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Chen, Jou-An. "An exploration of nature and human development in young adult historical fantasy." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/282878.

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Traditional historical writing focuses on the cause and effect of human action, assuming that it is the historian's responsibility to recount the ebbs and flows of human progress. In the process of laying hold of the past as a narrative of human action, historical writing has developed the tendency to marginalise nature and undermine its power to influence the historical narrative. My investigation explores the fantastic in historical fantasy as a means of resisting historical writing's anthropocentrism. Historical fantasy uses fantastical elements to create counterfactual and alternative hist

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Penazzi, Leonardo. "The fellow (novel) ; and Australian historical fiction, debating the perceived past (dissertation)." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0070.

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Novel The Fellow What is knowledge? Who should own it? Why is it used? Who can use it? Is knowledge power, or is it an illusion? These are some of the questions addressed in The Fellow. At the time of Australian federation, the year 1901, while a nation is being drawn into unity, one of its primary educational institutions is being drawn into disunity when an outsider challenges the secure world of The University of Melbourne. Arriving in Melbourne after spending much of his life travelling around Australia, an old Jack-of-all-trades bushman finds his way into the inner sanctum of The Universi

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Kent, Alicia Adele. "Migrant modernities : historical and generic movement in fiction by African Americans and Native Americans in the early twentieth century (Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, Mourning Dove, D'Arcy McNickle)." Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?res_dat=xri:ssbe&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_dat=xri:ssbe:ft:keyresource:Kra_Diss_02.

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Pettersson, Petter. "What about historical fiction? : Ways to use historical fiction in an ESL-classroom setting." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-35275.

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Tait, Meg. "Taking sides : Stefan Heym's historical fiction." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.624152.

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Kellar, Pinard Katrina. "Settler Feminism in Contemporary Canadian Historical Fiction." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39608.

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Canada has seen a veritable explosion in the production and popularity of historical fiction in recent decades. Works by women that present a feminist revision of national narratives have played a key part in this phenomenon. This thesis discusses three contemporary Canadian historical novels: Gil Adamson’s The Outlander (2007), Ami McKay’s The Birth House (2006), and Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace (1996). By examining these novels through a settler colonial lens and with a specific interest in the critique of settler feminism, this thesis offers readings that can reveal how feminism operates w

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Hadley, Louisa A. "Rewriting historical narratives in neo-Victorian fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24661.

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This thesis explores the contemporary form of neo-Victorian fiction in relation to both contemporary and Victorian literature. I argue that neo-Victorian fiction needs to be considered in relation to but as distinct from postmodern literary practices. Although neo-Victorian texts are often considered postmodern, I argue that they should be differentiated from the categories of postmodernism. Whilst interrogating history, often considered a postmodern characteristic, neo-Victorian fiction retains a commitment to the historical specificity of the Victorian era. The interrogation of history under

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Harris, Katharine. "The neo-historical aesthetic : mediations of historical narrative in post-postmodern fiction." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2018. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/76623/.

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Lake, Christina Jane. "Improving on nature : eugenics in utopian fiction." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/27236.

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There has long been a connection between the concept of utopia as a perfect society and the desire for perfect humans to live in this society. A form of selective breeding takes place in many fictional utopias from Plato’s Republic onwards, but it is only with the naming and promotion of eugenics by Francis Galton in the late nineteenth century that eugenics becomes a consistent and important component of utopian fiction. In my introduction I argue that behind the desire for eugenic fitness within utopias resides a sense that human nature needs improving. Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859) prom

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Leavitt, John Hudson. "Killers: Fiction Pieces." PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3021.

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This fiction collection attempts to convey the essence of Oregon's landscape, nature, and people. Many of these pieces reflect violent behavior, which is sometimes directed from one character to another, and sometimes directed toward nature. Sometimes this violence is mild, sometimes it is horrific. But the reasons for the violence and any connection it has to the landscape, nature, and people of Oregon is left to the reader to decide. The focus of this collection is not to teach lessons--it is to entertain.

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Bavasah, Tessa. "Parodic imagination and resistant form in historical fiction: A study of Ann Harries' manly pursuits." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_5657_1242111847.

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<p>In this dissertation, the author examines the historical novel Manly pursuits (1999), by Ann Harries. The novel deals with the late nineteenth century in Oxford, England, and inparticular the year 1899 in Cape Town. The focus of the novel is on Cecil John Rhodes and his entourage, and their obsession with empire, which culminates in the South African war in 1900. Featured characters include Chamberlain, Jameson, Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dodgson, John Ruskin and Olive Schreiner. Harries novel is interpreted as showing resistance to the Victorian society which is the framework which is s

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Kocela, Christopher. "Fetishism as historical practice in postmodern American fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38213.

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This study contends that postmodern American fiction dramatizes an important shift of philosophical perspective on the fetish in keeping with recent theories of fetishism as a cultural practice. This shift is defined by the refusal to accept the traditional Western condemnation of the fetishist as primitive or perverse, and by the effort to affirm more productive uses for fetishism as a theoretical concept spanning the disciplines of psychoanalysis, Marxian social theory, and anthropology. Analyzing the depiction of fetishistic practices in selected contemporary American novels, the dissertati

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Davies, Richard Blaine Davies Richard Blaine. "Historical fiction makes American history come to life!" [Boise, Idaho : Boise State University, 2002. http://education.boisestate.edu/bdavies.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Boise State University, 2002.<br>Web site. Master's project includes an explanatory text and CD-ROM entitled: Historical fiction : a web site supporting secondary U.S. history courses of study-Idaho Department of Education. Includes bibliographical references.

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Redfern, Rachel Yvette. "Layering the March: E. L. Doctorow's Historical Fiction." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2229.

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E.L. Doctorow implements ideas of intertextuality and metafiction in his 2007 novel, The March, which is most notably apparent through its resemblance to the 1939 film, Gone with the Wind. Using Michel de Certeau's theory of spatial stories and Linda Hutcheon's of historiographic metafiction, this thesis discusses the layering of Doctorow's The March from the film seen in the character of Pearl from the novel and Scarlett from the film and Selznick's version of the burning of Atlanta and Doctorow's burning of Columbia.

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Youngs, Suzette. "Literary, visual, and historical understandings intermediate readers respond to historical fiction picture books /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3355609.

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McMullin, Geoffrey Peter. "Nature and natural phenomena in Thomas Mann's fiction." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266500.

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Drake, George A. "Historical space in the eighteenth-century novel /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9425.

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Blasdel, Janelle June. "The Nature of Things." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/575.

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF JANELLE JUNE BLASDEL, for the Master of Fine Arts degree in ENGLISH, presented on April 5, 2011, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: THE NATURE OF THINGS MAJOR PROFESSOR: Professor Beth Lordan The Nature of Things is a collection of short stories divided into two parts. While both parts are thematically linked and include similar recurring themes, such as childhood, motherhood, maturation, and the menace that follows characters from one phase of life and into the next, each part experiments with different formal and tonal writing elements. Part

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Martin, Patricia L. "Minority protagonists in the young adult historical fiction novel." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2007. http://165.236.235.140/lib/PMartin2007.pdf.

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Tiedemann, Heidi. "After the fact, contemporary feminist fiction and historical trauma." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ63656.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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Dodwell-Groves, Laura. "The seventh bulb : a middle grade historical fiction novel." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31562.

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In this work of historical fiction, a twelve-year-old girl called Emmetje journeys from the streets of Constantinople to the decks of a smuggling boat and on to the back streets and canals of 17t h century Amsterdam. In her pocket she carries the bulb of a unique blue tulip, and in her hand is a strange treasure map that uncovers the heart of a nation's strange obsession. Emmetje's mother had drawn tulips. Hovering beside the elegant petals she drew butterflies, and on their wings she drew her map. Compelled by curiosity and an adventurous spirit, Emme sets out to discover where her mot

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Cabrera, Marta Jimena. "Writing civilisation the historical novel in the Colombian national project /." Access electronically, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20050307.143257/index.html.

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Byno, Ashley. "The Nature of Things." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2655/.

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The Nature of Things is a collection of stories and a preface that examine character motivation. The author is concerned with unexpected reactions and surprising outcomes. The stories are independent of each other and involve a wide range of characters.

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Vicas, Astrid. "The nature of fictional discourse." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39800.

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This dissertation presents an account of fictional discourse which is teleological. According to it, questions about what is said in fiction and how it ought to be said are answerable in terms of the goals and methods belonging specifically to fiction-making as a practice. Viewed in such a way, it is argued that the incompleteness of fictional discourse and its apparent tolerance of inconsistency are distinctive of it. Moreover, it is argued that there is a sense in which one can produce true statements in fiction without thereby committing one self to the thesis that words made use of in fict

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Green, Dawn. "Imagining the past [electronic resource] : contemporary Italian women's historical fiction /." Full text available, 2001. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/greend.pdf.

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Wang, Mei-Chuen. "Narrative, genre and national myth in postmodern Canadian historical fiction." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2010. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54365/.

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This thesis investigates the expansion and continuing proliferation of Canadian historical fiction during the past three decades, and makes a case for reading a number of these novels as postmodern historical fiction. Characterized by the postmodern tendency to problematize history and cross genre boundaries, the novels discussed here are nevertheless rooted in their Canadian context. To establish a theoretical framework, the thesis reviews the reconfiguration of history in contemporary critical theories and its impact on the writing of history and historical fiction, and investigates the deba

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Kavanagh, Matthew. "Second nature: American fiction in the age of capitalist realism." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18440.

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Second Nature: American fiction in the age of capitalist realism During the 1990s the global triumph of capitalism has made it, paradoxically, all the more difficult to see. Not only is capitalism increasingly derealized (e.g. cyber-capital), its very ubiquity renders it unremarkable, to the point that it appears a neutral part of objective reality. This dissertation examines how American writers have responded to the 'spectrality' that results from the mediation of everyday experience through the market. I discuss formal strategies in the work of Bret Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, Don DeLillo, Wil

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Naidu, Sam. "Crimes against nature : ecocritical discourse in South African crime fiction." UNISA Press Journals - NISC, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53754.

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Heeding Patrick Murphy's call to critics, in his book, Ecocritical explorations in literary and cultural studies: fences, boundaries and field, to study “nature-oriented mystery novels … in order to understand the degree to which environmental consciousness and nature awareness has permeated popular and commercial fiction” (2009: 143), this article examines how highly successful author, Deon Meyer, has employed crime fiction to popularize ecological issues and debates in South Africa. In this article, Meyer's first “nature-oriented” novel, the crime thriller, Blood safari (2009), is analysed.

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Hermanson, Scott Douglas. "The Simulation of Nature: Contemporary Fiction in an Environmental Context." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin991838727.

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Mitchell, Anne. "Approaches to history in text and image in England, c. 1830-70." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239429.

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Stephenson, William John. "Form, parody and history in 'The French lieutenant's woman' and 'A maggot' by John Fowles, and 'To the ends of the Earth: a sea trilogy' by William Golding." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249288.

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Keith-Slack, Peter B. "Baptized in Blood." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1390.

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Merlin, Bailey. "Sentinel." Digital Commons @ Butler University, 2017. https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/grtheses/496.

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Devastated by the mysterious death of her guardians, Elizabeth Davenport finds herself thrust into a new world that proves to be scintillating and dangerous. Can she trust those who claim to be her friends? Or will her trust lead her into trouble? When a mysterious letter presents itself and proves that her guardians might have been more than they ever let on, Elizabeth must gather her courage and pursue the truth, whatever the cost.

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Westerman, Molly Cooper Pamela. "Narrating historians crises of historical authority in twentieth-century British fiction /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1792.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English and Comparative Literature." Discipline: English; Department/School: English.

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Randall, James P. "Posthumous temporality and encrypted historical time in fiction and life writing." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2018. http://research.gold.ac.uk/23276/.

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This thesis considers ways of reading posthumousness in narrative in various theoretical and literary constellations by focusing on temporality and historical time. Defining posthumousness in terms of a narrative perspective adopted after the death of a character or the narrator, I consider how writers reanimate historical characters, adopt imagined posthumous perspectives and reconstruct historical memory. I combine approaches to temporality by Paul Ricoeur and Mark Currie, incorporating elements of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory including Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok’s writin

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Niemeyer, Lisa. "Writing German historical fiction in an age of change, 1848-1871." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609458.

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Meyers, Erika Ann. "Characters of class : poverty and historical alienation in Dermot Bolger's fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26042.

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This thesis provides a Marxist analysis of the effect of class on historical alienation in Dermot Bolger’s fiction. Therefore, this study examines the influence of Irish history on Bolger’s choice of content, form and technique in order to argue that historical interpretation and literary technique are mediated through class stratifications. Chapter One investigates how The Journey Home challenges received ideas of what constitutes ‘reality’ which has, consequently, led to elements of critical dismissal used to maintain antiquated gaps, silences and notions of ‘reality’. In Chapter Two I look

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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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Hildreth-Blue, Cynthia. "Enlivening California's sixth grade history/social sciences curriculum with historical fiction." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/562.

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Smith, David E. "The historical nature of Luke's virgin birth account an apologetic /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Manning, S. L. "The nature of provicialism : Some nineteenth-century Scottish and American fiction." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372632.

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Hermanson, Scott. "The simulation of nature contemporary American fiction in an environmental context /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=ucin991838727.

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Douvier, Gromer Bernadette. "Nature et élaboration de la fiction dans l'oeuvre de Raymond Roussel." Villeneuve-d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du septentrion, 2002. http://books.google.com/books?id=0_VcAAAAMAAJ.

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Douvier-Gromer, Bernadette. "Nature et élaboration de la fiction dans l'oeuvre de Raymond Roussel." Paris 10, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA100123.

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CE TRAVAIL S'INTERESSE AU PROBLEME DE LA CREATION LITTERAIRE CHEZ UN ECRIVAIN QUE L'ON PEUT SITUER A LA CHARNIERE DU XIXE ET DU XXE S. C'EST EN EFFET DANS LE XIXE S. QUE RAYMOND ROUSSEL PUISE LA MATIERE DE SA FICTION, LAQUELLE SEMBLE PRIVILEGIER AVANT TOUT "L'ART DE CONTER", TANT PAR L'EMPLOI ET LE DETOURNEMENT DES GENRES LES PLUS TRADITIONNELS (CONTE, LEGENDE, ANECDOTE), QUE PAR UNE EXPLOITATIONORIGINALE DES DONNEES DE LA VULGARISATION DES SCIENCES AU SIECLE QUI PRECEDE CELUI OU IL ECRIT. CEPENDANT, BIEN QUE N'AYANT SUBI AUCUNE INFLUENCE DE SES CONTEMPORAINS LES PLUS AVANCES, ROUSSEL PARTAGE

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Arnold, Abigail. "Memento Mori and Other Stories." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2293.

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Lake, Wendy M. "Aspects of Ireland in children's fiction : an historical outline and analysis of children's fiction set in Ireland (1850-1986)." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253857.

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May, Chad T. "Trauma and the historical imagination in British and American fiction, 1814-1986 /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3181110.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 186-199). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Wakeling, Louise Kathering School of English UNSW. "Theorising creative processes in the writing of the neo-historical fiction watermarks." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 1998. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/17228.

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In this dissertation, aspects of the creative process involved in `writing the past' are theorised from the site of practice, from the viewpoint of the empirical author. Certain poststructuralist and postmodernist discourses, however, have problematised and de-stabilised the concepts of `history' and the `past', and called into question the unitary and authoritative nature of `truth', `knowledge' and `reality'. These contestings of the ontological status of `history' have alerted us to the importance of previously marginalised perspectives on historical `reality', especially those relating to

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Tyson, A. F. "Dehistoricised Histories: The Cultural Significance of Recent Popular New Zealand Historical Fiction." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of English, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1568.

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The recent popularity of mass-market New Zealand historical fiction coincides with the increasing vocality of particular cultural discourses that resist the influence of revisionist histories on dominant understandings of national identity. This thesis examines how the depiction of colonial history in four such novels legitimates and sustains hegemonic understandings of New Zealand as culturally European. The novels analysed are The Denniston Rose (2003) by Jenny Pattrick, Tamar (2002) by Deborah Challinor, The Cost of Courage (2003) by Carol Thomas, and The Love Apple (2005) by Coral Atkinson

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