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Herrmann, Sebastian M. "Foggy realisms? Fiction, nonfiction, and political affect in Larry Beinhart’s Fog facts and The librarian." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-206587.

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This paper reads Larry Beinhart’s novel The Librarian (2004) and its nonfiction companion Fog Facts (2005) as a double attempt at writing that is politically invested in representing reality but that nevertheless is openly aware of the postmodern crisis of representation. In this sense, I read both books as indicative of a broad cultural search for forms of writing that engage their readers’ reality without simply attempting to return to a less complicated moment before postmodernism. The paper situates both books within crucial textual contexts: a broad ‘epistemic panic’ about the facts and r

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Herrmann, Sebastian M. "Foggy realisms? Fiction, nonfiction, and political affect in Larry Beinhart’s Fog facts and The librarian." Poetics of politics : textuality and social relevance in contemporary American literature and culture / Sebastian M. Herrmann [Hrsg.] ... Heidelberg : Winter, 2015. S. 133-151. ISBN 978-3-8253-6447-2, 2015. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A14846.

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This paper reads Larry Beinhart’s novel The Librarian (2004) and its nonfiction companion Fog Facts (2005) as a double attempt at writing that is politically invested in representing reality but that nevertheless is openly aware of the postmodern crisis of representation. In this sense, I read both books as indicative of a broad cultural search for forms of writing that engage their readers’ reality without simply attempting to return to a less complicated moment before postmodernism. The paper situates both books within crucial textual contexts: a broad ‘epistemic panic’ about the facts and r

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Gray, Michael E. "Reading Ineffability and Realizing Tragedy in Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden." TopSCHOLAR®, 2012. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1188.

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Victory Garden, Stuart Moulthrop’s 1991 classic hyperfiction, presents a nonlinear story of U. S. home front involvement in the First Gulf War in a way that facilitates confusion and mimics a "fog of war" sort of (un)awareness. Using Storyspace to build his complex narrative, Moulthrop incorporates poetry, fiction, historical references, and low-tech graphic novel type elements. Among the graphic components are all-black and all-white screens that function as variables. Overtly, these screens speak of closure and signify unconsciousness; however, their nonverbal role may also be linked to the

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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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Capdeville, Emily. "Can't Blame a Girl for Trying." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2362.

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Brogan, Patrick. "Walter's Rules for Getting By." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4343.

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This novella focuses on the lives of Walter, his mother Sabine, and his would-be love Bernadette. Walter is an awkward, unemployed thirty-year-old that still lives at home with his mother pressed into the pursuit of love by an obsession with romance novels. Walter is an outstanding cook and dishwasher but has no other notable talents. He eventually finds a job and manages to lose his virginity but changes little otherwise. The narrative is interested in the failures of family, love, and traditional societal expectations. It is interested in seeing and being seen. It is interested in a path aro

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Maynes-Aminzade, Elizabeth. "Macrorealism: Fiction for a Networked World." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11157.

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Victorian novels were, generally speaking, big. But what forms did their bigness take? Why did a "macro" aesthetic prevail in the mid-nineteenth century? And why, after losing influence in the following century, has it returned in recent years? This dissertation identifies three distinct features - one spatial, one temporal, one intellectual - crucial to that aesthetic. Moreover, it explains why that kind of fiction, which I call macrorealism, has come into fashion at two different historical moments.

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Beltran, Lahoz Pilar. "The fiction of reality : confinement and displacement : an introduction to research." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/345550/.

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This PHD project has been based on 100% studio practice; the original title for the research programme was Between Reality and Fiction and aimed at exploring the construction of reality and truth in our society, a society strictly controlled by the mass media. Whilst developing the first project within this body of research - Isolation (an attempt to contrast a real life experience of a visit to a prison with existing institutional information obtained through second and third hand sources - readings, media, films ...), a range of other more pertinent concepts arose, causing a shift from those

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Greiwe, Teresa. "Do We Mistake Fiction for Fact? : Investigating Whether the Consumption of Fictional Crime-related Media May Help to Explain the Criminal Profiling Illusion." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för kriminologi (KR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43630.

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The disparity between the ongoing use, the overall positive attitudes towards criminal profiling and the lack of empirical evidence for its validity is also referred to as criminal profiling illusion. Associated risks for society range from misled police investigations, hindered apprehensions of the actual offender(s), and wrongful convictions of innocent citizens to mistrust in the police and their methods. Research on potential explanations to the Criminal Profiling Illusion is still in its infancy but assumes that people receive and adopt incorrect messages favouring the accuracy and utilit

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Burrus, Ann. "Finessing for the Queen of Trumps." VCU Scholars Compass, 1991. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4392.

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Palhares, Edilson Rodrigues. "Fogo fátuo, fogo fatal pré-história e indeterminação na ficção científica." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2016. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19070.

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Moraes, Sinara Gislene Foss. "Coetzee's Foe: a reading on history and fiction." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/14652.

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O escritor ganhador do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura John Maxwell Coetzee publicou Foe em 1987. Ao lermos esse romance, somos imediatamente levados à ilha de Robinson Crusoe - e, conseqüentemente, ao mundo ficcional de Daniel Defoe. O objetivo deste trabalho é tomar a leitura da obra Foe, de Coetzee, como um comentário sobre a estética de construção de um romance. Esta é uma dissertação argumentativa, dividida em três partes. O primeiro capítulo introduz o autor e contextualiza as discussões sobre a Escrita, a História e a Ficção. O segundo capítulo traz o suporte teórico, que consiste na apresen

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Rao, Eleonora. "Strategies for identity : the fiction of Margaret Atwood." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1991. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/108219/.

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This study is a critical reading of the fiction of contemporary Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood. My analysis focuses on problems pertaining to the questions of genre, identity and female subjectivity. The thesis is thematically structured. Chapter One, 'The Question of Genre: Creative Re- Appropriations, explores the plurality of genres and narrative styles present in the novels. The second Chapter' A Proliferation of Identities: Doubling and Intertextuality' examines constructions of the self in the light of psychoanalytic theories of language and subjectivity which conceive of the

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Sotelo, Susan B. "Chicano detective fiction: Hot sauce for the whodunit." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289955.

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Recent detective novels (1985-2001) of five Chicano authors, Rudolfo Anaya, Lucha Corpi, Rolando Hinojosa, Michael Nava and Manuel Ramos are analyzed in relationship to Anglo-American and British detective genres, Chicano literature and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romanticism. The analysis focuses on Rudolfo Anaya's Shaman Winter, Lucha Corpi's Cactus Blood, Rolando Hinojosa's Partners in Crime, Michael Nava's Rag and Bone and Manuel Ramos' The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz. Chicano detective fiction draws from Anglo-American and British detective genre formulas and can be distinguished from the

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Burr, Benjamin J. "Intertextuality in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1374.pdf.

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Fennick, Ruth McLennan Fortune Ron. "The creative processes of prose-fiction writers what they suggest for teaching composition /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1991. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9203044.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University,<br>Title from title page screen, viewed December 19, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Ronald Fortune (chair), Janice Neuleib, Ray Lewis White, Elizabeth McMahan, Russell Rutter. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 441-479) and abstract. Also available in print.

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McDaniel, Ferris W. "Whatever It Is We're Competing For." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2345.

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Brodie, Jessica J. "Children in science fiction utopias: feminism's blueprint for change." FIU Digital Commons, 1999. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2425.

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The purpose of this thesis was to examine the treatment and portrayal of children in science fiction utopian literature and determine whether this effectively indicated the writers’ feminist visions for social change. A feminist theoretical perspective and critical interpretation of several of the genre’s canon, Sheri Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country, Suzy McKee Chamas’s Motherlines, Sally Miller Gearhart’s The Wanderground, Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series, were used as research methodologies. The findings revealed that children communicate feminis

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Smith, Tara Blue Moon. "The Praxis of Science Fiction: Pedagogies for Social Change." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27587.

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This thesis considers the literary genre of science fiction as generative of social change. In examining the genre from three different perspectives — the writers, the works and pedagogy — it demonstrates the importance of science fiction as a creative framework through which society can be examined and, as a site from which new ways of thinking may emerge. First-hand qualitative and quantitative data have been used to demonstrate that writers of science fiction purposively create didactic and meaningful work with the intention of influencing the ethical perspectives of their readers. This t

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Root, Crystal Lynn. "Room for Me." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1211.

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This collection of interwoven short stories revolves around a small Southern women's college and its inhabitants. Written in first-person from various perspectives, the stories combine, much like Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, to create a final cohesive work that is not quite a novel. Main characters include the gentle, introspective teenage son of a faculty member, the garrulous student with whom he is enamored, and her skeptic of a half-sister. One parallel narrative involves a search for self and story through music and musicians, the other via a campus ghost. The focus, as with Eudor

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Coleman, Britta. "Set for Life: a Novel." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149574/.

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This collection of six chapters is an excerpt from a novel based on the book of Job, as told through the viewpoint of a contemporary woman from Texas. A preface exploring the act of starting over, fictionally and creatively, precedes the chapters.

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Yeung, Mei-yee. "Searching for a cultural identity : Hong Kong fiction from the fifties to the nineties /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19605389.

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Thibodeau, Amanda. "Gender, Utopia, and Temporality in Feminist Science Fiction: (Re)Reading Classic Texts of the Past, in the Present, and for the Future." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/586.

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This dissertation explores the ways that women authors of science fiction have altered conventions of utopia and science fiction in order to revise conceptions of gender, sexuality, the body, and the environment. I examine several twentieth-century feminist critical dystopias that continue to betray genre and form, and to shape the science fiction being written at this moment. Each of the works demonstrates particular elements that facilitate its revisionary power: challenging and deconstructing sex/gender systems, blending utopian and dystopian conventions, and engaging in temporal play. By d

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Valentine, Valerie D. "An investigation of authenticity and accuracy in children's realistic fiction picture books set in Appalachia." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1202328969.

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Sorensen, Nathalie. "Making sense for our lives, women's collaborative reading of fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ35328.pdf.

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Phelps, Catherine Margaret. "[Dis]solving genres : arguing the case for Welsh crime fiction." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2013. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/60053/.

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Walter Benjamin’s suggestion that great literary works not only add to canonical literature but also ‘dissolve’ genres may not seem apt in an examination of crime fiction, a genre noted for its rigidity and structured form. Though much of this mass-marketed, populist fiction cannot be perceived as great literature, nonetheless, some do work to dissolve genres, to re-shape them to different ends. This is especially true of Welsh crime fiction written in English. This thesis posits that there is a wealth of undiscovered Welsh crime fiction written in English and that those neglected works are ne

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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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Smuts, Eckard. "Displaced romanticism: searching for the self in J.M.Coetzee's autobiographical fiction." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9527.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>This thesis is a literary critical investigation into the strategies of self-definition at work in the autobiographical fiction of J.M. Coetzee. My focus falls on those of his novels that have a more-or less explicit autobiographical resonance (Boyhood, Youth, Elizabeth Costello, Diary of a Bad Year, Summertime), with supplementary forays into two additional books (Age of Iron and The Childhood of Jesus). My argument centres on the observation that Coetzee's work derives its affective force from the conflict he stages, time and again, between the desire

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Liu, Mei-Ying. "Portrayals of the Chinese in fiction for children 1925-1991." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1248969330.

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Butler, Stephen. "'Hope for wild enlightenment' : the interdisciplinary quest for knowledge in modern fiction." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421737.

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Donnelly, Sara. "Everything She Does For You." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/260.

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Everything She Does For You is a collection of original short fiction involving themes of love and loyalty. The stories center on characters living in the fictional town of Eastland, Maine. This collection culminates two years of creative experimentation as a fellow at the University of Miami. The current copy reflects my interest in fabulist and realistic fictions as well as my growing fascination with my state of origin, Maine, and the city in it that I know best, Portland.

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Ruby, Cameron H. "Roots and Leaves: A Story for High-Functioning Autistic Youth." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/791.

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This thesis is a short novel written for a high-functioning autistic audience, about a high-functioning autistic student named Roger. It works on the strengths of autistic youth to create a story to which they can relate and from which they may hopefully learn. It is a character study above anything else, and creates a young student to whom both autistic and non-autistic students alike can relate.

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Riley, Kirsten Helene Frances. "Pictorial signification through praxis : an investigation into the visual fiction of American photorealism (1967-1977)." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3212/.

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Photorealism was a movement which focused on meticulously reproducing the quotidian photograph on a large scale. Despite its popularity from between 1967-1977, it was often considered by critics to be vacuous and anachronistic. This was due to several factors, most significant of which were its focus on the outmoded practice of pictorial realism, the banality of its subjects and its apparent plagiaristic approach to the photograph-as-source. This neutral and cool aesthetic was misunderstood as superficial and served to render the movement the very antithesis of aesthetic creativity. This thesi

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Constantinou, Odysseas Symeon. "Sound-to-picture : the role of sound in the audio-visual semiosis of non-fiction film." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2007. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54109/.

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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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Argüello, Manresa Gemma del Carmen. "Sympathy for the devil. The paradox of emotional response to fiction." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/5186.

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Durante los últimos treinta años ha habido un fructífero debate en torno a la llamada paradoja de la ficción o la paradoja de la respuesta emocional a la ficción. Es decir, ¿por qué situaciones ficticias nos emocionan, aunque sabemos que no existen? Cuando leemos una novela, asistimos al teatro o cuando vemos una película en casa solemos emocionarnos si las historias que estos medios nos presentan nos conmueven hasta las lágrimas, el horror, la indignación, el enojo, etc. Sin embargo, sabemos que estas historias y los personajes dentro de ellas no son reales. Entonces, hay un problema, al meno

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Lancaster, Daniel Foertsch Jacqueline. "A futile quest for a sustainable relationship in Welty's short fiction." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3652.

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Hipple, David. "Science fiction on screen : a model for evaluating a visual genre." Thesis, University of Reading, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.578034.

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This thesis formulates analytical perspectives and tools applicable to a range of science fiction (sf) texts across diverse media. Its objective is an answer, regardless of a text's history, medium or geographical origin, to the question, 'How does effective sf work?' I show that sf is unified across media by its strategy for storytelling-not regular in iconography, themes or politics (as some suggest), but in promoting distinctively engaged intellectual attention guided by convincing human narrative, and energised by combined wonder and rationality, principles whose predominant importance for

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Wren, Hue-An. "Analyzing discourse in fan fiction communities for evidence of writing instruction." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3635768.

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<p> At present, it can be difficult for teachers to teach writing effectively in the formal classroom due to large class sizes and unreasonable standardized testing criteria. As a result, many students are unable to learn how to communicate well in writing. Teachers will need to look outside the traditional methods of writing instruction to find ways to teach writing strategies effectively and efficiently. Informal learning occurs frequently in online spaces. Online communities, such as fan fiction websites, offer an opportunity for experts and novices to work in the same digital space where o

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Bartels, Kirsten Allen. "Narrative strategies in recent Holocaust fiction for children and young adults." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.704738.

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Margaret, Scanlon. "Popular histories : a study of historical non-fiction books for children." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020570/.

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Schweers, Ellen H. "Moral Training for Nature's Egotists: Mentoring Relationships in George Eliot's Fiction." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2868/.

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George Eliot's fiction is filled with mentoring relationships which generally consist of a wise male mentor and a foolish, egotistic female mentee. The mentoring narratives relate the conversion of the mentee from narcissism to selfless devotion to the community. By retaining the Christian value of self-abnegation and the Christian tendency to devalue nature, Eliot, nominally a secular humanist who abandoned Christianity, reveals herself still to be a covert Christian. In Chapter 1 I introduce the moral mentoring theme and provide background material. Chapter 2 consists of an examination of F

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Lancaster, Daniel. "A Futile Quest for a Sustainable Relationship in Welty's Short Fiction." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3652/.

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Eudora Welty is an author concerned with relationships between human beings. Throughout A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, The Wide Net and Other Stories, and The Golden Apples, Welty's characters search for ways in which to establish and sustain viable bonds. Particularly problematic are the relationships between opposite sexes. I argue that Welty uses communication as a tool for sustaining a relationship in her early work. I further argue that when her stories provide mostly negative outcomes, Welty moves on to a illuminate the possibility and subsequent failure of relationships via innoc

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Hibbert, Jeffrey D. "Room for Possibilities: James Joyce and the Rhetorical Work of Fiction." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2008. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/16019.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>The resurgence of interest in James Joyce's politics over the past decades reveals Joyce as a politically astute, if not active, writer. But Joyce's politics were never easily codifiable or traceable to a set of ideologically fixed positions. Instead, this dissertation argues, Joyce uses the novel as a space where political debate can be dramatized, and the novel becomes a form of deliberative rhetoric regarding future possibilities. For Joyce, the practices of rhetoric and aesthetics are complexly intertwined and interdependent, though they remain, in many ways, opposition

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Bentham, A. A. "Empathy for the devil : the poetics of identification in psychopath fiction." Thesis, University of Salford, 2014. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/31950/.

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As Philip L. Simpson notes, humankind has an ‘ongoing ... fascination with tales of gruesome murders and evil villains’ (15). Popular culture abounds with depictions of the mad and the bad; and perhaps no single disorder holds as much morbid appeal as psychopathy, the baffling condition which combines what Hervey M. Cleckley terms a ‘mask of sanity’, with a seeming lack of the qualities usually deemed to constitute humanity. My thesis focuses on how authors have sought to explain, interpret and understand the psychopathic individual, and explores how literary techniques have manipulated reader

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Filler, Stephen. "Hasegawa Nyozekan : the pedagogical value of fiction for a political philosopher." Connect to resource, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1232551554.

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Hart, Emma. "Immunology as a metaphor for computational information processing : fact or fiction?" Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23042.

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The biological immune system exhibits powerful information processing capabilities, and therefore is of great interest to the computer scientist. A rapidly expanding research area has attempted to model many of the features inherent in the natural immune system in order to solve complex computational problems. This thesis examines the metaphor in detail, in an effort to understand and capitalise on those features of the metaphor which distinguish it from other existing methodologies. Two problem domains are considered — those of scheduling and data-clustering. It is argued that these domains e

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Dil, Jonathan. "Murakami Haruki and the search for self-therapy." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Languages and Cultures, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1004.

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This thesis offers a reading of the first eleven novels of popular Japanese novelist Murakami Haruki, as well as a selected number of his short-stories and non-fictional works, as an evolving therapeutic discourse. In short, it is a response to Murakami's own claim to have started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy. Murakami, I will argue, is primarily responding to existential anxieties that have been magnified by conditions of cultural decline in late-capitalist Japan. His resulting therapeutic discourse shares interesting parallels with certain psychoanalytic theories of the twentie

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Siddall, Jane. "Mother what art thou? : a study of the depiction of mother figures in recent Australian and New Zealand fiction for teenagers." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2003. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1290.

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This thesis is a study of the representations of mothers and mother figures as found in five contemporary (published between 1984 and 1999) novels for teenagers. The focus is on western constructions of motherhood, as both normalising and universalising discourses. Utilising a variety of critical approaches this thesis examines the socio-cultural issues present in the novels in conjunction with western models of maternity. This study argues the category of mother is interdependent upon the category of child. As children's literature often focuses on the development of the child, the mother fig

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Hartley-Smith, Rachel L. "Cella : a journal for creative storytelling through digital mediums." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1379434.

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To complete my final creative project in seeking a Master of Arts degree in Telecommunication: Digital Storytelling through Ball State University, I have created a "pilot" online journal in Macrojnedia Flash 8 for the display of various methods of creative storytelling through the digital medium (currently located at http://rlhartleysmi.iweb.bsu.edu/cella.swf). Here, 1 review the concepts employed as well as my intentions in creating such a journal. I detail the interior workings of the journal and the categories of digital work represented. I outline requirements for future submissions and fi

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