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DeBonis, Joseph Alex. "Strange Houses." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1154009239.

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Marsden, Simon Joseph. "Strange combinations : reconsidering hybridity through Victorian fiction." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431743.

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Kagai, Ezekiel Kimani. "Encountering strange lands : migrant texture in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86484.

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Thesis (PhD)-- Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study engages with the complete novelistic oeuvre of the Zanzibari-born author Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose fiction is dedicated to the theme of migration. With each novel, however, Gurnah deploys innovative stylistic features as an analytic frame to engage with his signature topic. From his first novel to his eighth, Gurnah offers new insights into relocation and raises new questions about what it means to be a migrant or a stranger in inhospitable circumstances and how such conditions call for a negotiation of hospitable spa

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Stephens, Cara. "Stories: Strange Men and Thinking Girls." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4833/.

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What is the boundary between fiction and nonfiction? What happens if the line between the two is crossed? Can we possibly recall events in our lives exactly as they happened? In creative nonfiction, such as memoir, the audience expects the writer to recall things exactly as they happened, with no embellishments, re-ordering, additions, or subtractions. It seems as if authors of creative nonfiction are bound to be questioned about events, nitpicked on details, challenged on memories, and accused of portraying real-life people the "wrong" way. Yet when the writer creates fiction, it seems to

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Bacon, Edwin Bruce. "Confronting eternity : strange (im)mortalities, and states of undying in popular fiction." Thesis, University of Canterbury. English, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9680.

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When the meritless scrabble for the bauble of deity, they ironically set their human lives at the “pin’s fee” to which Shakespeare’s Hamlet refers. This thesis focuses on these undeserving individuals in premillennial and postmillennial fiction, who seek immortality at the expense of both their humanities, and their natural mortalities. I will analyse an array of popular modern characters, paying particular attention to the precursors of immortal personages. I will inaugurate these analyses with an examination of fan favourite series

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Romero, Holly-Mary. "The doppelganger in select nineteenth-century British fiction : Frankenstein, Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Dracula." Thesis, Université Laval, 2013. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2013/29381/29381.pdf.

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Ce mémoire étudie les épitomés de la figure doppelganger en trois romans britanniques gothiques du XIXe siècle: Frankenstein de Mary Shelley, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde de Robert Louis Stevenson et Dracula de Bram Stoker. En utilisation avec les sources secondaires dont The Origin of Species et The Descent of Man de Charles Darwin, et The Uncanny de Sigmund Freud, je soutiens que le doppelganger symbolise les conventions sociales et les angoisses des hommes britanniques dans les années 1800. Grâce à un examen des représentations physiques et métaphoriques de la dualité et de la f

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Darwich, Tarek. "National identity in Sonia Nimr’s children’s book Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22822.

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In this thesis, depending on Benedict Anderson’s Studies of nationalism in his book The Imagined Communities, I will prove that in her historical fiction for children, Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands, the Palestinian writer Sonia Nimr is reviving and reforming Arab national identity. Anderson identifies the nation as a group imagined by its members; the people who perceive and identify themselves as equal members in this group. For the people to imagine their nation, Anderson states three tools: the map as a representation of the geographical space, the census as a representation of populat

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Foster, Paul Graham. "The gaze and subjectivity in fin de siècle Gothic fiction." Thesis, University of Chester, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/73257.

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This thesis is concerned with the importance of the gaze in fin-de-siecle Gothic. One of the ways in which the importance of the gaze manifests itself is in the central role of the onlooker like Enfield, Utterson or Lanyon in Robert Louis Stevenson's Stange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Prendick In H.G. Well's Island of Dr Moreau (1896), or Harker in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). As their appelation suggests, Wells's Beast Men confound the distinction between the human and the animal, which is also the case with 'Beast Men' like Hyde and Dracula. A central concern of the thisis is the

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Pereira, Ismael Bernardo. "Connections between the gothic and science fiction in Frankenstein, Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the island of Dr. Moreau." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/179441.

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A presente dissertação tem como objetivo estabelecer um diálogo entre três obras da literatura britânica do século XIX: o romance Frankenstein (1818), da autora Mary W. Shelley; a novela O Médico e o Monstro (1886), de autoria de Robert Louis Stevenson; e o romance A Ilha do Dr. Moreau (1896), de H. G. Wells. Tal comparação será feita com base nas convenções advindas dos gêneros Gótico e Ficção científica, presentes nas obras. Como principal alicerce teórico para a definição de gêneros entendem-se as considerações de Tzvetan Todorov, que defende que os gêneros são inevitáveis como horizonte de

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Silva, Gisélia Mendes da. "Representações do corpo estranho na ficção de Antônio Carlos Viana." Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 2011. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5798.

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This research aims to investigate the role of the strange in the fiction of the short story writer Antônio Carlos Viana from Sergipe in the written works O meio do mundo e outros contos (1999), Aberto está o inferno (2004) and Cine privê (2009). These collections bring a set of strange beings to the family and the patriarchal society. The stranger in the fiction of Viana unbalances the rigorous standards of absolute truth and challenges the dead posture that leads people to live by the roots of a molded patriarchal system that, while outdated, is still adjusting behaviors. As theoretical and m

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Saxton, Kelly E. "Stranger Than Fact." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5436/.

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As a dyslexic child, I always had trouble finding my voice. It's hard to express yourself in words, when you struggle with them. For me words always come later when I write. But most people don't understand how I feel. If your synapses fire off at the right time how can you image what it would be like it they didn't? That's where fiction comes in. If you can override someone's lack of experience with the use of a metaphor, then by distancing the reader from reality with an allegory, you can get to truth that's hard to capture any other way. You can also simply tell the truth in your writing w

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Long-Innes, F. A. V. "Stranger than fiction : the case histories of Sigmund Freud." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10821.

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Bibliography: leaves 201-209.<br>The general aim of this study is to arrive at a critical assessment of the cultural-historical significance of Freud' s major case histories, through a close examination of three of the most famous: the cases of "Dora", "Schreber" and the "WolfMan". My investigation of the case histories themselves is prefaced, in Chapter One, by a selective review of some major strands in the recent critical tradition.

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Smith, Rachael. "Stranded." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2005.

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Wärme, Robert. "Stranger than fiction : En studie kring berättarstruktur i en film." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Litteraturvetenskap, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-3739.

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Denna uppsats är en narratologisk analys av berättarstrukturen inom filmen Stranger than fiction. Uppsatsen inleder med en terminologi samt en teoridel kring vad som är berättarstruktur. Utifrån detta analyserar jag filmen för att grundläggande redogöra kring hur den är berättad genom att först beskriva filmens totala fabula för att sedan analysera vad som egentligen förmedlas och på så sätt även komma fram till en slutsats kring filmens totala berättarstruktur. Resultatet visar på att Stranger than fiction är berättad genom flertalet olika nivåer som visar på två olika berättare inom två olik

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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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Platt, Stephen B. "Stranger in a stage land: A case for the role of science-fiction in theatre." Thesis, Platt, Stephen B. (2020) Stranger in a stage land: A case for the role of science-fiction in theatre. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2020. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/62006/.

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Science fiction is one of the most popular genres across the major entertainment mediums, except theatre. Despite science fiction plays existing for almost as long as there has been science fiction literature, the genre has failed to flourish on stage as it has done in the mediums of cinema, literature, television, and interactive entertainment like video games. Theatre in the twenty-first century has shown encouraging signs of growth and development for science fiction stage shows, and live performance spaces, practitioners, and production companies have the potential to breed the next great

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West, Kathy Marie. "Strangers and Intimates: A Collection of Short Stories." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2326.

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This creative thesis includes five short stories that explore paradoxical ways in which people can feel alone, even if they are together. Although a combination of isolation and intimacy can occur in any human relationship, the stories in this collection spend much of their time with family circles in particular, considering the way that our closest, most permanent relationships can simultaneously prove the most intimate and the most isolating. The critical introduction that precedes the collection examines each story individually, discussing strategies and subject matter in terms of the colle

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Olson, Rebekah Washburn. "We Heard Our Voices with the Hyenas and Other Stories: The Community of Strangers." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5768.

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Community is often defined by the familial or residential relationships we have, such as family, neighbors or coworkers. But there is another vital and often unobserved community among strangers. These relationships are often haphazard, temporary relationships formed in a moment of necessity—customers trapped in a convenience store by a storm, orphaned runaway teenagers who band together for safety on the streets, miners trapped in the rubble of a collapsed mine, etc. These communities are spontaneous and often undefined, but have the potential to reveal more about our insecurities, reflexes,

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Slivka, Jennifer A. "Strangers at Home: Threshold Identities in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/534.

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This dissertation examines how contemporary Irish women writers dismantle national conceptions linking Irish women to the hearth and home by offering an alternate version of women’s lived experience, which nationalist ideologies have simplified. I consider how these writers define “home”—the domestic, the familiar, the intimate—as complicated by sexuality, exile, and violence. Using Freud’s theory of the uncanny as a lens, I analyze how these writers question established social relations in order to uncover uneasy relationships to self, home, and homeland. In my project, postcolonial theory an

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Swanson, Stephen C. "The Stranger in the Dark: The Ethics of Levinasian-Derridean Hospitality in Noir." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182190991.

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Sharland, Jill Elena. "The Secret Wife." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2002. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5101.

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This master's thesis project is the first half of a historical novel concerning the involvement of Elvira Field Strang Baker, the first plural wife of James Jesse Strang, with the "Beaver Island Mormons" who followed Strang from Nauvoo shortly after the death of Joseph Smith in 1844. The events portrayed are historical, although fictionalized. This portion of the novel contains a brief introduction to her childhood in Chapter One and follows her involvement with the Strangite movement beginning in April 1847 to the coronation of her husband in. Elvira was the first plural wife of James Jesse S

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Dass, Minesh. "“The stranger at home” : representations of home and hospitality in three South African post-transitional novels." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016355.

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This thesis examines the representation of home and hospitality in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light, Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret, and Ivan Vladislavić’s Double Negative. It attempts to trace the un-homeliness of the central characters and to account for their feelings of discomfort. As such, it argues that the home is incapable of being inviolable because the invasion of the public is always a possibility. The implication is that master narratives such as race, history and politics are always entering the space one constructs as private. That said, this study also argues that the hom

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Bain, William. "Invitation of Echoes: Part One." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/649.

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Four strangers are stranded in an old farmhouse by a winter storm. Gilley lives on the farm. Shadows move of their own volition on the farm, and Gilley talks to echoes and sees the dead reflected in mirrors. Gilley's husband, Frank, disappeared over forty years ago. Jason is a college student who seeks Gilley out for an interview. He agrees to help Gilley find Frank. Jesse is a young boy who finds his way to the house after an accident. August is a private investigator whom Jason calls for help in finding Frank. August does not have a shadow nor a reflection of his own, and he can't reme

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Al-Abdulrazaq, Mohammad Ahmed. "The role of strangers in Victorian novels: A psychoanalytical study of their repressions, functions and aspirations." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2014. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1400.

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The aim of this study is to examine the stranger characters in three Victorian Novels, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. The exploration of the characters is based on the analysis of their psyche to understand how they are utilized by the Victorian writers. The study highlights how the fictional strangers can assist in the course of the action of the novel and function as a stimulus by which the actions and thoughts develop plausibly and feasibly. Utilizing the views of Freud, Erikson and others the study will a

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Sfar, Gandoura Ons. "La Poétique du rêve dans quelques fictions brèves des XIXe et XXe siècles : Gérard de Nerval, Théophile Gautier, Jules Supervielle et Michel Leiris." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne‎ (2017-2020), 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020CLFAL008.

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Quand le rêve authentique ou fictif intervient dans le texte littéraire, la vaste question de l’inconscient s’impose. La mise en œuvre littéraire du rêve témoigne non seulement de l’intérêt porté à la part inconsciente de l’homme et à son imagination, mais aussi à ses liens fructueux avec le réel : réciprocité, continuité ou rupture, ces liens font toute la dynamique du récit onirique des XIXe et XXe siècles. Le récit onirique s’inscrit dans une esthétique plus large qui, à tous les plans, rompt avec le progressisme et la suprématie de la raison, en établissant une poétique de l’invraisemblabl

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Denning, Laurie Langlois. "L. T. Meade's Avaricious Anomaly: Â Madame Sara, British Imperialism, and Greedy Wolves in The Sorceress of the Strand." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6848.

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L. T. Meade's Avaricious Anomaly: Madame Sara, British Imperialism, and Greedy Wolves in The Sorceress of the Strand. Laurie Langlois Denning, Department of English, BYU Master of Arts. Critics interested in the prolific late Victorian author L.T. Meade have primarily focused on her work as an author of girls' stories and novels for young people, which enjoyed fantastic commercial success in her lifetime but fell into obscurity after her death. Recent scholarship on her detective fiction shows Meade's significant contributions to the genre as well as her engagement with social and political di

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Wurtz, James F. "A very strange agony modernism, memory, and Irish gothic fiction /." 2005. http://etd.nd.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-06032005-151104/.

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Pascoe, William. "The strange potential of ordinary things." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1301626.

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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>The creative component of this thesis is a novel, Ordinary Things, which explores the potential meanings of ordinary things that are typically ignored in day-to-day living, with rubber tires as the main focus. This novel has a framing narrative that follows a contemporary individual whose day-to-day life and significant life events depend on rubber tires. These episodes are reflected in framed stories related to the history of rubber tires. The critical exegesis includes discussion of some of the central themes of, and influences on, the creat

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Collier, Stella Catherine Juliet. "'Long strange ride' & The lure of the road in contemporary Australian fiction." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10453/43434.

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University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.<br>NO FULL TEXT AVAILABLE. Access is restricted indefinitely. The hardcopy may be available for consultation at the UTS Library.<br>The journey is an age-old literary device and its contemporary manifestation, the road story, is more commonly told through the medium of cinema. Can such a clichéd narrative structure tell us anything new? What makes an Australian road novel uniquely Australian and can it ever be more than a pale imitation of its American counterparts? The creative portion of my Master of Creative Arts thesis

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Chen, Hsiao-Han, and 陳筱涵. "A Research on Fiction Adaptation of Strange Tales from Liaozhai by Pu Songling — A Case Study of Xiao Cui." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/qyp67p.

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碩士<br>淡江大學<br>中國文學學系碩士班<br>107<br>From early 1922 to late 2018, the number of adaptions of Strange Tales from Liaozhai (聊齋志異), including films and TV series, is up to 141. Among them, a short story by the name of Xiao Cui (小翠) has been adapted at least ten times. In terms of adaptions of Strange Tales from Liaozhai, Painted Skin (畫皮) is the first one which is academically discussed most frequently, and Xiao Cui, the second one. However, there is a lack of Xiao Cui-related researches. Accordingly, the study aims at exploring the trend in the adaptations of Xiao Cui in Strange Tales from Liaozha

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Mukiwa, Faresi Rumbidzai. "Women and utterance in contexts of violence : Nehanda, Without a name and The strange virgins by Yvonne Vera." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1632.

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This dissertation is a study of women and utterance in contexts of violence in the three selected novels written by the late Yvonne Vera: Nehanda (1993), Without a Name (1994), and The Stone Virgins (2002). A study of the representation of women in particular is appropriate because their role in the making of the history of Zimbabwe has been deliberately undermined or ignored by 'patriotic' historians and politicians alike. This study incorporates a historical and post-colonial feminist analysis of women and their empowerment through utterance in Vera's novels. Their achieving utterance is see

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Kasting, Gretchen Marie. "Without contraries there is no progression : scientific speculation and absence in Frankenstein, Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and “The colour out of space”." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22740.

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Due to their inclusion of characters or objects that are the result of scientific investigation or subject to scientific scrutiny, Frankenstein, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and “The Colour Out of Space” are works that may be classified as science fiction. However, despite these narratives’ engagement with scientific practice, at crucial moments when scientific description would be expected, it is prominently absent. This report investigates the effects of these absences within the narratives and suggests that such absences do not appear due to the author’s unfamiliarity with the sci

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Chung, Hsiang-ju, and 鐘香儒. "The space of the 1st phase of the Edogawa Rampo’s mystery fiction―Revolve mainly around ”Strange Tale of Panorama Island”“Beast in the Shadows” and “The Demon of The Lonely Isle”―." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85441407718362797360.

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碩士<br>東吳大學<br>日本語文學系<br>101<br>Edogawa Rampo (1894-1965)was a Japanese authou who palyed a major role of the Japanese mystery fiction. Edogawa Rampo is also the promoter of the Mystery Writers of Japan.Therefor it is very important to research Edogawa Rampo’s mystery fiction when we want to comprehend Janpanese mystery fiction.The Japanese mystery fictions what are wrote by Edogawa Rampo is sorted by Akimitsu Takagi from 3 phase.This thesis is consideration of the ”Strange Tale of Panorama Island” “Beast in the Shadows” and “The Demon of The Lonely Isle” what are of the 1st phase of the Edogaw

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Carpenter, Markus A. "Strangers to the earth: the science fiction cinema of Jack Arnold." Master's thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/32366.

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Este trabalho procura contextualizar e analisar, com algum pormenor, os filmes de ficção científica de Jack Arnold. A análise tem por objectivo cinco das maiores obras de ficção científica produzidas entre 1953-58, reveladoras da capacidade do autor para imprimir um cunho pessoal à matéria que lhe foi dada trabalhar. Será igualmente tratado o desenvolvimento que o género ficção científica sofreu no cinema, e influência considerável que Arnold teve nessa evolução, que persiste até aos nossos dias.<br>This thesis is an attempt to contextualize and examine in some detail the science fict

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Mc, Wade Christopher. "Revaluing the transgressive Victorian : a Nietzschean study of power and morality in three late-Victorian texts." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8283.

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M.A. (English)<br>Victorian studies is a field much-studied and, during the century that has passed since the end of Queen Victoria‘s reign, literary criticism on the subject has been extensive. In the main, however, criticism has tended to focus on the protagonists of Victorian novels, whether to argue that their journeys are immoral, or represent a warning against immorality, or to examine their behaviour and so arrive at conclusions regarding identity. Through a close reading of Oscar Wilde‘s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Robert Louis Stevenson‘s The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and M

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Kelso, Sylvia. "Singularities : the interaction of feminism(s) and two strands of popular American fiction, 1968-89." Thesis, 1996. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/47036/1/47036-kelso-1996-thesis.pdf.

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The thesis examines how American writers in the popular genres of Female Gothic, Horror, and Science Fiction interact with strands of (mainly) American feminist thought and action, and with the cultural image of feminism(s) during the period 1968-89. The method-ology combines male theorists' work with Marxist, psychoanalytic and other feminist approaches, including gay and lesbian theory and post-colonial perspectives. The thesis frames its genres theoretically: Female Gothic as the shadow of feminist resistance, Horror as an endorsement of masculinist and normative phobias, Science Fiction

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Sainte, Cluque Julie. "Pure science and logical tales: when logic seems stranger than fiction. A framework for an illustrative interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s logic." Thesis, 2021. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/707184/1/Sainte-Cluque_2021.pdf.

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This research is motivated by the desire to establish a bridge between logical tales and pure science, sciences and visual arts, and to determine a link between rationality and fantasy, two a priori antagonistic universes. In the context of children’s illustration, it has two aims. The first is to illustrate what seems to be non-illustratable, such as abstract concepts and complex reasoning. The second objective is to investigate whether visual arts can be elevated to the status of metalanguage that can help illustrate scientific languages and participate in discoveries in this field. Pedago

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Topolovská, Tereza. "Variace na téma venkovského sídla v britské literatuře od Forstera po Hollinghursta." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-348929.

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This dissertation aims to provide an insight into English country house fiction by twentieth and twenty-first century authors, such as E.M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Iris Murdoch, Alan Hollinghurst, and Sarah Waters. The variety of literary depictions of the country house reflects the physical diversification of the buildings in question, from smaller variants to formerly grand residences on the brink of physical collapse. The country house is explored within the wider social and cultural contexts of the period, including contemporary architectural development. Given the exceptionally evocative a

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Klein, Jakub. "Rozsudek pro uznání a rozsudek pro zmeškání." Master's thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-267025.

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70 Abstract This diploma thesis is focused mainly on the judgment by acknowledgement and judgment by default which are institutes of the civil procedural law, which purpose is mainly to increase the efficiency of the legal proceedings. The aim of the thesis is to offer a complete overview of the current legal legislation and its practical usage. At the same time this thesis attempts to cope with problems, which the current legislation suffers with, and offers convenient conceptual solutions. This piece of work is divided into five chapters. The first chapter generally concerns the judgment by

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