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Gillingwators, Jean. "Joan Didion and the new journalism." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/417.

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Owens, Clarke Wayne. "Person and Place in the Works of Joan Didion." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1389176659.

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Vance, Christy Claymore. ""The greenery of a nightmare" : paradise sought, found and lost in the essays of Joan Didion /." [Boise, Idaho] : Boise State University, 2008. http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/12/.

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Brown, Kelsey. "Remembering What It Was to Be Me: a Collection of Analyses of Themes in Joan Didion’s Nonfiction Writing." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/494.

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This paper is a collection of examinations into various topics in the nonfiction works of Joan Didion. The chapters are written from a personal perspective and delve into themes most meaningful to the author. The paper begins by probing Didion’s treatment of feminism and her opinions towards female figures in society, namely Lucille Maxwell and Georgia O’Keeffe. Didion’s essay “Georgia O’Keeffe” serves as a transition from feminist issues to a discussion of how “style is character” and the extent to which writing is an aggressive and hostile act. Didion’s assertion that writing is an invasion
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Beriker, Emma A. "Joan Didion's Iconic Nonfiction: Mass Media Distortion of the Written Form." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/847.

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This thesis explores Joan Didion’s concern of mass media’s infiltration on the processing and communication of her personal reality and memory. Didion herself communicates an anxiety of the infiltration of mass media into her individual communication of her unique, indescribable experience. Yet, she too is unable to escape this and instead, is forced to make this an act of adaptation, not separation. Mass media pervades Didion’s own mind, taking over her processing of experience and memory through the modes of photography and film. With these forms of mass media, Didion seeks a purity of perso
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Maidlow, Coleen. "“Man’s Country. Out Where the West Begins”: Women, the American Dream, and the West in Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1597.

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This paper examines the feminist perspective in Didion’s collection of essays Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Throughout the text, Didion looks closely at the West and the changing social climate which surrounds her. Her essays chronicle women struggling to find a balance between the domestic and independence promised by myth the West. I analyze how women are granted only limited participation within the American Dream because of the masculine power structures which dominate our society. As the values of the American Dream shift, the women that Didion depicts attempt to find identity and independ
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Story, Amy E. "Ethics and the boundaries of self : a study of Beauvoir and Levinas and a reading of Play as it lays and Beloved /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1421615581&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 232-238). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Derbesy, Philip. "Reading Cinematic Allusions in the Post-1945 American Novel." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case158653951934268.

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Jungstrand, Anna. "Det litterära med reportaget : Om litteraritet som journalistisk strategi och etik." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och idéhistoria, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-94131.

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This doctoral thesis explores the literarity of reportage, with a focus on the 20th century and modern reportage. The aim is to describe the literary strategies used in modern text-based reportage and how these strategies relate to journalistic standards of credibility and ethics. A primary focus is the question of what the reportage is looking for in the literary, what happens to this literarity when it is used for journalistic purposes, and, in turn, how the literary establishes ethics in the text.        By suggesting that a piece of reportage is a journalistic text that simultaneously tel
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Dalal, Anita Kamala. "In search of home : the writings of Katherine Ann Porter, Martha Gelhorn, Elizabeth Bishop and Joan Didlon in Latin America." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298466.

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Kilburn, Lillie. "Joan Didion the narrative and the frontier ethic /." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/8915.

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Limsky, Drew. "The American absurd : the (postmodern) world according to Joan Didion /." 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/gateway.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2007.<br>Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 243-251). Also available in electronic format on the World Wide Web. Access restricted to users affiliated with licensed institutions.
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Christoff, Claire Elizabeth. "California Dreaming: Place and Persona in the Essays of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/21857.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)<br>Joan Didion, a native of Sacramento, California, is the author of many acclaimed collections of journalism and memoir, the first of which were Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) and The White Album (1979). Eve Babitz, a lifelong resident of Los Angeles, has produced two such volumes: Eve’s Hollywood (1974) and Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. (1977). While much critical ink has been spilled over Didion’s oeuvre, Babitz was, until the recent reprinting of the aforementioned titles, known best as an artist and mu
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Caldicott, Mark John. "The post-expressivist turn four American novels and the author-function /." 2005. http://thesis.library.adelaide.edu.au/public/adt-SUA20060328.144736/index.html.

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Lew, Seung. "Going Paranoid from the Cold War to the Post-Cold War: Conspiracy Fiction of DeLillo, Didion, and Silko." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-438.

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This dissertation proposes to examine the conspiracy narratives of Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, and Leslie Marmon Silko that retell American experience with the Cold War and its culture of paranoia for the last half of the twentieth century. Witnessing the resurgence of Cold War paranoia and its dramatic twilight during the period from late 70s to mid-80s and the sudden advent of the post-Cold War era that has provoked a volatile mixture of euphoria and melancholia, the work of DeLillo, Didion, and Silko explores the changing mode of Cold War paranoid epistemology and contemplates its conditions
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Loughran, Colin. "American Impotence: Narratives of National Manhood in Postwar U.S. Literature." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42531.

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“American Impotence” investigates a continuity between literary representations of masculinity and considerations of national identity in the works of five postwar novelists. In particular, I illustrate the manner in which Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, John Updike’s Couples, Robert Coover’s The Public Burning, Joan Didion’s Democracy and The Last Thing He Wanted, and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho challenge the patterns of daily life through which a single figure is imagined to be the essential agent of American polity: namely, the self-made individualist, characterized by manly virtues
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Magens, Jana [Verfasser]. "Die Essays von Joan Didion im Kontext der Postmoderne : Studien zur Integration postmoderner Trends und postmodernistischer Charakteristika in traditionellen personal essays in den sechziger und siebziger Jahren des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts / vorgelegt von Jana Magens, geb. Lindemann." 2007. http://d-nb.info/985777966/34.

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