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Keller, Abigail Hope. "Quiet People." The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06162009-104727/.

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Humphrey, Joy Marie. "Weird People." VCU Scholars Compass, 1992. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5075.

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Griffin, Jeremy. "A Last Resort For Desperate People." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42170.

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The stories in this collection are largely centered around individuals who have or on the brink of mistakes (or what they perceive as mistakes). These characters navigate their respective worlds with a combination of cynicism and vulnerability that often forces them to reexamine their relationships with family members, friends, and lovers. I am interested in how humor can potentially steer a narrative in unforeseeable directions while exposing to the reader truths about the characters that they themselves might not realize.<br>Master of Fine Arts
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Tripp, Sarah. "Making people up." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22044.

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This thesis is a process of writing characters using a cyclical methodology to turn the writer into a reader of their own work, then back into a writer again. The components of this thesis both practice and propose writing as research and develop a concept of character that is ‘relational’. Taking Donald Barthelme’s assertion, ‘Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how,’ this thesis is attentive to the uncertainty of process: a process that has accreted knowledge in the form of characters and methods. Making People Up is chronologically structured in order to
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Winn, Sharon A. "Friends of the people chartists in Victorian social protest fiction /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1989. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/8913882.

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Screech, Ben. "Reading otherness in British fiction for young people, 2001-2012." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2018. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/33604/.

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This thesis argues that novels depicting characters who exist outside of the social order have become integral to a twenty-first century corpus of British fiction for children and adolescents. This, in part, is as a result of a changing socio-political landscape in Britain post-2000 in which discussions of who does and does not ‘belong’ are becoming increasingly amplified. It will be shown that, against such a backdrop, fiction for young people written between 2001 and 2012 works to counter and challenge mainstream discourses prevalent in, for example; the media. With this in mind, this study’
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Sarland, C. "Young people reading : A study of the cultural, ideological and experimental factors in the interaction between young people and fictional texts." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.380977.

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Madden, Ruth. "River People." TopSCHOLAR®, 1989. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2567.

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In the introduction to The World of the Short Story, Kay Boyle challenges the short story writer "to invest a brief sequence of events with reverberating human significance by means of style, selection and ordering of detail, and -- most important -- to present the whole action in such a way that it is at once a parable and a slice of life, at once symbolic and real, both a valid picture of some phase of experience, and a sudden illumination of one of the perennial moral and psychological paradoxes which lie at the heart of la condition humaine." River People is my attempt to meet that challen
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Zeilig, Hannah. "Older people and their families in 1920s popular fiction : fictions of age and their importance for social gerontology." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313516.

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Steiner, Christina. "Translated people, translated texts : language and migration in some contemporary African fiction." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8100.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 209-215)<br>This thesis examines contemporary migration narratives by four African writers living in the diaspora and writing in English: Leila Aboulela and Jamal Mahjoub from the Sudan, now living in Scotland and Spain respectively and Abdulrazak Gurnah and Moyez G. Vassanji from Tanzania now residing in the UK and Canada. Focusing on how language operates in relation to both culture and identity, this study foregrounds the complexities of migration as cultural translation. Cultural translation is a concept which locates itself in postcolonial liter
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Ken, Stephanie Wong. "Human Subjects." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4023.

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Human Subjects is a collection of eight short stories that explore the role of identity, otherness, and personhood in contemporary life. Two sex workers try to buy new faces after a botched plastic surgery, a young girl struggles to find her place in a religious sweat cult, mixed race orphans commune with ghosts in a Korean orphanage, best friends embark on a road trip across America in search of a mother. Human Subjects works to tell stories about deeply felt wants and desires from perspectives at the margins, caught in a state of in between. This collection grapples with what it means to be
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Anyanwụ, Chikwendụ P. K. "Adapting 'A man of the people' to stage : can stage adaptation successfully return Igbo literary fiction to the Igbo people?" Thesis, Middlesex University, 2010. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/7937/.

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With the death of the folk storytelling tradition in Igbo society, the hope of passing Igbo stories to future generations seems to lie with the novel and dramatic theatre. Unfortunately, in the past two to three decades, both the reading culture and theatre practice in Igbo land have seriously declined. The political situation, the economy, the non-practical approach to problem solving by the literary and cultural intellectuals, the ceaseless streaming of popular and trash cultures from the West through television into Igbo towns and villages, the rise of home movies with pseudo-voodoo stories
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Russell, Emily S. "Embodied citizenship disability in the national imagination /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1383482921&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Johnson, Isabelle. "A HOUSE WITH PEOPLE IN IT: STORIES." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/90.

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A House with People in It is a collection of stories working through concepts of identity, family, relationships, and how those things renew and replace themselves in perpetuity. I think of identity less of a rigid, singular thing and more of a swirling, fluid multitude. If the body is a house, then identity is the people who live inside it. How they live next to each other—who butts up against who, who sleeps in what bed—is what’s interesting to me. These works collected in this thesis are largely the stories that I think hew closest to the things that I am concerned with, in the identities t
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Neave, Lucy Ann. "Who we were : a novel and dissertation by publication." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155535.

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Dissertation. The papers in the dissertation address the following related lines of inquiry: How can writers' practices be studied? To what extent can writing processes be understood? How can research into writing process inform undergraduate teaching? And, what kinds of readings might best be applied to texts by emerging writers? These questions contribute to scholarship on writing process in the discipline of creative writing. The introduction contextualises these questions and discusses the origins of the papers in conjunction with the process used to write the novel. Novel. Annabel and Bil
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Bachert, Sara-Lois. "Points of Interest: Essays on People, Places and Perceptions." TopSCHOLAR®, 1989. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1873.

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I wrote my first story in third grade. “Francine and the Head-Chopper Man” borrowed its plot from “Beauty and the Beast,” but my teacher didn’t seem to mind. In fact, she arranged for me to read the story to the fifth-grade class down the hall. After that first public reading, I was hooked. I knew at age seven I was going to be a writer. When I discovered journalism in the ninth grade, I knew just what type of writing I was going to do. In junior high and high school, I was editor of the newspapers, and in college I worked on the newspaper and was editor of the yearbook. After graduation I
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Williams, Andreá N. Andrews William L. "Our kind of people social status and class awareness in post-reconstruction African American fiction /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,380.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English." Discipline: English; Department/School: English.
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Gorton, Ceri Martha. ""The things that attach people" : a critical literary analysis of the fiction of Barbara Kingsolver." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2009. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10758/.

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This is the first full-length scholarly work dedicated to the fiction of Kentucky-raised feminist activist and trained biologist Barbara Kingsolver. Interrogating the political efficacy of the work of an author who proclaims that art “should be political” and that “literature should inform as well as enlighten”, this thesis explores the ways in which Kingsolver positions herself variously as an environmentalist, liberal, communitarian, feminist and agrarian. It unpacks the author’s issues-based approach to writing fiction and its effect on her commercial popularity and through close readings o
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Hogue, Alex. "I, (Post)Human: Being and Subjectivity in the Quest to Build Artificial People." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1468574783.

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Riehs, Daniel. "Make Your Data Work for You: True Stories of People and Technology." Thesis, Boston College, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/422.

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Thesis advisor: Alan Lawson<br>Technology should enhance the human experience. Instead, it often alienates people from aspects of life that are considered most important. Artists are separated from their works, friends are separated from each other, and human ingenuity is filtered though computers before it can impact the world. These five short stories focus mainly on alienations inherent to communications and media technology, but also touch on database management and copyright concerns. Some take place in the present day; others present views of the future. All five stories use fiction to e
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Clark, Ann Christine. "Historical fiction for children and young people : changing fashions, changing forms, changing representations in British writing, 1934-2014." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3215.

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In Language and Ideology in Children’s Fiction (1992) John Stephens forecast the demise of children’s historical fiction as a genre on the grounds that both history itself and the humanist values Stephens saw as underpinning historical fiction were irrelevant to young readers in postmodernity and intrinsically at odds with the attitudes and values of literary postmodernism. In fact, by the end of the millennium juvenile historical fiction was resurgent and continues to propagate humanist ideology. This study explores the changing nature and status of the genre as it has been published in Brita
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Applebaum, Noga. "Control Shift : Interfaces of Technology and Children's Literature through the Dimension of Science Fiction Written For Young People." Thesis, Roehampton University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.515290.

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Chapman, Elizabeth L. "Provision of LGBT-related fiction to children and young people in English public libraries : a mixed-methods study." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11802/.

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This thesis investigates the extent of provision of LGBT-related fiction to children and young people in English public libraries, how it is procured and made available, staff attitudes, and factors affecting provision. The research drew on a pragmatic philosophy and used a mixed-methods approach, comprising a checklist study, questionnaires and interviews. The literature review highlighted a need for portrayals of LGBT people in children’s and Young Adult fiction: this can have benefits for young LGBT people and children of LGBT parents, as well as for increasing understanding among others. D
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Elder, Catriona, and catriona elder@arts usyd edu au. "Dreams and nightmares of a 'White Australia' : the discourse of assimilation in selected works of fiction from the 1950s and 1960s." The Australian National University. Faculty of Arts, 1999. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20050714.143939.

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This thesis is an analysis of the production of assimilation discourse, in terms of Aboriginal people’s and white people’s social relations, in a small selection of popular fiction texts from the 1950s and 1960s. I situate these novels in the broader context of assimilation by also undertaking a reading of three official texts from a slightly earlier period. These texts together produce the ambivalent white Australian story of assimilation. They illuminate some of the key sites of anxiety in assimilation discourses: inter-racial sexual relationships, the white family, and children and young ad
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Wright-Brough, Freya K. "Constructing digital narratives: Negotiating totality and infinity with people from refugee backgrounds." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/124078/1/Freya_Wright-Brough_Thesis.pdf.

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Definitive narratives affect marginalised groups globally, playing significant roles in their continued oppression, while dominant groups are afforded the privilege of being represented as diverse. This research examined the opportunities and challenges for practitioners who create stories online to produce narratives which resist definitive and narrow representations. The researcher collaborated with four authors from refugee backgrounds to produce a digital narrative titled "We See Each Other" (2018). The result of the research was key insights into sites of innovation for digital narrative
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Stafford, Lucy J. "Fact vs fiction : an 'imagined contact' study aimed at reducing the impact of stigma about psychosis in young people." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2015. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/808631/.

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Social anxiety following an episode of psychosis is distressing and reduces social recovery. One theory is that the stigma attached to the label ‘psychosis’ means that people anticipate losing ‘social rank’ which then produces anxiety in social situations. Empathy has been found to be protective against stigma developing. Imagined contact is an experimental paradigm aimed at reducing stigma between groups. This study used this brief intervention in a population of young adults (n=74) with the aim of reducing stigma about psychosis. A primer was administered, and the study compared the effects
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Chachere, Karen A. De Santis Christopher C. "Visually white, legally black miscegenation, the mulatoo, and passing in American literature and culture, 1865-1933 /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3128271.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2004.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed Jan. 10, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Christopher C. De Santis (chair), Ronald Strickland, Cynthia A. Huff, Alison Bailey. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-193) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Curtin, Amanda. "Ellipsis: a novel and exegesis." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/337.

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This thesis comprises a novel entitled 'Ellipsis' and an exegesis entitled 'Ellipsis: Ambiguous genre, ambiguous gender'. The novel blends archival records and fiction into two woven narratives, one contemporary, one historical. In the contemporary narrative, set in 2004-2005, Willa Samson, flayed by guilt and grieving the loss of her daughter, is a hermit, unable to work, communicating with the world mainly through the Internet. But her desire to research a fragment of local history that has haunted her for years gently forces her back into the world. Willa is convinced that in the story of a
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Robertson, Pixi. "Steel Riders : a novel for young adult readers and, An hermeneutical examination of Steel Riders." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/326.

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This project consists of two parts, Section One: Steel Riders, a novel for young adult readers, and Section Two: An Hermeneutical Examination q(Steel Riders. Section One: Steel Riders is a hybrid text based largely on the conventions of the detective novel. The protagonist of Steel Riders is a nineteen-year-old university student, Bella Buchanan, who returns to her home in a small industrial town in regional Western Australia. Bella is disillusioned with her life in the city, but finds that she has become alienated from the life of her peers in her home town of Sandon. This distancing of Bella
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Murphy, Jill Marie. "Translingual literature: The bone people and Borderlands." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2755.

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This thesis proposes that by producing and existing within a translingual text, the ethnofeminist has found a way to subvert others' construction of her and redefine her identity. In particular, the ethnofeminist uses code switching to select and reinvent meaning from the language system of the dominant culture while maintaining the language system of the "marginal" group. In combining two (or more) language systems within a literature she has created her own language.
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Kato, Megumi Humanities &amp Social Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Representations of Japan and Japanese people in Australian literature." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38718.

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This thesis is a broadly chronological study of representations of Japan and the Japanese in Australian novels, stories and memoirs from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. Adopting Edward Said???s Orientalist notion of the `Other???, it attempts to elaborate patterns in which Australian authors describe and evaluate the Japanese. As well as examining these patterns of representation, this thesis outlines the course of their development and change over the years, how they relate to the context in which they occur, and how they contribute to the formation of wider Austral
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Walker, Gore Clare Helen. "Plotting disability : physical difference, characterisation, and the form of the novel, 1837-1907." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709332.

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Glasheen, Chemutai Agnes. "‘I am the Mau: short stories for young people’ AND the role of fiction in raising human rights awareness with an African perspective." Thesis, Curtin University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80629.

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The thesis is a two-fold response to how human rights awareness can be integrated into fiction for secondary schools. The exegesis – framed by the interdisciplinary perspectives of human rights, human rights education, and comparative literature – examines African understandings of human rights against universalist ideas, discusses the relationship between rights and fiction, and analyses five short stories by African writers. My creative work is a collection of ten short stories that interrogate complexity around human rights.
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Masters, Allison. "The sort . . . of people to which I belong Elizabeth Gaskell and the middle class /." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06172009-112406.

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Balster, Lori Maria Tarkany. "Cassie Dates Melvin: Or, How Two People Struggle to Save Their Town Despite a Few Small Obstacles Such as Killer Philodendrons (an Excerpt from Book Two in a Series)." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1280259112.

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Stevens, Hannah. "The best way to kill a butterfly and other stories ; and, In their absence : investigating the phenomenon of missing people through short stories and flash fiction." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/43085.

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This PhD submission is composed of a collection of short stories and an accompanying critical commentary, focusing on the theme of missing people. The short story collection reflects the diverse experiences relating to the phenomenon of missing people: child abduction, grooming and sexual exploitation, suicide, relationship breakdown and loneliness. The stories in the collection are of various lengths, from 'flash fiction' of fewer than 500 words, to longer, more sustained stories. The accompanying commentary investigates the theme of missing people, drawing upon legal, sociological and creati
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Albertan-Coppola, Marianne. "Être pauvre au siècle des Lumières : représentations de la pauvreté dans la fiction romanesque du XVIIIe siècle." Thesis, Paris 10, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA100109.

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Alors que la pauvreté a engendré moult débats et publications au XVIIIe siècle, les pauvres sont restés les oubliés de l'Histoire jusqu'aux travaux de J.-P. Gutton, D. Roche, A. Farge à la fin du XXe. Dans le domaine littéraire, elle n'a pas suscité beaucoup d'études, contrairement à son pendant, la richesse. Pourtant, le personnage du pauvre connaît un véritable essor au siècle des Lumières, au théâtre et surtout dans le roman. À parcourir les centaines de romans qui font une place à la pauvreté, une première constatation s'impose. Si le picaro reste au tournant du siècle une figure important
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Cahill, Rebecca E. "The relationship between political environment and size of a library's collection of GLBTQ fiction for young adults." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/124.

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"A Master's paper submitted to the faculty of the School of Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Library Science."<br>Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 21, 2006). Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-23, 28-33).
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Bloss, Hazel Ruth. "'Die Zeit der innern Weltumseglungen': representation of the people and examination of the self in the works of Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882) and Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (1823-1897)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491575.

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Adams, Megan. ""A Border is a Veil Not Many People Can Wear": Testimonial Fiction and Transnational Healing in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and Nelly Rosario's Song of the Water Saints." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3436.

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Drawing on recent attempts to reconcile the divergent nations of Hispaniola, I will examine the ways in which fiction by U.S. immigrant writers Danticat and Rosario looks back to the traumatic history of race relations on Hispaniola and the 1937 massacre as a means of approaching reconciliation and healing amongst the inhabitants of Hispaniola. As invested outsiders to their homelands, Danticat and Rosario may work, as Chancy suggests, in the capacity of actors for Hispaniola. Both Danticat and Rosario graciously admit that their writing is largely contingent on the relative freedom from censu
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Tait, Michelle Louise. "Navigating terragraphica : an exploration of the locations of identity construction in the transatlantic fiction of Ama Ata Aidoo, Paule Marshall and Caryl Phillips." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71769.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Seeking to navigate and explore diasporic identity, as reflected in and by transatlantic narrative spaces, this thesis looks to three very different novels birthed out of the Atlantic context (at different points of the Atlantic triangle and at different moments in history): Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint (1977) by Ama Ata Aidoo, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People (1969) by Paule Marshall and Crossing the River (1993) by Caryl Phillips. Recognising the weight of location – cultural, geographic, temp
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Coetzee, Mervyn A. "Blood, race and the construction of 'the coloured' in Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren." University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5362.

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Magister Artium - MA<br>In this paper I attempt to look critically at the literary construction of one particular 'race', namely the 'Coloureds', in Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren. To this end, the paper draws on the historical background of Millin, and investigates the way in which Millin has consciously and strategically formed, as it were, a 'unique' Coloured identity. Furthermore, the paper explores the proximity or tension between author and narrator in the novel. This tension, I suggest, emerges in response to various pressures in the novel which in turn are based upon the au
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Johansson, David. "Project Awaiting : #projectawaiting is about movement:of people with stories;stories in need of time; your time! initiated April 18, 2017 as part of a master's @ sh.se." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Journalistik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34604.

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<p>The master’s project consists of two parts: the journalistic part Project Awaiting (texts) including four journalistic genres and the subsequent Research Report Project Awaiting. These are 23 pages and 32 pages respectively.</p>
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Haugen, Hayley Mitchell. "Writing the "self-determined" life representing the self in disability narratives by Leonard Kriegel and Nancy Mairs /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1147369805.

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Blanc, Marie Thérèse 1960. "Another face of justice : interpretative debates within the Canadian trial novel after 1970." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84478.

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This study examines Canadian works of fiction that contain historical trial narratives and that enact an adversarial trial of their own for an implied reader who acts as 'appellate judge.'' Included are four Canadian novels published after 1970 that fictionalize the circumstances leading to notorious criminal trials: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace (1996), Lynn Crosbie's Paul's Case: The Kingston Letters (1997), and Rudy Wiebe's The Temptations of Big Bear (1973) and The Scorched-Wood People (1977). They represent commentaries on the justice or injustice done to convicted murderer Grace M
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Anderson, Robyn Lisa, and n/a. "The decolonisation of culture, the trickster as transformer in native Canadian and Maori fiction." University of Otago. Department of English, 2003. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070508.145908.

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The trickster is a powerful figure of transformation in many societies, including Native Canadian and Maori cultures. As a demi-god, the trickster has the ability to assume the shape of a variety of animals and humans, but is typically associated with one particular form. In Native Canadian tribes, the trickster is identified as an animal and can range from a Raven to a Coyote, depending on the tribal mythologies from which he/she is derived. In Maori culture, Maui is the trickster figure and is conceptualised as a human male. In this thesis, I discuss how the traditional trickster is contexua
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Hickman, John. "The fictional onscreen depiction of looked-after young people : 'finding someone just like me'." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2016. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/31607/.

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While there is significant interest in the lives of looked-after young people, little attention has been given to the way these young people are depicted onscreen. The aim of this study is to explore looked-after young people's perceptions of these fictional depictions and the impact these depictions have on them. Drawing on Freire’s seminal text, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, I adopt a participatory approach throughout. Research methods involved viewing and discussing TV and film content depicting looked-after characters with a group of young people in care, followed by semi-structured interview
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Kim, Young-Ho. "People's tradition of religious education /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1991. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/11169321.

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Thesis (Ed.D.) -- Teachers College, Columbia University, 1991.<br>Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Douglas M. Sloan. Dissertation Committee: William B. Kennedy. Includes bibliographical references: (leaf 139-143).
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Blackburn, Alison Carol. "Writing in Other People's Worlds: Two Students Repurposing Extracurricular Fan Fiction Writing to Fulfill Curricular Assignments." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6394.

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Through interviews and writing sample analysis of two secondary students who are fan fiction writers, this article examines the tensions between curricular writing and extracurricular fan fiction writing. This study finds students have rich extracurricular writing lives, and they repurpose familiar practices from fan fiction writing for the classroom. This study further discusses the role of genre in effective repurposing. This study argues students who develop genre awareness repurpose their extracurricular writing more effectively to fulfill curricular assignments.
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Walker, Tonya. "Rich attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places : a monologue from Hell /." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/992.

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Rich, Attractive People in Attractive Places Doing Attractive Things is a fictional memoir of a dead Manhattan socialite from the 1950's named Sunny Marcus. The novel is Sunny's monologue from Hell and features many well-known figures from American pop culture including Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, Clark Gable, William Powell and Babe Paley. It traces the upward trajectory of Sunny's life from a modest childhood in 1920's Los Angeles to the heights of social success in the unforgiving world of Café Society to her murder.
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