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Long, Bruce Raymond. "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5838.

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Informationist Science Fiction theory provides a way of analysing science fiction texts and narratives in order to demonstrate on an informational basis the uniqueness of science fiction proper as a mode of fiction writing. The theoretical framework presented can be applied to all types of written texts, including non-fictional texts. In "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction" the author applies the theoretical framework and its specific methods and principles to various contemporary science fiction works, including works by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson an

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Long, Bruce Raymond. "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5838.

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Master of Philosophy (MPhil)<br>Informationist Science Fiction theory provides a way of analysing science fiction texts and narratives in order to demonstrate on an informational basis the uniqueness of science fiction proper as a mode of fiction writing. The theoretical framework presented can be applied to all types of written texts, including non-fictional texts. In "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction" the author applies the theoretical framework and its specific methods and principles to various contemporary science fiction works, including works by Wi

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Peters, Susan. "Intending fiction, Lamarque's theory of fiction compared to Walton's and Currie's." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0020/MQ54477.pdf.

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Tsoulou, Martha. "After postmodernism : contemporary theory and fiction." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13753.

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There is a consensus today that we have witnessed the end of postmodernism in both fiction and theory. Due to contemporary fiction’s break with postmodernism being recent, little research has been done to outline the parameters of what exactly this break entails and its relationship to theory and current socio-political issues. The aim of this thesis is to attempt to differentiate between postmodernist fiction and contemporary fiction that was produced from the late 90’s up to today, outline its main characteristics and suggest alternative ways theory may be used to critically analyse fiction.

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Piercy, Laurence. "Fiction and the theory of action." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5913/.

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This thesis explores four mid-twentieth century fictional texts in relation to concepts of action drawn predominantly from Anglo-American analytic philosophy and contemporary psychology. The novels in question are Anna Kavan's Ice, Samuel Beckett's How It Is, Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano. The theory of action provides concepts, structures, and language to describe how agency is conceptualised at various levels of description. My exploration of these concepts in relation to fiction gives a framework for describing character action and the conceptualisation

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Stolen, James Bernt. "The Theory of Light." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50601.

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This manuscript is written from the perspective of thirteen-year-old Adrian Matthiessen, who arrives in mid-2008 in Bethlehem, South Africa at a clinic in the township of Bohlokong where his mother is volunteering. Adrian is witness to an act of magic surrounding an orphan girl who arrives at the clinic; an event that many use to label her as a pariah. Deeply troubled by this, Adrian begins to investigate who this strange girl is by seeking out the stories of the Basotho, and by befriending a volunteer medical student from France, the grandson of the clinic\'s founder, and a South African girl

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Watson, Lauren Pamela. "Contingencies and masterly fictions : deconstructive dialogues in/between Dickens, contemporary fiction and theory." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444642.

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Samperi, Ida Maria. "Critical fiction, fictional criticism : Christine Brooke-Rose's experimentalism between theory and practice." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4067.

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This thesis focuses on the mature development of Christine Brooke-Rose’s experimental fiction, taking particular interest in the exemplary texts Between and Thru. I argue that these texts both critically refigure and respond to central aspects of the poststructuralist debate. I investigate Between and Thru specifically in relation to the theories of Irigaray, Barthes (in the case of Between), Derrida and Kristeva (in the case of Thru), demonstrating how the two novels develop these theorists’ core tenets in an innovative manner that critics have failed to recognise up to this point. Starting –

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Gillan, Lindsey. "Encountering theory : readings in contemporary American fiction." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285082.

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This thesis gathers four American fiction writers from the group labelled as blank fiction writers during the 1980s - Lynne Tillman, Kathy Acker, Joel Rose and Catherine Texier - to suggest that their work does more than represent the flat, stunned prose attributed to blank fiction. Rather, their simple, streetwise yet often lyrical language is politically engaged, debating profound questions about the nature of identity, both of the indi vidual and of the text. The writing, while superficially transparent, is illusory, reflecting the belief that meaning is contextual: this has wide-reaching i

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Newswander, Lynita K. "Myths and Blueprints: Enacting Utopia through Fiction." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32511.

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<p>The study of utopia generally takes place in isolation from empirical social science based on its classification as either political theory or literary genre. While both approaches are well-suited to the academic study of a concept that does not exist in reality, each on its own also lacks the kind of efficacy that could be offered by an integrated situation of utopia in the "real" world. This paper seeks to incorporate utopian thinking into contemporary social and political context by utilizing both fiction and critical theory as a lens for the "real" world. It also considers both bluep

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Mathews, Peter David 1975. "Strategies of realism : realist fiction and postmodern theory." Monash University, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8656.

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Lowe, Julia (Julia Margaret) Carleton University Dissertation English. "Re-inscribing the mother: feminist theory and fiction." Ottawa, 1991.

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Fisher, Mark. "Flatline constructs : Gothic materialism and cybernetic theory-fiction." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1999. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/110900/.

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Cyberpunk fiction has been called “the supreme literary expression, if not of postmodernism then of late capitalism itself.” (Jameson) This thesis aims to analyse and question this claim by rethinking cyberpunk Action, postmodernism and late capitalism in terms of three - interlocking - themes: cybernetics, the Gothic and fiction. It claims that while what has been called “postmodernism” has been preoccupied with cybernetic themes, cybernetics has been haunted by the Gothic. The Gothic has always enjoyed a peculiarly intimate relation with the fictional. Baudrillard's theories, meanwhile, sugg

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Xausa, Chiara <1991&gt. "Feminist environmental humanities: intertwining theory and speculative fiction." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2022. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/10435/1/XAUSA_CHIARA_TESI.pdf.

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This dissertation explores the entanglement between the visionary capacity of feminist theory to shape sustainable futures and the active contribution of feminist speculative fiction to the conceptual debate about the climate crisis. Over the last few years, increasing critical attention has been paid to ecofeminist perspectives on climate change, that see as a core cause of the climate crisis the patriarchal domination of nature, considered to go hand in hand with the oppression of women. What remains to be thoroughly scrutinised is the linkage between ecofeminist theories and other ethical s

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Bedore, Pamela. "Open universes, contemporary feminist science fiction and gender theory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0023/MQ51297.pdf.

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Raghunath, Riyukta. "Alternative realities : counterfactual historical fiction and possible worlds theory." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2017. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19154/.

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The primary aim of my thesis is to offer a cognitive-narratological methodology with which to analyse counterfactual historical fiction. Counterfactual historical fiction is a genre that creates fictional worlds whose histories run contrary to the history of the actual world. I argue that Possible Worlds Theory is a suitable methodology with which to analyse this type of fiction because it is an ontologically centred theory that can be used to divide the worlds of a text into its various ontological domains and also explain their relation to the actual world. Ryan (1991) offers the most approp

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McGuire, Myles T. "Fruitful approaches: Queer Theory and Historical Materialism in contemporary Australian fiction." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/230862/1/Myles_McGuire_Thesis.pdf.

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"Fruitful approaches: Queer Theory and Historical Materialism in contemporary Australian fiction" investigates the application of Historical Materialist ontologies to gay-themed, contemporary Australian novels, examining these subjects through the lens of totality and reification.

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Kinch, Samuel Sean. "Quantum mechanics and modern fiction." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3037511.

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Green, Gary L. "The language of nightmare : a theory of American Gothic fiction /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1985.

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Coban, Osman. "Reading choices and the effects of reading fiction : the responses of adolescent readers in Turkey to fiction and e-fiction." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30686/.

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In surveying the cultural context of modern-day Turkey it must be acknowledged that, historically, there have been critical problems between different ethnic (Turkish and Kurdish) and religious groups in Turkey arising from prejudice, intolerance and leading to hatred and conflict. One way of easing the tension between these groups could be by challenging prejudice through developing empathy, understanding and respect. Among a number of ways this could be done, researchers in the field of literacy and children’s literature have stressed the positive effects of reading books that emerge from th

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O'Rawe, Catherine Geraldine. "Fictions of theory and theories of fiction : umorismo, metaphor and epiphany in the narrative of Luigi Pirandello." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621235.

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Kelly, Alexandra. "Fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum a philosophical treatment of fiction /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/711.

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Penazzi, Leonardo. "The fellow (novel) : and Australian historical fiction, debating the perceived past (dissertation) /." Connect to this title, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0070.

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Calder, S. R. "'More sure than shifting theory' : George Eliot's ethics of fiction making." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597221.

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Part I concerns the extent to which Eliot’s novels raise challenging questions about the epistemic function of experimental inquiry and provoke us to reflect on the nature of cognition. In Part II, I demonstrate how Eliot’s writings interrogate the nature of right action and engage in ethical inquiry. In Part III, I contend that Eliot’s writings invite us to distinguish between three distinct modes of teaching: a doctrinal mode, an exemplary mode and an aesthetic mode. I argue that Eliot utilises the third of these modes to impart knowledge and ethical guidance of a kind that more austere form

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Tolan, Fiona. "Connecting theory and fiction : Margaret Atwood's novels and second wave feminism." Thesis, Durham University, 2004. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2972/.

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This thesis undertakes an examination of the manner in which a novelist interacts with a contemporary theoretical discourse. I argue that the novelist and the theoretical discourse enter into a symbiotic relationship in which each influences and is influenced by the other. This process, I suggest, is simultaneous and complex. The thesis demonstrates how the prevailing theoretical discourse is absorbed by the contemporary author, is developed and redefined in conjunction with alternative concerns, and comes to permeate the narrative in an altered state. The novelist's new perspectives, frequent

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Bryant, Stephen. "Before 'agreement' : consequences of Wittgenstein's sceptical paradox in theory and fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359323.

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Campbell, Christopher. "Designing Theory: Social Space(s) in the Fiction of Georges Perec." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1377869529.

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Wiese, Annjeanette. "Narrative understanding: The staging of form and theory in contemporary fiction." Connect to online resource, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3303856.

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Wollam, Ashley J. "Discovering the Narrator-Ideal in Postmodern Fiction." Marietta College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1210788218.

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Graves, Robert Christopher Jason. "The art of heterotopian rhetoric a theory of science fiction as rhetorical discourse /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1245638686.

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Dreshfield, Anne C. ""All are finally fictions": Fan Fiction as Creative Empowerment Through the Re-Writing of "Reality"." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/237.

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This paper examines online fan fiction communities as spaces for identity formation, collaborative creativity, and fan empowerment. Drawing on case studies of a LiveJournal fan fiction community, fan-written essays, possible world theory, and postmodern theories of the hyperreal and simulacrum, this paper argues that writing fan fiction is a definitive, postmodern act that explores the mutable boundaries of reality and fiction. It concludes that fans are no longer passive consumers of popular media—rather, they are engaged, powerful participants in the creation of celebrity representation that

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Maloney, Edward J. "Footnotes in fiction a rhetorical approach /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1125378621.

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Moss, Laura F. E. "An infinity of alternate realities, reconfiguring realism in postcolonial theory and fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0004/NQ31944.pdf.

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Wallace, Molly. "Novel ecologies : nature, culture, and capital in contemporary U.S. fiction and theory /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9329.

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Maia, Rousiley Celi Moreira. "Crowd theory in some modern fiction : Dickens, Zola and Canetti, 1841-1960." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1992. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12125/.

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This thesis examines some perceptions of collective behaviour and psychology in some nineteenth and twentieth century literature. Focusing on selected works by three novelists, Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge (1841) and A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Emile Zola's Germinal (1885) and Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fe (1935), it is an attempt to analyse the cultural representations of the nature, psychology and behaviour of crowds from 1841-1960. We attempt to contextualize the models of the crowd present in each novel and the interpenetration of the development of crowd theory and political experience.

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Russell, G. E. "Les Chemins de la liberteÌ and Jean-Paul Sartre's theory of fiction." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268619.

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Maillet, Adam Michael. "The Theory of Narrative Balance and its Application to High Stakes Fiction." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10002462.

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<p> This dissertation seeks to create a theory of narrative balance based upon the connection between economics and literary narrative, and to apply that theory to postmodern texts, which confront issues of space, economics, and narrative. I use sources in both postmodern economic and cultural theory, as well as the more modern influences of cognitive science, narratology, and evolutionary psychology. My work will build on the work of several cognitive and evolutionary scholars, including David Herman, Lisa Zunshine, Blakey Vermeule, Nancy Easterlin, and Merlin Donald, but the concept of &ldqu

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Monforton, Hazel Elizabeth. "Violence and The Mirror : mimetic theory and gender politics in modern fiction." Thesis, Durham University, 2018. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12639/.

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In Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1961) and Violence and The Sacred (1972), René Girard situated desire as determined by the arrangement of social forces and networks in a triangular relationship with the other. In doing so, he opened up an immediate and fascinating avenue into the ways desire is experienced along gendered lines. Furthermore, by articulating violence as a structural result of desire within social contexts, Girard allowed a radical critique of hierarchical institutions to be made from the margins. By examining the works of 20th century feminist authors Virginia Woolf and Angel

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James, D. L. "Wolfgang Iser's concept of indeterminacy and its application to Stendhal's fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233536.

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Fuller, Elizabeth A. "'New femininities' fiction." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3573.

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I identify and analyse an emergent sub-genre of contemporary literature by women that I am calling ‘New Femininities’ fiction. This fiction is about the distinctly feminine experience of contemporary domestic life written by women about the lives of heterosexual female characters that are married or in committed partnerships, often with children. These texts are concerned with the nature of the self, with a self that is plural and ‘in process’, and make use of particular narrative devices – ironic voice, unreliable narration, free indirect discourse, and interrogative endings that exceed their

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Moore, Emily Olive. "Translating Greek Mythology in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8764.

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Given its early connection to western science fiction, it is not entirely surprising that contemporary Chinese science fiction (csf) frequently references the "west" in general and Greek mythology in particular. The three works that I analyze in this paper are Xia Jia's "Psychology Game," Gu Shi's "Chimera," and Egoyan Zheng's The Dream Devourer. These three texts utilize Greek mythology in different ways, to different degrees, and with different purposes, and yet they all use Greek mythology to visually disrupt their respective texts. Xia Jia ends "Psychology Game" with a direct Greek-languag

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Benjamin, Sarah. "The theory of identity dissonance, mass communication, romance fiction, and the self-concept." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq43370.pdf.

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Acheson, James. "Samuel Beckett's early fiction and drama: A study of artistic theory and practice." Thesis, University of Canterbury. English, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4761.

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Though Beckett is best known for Waiting for Godot, his first published work was not a play but a critical essay. That essay, "Dante • • • Bruno • Vico • • Joyce" (1929), a defence of Joyce's "Work in Progress," was the first of a number of occasional essays and reviews he was to write over the next quarter century. Beckett's main ambition during this period was to establish himself as a creative writer; he did not set out to develop a literary aesthetic. Nevertheless, there emerges from these occasional pieces a consistent theory about the relationship between art and the limits of human know

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Hardy, Stephen Paul. "Place and its relations in late twentieth century cultural theory and British fiction." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4171/.

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The dissertation presents a descriptive analysis of aspects of British fictional writing prefaced by a comparative analysis of cultural theory concerned with questions of place and socio-spatial relations-The general aim is to show how both the theory and the fiction negotiate elements of a relational poetics and politics of place in the context of negatively homogenizing tendencies in socioeconomic developments during the last thirty years of the twentieth century. In the first part, the writers of cultural theory are divided into three preliminary areas, covering primarily Marxist, post-stru

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Graves, Robert Christopher. "The Art of Heterotopian Rhetoric: A Theory of Science Fiction as Rhetorical Discourse." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1245638686.

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Nath, Michael. "Cult and magic : two readings of the fiction and theory of Wyndham Lewis." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/20056.

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The aim of this thesis is to break with the habit of much criticism of Wyndham Lewis, which has been to rely on the various classes of Lewis' non-fictional discourse in the interpretation of his fiction and satire. To this end, Chapter 1 undertakes a short survey of the bulk of major Lewis criticism, and indicates the several limitations attendant thereupon, in the form of too restricted models of interpretation. This chapter ends with a brief account of the method that I myself will adopt. In essence, this will be to go 'outside' the confinement of Lewisian discourse, as it were, in order to

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Smith, Emma Elizabeth. "Contextualizing narrative theory : reading the politics of formal innovation in contemporary women's fiction." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2008. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1445/.

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To ignore the strategies and structures through which stories are told, this thesis contends, is to neglect a vital dimension of their politics. Narratology provides productive analytical tools to illuminate the complex and varied mechanics of narrative form, yet it also bears the traces of its structuralist origins. Its value is therefore contingent upon its continuing reformulation as an expansive, pluralist and contextualized critical discipline. Participating in this expansion, this thesis evidences the pertinence and vitality of some narratological models and the limitations of others. It

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Haevens, Gwendolyn. "Mad Pursuits : Therapeutic Narration in Postwar American Fiction." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-263167.

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Mad Pursuits: Therapeutic Narration in Postwar American Fiction examines three mid-century American novels—J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963)—in relation to the rise and popularization of psychoanalytic theory in America. The study historicizes these landmark novels as representing and interrogating postwar America’s confidence in the therapeutic capacity of narrative to redress psychological problems. Drawing on key concepts from narrative theory and the multidisciplinary field of narrative and identity s

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Fisher, Allison Lynn. "Submerged Experimentation in Middlebrow Modernist Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1298475770.

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Tanksley, Charles William. "The failure of storytelling to ground a causal theory of reference." Thesis, Texas A&M University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/147.

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I argue that one cannot hold a Meinongian ontology of fictional characters and have a causal theory of reference for fictional names. The main argument presented refutes Edward Zalta's claim that storytelling should be considered an extended baptism for fictional characters. This amounts to the claim that storytelling fixes the reference of fictional names in the same way that baptism fixes the reference of ordinary names, and this is just a claim about the illocutionary force of these two types of utterance. To evaluate this argument, therefore, we need both a common understanding of the M

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