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Micklitz, Bill. "The censors' magic wand the disappearing children's literature /." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2006/2006micklitzw.pdf.

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Salus, Victoria Paula 1970. ""Her rare chastitee" : Belphoebe's representation in The faerie queene." Monash University, English Dept, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9100.

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Griswold, Amy Herring Simpkins Scott. "Detecting masculinity the positive masculine qualities of fictional detectives /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3971.

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Polasek, Ashley D. "The evolution of Sherlock Holmes : adapting character across time and text." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/11076.

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The aim of this thesis is to introduce, justify, and apply a better framework for analysing Sherlock Holmes, one of the most adapted characters of all time. The project works to resituate the focus of those involved in studying adaptations of Sherlock Holmes from an examination of the discrete transition of a text from page to screen, to the evolution of the character as it changes across various intertexts and through time. The purpose is to show that it is the character specifically, and not the literary text with its narrative, genric, and aesthetic qualifications, that is being adapted, an

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Gates, Kellynn. "Harry Potter and the evolving hero archetype." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2009. http://165.236.235.140/lib/KGates2009.pdf.

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Lecker, Michael. "Treacherous, Deviant, and Submissive: Female Sexuality Represented in the Character Catwoman." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1174668318.

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Driehuis, Raymond. "Man makes man : a study of uplifting and upbuilding in the novels of Joseph Furphy." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1999. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1226.

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In a letter to Kate Baker, circa November 1910, Furphy wrote, '[b]ut ain't it anomalous that the erratic G.H [Grant Hervey], the saintly Dr. Strong, and the perverse T.C. [Tom Collins] should be working strenuously toward the same goal, namely, the uplifting and upbuildlng of Australia' (In Barnes and Hoffmann, eds, 1995:259. My Italics). This thesis is an Investigation of the ideas of uplifting and upbuildlng, and their relevance to Tom Collins and his concerns. The reason for Furphy waiting so long to lay bare his designs can only be speculated. Rather than accepting the general critical sta

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Coldebella, Melania <1991&gt. "The Reader: a research on the fictitious character in the text and on the study of literature in a foreign language." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/6903.

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A conclusione di un percorso di studi letterari, questo elaborato cerca di analizzare l'atto della lettura e il ruolo del lettore; inoltre si studiano i processi di apprendimento della seconda lingua così da capire cosa significhi per uno studente entrare nel mondo della letteratura in lingua straniera. In particolare, la prima parte pone l’attenzione sulle teorie della lettura: l’interpretazione, i tipi di lettore, ovvero il lettore reale e fittizio; la comunicazione e l’interazione con il testo. La seconda parte si basa sulla concezione che studiare letteratura può essere un modo per imparar

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McGrath, Cole P. "Fighting tradition : Hemingway's Nick Adams and shell shock /." Connect to this title online, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/5525.

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Reading, Jill. "Critical literacy in a global context reading Harry Potter /." Connect to thesis, 2006. http://portal.ecu.edu.au/adt-public/adt-ECU2007.0018.html.

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Griswold, Amy Herring. "Detecting Masculinity: The Positive Masculine Qualities of Fictional Detectives." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3971/.

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Detective fiction highlights those qualities of masculinity that are most valuable to a contemporary culture. In mysteries a cultural context is more thoroughly revealed than in any other genre of literature. Through the crimes, an audience can understand not only the fears of a particular society but also the level of calumny that society assigns to a crime. As each generation has needed a particular set of qualities in its defense, so the detective has provided them. Through the detective's response to particular crimes, the reader can learn the delineation of forgivable and unforgivable act

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Graham, Brita Marie. "Buffy at play tricksters, deconstruction, and chaos at work in the whedonverse /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2007. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2007/graham/GrahamB0507.pdf.

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Sze, Tin Tin, and 施福田. "Mapping Neverland: a reading of J.M. Barrie'sPeter Pan text as pastoral, myth and romance." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4787000X.

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This thesis is prompted by a curiosity about the popularity of the image of Peter Pan. Realising that the familiar and ubiquitous image is as much a product of consumer culture as it is the result of multimodal adaptations and reinterpretations of J. M. Barrie?s Peter Pan, this study attempts to shovel aside present-day conceptions of Peter Pan stories, so as to unearth the bedrock, to see Peter Pan as it was when it was new, back in its own time. To do so, this study goes back to the original Peter Pan texts. Picking out elements that signal the presence of certain literary modes, this thesi

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Dixon, Brian A. "Sex for Dinner , death for breakfast : James Bond and the body /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2009. http://0-digitalcommons.uri.edu.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3367989.

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Darowski, Joseph J. "The American Way: What Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and the X-Men Reveal About America." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1515.pdf.

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McWilliams, Ora C. ""Hey Batman, what are your parents getting you for Christmas?" the orphan narrative and non-traditional families in American superhero publications /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1245711175.

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Cannon, Ammie Sorensen. "Controversial politics, conservative genre : Rex Stout's Archie-Wolfe duo and detective fiction's conventional form /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1340.pdf.

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Miller, Brenda Kay Kesterson David B. "Murky impressions of postmodernism Eugene Gant and Shakespearean intertext in Thomas Wolfe's Look homeward, angel and Of time and the river /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-5143.

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Blair, Nancy Lynn Silverstein Marc R. ""A participant in the world" identity, change, and the closet i n Angels in America /." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/SPRING/English/Thesis/Blair_Nancy_13.pdf.

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Bridges, Annette. "What Mignon knows : girlhood subjectivity in three novels of the 1940's /." view abstract or download file of text, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9955914.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 1999.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-182). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9955914.

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Foster, Gregory M. "Evolution and Sweeney's world : reading T.S. Eliot as a poet of science /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9841286.

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Carpenter, Sarah Gerina. "Narratives of a Fall: Star Wars Fan Fiction Writers Interpret Anakin Skywalker's Story." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11989.

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viii, 94 p.<br>My thesis examines Star Wars fan fiction about Anakin Skywalker posted on the popular blogging platform LiveJournal. I investigate the folkloric qualities of such posts and analyze the ways in which fans through narrative generate systems of meaning, engage in performative expressions of gender identity, resistance, and festival, and create transformative works within the present cultural milieu. My method has been to follow the posts of several Star Wars fans on LiveJournal who are active in posting fan fiction and who frequently respond to one another's posts, thereby creating

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Anderson, Erich R. "A Window to Jim's Humanity: The Dialectic Between Huck and Jim in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1729.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, YEAR.<br>Title from screen (viewed on August 26, 2009). Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Jane E. Schultz, Jonathan R. Eller, Robert Rebein. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-83).

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Raetz, Edward Tucker. "Taran: An individuated hero for the collective unconscious." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/147.

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This study analyzes Lloyd Alexander's The Prydain Chronicles through a Jungian lens. Previous scholarship on Alexander's works has briefly considered archetypal criticism, but not extensively. Bruno Bettelheim's thoughts are used intermittently throughout the thesis. This study concentrates on Taran's individuation process, the discovery of true selfhood, and his consequent development of a whole psyche.

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Veras, Gléssia Juliany Brasiliano. "Bárbara e Dona Redonda: de Murilo Rubião a Dias Gomes, realismo maravilhoso e retextualização." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21121.

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Submitted by Marlene Aparecida de Souza Cardozo (mcardozo@pucsp.br) on 2018-06-12T12:20:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Gléssia Juliany Brasiliano Veras.pdf: 2337734 bytes, checksum: 70bfe3249723af7d4d7adafa57740794 (MD5)<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-12T12:20:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gléssia Juliany Brasiliano Veras.pdf: 2337734 bytes, checksum: 70bfe3249723af7d4d7adafa57740794 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-12<br>The present research aims at developing a study on the similarities between the character Dona Redonda, in the telenovela Saramandaia (1976/original version and 2013/

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Glover, Jayne Ashleigh. "The Harry Potter phenomenon literary production, generic traditions, and the question of values." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002243.

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This thesis is a study of the first four books of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. It accounts for the widespread success of the novels by examining their publication and marketing histories, and their literary achievement as narratives including a sophisticated mix of generic traditions. Chapter One looks at the popularity of the novels, comparing their material production and marketing by Rowling’s English language publishers: Bloomsbury in Britain and Scholastic in the United States of America. The publisher’s influence on the public perception of each book is demonstrated by comparativ

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Lehman, Suzanne M. (Suzanne Marie). "Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Narcissism in the Suicide and Sexuality of Edna Pontellier." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500307/.

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The central figure in The Awakening, Edna Pontellier, is shown in this thesis to pursue a narcissistic flight from existential reality. Following a review of contemporary criticism, Edna Pontellier's narcissism is discussed in connection with her sexuality and suicide. Sources cited range from biographies of Kate Chopin to scholarly articles to the works of modern psychologists. The emphasis throughout the thesis is on the wealth of interpretations that currently exist on The Awakening as well as the potential for further -study and interpretation in the future. Rather than viewing The Awakeni

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Geldenhuys, Vincent. "A signification in stone the lapis as metaphor for visual hybridisation in the Harry Potter films /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11132008-191836.

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Doktorchik, Acacia M., and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Fine Arts. "Sehnsucht and alienation in Schubert's Mignon settings / Acacia M. Doktorchik." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Music, c2011, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3051.

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Sehnsucht (longing) and alienation were two central themes of 19th century German Romanticism in literature, music and art. Franz Schubert was one of the great masters of the Romantic era to understand and express these intense emotions through his compositions. This paper discusses Sehnsucht and alienation in Schubert’s settings of the Mignon songs from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehjahre (Master William’s Apprenticeship). Mignon, a secondary character in this novel, is a prime example of one who experiences these emotions and whose principal medium of expressing hers

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Henderson, Cynthia Joy. "Winnie Verloc and Heroism in The Secret Agent." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500940/.

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Winnie Verloc's role in "The Secret Agent" has received little initial critical attention. However, this character emerges as Conrad's hero in this novel because she is an exception to what afflicts the other characters: institutionalism. In the first chapter, I discuss the effect of institutions on the characters in the novel as well as on London, and how both the characters and the city lack hope and humanity. Chapter II is an analysis of Winnie's character, concentrating on her philosophy that "life doesn't stand much looking into," and how this view, coupled with her disturbing experience

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Sobeck, Janine Michelle. "Arlecchino's Journey: Crossing Boundaries Through La Commedia Dell'arte." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2075.pdf.

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Park, Yoon-hee. "Rewriting Woman Evil?: Antifeminism and its Hermeneutic Problems in Four Criseida Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278387/.

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Since Benoit de Sainte-Maure's creation of the Briseida story, Criseida has evolved as one of the most infamous heroines in European literature, an inconstant femme fatale. This study analyzes four different receptions of the Criseida story with a special emphasis on the antifeminist tradition. An interesting pattern arises from the ways in which four British writers render Criseida: Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Crisevde is a response to the antifeminist tradition of the story (particularly to Giovanni Boccaccio's II Filostrato); Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid is a direct response t

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Clateman, Andrew. "Inheriting the motley mantle an actor approaches playing the role of Feste, Shakespeare's update of the lord of misrule." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4871.

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Playing role of Feste in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night presents a complex challenge to the actor. Feste is at once a character in the world of the play and a clown figure with specific dramatic functions having roots in the Lord of Misrule of the English holiday and the Vice of the morality play. How can the actor playing Feste create a believable psychological portrayal that is aligned with the functions Shakespeare assigns the role? And be entertaining as well? I suggest that actor will benefit greatly from an exploration the traditional function of the clown its development in society

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Miller, Brenda. "Murky Impressions of Postmodernism: Eugene Gant and Shakespearean Intertext in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5143/.

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In this study, I analyze the significance of Shakespearean intertextuality in the major works of Thomas Wolfe featuring protagonist Eugene Gant: Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River. Specifically, I explore Gant's habits and preferences as a reader by examining the narrative arising from the protagonist's perspectives of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, and King Lear. I examine the significance of parallel reading habits of Wolfe the author and Gant the character. I also scrutinize the plurality of Gant's methods of cognition as a reader who interprets texts, communicate

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Benson, Fiona. "The Ophelia versions : representations of a dramatic type, 1600-1633." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/478.

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Birge, Amy Anastasia. ""Mislike Me not for My Complexion": Shakespearean Intertextuality in the Works of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278175/.

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Caliban, the ultimate figure of linguistic and racial indeterminacy in The Tempest, became for African-American writers a symbol of colonial fears of rebellion against oppression and southern fears of black male sexual aggression. My dissertation thus explores what I call the "Calibanic Quadrangle" in essays and novels by Anna Julia Cooper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. The figure of Caliban allows these authors to inflect the sentimental structure of the novel, to elevate Calibanic utterance to what Cooper calls "crude grandeur and exalted poesy," and to reveal

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Martin, Sean Elliot. "H.P. Lovecraft and the modernist grotesque." 2008. http://cdm256101.cdmhost.com/cdm-p256101coll31/document.php?CISOROOT=/p256101coll31&CISOPTR=96331.

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"Evolution of a heroine: from Pride and prejudice to Bridget Jones's diary." 2004. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5892000.

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Chan Ka-ling.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 160-167).<br>Abstracts in English and Chinese.<br>Acknowledgements --- p.iv<br>Introduction --- p.1<br>Chapter Chapter One --- Bridget Jones's Diary： A Novelistic Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice --- p.18<br>Chapter Chapter Two --- The Image of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Its Adaptations --- p.4 7<br>Chapter Chapter Three --- The Image of Bridget Jones in Bridget Jones' s Diary and Its Film Adaptation --- p.85<br>Chapter Chapter Four --- Evolution of a

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Harris, Eugenia Kay. ""Speak softly and carry a big stick" female appropriation of the phallus in Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski series /." Diss., 2006. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/ETD-db/available/etd-03212006-234958/.

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Leonard, Christopher G. "Joyce’s “Circe” : Stephen’s heteroglossia, liberatory violence and the imagined antinational community." 2012. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1670057.

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In James Joyce’s Ulysses, I believe that Stephen Dedalus enacts a heteroglossic discourse in episode 15, “Circe,” that critiques both English imperialism and the nationalist bourgeois of Ireland. Moreover, Stephen engages not only in an aesthetic and political rebellion through the style of his discourse, but he also engages in the only anticolonial violence in Ulysses against the British soldier Private Carr. Thus, I believe that Stephen separates himself from the ideology of the colonizer and from the bourgeois nationalists through aesthetic, political, and violent means. I will conduct my e

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Rodrigues, Debbie June. "Funny little witches and venerable-looking wizards: a social constructionist study of the portrayal of gender in the Harry Potter series." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4774.

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In this study I apply social constructionism as propounded by Vivian Burr (1998) to show that although J. K. Rowling uses stereotypes in the Harry Potter series as a reflection of how gender is constructed across a wide range of societal institutions in contemporary Britain, she created complex characters who on an individual level subvert social constructs and thereby offers her readers alternatives to culturally defined concepts of gender. I explore the all-pervasive social phenomenon of gender and examine how it is constructed in present-day Britain and reflected in the series (bearing in m

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Dohmen, Lizette. "A bear of very little brain : positive psychology themes in the stories of Winnie the Pooh." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22055.

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The aim of this study is to discover to what extent and in what way Peterson and Seligman’s (2004) twenty-four character strengths are present in Winnie the Pooh storybooks, and how they are depicted. Character strengths are a well-known theory in positive psychology and the analysis of children’s literature is a respected genre. A qualitative examination of the text was conducted using content and thematic analyses to extract examples of the strengths. The exemplars were coded and recoded before being subjected to a peer and supervisor review. The excerpts indicated that all strengths are dep

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Gani, Safiyyah. "The fortifying and destructive power of love in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5304.

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The aim of this study is to explore the importance of love in its various manifestations in the lives of the Harry Potter characters and its power to consequently influence the paths that they eventually choose to walk. Love is investigated as the reason behind the choice between good and evil as well as paradoxically both a fortifying as well as a destructive force. Furthermore, it attempts to examine the importance that love plays in the healthy or dysfunctional development of the characters. Numerous philosophies and theories that span two different eras will form the theoretical fra

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Potter, Mary-Anne. "The worlds between, above and below : "growing up" and "falling down" in Alice in Wonderland and Stardust." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/11870.

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The purpose of my dissertation is to conduct an intertextual study of two fantasy texts — Alice in Wonderland by Victorian author Lewis Carroll, and Stardust by postmodern fantasy author Neil Gaiman — and their filmic re-visionings by Tim Burton and Matthew Vaughn respectively. In scrutinising these texts, drawing on insights from feminist, children’s literature and intertextual theorists, the actions of ‘growing up’ and ‘falling down’ are shown to be indicative of a paradoxical becoming of the text’s central female protagonists, Alice and Yvaine. The social mechanisms of the Victorian age tha

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Opperman, Susan. "Ethical and stylistic issues of translating Bosman's English short stories into Afrikaans." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24546.

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Text in English with abstracts in English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa<br>Herman Charles Bosman (1905–1951) remains a popular South African writer, despite the frequent occurrence of the offensive k-word for black people in his writings. Although the discipline of Translation Studies is presently dominated by ethical considerations, there are reasons to believe that ethical issues have been neglected in recent translations of Bosman’s English short stories into Afrikaans. His translators, Griebenow and De Lange, have conformed to a simplistic fidelity-driven perception of ethics, while more attenti

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Potter, Mary-Anne. "Arboreal thresholds - the liminal function of trees in twentieth-century fantasy narratives." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25341.

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Trees, as threshold beings, effectively blur the line between the real world and fantastical alternate worlds, and destabilise traditional binary classification systems that distinguish humanity, and Culture, from Nature. Though the presence of trees is often peripheral to the main narrative action, their representation is necessary within the fantasy trope. Their consistent inclusion within fantasy texts of the twentieth century demonstrates an enduring arboreal legacy that cannot be disregarded in its contemporary relevance, whether they are represented individually or in collective forests.

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