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Cox, Katharine May. "Labyrinths : navigating Daedalus' legacy : the role of labyrinths in selected contemporary fiction." Thesis, University of Hull, 2005. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5646.

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This study initially engages in an historical survey of the varying key realisations of labyrinths and their applications from antiquity through to the beginnings of the twentieth century. The shifting cultural significance of the labyrinth and its deployment in historical documents and literature alike is also evaluated. In particular, it focuses on two distinctive manifestations of the labyrinth: the Egyptian and the Cretan. The examination of these ancient artefacts affords an analysis of the intersection of archaeology, mythology and cultural productions. At the core of this study is the a

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Tomazic, Elizabeth Mary, and res cand@acu edu au. "Ariadne’s Thread: Women and Labyrinths in the Fiction of A.S. Byatt and Iris Murdoch." Australian Catholic University. School of Arts and Sciences, 2005. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp91.09042006.

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This thesis is an investigation of the journeys towards a sense of identity or selfhood, achieved through honest and accurate appreciation of the lives of others, made by several female characters in the fiction of A.S. Byatt and the late Iris Murdoch. I believe that because Byatt and Murdoch value literature as a serious business that teaches as well as entertains, their writing can play a significant role in illuminating the lives of women by means of its portrayal of the resolution of women’s struggles. Women’s lives, despite the rise of feminism, are still not equitable. While many women s

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Tomazic, Elizabeth Mary. "Ariadne's thread: Women and labyrinths in the fiction of A.S. Byatt and Iris Murdoch." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2005. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/f460ef0772a6330f156c65e26a5c7c9278aefbf5f03157ea13d8c346a9797ab8/974339/65112_downloaded_stream_337.pdf.

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This thesis is an investigation of the journeys towards a sense of identity or selfhood, achieved through honest and accurate appreciation of the lives of others, made by several female characters in the fiction of A.S. Byatt and the late Iris Murdoch. I believe that because Byatt and Murdoch value literature as a serious business that teaches as well as entertains, their writing can play a significant role in illuminating the lives of women by means of its portrayal of the resolution of women's struggles. Women's lives, despite the rise of feminism, are still not equitable. While many women s

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Paloc, Sophie. "Cortazar et nabokov : fictions labyrinthiques." Montpellier 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998MON30052.

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Les fictions de j. Cortazar et de v. Nabokov sont des fictions labyrinthiques. D'une part, car elles emploient des procedes de ruptures et de codages qui brisent l'unite diegetique tout en exhibant la litterarite et privilegient une << texture >>, autrement dit, une unite de nature analogique et poetique. Complexifiant ainsi l'espace narratif, elles font du parcours du lecteur un veritable dedale, reclamant de la part de ce dernier un travail d'actualisation* important, qu'il semble effectuer sous leur controle. La figure du labyrinthe est egalement presente dans les univers diegetiques, puisq

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Muhlstock, Rae Leigh. "Literature in the labyrinth| Classical myth and postmodern multicursal fiction." Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3640823.

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<p> The labyrinth is a powerful image, turning up throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in modernist, high modernist, postmodern, experimental, and digital fictions. Some authors taking up the image of the labyrinth in the latter half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first consider it more than a mere metaphor or a setting before which plots and characters unfold; it offers instead a poetics, a way to discover, explore, and conquer labyrinths constructed of the experiences of everyday life—the city, the home, the library, the computer, the mind, even

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McRobert, Neil. "The new labyrinth : reading, writing and textuality in contemporary Gothic fiction." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.605851.

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This thesis examines the forms and functions of self-consciousness in contemporary Gothic fiction. Though self-consciousness is an often-mentioned characteristic of Gothic writing, it has yet to be explored in sufficient depth. In particular, critics have failed to recognise the manner in which the myriad forms of textual and generic self-reflexivity at work contribute to the fiction’s fearful agenda: how self-consciousness in the Gothic is itself Gothicised. This thesis argues that, rather than being an ancillary quirk of generic coherence or an indication of creative exhaustion, self-conscio

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Nilsson, Jakob. "Berättelsens labyrinter : Interaktiv fiktion och dess narrativa aspekter." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-15297.

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This essay examines the narrative aspect of interactive fiction. The study uses Janet H. Murrays analysis of the digital environment and the properties of it as procedural, participatory, spatial and encyclopedic. From this, her three characteristic pleasures in digital narratives - immersion, agency and transformation - are examined from the perspective of interactive fiction. The study also examines Nick Montforts analysis of interactive fiction as a potential narrative and a simulated world or environment. His comparison of interactive fiction with the literary riddle is also used in regard

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Oakley, Helen Catherine. "Reading the labyrinth : the recontextualization of William Faulkner in Latin American fiction and culture." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313226.

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Lima, Paula Andrea Vera Bustamante de. "A cidade fictiva: visões e mundos da cidade em contos contemporâneos brasileiros, chilenos e portugueses." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-13082007-152637/.

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Esta pesquisa propõe o conceito de \"cidade fictiva\", entendida como a cidade que nasce especificamente da construção estética literária. Tal conceito permite descobrir os alicerces da cidade na literatura a partir dos primeiros textos de criação literária do Ocidente (Enuma Elish, Epopéia de Gilgamesh), para detectar suas principais características e examinar omo estas constituem elementos de construção em contos contemporâneos rasileiros, chilenos e portugueses nos quais se percebe uma idéia de \"conto citadino\". O estudo da cidade fictiva estabelece alguns paradigmas observados em diver

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Spiro, Benjamin P. "Infinity the labyrinth: the union of set theory with the short fiction of Jorge Luis Borges." Thesis, Boston University, 2005. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27780.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>2031-01-02

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Vilquin-Mongouachon, Brigitte. "Parcours des premières fictions de Paul Auster (1982-1989) : de l'alchimie au labyrinthe de verre." La Réunion, 2000. http://elgebar.univ-reunion.fr/login?url=http://thesesenligne.univ.run/00_08_Vilquin.pdf.

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L'œuvre de Paul Auster : un lieu de coïncidences, temple du paradoxe. Hasard des rencontres, évènements fortuits, coïncidences qui semblent abolir le temps. Deux évènements face à face semblent coïncider en tous points. Entre eux, une cloison de verre, symbole du temps qui les sépare. Tous ces chemins qui mènent aux multiples coïncidences, se croisent, s'éloignent, forment un labyrinthe où les nombreux effets optiques sont dus aux cloisons de verre qui le composent. Dans ce dédale, les jeux optiques règnent en maîtres. Transparence et spécularité : thèmes récurrents, images du même, mises en a

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Leavenworth, Van. "The Gothic in contemporary interactive fictions." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-30353.

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This study examines how themes, conventions and concepts in Gothic discourses are remediated or developed in selected works of contemporary interactive fiction. These works, which are wholly text-based and proceed via command line input from a player, include Nevermore, by Nate Cull (2000), Anchorhead, by Michael S. Gentry (1998), Madam Spider’s Web, by Sara Dee (2006) and Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star C. Foster and Daniel Ravipinto (2003). The interactive fictions are examined using a media-specific, in-depth analytical approach. Gothic fiction explores the threats which profoundly challe

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Brooker, Samuel. "The liberator's labyrinth : stand-alone, read-only hypertext fiction and the nature of authority in literary & hypertext theory." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-liberators-labyrinth(28ebc99d-35a9-46c4-8f3f-705058a1afa5).html.

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Theorists as diverse as Roland Barthes, Wolfgang Iser, and Stanley Fish have identified interpretation (the meaning derived from a fictional work by a reader) as distinct from the intentions of the author. This dissertation explores a common claim made in the first wave of hypertext fiction criticism: that the existence of authored choices created greater levels of interpretative freedom for the reader than in cinematic, theatrical, or traditional print works. Drawing primarily on literary theory, but selectively supported by computer and information science scholarship, this poststructuralist

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Catellin, Sylvie. "L' enquête et le labyrinthe dans la littérature et la fiction multimédia : une approche socio-cognitive et communicationnelle des dispositifs interactifs." Paris 10, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA100013.

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Les jeux de fiction multimédia héritent de la structure de deux grands modèles cognitifs et culturels, l'enquête et le labyrinthe. Le récit d'enquête associe la recherche d'informations et l'interprétation d'indices. Sa structure narrative est caractérisée par un récit qui progresse en reconstituant des événements passés. Le labyrinthe s'est développé notamment dans la littérature et les jeux. Il est devenu une expérience de l'écriture et une technique narrative associée à l'enquête. L'histoire de l'enquête-labyrinthe permet de comprendre comment la fiction multimédia a hérité du mouvement pro

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Mapangou, Dacharly. "La fiction romanesque de la postmodernité et ses labyrinthes : l’exemple des textes d’Alain Robbe-Grillet (France, 1922-2008), de Juan José Saer (Argentine, 1937-2005) et de Boubacar Boris (Sénégal, 1946-)." Thesis, Paris Est, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PEST0014/document.

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Cette étude répond à l’intitulé suivant : La fiction romanesque de la postmodernité et ses labyrinthes. L’exemple des textes d’Alain Robbe-Grillet (France, 1922-2008), de Juan José Saer (Argentine, 1937-2005) et de Boubacar Boris Diop (Sénégal, 1947-). Elle se propose de cerner, sous l’autorité méthodologique de la poétique textuelle, les diverses modalités par lesquelles le motif du labyrinthe s’impose comme substrat privilégié de la poétique du récit chez trois écrivains appartenant à des aires linguistiques et culturelles différentes. Le choix et l’examen des textes de ces trois écrivains r

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Mapangou, Dacharly. "La fiction romanesque de la postmodernité et ses labyrinthes : l'exemple des textes d'Alain Robbe-Grillet (France, 1922-2008), de Juan José Saer (Argentine, 1937-2005) et de Boubacar Boris (Sénégal, 1946-)." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Est, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00839137.

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Cette étude répond à l'intitulé suivant : La fiction romanesque de la postmodernité et ses labyrinthes. L'exemple des textes d'Alain Robbe-Grillet (France, 1922-2008), de Juan José Saer (Argentine, 1937-2005) et de Boubacar Boris Diop (Sénégal, 1947-). Elle se propose de cerner, sous l'autorité méthodologique de la poétique textuelle, les diverses modalités par lesquelles le motif du labyrinthe s'impose comme substrat privilégié de la poétique du récit chez trois écrivains appartenant à des aires linguistiques et culturelles différentes. Le choix et l'examen des textes de ces trois écrivains r

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Centenera, Tapia Gerardo. "Borges : el motivo del laberinto como poética. Restricciones y transgresiones." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020SORUL094.

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Dès les premières étapes de sa production littéraire, Borges a cultivé le projet de créer sa propre poétique. Ce travail vise à définir sa poétique comme une aspiration à un style classique et synthétique et à en identifier les mécanismes. À cette fin, de nombreux textes issus des différentes époques de sa production sont analysés et ses points de vue théoriques sont examinés. Borges s’intéresse à des genres très réglementés ―en raison de sa proximité avec le concept classique d’ordre― et transgresse ensuite soigneusement leurs conventions. Il agit avec une grande cohérence, en appliquant ces

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Lauraire, Héloïse. "Parcours scéniques : un genre de dispositif esthétique spécifique dans l'art contemporain occidental des années 2005-2012 : étude d’une sélection d’œuvres de Christoph Büchel, Mike Nelson, Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA080034.

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Entre le début des années 2000 et celui des années 2010, quatre artistes contemporains occidentaux Christoph Büchel, Mike Nelson, Jonah Freeman et Justin Lowe construisent en Europe et aux États-Unis de gigantesques et énigmatiques installations multi-pièces. Notre hypothèse initiale était qu’il existait des relations entre les super-productions labyrinthiques de ces artistes, tant du côté de leurs conceptions que de celui de leurs réceptions. Notre étude s’attache à décrire et analyser les spécificités (construction, accueil du public, thèmes et références …) et les enjeux (exploration, élabo

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Tomazic, Elizabeth Mary. "Ariadne's thread Women and labyrinths in the fiction of A.S. Byatt and Iris Murdoch /." 2005. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp91.09042006/index.html.

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Thesis (PhD) -- Australian Catholic University, 2005.<br>Submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Bibliography: p. 241-250. Also available in an electronic format via the internet.

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Cruddas, Leora Anne. "Labyrinths, legends, legions: an allergory of reading." Thesis, 1996. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24311.

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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Engiish.<br>This dissertation grapples With the activity of critical production. It answers not to an interpretation which would constitute the writer within the institutionalised category of effect and object of knowledge, but rather to an explosion, a proliferation of critical paths at the limit of the doxa: a veritable labyrinth. The terms of my title open up a methodological field within which I enact the play of assoc

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Andrews, Chad Michael. ""Minds will grow perplexed": The Labyrinthine Short Fiction of Steven Millhauser." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4023.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)<br>Steven Millhauser has been recognized for his abilities as both a novelist and a writer of short fiction. Yet, he has evaded definitive categorization because his fiction does not fit into any one category. Millhauser’s fiction has defied clean categorization specifically because of his regular oscillation between the modes of realism and fantasy. Much of Millhauser’s short fiction contains images of labyrinths: wandering narratives that appear to split off or come to a dead end, massive structures of branching, winding paths and

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"Le doute dans Ici de Nathalie Sarraute et Dans le labyrinthe d'Alain Robbe-Grillet." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/1943.

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M.A.<br>This study started off as a search for the factors that turn the French New Novel into unreadable, unenjoyable, difficult literature. The most obvious keyword that sprang to mind was “doubt”. This was the effect that we as a reader felt when reading the novels mentioned above. There is doubt in two areas: Firstly we doubt our own ability to comprehend, being fully aware that the French New Novel is enjoyed primarily by academics. Secondly we doubt the novelists’ ability to produce what we would call a conventional novel like those developed by novelists such as Balzac, Flaubert, Stendh

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