points out the peace and contentment that can be found with the land. She says as well that simplicity many times is preferable to the "technological advances" that have driven people to large cities where everyone seems the same, and she Insists that there are still small towns and contented people who inhabit them. Other positive qualities are the fact that we have the opportunity to receive an education, and we still have humor. We can look at the mistakes we have made and find humor in them as well as learn from them. Mason also seems to retain the hope that changes will keep occurring, that people still care enough to fight for a better, less problem-filled life. In subtle ways, Mason's fiction is optimistic.
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Chambers, Jacqueline M. "The needle and the pen : needlework and women writers' professionalism in the nineteenth century /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9999278.
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Nash, Andrew. "Kailyard, Scottish literary criticism, and the fiction of J.M. Barrie." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15199.
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This thesis argues that the term Kailyard is not a body of literature or cultural discourse, but a critical concept which has helped to construct controlling parameters for the discussion of literature and culture in Scotland. By offering an in-depth reading of the fiction of J.M. Barrie - the writer who is most usually and misleadingly associated with the term - and by tracing the writing career of Ian Maclaren, I argue for the need to reject the term and the critical assumptions it breeds. The introduction maps the various ways Kailyard has been employed in literary and cultural debates and shows how it promotes a critical approach to Scottish culture which focuses on the way individual writers, texts and images represent Scotland. Chapter 1 considers why this critical concern arose by showing how images of national identity and national literary distinctiveness were validated as the meaning of Scotland throughout the nineteenth century. Chapters 2-5 seek to overturn various assumptions bred by the term Kailyard. Chapter 2 discusses the early fiction of J.M. Barrie in the context of late nineteenth-century regionalism, showing how his work does not aim to depict social reality but is deliberately artificial in design. Chapter 3 discusses late Victorian debates over realism in fiction and shows how Barrie and Maclaren appealed to the reading public because of their treatment of established Victorian ideas of sympathy and the sentimental. Chapter 4 discusses Barrie's four longer novels - the works most constrained by the Kailyard term - and chapter 5 reconsiders the relationship between Maclaren's work and debates over popular culture. Chapter 6 analyses the use of the term Kailyard in twentieth-century Scottish cultural criticism. Discussing the criticism of Hugh MacDiarmid, the writing of literary histories and studies of Scottish film, history and politics, I argue for the need to reject the Kailyard term as a critical concept in the discussion of Scottish culture.
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Huguley, Piper Gian. "Why Tell the Truth When a Lie Will Do?: Re-Creations and Resistance in the Self-Authored Life Writing of Five American Women Fiction Writers." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04252006-174728/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2006.<br>Title from title screen. Audrey Goodman, committee chair; Thomas L. McHaney, Elizabeth West, committee members. Electronic text (253 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May15, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (243-253).
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Rasevych, Peter. "Reading native literature from a traditional indigenous perspective, contemporary novels in a Windigo society." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ60865.pdf.
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Hall-Godsey, Angela Marie. "By her Own Hand: Female Agency through Self-Castration in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction." Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/38/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008.<br>Title from title page (Digital Archive@GSU, viewed July 15, 2010) Michael Galchinsky, committee chair; Calvin Thomas, Lee Anne Richardson, committee members. Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-212).
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Prado, Daniel Nicory do. "No mundo dos autos: uma teoria da narrativa judicial." Faculdade de Direito, 2018. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/25031.
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DANIEL NICORY DO PRADO.pdf: 1026729 bytes, checksum: 76688c9b2086ace57e533faf769e73cc (MD5)<br>O presente trabalho teve o objetivo de discutir a constituição do universo e a definição dos critérios de verdade da narrativa judicial. Adotando como marcos teórico filosofia aristotélica e as decorrentes reflexões sobre tempo e narrativa de Paul Ricouer e sobre ação comunicativa de Jürgen Habermas, iniciou-se uma revisão das teorias da ação, de base teleológica, da filosofia, as suas consequências para a construção da teoria do fato na ciência jurídica, e a passagem da ação à narração por meio da teoria dos atos de fala. Chegando à questão da narrativa, analisaram-se, a partir de Paul Ricouer, suas principais modalidades, a narrativa histórica e a ficção, sendo que a primeira apresenta uma pretensão de correspondência, verificada pelas provas fornecidas pelo historiador, e a segunda uma pretensão de credibilidade, verificada pela coerência narrativa. À primeira vista, a narrativa judicial seria enquadrada como forma de narrativa histórica, em face da evidente relação entre verdade-correspondência e justiça. No entanto, existem vários indicadores no sistema e na prática jurídica de que nem sempre se alcança a correspondência, mesmo quando não se trata de um problema de insuficiência cognitiva, mas de proibição jurídica de acesso aos elementos disponíveis. Isto é justificado, em parte, porque o processo judicial teria outros valores a preservar além da verdade, mas poderia também ser dito o contrário, que, nesses casos, de renúncia à correspondência, outro tipo de pretensão de validade (como a correção normativa ou o consenso) prevalece sobre a busca da correspondência. Portanto, pode-se concluir que a narrativa judicial é ficcional, mas, como a correspondência não pode ser completamente abandonada, trata-se de ficção baseada em fatos reais. A estrutura da narrativa judicial é binária, dividida em história do processo, narrada no modo mimético alto, dentro da qual se revela gradualmente a história do conflito, narrada nos modos mimético baixo ou irônico, em que o desfecho da primeira é simultaneamente o da segunda. Quanto ao narrador, a pluralidade de pontos de vista narrativos é a principal característica, e decorre do próprio sistema (princípio do contraditório) destinando-se a gerar uma incerteza provisória quanto à verdade, a ser superada com a decisão definitiva. O reconhecimento de que cada processo judicial é um pequeno universo ficcional tem por consequência a adoção da coerência, e não da correspondência, como critério de verdPoade. Por ser ficção baseada em fatos reais, a correspondência não é completamente abandonada, já que a coerência pode ser enganosa. A coerência externa pode gerar equívocos quando remete a uma narrativa familiar, no âmbito da tradição, mas que não reflete corretamente o caso em discussão; a coerência interna pode gerar equívocos quando há falso consenso entre as partes, ou não oposição deliberada de uma delas; quando uma narrativa é coerente por um critério e incoerente por outro, a correção do equívoco deve partir da verificação desta divergência até a decisão por um dos critérios; se uma narrativa é duplamente coerente, mas falsa, ou duplamente incoerente, mas verdadeira, os recursos narrativos disponíveis são insuficientes para a correção do problema.<br>This work intended to discuss how the universe of judicial narrative is constructed and which are its criteria of truth. Adopting Aristotle’s philosophy, and its further developments of the relations between time and narrative, by Paul Ricouer, and of communicative action, by Jürgen Habermas, as the main theoretical framework, it starts reviewing the teleological concept of action, its many philosophical theories, their consequences to the construction of fact as a legal concept, and then its further passage to the narrative theory using the theory of speech acts as a theoretical transition. Regarding narrative theory, Paul Ricouer’s work was used to distinguish the main narrative forms (historical and fictional), according to whom the first has a correspondence claim, verified by the evidence provided by the historian, while the second has a credibility claim, verified by its narrative coherence. At first, it seems evident that judicial narrative should be a form of historical narrative, because of the undeniable relationship between truth (as correspondence) and justice. Despite that, there are many indications, in legal practice, that correspondence is not always reached, not only because of a cognitive defect, but also because of a legal prohibition to access and evaluate the available data. It is justified, in part, by the thought that the Judicial System has other goals, besides truth-finding, but that can be phrased in a different way: when it is a case of abandonment of correspondence, other types of validity-claims (like normative correction or consensus) prevail over its search. So, it can be said that judicial narrative is fictional, but, since correspondence can’t be completely abandoned, it is fiction based on true facts. Judicial narrative’s structure is binary, divided in the trial story, told in the high mimetic mode, in which the conflict story, told in the low mimetic or the ironic mode, is gradually revealed, and the ending of the first is also the ending of the second. Regarding the narrators, the plurality of points of view is the most important aspect, which is a consequence of the system itself and destined to generate a provisional uncertainty about the truth, that the final decision will overcome. Recognizing each case file as a fictional universe means that coherence, and not correspondence, has to be adopted as the criterion of truth. On the other hand, since it is a true facts based fiction, correspondence can’t be completely abandoned, because coherence can be misleading. External coherence can be misleading when it evokes a familiar narrative, ingrained in the tradition, but that doesn’t reflect correctly the particular case. Internal coherence can be misleading when there is a false consensus between the parties, or a false confession by one of them; when a narrative is coherent by one measure and incoherent by another, the correction can come from a verification of this divergence and a decision for one of the criteria, but if a narrative is doubly coherent, but false, or doubly incoherent, but true, the narrative resources are insufficient to correct the problem.
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Potts, Henry M. "Native American values and traditions and the novel : ambivalence shall speak the story." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26754.
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The commitment to community shared by Native American authors such as N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, and Louise Erdrich is partially evinced by each author's readiness to inscribe in novel form the values and traditions of the tribal community or communities with which he/she is closely associated. Many students of the novel will attest to its pliant, sometimes transmutable nature; nevertheless, as this study attempts to make clear, there are some reasons why Native American authors should reconsider using the novel as a means to express their tribal communities' values and traditions. Unambivalent prescriptions, however, seem more suited to the requirements of law or medicine; and so this study also examines some of the reasons why Native American authors should continue to embrace this relatively "new" art form persistently termed the novel.
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Floerke, Jennifer Jodelle. "A queer look at feminist science fiction: Examing Sally Miller Gearhart's The Kanshou." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2889.
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This thesis is a queer theory analysis of the feminist science fiction novel The Kanshou by Sally Miller Gearhart. After exploring both male and female authored science fiction in the literature review, two themes were to be dominant. The goal of this thesis is to answer the questions, can the traditional themes that are prevalent in male authored science fiction and feminist science fiction in representing gender and sexual orientation dichotomies be found in The Kanshou? And does Gearhart challenge these dichotomies by destabilizing them? The analysis found determined that Gearhart's The Kanshou does challenge traditional sociological norms of binary gender identities and sexual orientation the majority of the time.
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Kim, Min-Jung. "Renarrating the private : gender, family, and race in Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9926560.
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Goremusandu, Tania. "Gender possibilities in the African context as explored by Mariama Ba's So long a letter, Neshani Andrea's The purple violet of Oshaantu and Sindiwe Magona's Beauty gift." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/6469.
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Gender oppression has been a significant discussion to the development of gender, cultural and feminist theories. The primary focus of this study is to investigate how patriarchal traditions, colonialism, and religious oppression force women to struggle under constrictions oppositional to empowerment. Thus, the project provides a comparative analysis of three texts from different African postcolonial societies by three African female writers: Mariama Bâ, Neshani Andreas and Sindiwe Magona. The author‟s biographies and historical context of their novels will be analyzed, as well as a summary of their stories will be included in order to provide the context for gender criticism. These writer‟s work; So Long a Letter, The Purple Violet of Oshaantu and Beauty‟s Gift depict patriarchal, cultural and religious laws which exist in Senegal, Namibia and South Africa, respectively, that limit the position of women. Therefore, this study will interrogate the experience of African women as inscribed in these selected texts, uncovering the literary expressions of gender oppression as well as the possibilities of empowerment. The selected texts will be analyzed through the lens of Gender studies, African feminism and Cultural studies. From these theories, the focus of the study is on the struggles of the female characters living in patriarchal societies as well as on the idea that gender is constructed socially and culturally in the African context. In conclusion, the emergence of these renowned female African writers together with the emancipation of African countries from colonial supremacy has opened a space for women to compensate and correct the stereotyped female images in African literature and post- colonial societies. Most contemporary African writers like Buchi Emecheta, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Sindiwe Magona, Mariama Bâ and Neshani Andreas have shown that women are seeking to attain empowerment. As a result, this study can be viewed as an opportunity to highlight such experiences by continuing to interrogate the writings of African women writers and to explore their gender-based themes so as to inform and or inspire the implementation of women empowerment. It will broaden and encourage further academic discussion in the field of Cultural studies and gender criticism of women‟s literature within the African context.
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Gossage, Ann. "Between the lines : the representation of Canadian women in English-language novels written by women in the 1930s." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=24085.
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This thesis examines the role of Canadian women as presented in English language novels of the 1930s written by women authors. Within the context of the Great Depression it focuses on issues that are central to women's daily lives such as work, love, marriage and motherhood. It also isolates recurring themes in the novels and attempts to understand the authors' messages within their social context. Social reform, politics and gender relationships are among the subjects explored.
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Forsyth, Michael. "Julia Kavanagh in her times : novelist and biographer, 1824-1877." Thesis, n.p, 1999. http://oro.open.ac.ukk/18817/.
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Jones, Esther L. "Traveling discourses subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women's speculative fictions in the Americas /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155665383.
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Canton, Licia. "The question of identity in Italian-Canadian fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ43473.pdf.
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Thoday, Heather Frances. "Lived spaces of representation : thirdspace and Janette Turner Hospital's political praxis of postmodernism /." Title page, abstract and table of contents only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09pht449.pdf.
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