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Miller, Amanda K. "Morality, Sexuality and Conformity: Diderot's Outsiders Penetrate Foreign Societies." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1102042881.

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Drew, Shahara Brookins. "Insiders and outsiders : processes of African American canon formation /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3006715.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2001.
Available in film copy from University Microfilms International. Vita. Thesis advisor: Lewis R. Gordon. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-266). Also available online.

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Lanthier, Lalita Bharvani. "Two outsiders in Indo-English literature : Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Salman Rushdie." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56664.

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This thesis shows the condition of outsidedness in the fiction of two Indo-English authors: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Salman Rushdie. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala focuses on the intercultural encounter from the European perspective. Salman Rushdie writes from the expatriate's point of view. Astride the cultural frameworks of India and the West at once they examine the ironic similarities of prejudice and intolerance in both societies. These authors' novels are examined through concepts elaborated by the Russian literary theoretician, Mikhail Bakhtin, such as exotopy or outsidedness, heteroglossia, dialogism, etc. They confirm Bakhtin's contention that cultural confrontation is a potentially enriching source of literary and artistic creation. Jhabvala treats the intercultural encounter within the colonial and post-colonial frameworks and shows the fragile dialogue that does occur between her European characters and India. Rushdie on the other hand centres mainly on contemporary India although he does satirize certain aspects of colonial India. He uses a plethora of historical, literary, cultural and linguistic referents from both eastern and western traditions to subvert the hegemonic discourse of either and to celebrate cultural hybridity.

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Eveleth, Kyle W. "Outsiders to Whom? Reimagining the Creation of Young Adult Literature in the United States." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/103.

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The study of young adult literature has become widespread within Children’s and Young Adult Literature specifically and literary studies as a whole. However, the term “young adult” which defines and focalizes both the literature itself and the ostensible readers for whom it is produced remains a poorly-examined area. The present study examines the creation of one branch of what we now call “young adult literature” from its roots in the United States in the early twentieth century to its emergence as a dominant literary form in the mid-to-late 1960s. In doing so, it seeks to reconcile emerging professional, psychological, sociological, pedagogical, cultural, and ideological discourses concerning adolescence and young adulthood with works of fiction prepared specifically for their consumption. It also seeks to position the changing role of adolescent subjects into the larger framework of American Studies by examining how these texts reflected, tested, and reinforced dominant paradigms of thought surrounding how adolescents would become actualized American subjects. At the same time, it broaches concerns within these dominant paradigms that have been overlooked in constructing historical approaches to the development of young adult literature, and it suggests a few methodologies by which to recover these undiscussed threads.

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Volckmer, Katharina Barbara Emmy. "Society and its outsiders in the novels of Jakob Wassermann." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:84e42410-5b61-4299-a2c3-f69d89b4921e.

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This thesis looks at a number of Jakob Wassermann’s novels and the ways in which society is depicted in them. Seen as a whole, Wassermann’s oeuvre can therefore be understood as an attempt to portray (mostly) German society at different historical stages. The periods in question are Biedermeier Germany, the Wilhelmine era, the years of the Great War and finally the Weimar Republic, the depiction of all of which reveal Wassermann as a fierce critic of his time. In addition to this interest in society, this thesis will examine Wassermann’s concern with various outsider figures which complement his portrayals of society. The outsider figures Wassermann seems to be mostly interested in are the Jew, the woman, the child and the homosexual man. However, Wassermann is not just interested in these outsiders on their own but also draws extensive parallels between the various forms of exclusion they experience in a society dominated by the Gentile man or, as in the case of the child, by the adult. These parallels have proven to be revelatory and have led to new insights into Wassermann’s works. The dynamic of the outsider vs. society is, however, in many ways no longer applicable to those novels written during and after the Great War. Instead Wassermann now combines his interest in the figure of the outsider with an interest in the depiction of character. At the same time character becomes a mirror not only for the society Wassermann portrays in his writing but also for the society he lived in. This makes for an altogether more complex but also more intriguing structure of his later writing. This thesis will examine how all these different elements when combined offer new ways of looking at Wassermann’s writing.

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Moore, Jeffrey Salem. "English Assimilation and Invasion From Outside the Empire: Problems of the Outsider in England in Bram Stoker's Dracula." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1291134372.

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Fonseca, Carlos Henrique. "Uma legião vinda do inferno. (Que esplendor é esse?) : vagabundos, outsiders e outras figuras marginais na obra de António Lobo Antunes /." Araraquara, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/192950.

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Orientador: Maria Lúcia Outeiro Fernandes
Resumo: Este trabalho tem como proposta o estudo de três obras do escritor português António Lobo Antunes: O conhecimento do inferno (1980), O esplendor de Portugal (1997) e O Meu nome é Legião (2007). No conjunto destes romances, destaca-se a relação entre Portugal e África, desde o período imediatamente posterior ao fim da Guerra Colonial aos dias atuais. A condição das personagens, respectivamente, um médico dividido entre o “inferno” da guerra e do hospital psiquiátrico, uma família dilacerada pelos conflitos em solo africano, nos anos da guerra civil em Angola e moradores dos bairros de lata da atual periferia de Lisboa, possibilita uma leitura diacrônica da marginalidade e do abandono que atingem, contemporaneamente, e de diferentes formas, os herdeiros da problemática relação entre metrópole e colônia, reduzidos à condição de “vagabundos”, outsiders ou outras figuras marginais. No estudo da reiteração e da maneira como são construídas estas personagens, dos discursos produzidos por elas e sobre elas e das situações de extrema violência que as mesmas vivenciam, busca-se deslindar os pontos de conexão entre os três romances e analisar o desenvolvimento e consolidação da escrita antuniana, as recorrências e os desdobramentos temáticos, bem como a maturação de suas estratégias narrativas e discursivas. Constituem eixos da presente análise, a relação entre os conceitos de personagem e pessoa; a historicidade da produção ficcional do autor, que apresenta hoje um contundente retrato ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: This work intends to study three novels by the Portuguese writer António Lobo Antunes: Conhecimento do inferno (1980), O esplendor de Portugal (1997) and O Meu nome é legião (2007). In all these novels, the relationship between Portugal and Africa stands out, from the period immediately after the end of the Colonial War to the present day. The condition of the characters, respectively, a physician divided between the "hell" of the war and the psychiatric hospital, a family torn apart by African conflicts in the years of the civil war in Angola and residents of the slums of the present periphery of Lisbon, makes possible a diachronic reading of the marginality and abandonment that, at the same time and in different ways, reaches the heirs of the problematic relation between metropolis and colony, reduced to the condition of tramps, outsiders or other marginal figures. In the study of the reiteracy and the manners in which these characters are constructed, of the discourses produced by them and about them and the situations of extreme violence that they experience, the goal is to revel the connection points between the three novels and the analysis of the development and consolidation of António Lobo Antunes writing, recurrences and thematic developments, as well as the maturation of his narrative and discursive strategies. The axes of this analysis are: a) The relationship between the concepts of character and person; b) the historicity of their fictional production, which tod... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Stafford, Brooke Alyson. "Outside England : mobility and early modern Englishness /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9326.

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Baird, Daniel Dee. "Authority on the margin : the informal essays of Virginia Woolf, Natsume Sōseki, and Zhou Zuoren /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1283958491&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 201-212). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Smith, Kristine. "Sacrifice and the other, oppression, torture and death in Alias grace, Green grass, running water, and News from a foreign country came." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ40017.pdf.

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Robinsson, Sofia. "The Outsiders Are Growing Up to Be Violent : How Empathetic Reading May Induce Discussions about Toxic Masculinity in the EFL Classroom." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-107137.

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This essay argues that while the main character in The Outsiders challenges the norms of toxic masculinity on a surface level, his decision to continue fighting for his gang, the greasers, actually reinforces the stereotypical view that violence is connected to masculinity. Furthermore, it is argued that studying The Outsiders in a Swedish EFL classroom can promote critical thinking and knowledge of issues connected to gender through using empathetic reading. Empathetic reading is a way to read carefully to gain new perspectives in order to discuss and criticize the text. Even though the term toxic masculinity assumes a healthy/harmful binary, it is needed since the power dynamics that sustain gender inequality remain. Recent events in the Western world, such as the #Metoo movement and Trumpism, are just a couple of examples of how power dynamics are showing through gender discrimination and sexual harassment. However, gender can be a sensitive subject in lower secondary EFL classrooms, and by focusing on being empathetic towards how others express gender may lessen the pressure of speaking about gender subjectively.

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Gavrila, Rebecca Lynn. ""If you haven't made somebody angry, you haven't done something right" Larry Kramer's outsider persona /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1124717883.

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Drbal, Susanna. "Wretched, ambiguous, abject : ordinary ways of being in selected works by Alex La Guma, Bessie Head, and J. M. Coetzee /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1125372243.

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Smith, Spencer J. "Male Narrative Identity in Young Adult Literature: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Narrative Psychology and Literary Analysis." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1366989257.

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Hutt, Dan. "Outsiders, outcasts, and outlaws: postmodernism and rock music as countercultural forces in Salman Rushdie's The ground beneath her feet." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8851.

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Master of Arts
Department of English
Dean G. Hall
Salman Rushdie's 1999 novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet is ostensibly a rock 'n' roll novel, largely set in the 1960s, that traces the commercial rise of Indian rock star protagonists Vina Apsara and Ormus Cama. As their fame and wealth rise to global status and their stage show comes to entail a logistical complexity of military proportions, it becomes increasingly difficult to discern the couple's earlier countercultural ideals within their new established culture status. I argue that despite the change from countercultural to establishment-based values in the novel's protagonists, Rushdie does make a case in The Ground Beneath Her Feet for the possibility of countercultural efficacy against the commodifying culture of global capitalism (which I refer to as the "Frame"). His recipe for combating the exclusive hierarchies produced by the Frame is a combination of the non-totalizing politics of postmodernism and the subversive potential of uncommodified rock music. I pay close attention to establishing the historical templates--John Lennon of the Beatles and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys--of the novel's protagonists in an effort to understand the sort of countercultural alternative Rushdie is proposing. I likewise focus on the novel's depiction of the Beach Boys' Smile album, which as a still commercially unreleased record, reinforces Rushdie's imperative in The Ground Beneath Her Feet for an uncommodifying counterculture and works in tandem with his portrayals of the artistic plights of several minor characters in the novel as well.

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Symington, Cornelia Isabel. "Binêre opposisies en perspektiewe op die 'ander' in Pieternella van die Kaap deur Dalene Matthee." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53728.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2004
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the binary oppositions in Dalene Matthee's historic novel, Pieternella van die Kaap, and the extent to which it correlates with the perspectives on "the other" and the influence of the spatial context on the two main characters, Eva-Krotoa and Pietemella. The study ascertains in which way Matthee's novel falls within the post-colonial framework; whether a tendency towards hybridity can be found and in which cases the binary opposition of "the self" versus "the other", is consequently suspended. Attention is also given to key concepts associated with this, like stereotyping and convention. After exploring the term post-colonial literature, a number of related elements are discussed, such as the post-colonial focus on identity. Via the focalisation of PietenelIa the novel firstly presents a general view of her experiences in the Cape, on Robben Island, on the ship the Boode, and on Mauritius. In the process it also foregrounds the life of her mother, Eva-Krotoa. Both of them are so much affected by the binary oppositions relating to their existence within different, contrasting spaces, that it is justified to call them "two-head" women. While Eva- Krotoa's life is torn apart by the binary oppositions, there are indications that Pietemella moves in the direction of a growing hybridity, that brings about a synthesis between the oppositions and allows her to reconcile herself with her own identity. This is even more pronounced in the case of her daughter, Maria. The study comes to the conclusion that stereotyping is based on convention and that time, place and circumstances determine whether and to what extent the binary opposition of "the self'/"the other" is suspended.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die binêre opposrsres in Dalene Matthee se historiese roman Pieternella van die Kaap en die mate waarin die perspektiewe op 'die ander' en die invloed van die ruimtelike konteks op die twee vernaamste karakters, Eva-Krotoa en Pieternella, hiermee in verband gebring kan word. Daar word vasgestel in watter mate hierdie roman binne 'n postkoloniale raamwerk val, in watter opsigte sprake is van hibriditeit en in watter gevalle die binêre opposisie van 'die ek'teenoor 'die ander' gevolglik opgehef word. Aandag word ook bestee aan sleutelbegrippe wat hiermee saamhang, soos stereotipering en konvensie. Na 'n verkenning van die term postkoloniale literatuur word verskeie elemente wat hiermee verband hou bespreek, soos die postkoloniale fokus op identiteit. Die roman bied eerstens, via die fokalisasie van Pieternella, 'n oorsig oor haar lotgevalle aan die Kaap, op Robbeneiland, op die skip die Baade en op Mauritius, maar stel in die proses ook die lewe van haar moeder Eva-Krotoa voorop. Beide word in so 'n mate geaffekteer deur binêre opposisies van hulle bestaan binne verskillende, kontrasterende ruimtes, dat hulle tereg 'tweekopvroue' genoem kan word. Waar Eva-Krotoa ten onder gaan aan die binêre opposisies is daar met betrekking tot Pieternella aanduidings van 'n groeiende hibriditeit wat 'n sintese bring tussen die opposisies en haar met haar eie identiteit laat versoen. Dit is in In nog groter mate die geval met haar dogter Maria. Die studie kom tot die slotsom dat stereotipering berus op konvensie en dat tyd, plek en omstandighede bepaal of en in watter mate die binêre opposisie van ekl'ander' opgehef word.

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Johnson, Alfred B. "Net work : social networks, disruptive agency, and innovation in Howells, Fitzgerald, Heller, Pynchon, and Gibson." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1343471.

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This study uses concepts from network science to analyze the agency of outsider characters who cause change or disruption without necessarily securing economic or political power for themselves. Network science as theorized by thinkers like Duncan Watts (Six Degrees, 2003) and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (Linked, 2002) explains social networks in terms of social structures: clusters of people, bridges between them, pathways through them. Michel Foucault (The Archaeology of Knowledge, 1971) suggests that new notions must enter public or personal awareness on "surfaces of emergence"—institutions like families and social groups. Michel de Certeau (The Practice of Everyday Life, 1974) looks at inventive ways that users repurpose products, both industrial and cultural, and so become "secondary producers." To analyze the influential-outsider agency of the fictional characters featured in this study, I theorize the clusters, bridges, and pathways of network science as surfaces of emergence on which "secondary productions" can appear and then spread through a social network.The introductory chapter explores and explains the general application of network science to literary criticism. In subsequent chapters, I use a networks-based approach to examine the agency of William Dean Howells's Tom Corey (The Rise of Silas Lapham, 1884), F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby, 1925), Joseph Heller's Milo Minderbinder (Catch-22, 1961), Thomas Pynchon's Pierce Inverarity (The Crying of Lot 49, 1965), and William Gibson's Cayce Pollard (Pattern Recognition, 2003). These characters do unusual things with and from the subject positions in which they find themselves, and—whether or not they are or remain marginalized characters in their social systems—they are innovative and influential in ways that other characters do not understand or anticipate. All five novels depict the diffusion of innovative ideas and practices as a process of unplanned, non-coercive social negotiation, where innovation can originate with any person or group of people in the social network and is dependent on the complex interaction of liminal notions and mainstream thinking. The networking approach to these novels clarifies the ways that their authors have imagined social networks to function and the particular interactions they have imagined to lead to change or disruption.
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Jenkins, Catherine. "The hardboiled outsider, hardboiled American fiction as an existential literature." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq21672.pdf.

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Daniel, Edward Duffy Peacock James L. "Self-reliance ethnography of literature outside Viet Nam /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2653.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 5, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Anthropology." Discipline: Anthropology; Department/School: Anthropology.

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DeFiore, Dakota D. "Outside of This." Thesis, Mills College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1557281.

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Inside the perimeter of Schiefersberg County, Pennsylvania, there are many secrets buried deep within the soil. Generation after generation these roots grow deeper, stronger, and now these small towns and their people have been strangled of their desire to progress. They impose their outdated beliefs and values on their children and grandchildren, and they turn their noses to everyone and everything foreign and new. But 2008 has brought a boom of modern technology and social revolution, leaking progression and liberalism inside this bubble and sparking the interests of Generation Y. Through the stories of five high school graduates, Outside of This brings forth a multi-perspective journey of what it means to discover the personal and the moral behind closed doors in a time of change. What will happens when they leave and go to college? Who will they become outside of this, without each other as a safety net? Death and destruction are blended with acceptance and opportunity as Fiona Ferguson and her circle of friends explore what it means to come of age amongst long lineages of hate and conservatism, and to find the courage to stand against 'history' and create their own.

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Soares, Sofia Maria de Carvalho Campos Duarte. "A Figura do Outsider em Três Textos Contemporâneos." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/18829.

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Mestrado em Estudos Ingleses
O presente trabalho propõe-se examinar a figura do Outsider em diferentes textos, nos contextos do Poscolonialimo e Posmodernismo, nomeadamente nos livros Sons For The Return Home, de Albert Wendt, The Life & Times of Michael K, de J. M. Coetzee, e no filme The Man Who Wasn´t There, de Joel & Ethan Coen. A Dissertação é composta por uma apresentação dos três protagonistas como Outsiders, que, embora analisados em contextos diferentes, reflectirão fortes ligações sob o ponto de vista existencial.
This Dissertation aims at examining the Outsider figure in different texts, in the context of Postcolonialism and Postmodernism, namely in the books Sons For The Return Home, by Albert Wendt, The Life & Times of Michael K, by J. M. Coetzee, and the film The Man Who Wasn´t There, by Joel & Ethan Coen. Although analysed in different contexts, the three protagonists are presented as Outsider figures who share strong existential concerns.

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Duarte, Daniela Bordalo. "Transgressões cotidianas : o outsider das trincheiras na literatura de Samuel Rawet." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2006. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/2917.

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Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, 2006.
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Essa pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar a atualidade e intensidade da representação da figura do outsider na literatura contemporânea. Dessa forma, o âmago analítico dessa pesquisa são algumas narrativas curtas do autor judeu-polonês, radicado no Brasil, Samuel Rawet, localizando em seus textos as diferenças e as semelhanças entre o que nomeamos na presente investigação de "outsider das trincheiras" e o outsider clássico já estudado e tratado por diversos autores. A dissertação buscará explicitar sob quais aspectos e de quais modos esse sujeito desajustado procura por meio de pequenos atos transgressores e entre as brechas que o grupo social deixa expostas, canais e vias para o acirramento de seus questionamentos e impasses. Desse modo, esse estudo se inscreve dentro da área de pesquisa denominada Literatura e suas fronteiras, conforme se preocupa em suscitar diálogos entre a Literatura e outras áreas do conhecimento como a Sociologia, a Teoria da Comunicação e a Filosofia.

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Beaverson, Gregory J. "Going Outside : A Novel." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1365603327.

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Ferguson, Paul A. "Embracing Alienation : Zombies,Rebels and Outsider Culture in British Literature from 1945-1963." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531690.

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Hesse, Isabelle. "The outsider inside : ideas of Jewishness in contemporary Jewish, postcolonial, and Palestinian literature." Thesis, University of York, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13266/.

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My thesis creates a comparative framework for understanding representations of Jewishness in Jewish, postcolonial, and Palestinian literature in response to particular historical events such as the Holocaust, the creation of the state of Israel, the first intifada, and the siege of Ramallah during the second intifada. Central to my study is the shift from Jewish identity in Europe before the creation of Jewish settlements in Palestine – as a minority identity in the Diaspora, facing discrimination and persecution in Europe, which culminated in the Holocaust – to Jewishness as Israeliness, defined in relation to the state of Israel, Zionism, and settler-colonialism. My study contests ahistorical and decontextualised uses of Jewishness and each chapter proposes a different angle to engage with ideas of Jewishness in their specific historical context. I examine narrative fiction and travelogues, published between 1971 and 2008, by Jurek Becker, Anita Desai, David Grossman, Shulamith Hareven, Edgar Hilsenrath, Sahar Khalifeh, Caryl Phillips, Anton Shammas, Raja Shehadeh, and A. B. Yehoshua. Through these examples, I interrogate the political and stylistic reasons underlying the inclusion and appropriation of ideas of Jewishness in literature. I suggest that literature offers alternative models of Jewishness which question received notions of Jewish victimhood and powerlessness. By determining the ways in which ideas associated with Jewishness travel across different geographical locations and examining adaptations of these concepts in non-Jewish contexts, I illustrate the centrality of ideas of Jewishness in the construction and definition of identities for both Jewish and non-Jewish writers and readers and indicate the global ramifications of engaging with Jewishness for contemporary literature and culture.

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Wei, Ran. "An Outsider and Insider's Osaka: Osaka in Tanizaki Jun'ichirō and Oda Sakunosuke's Literature." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23790.

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This thesis looks at the representations of Osaka from the 1920s to the 1940s in Tokyo writer Tanizaki Jun’ichirō and Osaka writer Oda Sakunosuke’s literature. I examine how Tanizaki and Oda approached issues of local and national and responded to the changing power relations between the local and the national order, as well as Osaka’s gradual subordination into a greater national entity. I argue that the Osaka outsider Tanizaki and the Osaka insider Oda’s literary responses to Osaka’s changing relation with the nation share certain similarities and differences: the similarities lie in their awareness of the changing power dynamics between Tokyo and Osaka, and their attempt to accentuate Osaka’s uniqueness, in addition to their treatment with the wartime censorship in the 1940s. The differences lie in the era they wrote of, their positions via and attitudes toward Osaka, and their focus on different social classes.

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Kollu, Ravichandra Kumar. "Requirements scoping outside product lines : Systematic Literature Review and Survey." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för programvaruteknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-11766.

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Context: Scoping is admitted as a key activity in Market Driven Software Development for handling the constant inflow of requirements. It helps in identifying the features, domains and products which help for gaining economic benefits in Software Product Line (SPL) development. Beyond SPL, managing the scope of the project is a major risk for project management. Continuously changing scope creates a congestion state to handle the requirements inflow which causes negative consequences like scope scrap and scope creep. However, for managing negative consequences caused due to requirements volatility depicts a need for work on requirements scoping outside the product line. Objectives: In this study, an exploratory work is carried to identify the literature and industrial perspectives on requirements scoping outside the product line. The main objectives are: Identifying the state of literature of requirements scoping outside product line and variability analysis. To explore the industrial practice on requirements scoping. Suggesting recommendations in improving the scoping process based on the literature and survey. Methods: Systematic Literature Review (SLR) using snowballing procedure was conducted to identify the literature available on requirements scoping outside the product line. Quality assessment using rigor and relevance was performed to find the trustworthiness of the papers obtained through SLR. The data obtained through SLR was analyzed using narrative analysis. Furthermore, an industrial survey was performed using web questionnaire to identify the industrial perspective on requirements scoping. Statistical analysis was performed for analyzing the data obtained from survey. Results: 23 relevant papers were identified through SLR. The results were categorized as definitions obtained, phenomena, challenges and methods/tools identified. From the finding of SLR, an industrial survey was conducted, which has obtained 93 responses. The challenges that were identified through literature were validated through survey and are prioritized. Moreover, the study identified additional challenges that are not discussed in the literature. Additionally, the approaches followed in organizations while scoping the requirements were identified through the survey. Conclusions: This study identified that scope creep is the most frequently occurring phenomenon that organizations are facing throughout the lifecycle of the project. In addition project delays, quality issues and project cost were identified as the most occurring scoping associated challenges. Moreover, scoping activity was identified as the continuous activity which changes significantly throughout the lifecycle. Finally, suggestions were given for improving the scoping process.

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Haddour, Azzedine. "Camus : the other as an outsider in a univocal discourse." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328753.

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This thesis provides a reading which counters the prevailing interpretation of Camus as a universalist writer. It positions him in a cultural context and analyses the colonial ideology underlying his text. The thesis falls into three parts. The first establishes a historical and literary context, a hermeneutic field, in which to interpret the Camusian oeuvre. The second focuses on Camus's problems in trying to sustain his "univocalised" narrative in which colonial issues are obfuscated in favour of a universalist problematic. The fissuring of this univocalised narrative enacts a process of "unwriting. " The third part re-interprets Camus from an Algerian literary point of view. The writings of Emmanuel Robles, Mouloud Feraoun, Mouloud Mammeri, and Mohamed Dib set a context for re-reading supposedly universal texts, like L'Etranger and La Peste. The concluding chapter provides a focus for recapitulation, as it examines the theme of exile in L'Exil et le royaume. Camus's alienation from Algeria underlies this narrative, signaling the closure of the colonial discourse in his text and the collapse of his mytho-poetic position. Algeria as a logos becomes the symbol of his "exile" V

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Hill, Mark. "Neil Gaiman's American Gods: An Outsider's Critique of American Culture." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2005. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/282.

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In 2001, Neil Gaiman published American Gods, a novel of American life and mythology. As a British author living in the United States, Gaiman has a powerful vantage point from which to critique American culture, landscape, and ideology. Rich with re-invented deities, legends, mythic creatures, and folk heroes cast in a decidedly American mold, American Gods examines the American character, evaluating the myths and beliefs of the culture from the vantage point of an outsider. By examining the character's allegiance to particular cultural legacies (Wednesday as the American con artist, Shadow as the cowboy), I intend to assess this outsider's understanding of what it means to be an American.

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Roth, John. "Go Outside." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1492791661273655.

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Wood, Sarah. "The outsider within : explorations of the science fiction of Octavia Estelle Butler." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248497.

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A study of Octavia Butler has long been overdue. My aim is to rectify the paucity of critical commentary on her work, and to take into consideration the specificity of the African American woman. Examining how Butler's fiction interrogates the dual narratives of oppression that are an integral feature of black women's lives, I focus on six areas of Butler's fiction. Butler uses the conventions of science fiction to interrogate religious and secular mythologies that aim to limit and circumscribe the black woman; I explore how she amalgamates science fiction with other narrative modes such as fantasy, the historical novel, and the slave narrative. Linked to a consideration of Butler's use of science fiction is an exploration of the spaces she creates. I examine the categorisation of her work as either utopian or dystopian suggesting that Butler complicates this enterprise by questioning and extending its format. Her work rejects the hope and consolation offered by utopias; instead her fiction opens onto heterotopia, revelling in contradiction, difference, and change. Butler's fiction is preoccupied with the treatment of the black woman's bodily, material existence. She uses strategies of transformation to elude white patriarchal control, presenting us with grotesque figures and cyborg monsters that provide a parodic reversal of the images that have been apportioned to black men and women. Relations of self to its others are a fundamental aspect of Butler's work. However, rather than simply dramatising hierarchical, binary thinking and its subsequent deconstruction, her work offers alternative formations of self and other in which each term is able to recognise its other in their full subjectivity. Butler makes use of a linguistic heritage that is 'double-voiced'. The polyphonic construction of her texts, her use of Signifying, and the repetition and displacement that she enacts is indicative of much African American literature. Butler's reliance on religion in her work suggests a fundamental interrogation of Christianity. Her novels explore the complicated relationship that African Americans maintain toward the Judeo-Christian tradition; devices such as the introduction of African belief systems and the creation of an entirely new religion work to disrupt this. Articulating the view from the margins, Butler's fiction talks back to narratives of originary identity that posit the black woman as other, as inferior, and therefore, as subjugated to a white, male ideal.

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Richardson, Susan Starr Bleyler. "Author and audience across cultural margins: Narrative transactions between ethnic writers and outsider readers /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148784937729617.

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Abelin, Bruna Arozi. "A SIMPLICIDADE MORDENTE DE UM PROTAGONISTA-ESCRITOR OUTSIDER: ESTUDO DE ASK THE DUST E DREAMS FROM BUNKER HILL DE JOHN FANTE." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2015. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/9934.

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In Ask the Dust (1939) and Dreams from Bunker Hill (1983), John Fante (1909-1983) represents the obliterated side of American life during the Great Depression by making use of an apparently simple narrative style. Besides focusing on the importance of the marginal side of the United States in the 1930s, Fante presents young Arturo Bandini as the protagonist who survives in Los Angeles during the economic crisis and aims at becoming a great writer that contends for space in the cultural market of the metropolis of entertainment. Through obscene vocabulary and scenes, Fante represents the most negative aspects experienced by those who live in a metropolis, such as isolation, solitude, vice, and madness. Therefore, Fante s fiction has thematic and formal aspects that allow us to establish relations with the New Realism, a movement of the Arts in the first half of the twentieth century, which also crudely explored the negative aspects of life in the United States. Thus, this study discusses the potential meaningfulness of thematic and aesthetic aspects of Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill, two novels that present the relation established by the writer, who is an outsider, with the city, the people, and the craft of writing in modern times.
Em Ask the Dust (1939) e Dreams from Bunker Hill (1983), John Fante (1909-1983) representa o lado esquecido da vida estadunidense durante o período da Grande Depressão por meio de uma estética aparentemente simples. Além de dar enfoque e devida importância ao lado marginal dos Estados Unidos da década de 1930, Fante apresenta como protagonista o jovem Arturo Bandini que, durante a crise econômica, sobrevive em Los Angeles com a ambição de ser um grande escritor que disputa espaço em meio ao mercado cultural da metrópole do entretenimento. Por meio de vocabulário e cenas marcadas por obscenidade, Fante cria representações dos aspectos mais negativos que a vida na metrópole pode proporcionar aos sujeitos, tais como isolamento, solidão, vícios e loucura. Assim, sua obra apresenta aspectos temáticos e formais que permitem aproximá-la do Novo Realismo, movimento das artes plásticas da primeira metade do século XX que também explorou de forma crua os aspectos negativos da vida nos Estados Unidos. Desse modo, discutem-se neste estudo significados potenciais dos aspectos temático-estéticos de Ask the Dust e Dreams from Bunker Hill, romances que abordam a relação do escritor outsider com a cidade, as pessoas e o ofício da escrita nos tempos modernos.

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Lehman, Daniel Wayne. "Writing outside/in : nonfiction narrative as implicated text /." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487846354483818.

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Padilla, Osvaldo. "The speeches of outsiders in Acts : poetics, theology and historiography /." Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9780521899819.

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Zou, Zhen [Verfasser]. "Mu Xin: A Double Recluse outside the Tower of Chinese Literature / Zhen Zou." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1060045192/34.

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Bruder, Anne Lindsey Richards Eliza. "Outside the classroom walls alternative pedagogies in American literature and culture, 1868-1910 /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2281.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English and Comparative Literature." Discipline: English and Comparative Literature; Department/School: English and Comparative Literative.

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Park, Jong-Seong. "An exploration of the outsider's role in selected works by Joseph Conrad, Malcolm Lowry, V.S. Naipaul." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1996. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1578.

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This thesis explores ways in which the outsider questions rather than confirms dominant cultural values whilst avoiding the crudity of overt politicisation. I argue that the outsider's preference for an observer's stance is not so much an act which denies responsibility to the world of his day, but rather a means of reassessing its priorities. In Section One, I discuss Conrad's role as an outsider in the age of Empires. I demonstrate the ways in which Conrad employs narrators, frequently using strategies of irony which can be and have been read in very different ways. I argue that Conrad uses irony as a tool for condemnation rather than condonement of imperialist practice, if not its ideology. In Section Two, I discuss Lowry as an emigre from England (so contrasting him with Conrad, the immigrant from Europe), and examine his dissenting voice which opposes bourgeois prejudice against the working class, a totalising ideology like Fascism, and a Western rationalism which sees too rigid a distinction between sanity and madness. I demonstrate how Lowry as an outsider reacts to the age of twentieth century World Wars. In Section Three, I discuss Naipaul's role as an outsider in the age of decolonisation, when bogus liberals and false redeemers fail to rebuild the newly independent post-colonial states. As in Conrad's case, I show how a failure to read Naipaul's ironic tone of voice has given rise to radically divergent views as to what he is about. I also link Conrad and Naipaul through their cultural negotiation between the 'centre' and its peripheries. By looking at these three writers in chronological order and offering a comparative perspective on their work, I highlight the outsider's disturbing, yet illuminating role within a historical context. I also draw attention to creative tensions between artistic concerns and a serious political purpose. I assess the outsider as observer and man of conscience rather than as a` mere onlooker. I conclude that the outsider also fulfils a social obligation by promoting critical awareness on the reader's side by means of his defamiliarising perspective.

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Leck, Robin Whitney. "Gatsby's Gorgeous Car: Objects and the Outsider in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction." Thesis, Boston College, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/443.

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Thesis advisor: Christopher P. Wilson
Growing up F. Scott Fitzgerald longed to be a part of the leisure class with whom he socialized and was educated. However, born into a middle class family and destined to be a writer, he never achieved that goal. This preoccupation with the leisure class continued into adulthood and was reflected in his works of fiction. In his writing he repeatedly depicts the outsider, a middle class character who by the means of monetary wealth hopes to rise in society. Through his relationship with the object, this outsider attempts to become a part of the elite and is rejected. Mannerisms and social codes that can only be learned by high birth restrict this individual from reaching social heights. The new wealth of the 1920's creates a paradox for the outsider. The object that the leisure class possesses is easily attainable, however, the upward movement it promises is still out of reach
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
Discipline: College Honors Program

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Kim, Stephanie B. "Postcolonial Literature: Dualities in the God of Small Things." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/659.

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This thesis delves into the postcolonial genre, examining the novel, The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, and how it highlights the duality in gender roles, social class, and postcolonial society through the narrative style and language.

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Harrington, Katharine N. "Writing outside the box : exploring a nomadic alternative in contemporary French and Francophone literature /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3174617.

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Henningsgaard, Per Hansa. "Outside traditional book publishing centres : the production of a regional literature in Western Australia." University of Western Australia. English and Cultural Studies Discipline Group, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0255.

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This thesis provides a study of book publishing as it contributes to the production of a regional literature, using Western Australian publishing and literature as illustrative examples of this dynamic. 'Regional literature' is defined in this thesis as writing possessing cultural value that is specific to a region, although the writing may also have national and international value. An awareness of geographically and culturally diverse regions within the framework of the nation is shown to be derived from representations of these regions and their associated regional characteristics in the movies, television and books. In Australia, literature has been the primary site for expressions of regional difference. Therefore, this thesis analyses the impact of regionalism on the processes of book production and publication in Western Australias three major publishing houses a trade publishing house (Fremantle Press), an Indigenous publishing house (Magabala Books), and an academic publishing house (University of Western Australia Press). Book history, print culture studies and publishing studies, along with literary studies and cultural studies, roughly approximate a disciplinary map of the types of research that constitute this thesis. By examining regional literature in the context of its 'field of cultural production', this thesis maintains that regionalism and regional literature can avail themselves of a fresh perspective that shows them to be anything but marginal or exclusive. Regionalism has been a topic of peripheral interest, at least as far as scholarly research and academia are concerned, because those who are most likely to be affected by and thus interested in the topic, are also those who are most disempowered as a result of its attendant dynamics. However, as this thesis clearly demonstrates, access (or a lack thereof) to the field of cultural production (which in the case of print culture includes writers, literary agents, editors, publishers, government arts organisations, the media, schools, book clubs, and book retailers, just to name a few) plays a significant role in establishing and shaping an identity for marginalised 3 constituencies. The implications for this research are far-ranging, since both Western Australia and Australia can be understood as peripheries dominated in their different spheres (the 'national' and the 'international', respectively) by literary cultures residing elsewhere. Furthermore, there are parallels between this dynamic and the dynamic responsible for producing postcolonial literatures. The three publishing houses detailed in this thesis are disadvantaged by many of the factors associated with their distance from the traditional centres of book publishing, while at the same time producing a regional literature that serves as a platform from which the state broadcasts its distinctive contributions to the cultural landscape and to a wider understanding of concepts such as space, place and belonging. These publishing houses changed the way in which Australians and others have come to know and think about 'Australia', re-routing public consciousness and the national imagination.

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Moore, William. "Intuition of an Outsider: From Nothing to Voice in George Scarbrough’s Poetry." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3899.

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Long acknowledged as a committed poet of place, this thesis examines tones of outsiderness and alienation that characterize George Scarbrough’s poetry. Scarbrough draws on familiarity with his childhood in southeast Tennessee, and from an outsider’s outlook, a perspective veritably prompted by the rejection he suffered as a homosexual and lover of language, Scarbrough’s poetry addresses the daunting themes of fear and nothingness. Analysis of his poetry also reveals qualities of hope and endurance, a commitment to received forms, and Modern innovation. Through his poetic voice, culminating in the alter ego of Han-shan, Scarbrough provides vital insights into the human experience.

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Campbell, Sarah Anne. "Looking Outside the Canon: Owen Vincent Dodson'sBoy at the Window." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3677.

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Scholars have viewed African American texts written in the years between 1950 and 1960 as espousing confrontation, protest, and resistance. Although fruitful in identifying large writing trends, much of that scholarship narrowly defines what writing during that time accomplished, leaving out important writers whose writing does not fit the mold. One such writer is Owen Vincent Dodson (1914-1983), who published Boy at the Window in 1951. The novel uses modes of drama including song and call-and-response to invite reader sympathy and identification with characters, and eventually provides reader the opportunity to participate in creating meaning. Dodson's novel subtly combats racism by inviting readers to identify with its young, African American protagonist.

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Soong, Warren J. "Ada implementation issues as discovered through a literature survey of applications outside the United States." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/23518.

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Jenkins, Gareth Sion. "Anthony Mannix 'The atomic book' /." Access electronically, 2008. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/89.

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Al-Yaqout, Ghada Q. O. "'Inside, outside, 'app'side down' : defining the picturebook series." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607850.

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Cicolelli, Pascale Nathalie [Verfasser]. "The heart of the West: 9/11, the insider/outsider novel, and Worlding America / Pascale Nathalie Cicolelli." Mainz : Universitätsbibliothek Mainz, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1136925759/34.

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Ferre, Griffin. "The Adventure of a Lifetime: Examining Life Lessons in Eighteenth Century Literature." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1678.

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Embedded within various works of Eighteenth-Century literature lie themes regarding how the protagonists of these stories pursue their own versions of happiness. This thesis examines how characters from a wide variety of Eighteenth-Century novels engage with their surroundings, often resisting the dominant social structures of the time, to fashion more fulfilling lives for themselves. From Robinson Crusoe to Elizabeth Bennet to Frankenstein's monster, these characters come from a wide variety of backgrounds but all reveal several unifying themes. They seek out personal connections rather that striving to fulfill antiquated social expectations and they focus on their own agency, rather than circumstances out of their control. Their respective journeys are often fraught with peril, but each one is a journey worth embarking on.

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Long, Jean. "From the outside : a study of identity and belonging in Virginia Woolf's fiction and personal writings." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.259999.

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