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Schnarr, Christopher E. "Moments between the surface : photography and fiction." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/935913.

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Architecture exists as shelter, separating space into the inside and the outside. This separation is a crucial point in our experience of architecture. This separation is the first moment of physical interaction with the construct in our penetration of the construct. However, architecture is not only a physical language. It is nonphysical, in that architecture is defined as the art and science of building, etc. This separation, internally, both produces the architecture as well as the ideas that are produced from the architecture. Architecture is held in-between, the movement or passage from o

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Mei, Zhen, and 梅真. "The sensory art and its psychological effects in Eileen Chang's fiction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46089731.

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Burch, Kaitlyn. "Dance Lessons." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/256.

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August Diamond is left lost after the sudden death of her father. The stories in Dance Lessons explore the themes of loss and grief, retreat and return, and finding your true self. The collection is a novel in stories, each story exposing another layer of August's past, her family, and their complicated relationships.

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Schlegel, Daniel Drew. "All Begins to Bloom: Stories." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1033.

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A collection of short stories, All Begins to Bloom follows a range of young protagonists living in the greater Los Angeles area. In a time when even the most underground lifestyles are commodified, when Independent media is just another genre, when every mode of living has seemingly been exhausted, these characters struggle to forge an identity in the face of adulthood. From a group of surfers reeling from a careless death ("The Pier") to a young artistic couple brought together by the will to overcome an eating disorder ("All Begins to Bloom"), these stories explore the hollow promises among

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Courtney, Mackenzie. "Snowing in Kansas." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1683.

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Set in rural Kansas, this story follows the lives of Jonathan Tate, his sister Lily Anne Tate, and their father, up until his death, Hershall Tate. They are an isolated family, seemingly living outside of time. John opens the novel with a walk into town to set the contrast between him and the rest of the world. Time is the theme and essence, because every scene and the tone of the scenes are weighted by the imminence of Hershall's death. He is dying slowly and so their lives move slowly. Lily can't help but be ornery, while John, assuming all the chores and anxiety of the future without his fa

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Statham, Anne. "Science fiction : a symbiosis of text and reader." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1989. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36380/1/36380_Statham_1989.pdf.

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For the past decade or so, a shaky aura of respectability has surrounded the genre of science fiction. Recognition as a branch of literature was late coming to what was, and to some extent still is, a confused form of fiction. Critics are still unable to agree on a definition of science fiction; they are no longer even sure what the letters 'SF' should stand for; they argue about its role, relevance and historical origins, and debate its relationship with 'mainstream' literature. What they do seem to agree on, however, is that science fiction is a form of popular literature that offers an al

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Milligen, Stephen. "Better to reign in hell : serial killers, media panics and the FBI." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310110.

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Smith, Burston Helen K. "Heartlines : a novel and, A study of the cultural context of adoption between 1950 and 1980 with particular, but not exclusive, reference to the Australian birth mother and her relinquished child : an accompanying essay." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/329.

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This thesis deals with the loss experienced by all participants in adoption, especially during the period 1950 to 1980 and with particular, but not exclusive, reference to the birth mother and her child. The work is in two parts, the first being a contemporary novel, 'Heartlines', written in the form of a fictional memoir from the point of view of a woman in her early forties who suddenly is confronted with the daughter she relinquished twenty years previously, and whose existence she has kept secret from her husband. The novel deals with the difficult relationship that develops between mother

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Burris, Lyttron Phillecia. "The psychological castration and emasculation of the black male characters in Ralph Ellison's short fiction and Invisible Man." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1412938749.

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Satterlee, Michelle. "Shadows of the self : trauma, memory, and place in twentieth-century American fiction /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1196413471&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Study of themes in the novels of Edward Abbey, Lan Cao, Toni Morrison, and Leslie Marmon Silko. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 233-238). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Crawford, Jim D. "“Inside Story”." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500092/.

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Inside Story explores the essence of story and attempts to connect the audience to the significance of story in their own lives. The documentary examines story and determines the elements necessary for its formation. The film investigates the psychological aspects of story, inspects the physiological processing of story that connects story to the way we think and perceive, and finally, emphasizes the functions and values of story.

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Jespersdotter, Högman Julia. "Repeating Despite Repulsion: The Freudian Uncanny in Psychological Horror Games." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-42829.

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This thesis explores the diverse and intricate ways the psychological horror game genre can characterise a narrative by blurring the boundaries of reality and imagination in favour of storytelling. By utilising the Freudian uncanny, four video game fictions are dissected and analysed to perceive whether horror needs a narrative to be engaging and pleasurable. A discussion will also be made if video game fictions should be considered in the literary field or its own, and how it compares to written fiction in terms of interactivity, engagement, and immersion.

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Meals, Nathaniel Jeffrey. "Among the Lost: Fictions." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1522933463551811.

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McFarlane, Anna M. "A gestalt approach to the science fiction novels of William Gibson." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6263.

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Gestalt psychologists Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler argue that human perception relies on a form, or gestalt, into which perceptions are assimilated. Gestalt theory has been applied to the visual arts by Rudolf Arnheim and to literature by Wolfgang Iser. My original contribution to knowledge is to use gestalt theory to perform literary criticism, an approach that highlights the importance of perception in William Gibson's novels and the impact of this emphasis on posthumanism and science fiction studies. Science fiction addresses the problem of difference and the relationship between self an

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Armstrong, Nancy Jane. "Reading girls reading pleasure : reading, adolescence and femininity." Thesis, Curtin University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/661.

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This thesis is concerned with the reading girl and the potential pleasures and transgressions she experiences through popular fiction. Throughout modernity, the western bourgeois girl has been directed towards texts that both validate proper, and caution against improper, forms of femininity. This practice continues within the institutions of family and education as well as through the public library system and commercial booksellers. Although the contemporary girl is subjected to feminism, culture continues to insist on her domestic role. The notion of identification is central to societal fe

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Coleman, Isaiah. "Someone to Live For, Someone to Die For." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1606991158021014.

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Holgerson, Astrid, and Birgit Hellbom. "Facts or fiction as evidence in court : a witness psychological analysis of a Swedish legal case of alleged cutting-up murder and child sexual abuse." Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, 1997. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-90935.

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Bindslev, Anne M. "Mrs. Humphry Ward a study in late-Victorian feminine consciousness and creative expression /." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm, Sweden : Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1985. http://books.google.com/books?id=l3ZbAAAAMAAJ.

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Désy-Giguère, Denyse. "Sophie, récit ; suivi de Essai de représentation de la vie psychique d'un personnage féminin de la décennie soixante." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ53938.pdf.

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Richards, James. "Sugar Skulls." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/8.

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This dissertation is a collection of four long short stories about contemporary Americans written in the mode of psychological realism. “Bare Knuckles” depicts the struggles of a young man trying to “make it” in the world of illegal boxing. “ZOSO” focuses on the breakdown of an upper-middleclass family forced to move from the rustbelt to the “New South.” In “Dusted,” a man ill-equipped to navigate through the adult world turns to substance abuse and violence as a “way out.” “Sugar Skulls” explores the fascination with death in the punk rock world.

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Carstens, Hester. "Drempellewens : die uitbeelding van bewussyn in vyf debuutromans (tesis) en Hanna in die park (roman)." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/410.

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Skuthorpe, Barret School of English UNSW. "The Artist-God who ???disguides his voice???: a reading of Joseph Campbell???s interpretation of the dreamer of Finnegans Wake." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/30593.

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This thesis is concerned with engaging a critic who has been neglected by his peers in the field of Joyce studies for more than forty years. This critic, Joseph Campbell, is an American scholar more popularly known for his studies in myth. However, he began his intellectual career contributing to a subject that emerged in the early years of the critical reception of Finnegans Wake: that the dream depicted in Joyce???s final masterpiece is dependent on a Dreamer. The neglect Campbell???s work has endured is largely due, this thesis argues, to an inaccurate treatment of his reading of this dream

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Bomhoff, Gary. "Toward the Red Shore." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5914.

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A fictional novel utilizing third person limited narration from the perspective of the primary character, Ilya Kollide, who narrates the story as though it were happening in his head as it occurred, with frequent embellishments. He has come to live near an old mansion on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, named Neimasaurus, to find an antiquated, dusty world of faded aristocracy. Temporarily orphaned at the age sixteen by the recent death of his parents, he has traveled four thousand miles to live with his last living relative, an uncle named Demetri, whom he has never met. The year is 1990, only th

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McKinney, Kelli. "The Luxury of Tears: A Secondary Survivor's Story." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2273/.

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As the written accompaniment for The Luxury of Tears, a twelve-minute documentary video exploring the emotional impact of sexual assault on male survivors and their partners, this document examines the visual texts of both the fiction and nonfiction genres. Specifically, I contend that fiction film manufactures male survivorship with regard to rape events in such manner which contributes to the thematization of social silence. Such silence perpetuates the feminization of rape as a social problem, and dissolves the development of male survivor resources. A discussion of production processes

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Mackinnon, Jeremy E. "Speaking the unspeakable : war trauma in six contemporary novels." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm15821.pdf.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 246-258) Presents readings of six novels which depict something of the nature of war trauma. Collectively, the novels suggest that the attempt to narrativise war trauma is inherently problematic. Traces the disjunctions between narrative and war trauma which ensure that war trauma remains an elusive and private phenomonen; the gulf between private experience and public discourse haunts each of the novels.

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Coetzee, Mervyn A. "Blood, race and the construction of 'the coloured' in Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren." University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5362.

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Magister Artium - MA<br>In this paper I attempt to look critically at the literary construction of one particular 'race', namely the 'Coloureds', in Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren. To this end, the paper draws on the historical background of Millin, and investigates the way in which Millin has consciously and strategically formed, as it were, a 'unique' Coloured identity. Furthermore, the paper explores the proximity or tension between author and narrator in the novel. This tension, I suggest, emerges in response to various pressures in the novel which in turn are based upon the au

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Chappell, Shelley Bess. "Werewolves, wings, and other weird transformations fantastic metamorphosis in children's and young adult fantasy literature /." Doctoral thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/226.

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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2007.<br>Bibliography: p. 239-289.<br>Introduction -- Fantastic metamorphosis as childhood 'otherness' -- The metamorphic growth of wings : deviant development and adolescent hybridity -- Tenors of maturation: developing powers and changing identities -- Changing representations of werewolves: ideologies of racial and ethnic otherness -- The desire for transcendence: jouissance in selkie narratives -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix: "The great Silkie of Sule Skerry": three versions.<br>My central thesis

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Volz, Jessica A. "Vision, fiction and depiction : the forms and functions of visuality in the novels of Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and Fanny Burney." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4438.

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There are many factors that contributed to the proliferation of visual codes, metaphors and references to the gendered gaze in women's fiction of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. This thesis argues that the visual details in women's novels published between 1778 and 1815 are more significant than scholars have previously acknowledged. My analysis of the oeuvres of Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and Fanny Burney shows that visuality — the nexus between the verbal and visual communication — provided them with a language within language capable of circumventing the

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Wiley, Antoinette Marchelle. "The Familiar Stranged." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1513009183178476.

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Touboul, Anaëlle. ""Histoires de fous". Approche de la folie dans le roman français du XXe siècle." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA123/document.

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Figure obsédante de l’imaginaire collectif, le fou a longtemps été chargé de significations qui le dépassent ; le mythe de la folie fait recette sur la scène littéraire mais les malades n’en sont que des figurants. Alors que le fou réel est maintenu dans les marges de la littérature comme de la société, le fantasme culturel de la folie est nourri et modelé au XIXe siècle par la littérature romantique ou fantastique et exalté au début du siècle suivant par les avant-gardes historiques. Un certain nombre de textes de romanciers du XXe siècle, parmi lesquels Georges Duhamel, André Baillon, Julien

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Shedlosky, Randi. "The Experience of Psychological Transportation: The Role of Cognitive Energy Exertion and Focus during Exposure to Narratives." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1287349750.

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Holtrop, Katherine G. "Psychological with a Xuanyi Afterthought: A Translation of Cai Jun's "Kidnapped" and a Critical Introduction to His Popular Suspense Fiction." 2018. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/649.

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Often hailed as “China’s Stephen King,” Chinese psychological suspense author Cai Jun occupies a position at the peak of the new wave of young authors flooding China’s popular literature market. In order to understand Cai’s popularity as an author, the impact his works and writing have on this market, and how he creates his particular brand of suspense fiction, it is both necessary to put his works into a larger context and analyze his writing. This thesis provides a brief overview of the recent literary scene in China, from the rise of internet literature and the comeback of genre fiction to

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Hardman, Kalyn M. "Collections of Disorder: Stories of Mental Illness." 2016. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_hontheses/11.

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This thesis contains five short stories, each narrated by a character with a psychological disorder. The disorders represented are as follows: alcohol use disorder, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, phobic disorder, and autism spectrum disorder. Research was conducted in two parts: (1) study of psychological texts including peer reviewed articles and case studies and (2) study of literary works including memoirs and novels. The author aims to use storytelling to humanize and therefore generate empathy for those with mental illnesses.

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Craig, Jen. "Disgusting woundedness : anorexia and the transgenerational transmission of trauma." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:45999.

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This thesis examines the transgenerational aspects of trauma, focusing on both the phenomenon of anorexia and the discourse about it in the humanities. It seeks to determine the role of trauma in the disturbing a/effects, or affective and effective elements, that have been associated with first-hand accounts of anorexic experience, and to track the way that these same a/effects complicate those theories that reduce anorexia to culturalist frameworks. The dissertation Disgusting Woundedness: Anorexia and the transgenerational transmission of trauma argues that even when trauma is invoked in pro

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Mackinnon, Jeremy E. "Speaking the unspeakable : war trauma in six contemporary novels / Jeremy E. Mackinnon." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19791.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 246-258)<br>258 leaves ; 30 cm.<br>Presents readings of six novels which depict something of the nature of war trauma. Collectively, the novels suggest that the attempt to narrativise war trauma is inherently problematic. Traces the disjunctions between narrative and war trauma which ensure that war trauma remains an elusive and private phenomonen; the gulf between private experience and public discourse haunts each of the novels.<br>Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 2001

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"The unfolding of self in the mid-nineteenth century English Bildungsroman." 2003. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896118.

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Cheung Fung-Ling.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-112).<br>Abstracts in English and Chinese.<br>Abstract --- p.i<br>Acknowledgements --- p.v<br>Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction --- p.1<br>Chapter Chapter Two --- Passionate Impulses in Childhood and Adolescence --- p.26<br>Chapter Chapter Three --- Moral Dilemmas in Love --- p.52<br>Chapter Chapter Four --- The Ultimate Return --- p.75<br>Chapter Chapter Five --- Conclusion --- p.99<br>Notes --- p.104<br>Bibliography --- p.106

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Isaacs, Carole Ann. "Problematique de l'identite Juive dans des oevres choises de Patrick Modiano." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/20979.

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Towards the end of the 1960s in France we witness the awakening of the memory of the Holocaust and the Occupation which coincides with the publication of Patrick Modiano’s first novel, La place de l’étoile. It is from this time that Jewish memory of the Holocaust begins to surface and we see the emergence of a literature of the post-Holocaust generation. Modiano belongs to this generation that, being deprived of a personal memory of the Holocaust, turns to this period in a quest for roots and identity. Like his Jewish colleagues, Modiano struggles to come to terms with a past that he ha

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Gallagher, Gina Marie. "TIME SKIPS AND TRALFAMADORIANS: CULTURAL SCHIZOPHRENIA AND SCIENCE FICTION IN KURT VONNEGUT’S SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE AND THE SIRENS OF TITAN." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3085.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)<br>In his novels Slaughterhouse-five and The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut explores issues of cultural identity in technologically-advanced societies post-World War II. With the rise of globalization and rapid technological advancements that occurred postwar, humans worldwide were mitigating the effects of information overload and instability in cultural identity. The influx of cultural influences that accompany a global society draws attention to the fluidity and inevitability of cultural change. A heightened awareness of cultural inf

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Lyons, Sara Jane. "Cold vision : inspired by "The Snow Queen"." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/156294.

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Exegesis. The exegesis argues that contemporary women writers continue to find inspiration in the fairy tale, drawing on its form, themes, characters, symbolism and motifs to tell new stories. In particular, the exegesis claims that writers turn to the fairy tale for three broad purposes, two of which are contradictory, thereby suggesting the elasticity of the fairy tale as a structure. Firstly, fairy tales are used normatively, as a means of providing a structure that preserves traditional values, roles and politics (supporting the status quo). Secondly, fairy tales are used subversively to p

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