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Oliveira, Kátia Isidoro de. "Heroínas e Vilões : os símbolos na obra Heroes and Villains de Angela Carter /." Assis : [s.n.], 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94080.

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Orientador: Cleide Antonia Rapucci<br>Banca: Regina Helena Machado Aquino Corrêa<br>Banca: Ana Maria Domingues de Oliveira<br>Resumo: Villains, publicado em 1969 pela autora inglesa Angela Carter. O romance tem como elemento fundamental símbolos representados por imagens, objetos e lugares que vão revelar também ao leitor a possível crítica ao ambiente patriarcal, observada pela fuga da personagem feminina de uma espécie de confinamento, em busca de seu espaço. Considerando ainda a importância das significações para a obra literária, este trabalho também pretende elucidar como o símbolo é trab
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Sowards, Heather. "Chasing demons female villains and narrative strategy in Victorian sensation fiction /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2003. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=337.

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Oliveira, Kátia Isidoro de [UNESP]. "Heroínas e Vilões: os símbolos na obra Heroes and Villains de Angela Carter." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94080.

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Colvin, Trey Vincent. "Jezebel's Daughters: A Study of Wilkie Collins and His Female Villains." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2581/.

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The term "feminist," when applied to Wilkie Collins, implies he was concerned with rectifying the oppression of women in domestic life as well as with promoting equal rights between the sexes. This study explores Collins the "feminist" by analyzing his portrayals of women, particularly his most powerful feminine creations: his villainesses. Although this focus is somewhat limited, it allows for a detailed analysis of the development of Collins's attitudes towards powerful women from the beginning to the end of his career. It examines the relationship between Collins's developing moral attitude
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Randau, Ulf. "Other People’s Darkness : Difficult empathy and villains in two novels by Graham Greene." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96236.

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The thesis aims to mesh narrative theory with theory of empathy in a study of two novels by Graham Greene, A Gun for Sale (1936) and Brighton Rock (1938), where the use of narrative building blocks from the crime thriller genre and the empathy that the characters may evoke are analysed. The second aim is to discuss how to implement the rather complex works of Graham Greene in the EFL classroom. The key analytical devices for this essay are narratology and empathy, particularly difficult empathy. Narrative scaffolding helps students to discern recurring themes, character types and functions dif
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Vang, Jens. "Avenging the Anthropocene : Green philosophy of heroes and villains in the motion picture tetralogy The Avengers and its applicability in the Swedish EFL-classroom." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-86044.

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This essay investigates the ecological values present in antagonists and protagonists in the narrative revolving the Avengers of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The analysis concludes that biocentric ideals primarily are embodied by the main antagonist of the film series, whereas the protagonists mainly represent anthropocentric perspectives. Since there is a continuum between these two ideals some variations were found within the characters themselves, but philosophical conflicts related to the environment were also found within the group of the Avengers. Excerpts from the films of the study c
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Shahan, John S. Jr. "Spies, Detectives and Philosophers in Divided Germany: Reading Cold War Genre Fiction from a Kantian Perspective." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1511800100648654.

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Ma'oz, Rivka. "Villainy in the novels of Perez Smolenskin." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305012.

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Wolfgang, Bonnie J. "The silence of the forest : a translation from French to English with analysis and literature review." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1033635.

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The Central African Republic is a small country located in the center of Africa. It is a very young nation in terms of political independence, but as the CAR emerges as a nation, it has begun to produce valuable authors who write for the French speaking world. This thesis is an attempt to bring part of the CAR's literature to the United States.Le Silence de la Foret was written by Etienne Goyemide and not only describes the culture of the mainstream population of the CAR, but also that of Pygmies. Although the book is a novel, the cultural aspects are not fictitious. This thesis is a translati
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Gratton, Nathalie. "Le village comme espace romanesque; suivi de Smorzando et Le récital." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22591.

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This Master's thesis in literary creation comprises two parts. The first part is an analysis of the village as a setting in novels and draws upon a corpus of seven novels, from Madame Bovary to Chronique d'une mort annoncee. It will be shown that the main characteristics of the physical space and human space of the village scarcely vary from one novel to another, and constitute a sort of archetype which determines the esthetical purpose of each author. The second part is comprised of two short stories, respectively titled Smorzando and Le recital. These short stories deal with two betrayals, o
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Leverton, Tara Juliette Corinna. "A rotten and dead body : disabled villainy on the early modern stage." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13118.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>Analysing the different ways in which the persistent trope of the disabled villain manifests on the early modern stage is, I believe, necessary work. There has been no extended scholarly account of this phenomenon; analyses of the fictional disabled villain have generally served as side arguments to larger discussions regarding the placement of disability in cultural consciousness.
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Subutzki, Gilmarina Signorini. "Favelas e Villas Miseria." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2016. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/167964.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Florianópolis, 2016<br>Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-20T04:39:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 340487.pdf: 1641837 bytes, checksum: 3ec90e662fe2a089d8738cd53da2b3a7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016<br>O objetivo desta dissertação é promover um diálogo entre as obras Becos da memória, da brasileira Conceição Evaristo, e Villa Celina, do argentino Juan Diego Incardona, relevantes autores da literatura contemporânea, considerados de margem no cenário d
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Ludwig, Paula Fernanda. "COMO SE CRIA UM VILÃO? RUMORES E INTRIGAS ENTRE TEATRO E LITERATURA DO MELODRAMA À DRAMATURGIA BRASILEIRA NO SÉCULO XIX." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2012. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/9865.

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>This work aims to understand the consolidation of the villain as a stereotypical character, representative of questions related to conception of social, cultural and historical values, according to a collective imagination. For tihs, it seeks to support the comparative analysis of two works in which we can see the configuration of this character one, linked to a theater type, very popular, the melodrama, and other linked to Brazilian dramaturgy in the nineteenth century. This approach favors the observation of relevant aspects ab
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Somers, Kathleen Emerald. "Pierced Through the Ear: Poetic Villainy in Othello." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2436.

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The paper examines Othello as metapoetry. Throughout the play, key points of comparison between Iago and Shakespeare's methodologies for employing allegory, symbolism, and mimetic plot and character construction shed light upon Shakespeare's self-reflexive use of poetry as an art of imitation. More specifically, the contrast between Shakespeare and Iago's poetry delineates between dynamic and reductive uses of allegory, emphasizes an Aristotelian model of mimesis that makes reason integral to plot and character formation, and underscores an ethical function to poetry generally. In consequence
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Boskovic, Vladislav [Verfasser]. "Devil, Vice, Mephistopheles : supernatural villains in English drama before Shakespeare ; explorations of the interaction between the human and the demonic / Vladislav Boskovic." Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek und Universitätsbibliothek Hannover (TIB), 2012. http://d-nb.info/1022754084/34.

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Cole, Heather. "The Woman Behind the Witch's Mask: The Evolution of the Female Villain in Western Literature From Shakespeare to the Present." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1111688376.

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Photinos, Christie. "Villainous vagrants, hard-travelin' hoboes, and sisters of the road : the figure of the tramp in American literature, 1873-1939 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9984303.

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Baumgarten, Joseph Ephraim. "Combating the banality of evil : portrayals of the literary female villain in Günter Grass's Danziger Trilogie and novella, Im Krebsgang /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd989.pdf.

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El, Sayed Mohammad [Verfasser]. "The Archetypes in Angela Carter's novels : "The Passion of New Eve", "Heroes and Villains", "The Sadeian Woman", "Nights at the Circus" and "The Magic Toyshop" / Mohammad El Sayed." München : GRIN Verlag, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1196423466/34.

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Rodrigues, Irailda Eneli Barros Silva. "THE ART SONG OF EDMUNDO VILLANI-CÔRTES: A PERFORMANCE GUIDE OF SELECTED WORKS." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/25.

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The purpose of this study is to present a performance guide for singers on twelve selected songs in Brazilian Portuguese for voice and piano by Brazilian composer, pianist, and arranger Edmundo Villani-Côrtes (b.1930). Since 1949, Villani-Côrtes has been active in the musical scene of Brazil. He has a unique compositional style that seamlessly combines elements of both art music and popular music. Villani-Côrtes’s body of works includes over two hundred compositions for solo instrumental music, orchestral music, choral music, and art song. He has written over sixty songs in Brazilian Portugues
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Oscarsson, Sanna. "Monks & Oliver: Two Sides of the Same Coin in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-67769.

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Oliver Twist is a novel loved by many, read by more. It is a classic novel by Charles Dickens, portraying the life and hardships of a young boy named Oliver Twist, who was born in a work house. Oliver is bright and righteous, the exact opposite of his brother Edward “Monks” Leeford. This essay will follow Oliver and Monks and analyse their characters in the light of the literary hero and the literary villain and in doing so see how Dickens use the characters as literary tools to convey his view of a dark, uncaring Victorian society as well as his hopes for a brighter future. Their strong chara
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Baumgarten, Joseph Ephraim. "Combating the Banality of Evil: Portrayals of the Literary Female Villain in Günter Grass's Danziger Trilogie and Novella, Im Krebsgang." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2005. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/653.

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In Günter Grass's Danzig Trilogy and novella, Im Krebsgang, an antagonistic female type makes a repeated appearance. She appears in the guise of Susi Kater and Luzie Rennwand in Die Blechtrommel, and as Tulla Pokriefke in the other works, Katz und Maus, Hundejahre, and Im Krebsgang. This antagonistic female type is not like other women in these works. A review of Le Deuxième Sexe by feminist Simone de Beauvoir reveals several crucial components contributing to woman's position in society. Most essentially, a woman's natural attributes and (dis)abilities and the conventions of society have enfo
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Larsen, Dallin V. "“Yo el Rey”: Philip II’s Anglo-Spanish War Correspondence to Diego de Orellana de Chaves and Others, April 1592 – December 1592." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5290.

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This thesis transcribes and translates the war correspondence of King Philip II from the year 1592. The original manuscripts are held at the Harold B. Lee Library in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections (Brigham Young University, Provo, UT). The original manuscripts have been diplomatically transcribed meaning that the transcription respects the original orthography, accentuation, abbreviations, and word divisions. For easy comparison, a facsimile of each manuscript has been provided and appears before its corresponding transcription. The translation strategy used is a modified version of a “f
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Cawsey, Anne. "Lukewarm villains : characters of moral indifference." Phd thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/139585.

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Barrett, Heather Elizabeth. "In hot pursuit: Gothic virgins and villains in nineteenth-century American fiction." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/24099.

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This dissertation investigates how three significant nineteenth-century American female writers strategically transform a central Gothic motif – the virtuous heroine pursued by a villain who lusts for sexual and socioeconomic power – to tell new stories about gendered bodies and the erotic relations between them. Established in the genre-defining British Gothic novels of the late eighteenth century, this popular motif endured throughout the nineteenth century in texts written and read on both sides of the Atlantic. This project examines understudied texts by E.D.E.N. Southworth, Louisa May Alc
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Small, Luc. "The evil character : a philosophical analysis illuminated by literature." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150519.

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This thesis has two objectives. The first is to present a theory of the evil character; and the second is to "test" the heuristic of using fiction to illuminate philosophy. My theory of the evil character is easily stated. Substantively, I conclude that certain characteristics (intentions, motivations, orientations, and dispositions) are necessary and sufficient to delimit the evil character from other kinds of characters. First, the evil character acts (or intends to act) to bring about harm, or is not troubled if harm is a foreseeable consequence of his action. Second, the evil character po
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Kokorski, Karin. "Fighting Tyranny in Fantastic Literature for Children and Young Adults." Doctoral thesis, 2020. https://repositorium.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-202006103100.

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The focus of fighting tyranny and the justifications of the consecutive wars in fantasy literature for children and young adults play a noteworthy role in the intertwinement of literature and its educational potential. This genre is filled with numerous images of violence, in particular different scenarios of war and its justifications. In the books war constitutes the final battle between good and evil, and thus manifests the protagonists’ ultimate moral decisions between these two forces. The following books constitute the corpus: C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56), Susan Coop
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Walker, Jeffrey Tyler. "Battle in the Village: Literature and the Fight for the Japanese Countryside (1910-1938)." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-ecwf-jv52.

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Taking up a discourse of agrarian literature (nōmin bungaku) from its roots in the first decade of the twentieth century through the late 1930s, this dissertation presents the struggle of outsiders to participate in a powerful system of meaning production amidst the consolidation of the power of state, institutional, and media apparatuses to arbitrate rural working class expression. Relentlessly contested and confused even in retrospect, the very notion of an “agrarian literature” has long called for the deliberate and rigorous review that this study provides. Through investigation of the role
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"Anatomy of a Villain: Play, Story, and Conflict in Single-Player Video Games." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14565.

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abstract: During the first half of the last decade, there was a heated debate regarding what type of critical approach best suits the study of video games. Those who argued for approaches traditionally associated with narrative studies were primarily interested in video games as a new frontier for storytelling. The opposition claimed that video games are not systems for storytelling, and that applying literature and film theories to video games dismisses the interactive nature of video games as games. The argument was bitter, but ended abruptly with no clear results or consensus. Yet are narra
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Hannachi, Madiha. "Variations on charisma : Shakespeare's saintly, villain, and lustful leaders." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4528.

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Variations on Charisma: Shakespeare’s Saintly, Villain, and Lustful Leaders est une étude des mécanismes du leadership charismatique dans Henry V, Richard III et Antoine et Cléopâtre de William Shakespeare, respectivement. Le mémoire explore certains outils, tels que la rhétorique, l'ironie et resignification, qui permettent aux dirigeants de gagner l'amour des disciples, la reconnaissance, et même la crainte. Cette thèse ne traitera pas avec l'essence du charisme en tant que telle, mais plutôt avec les techniques de leadership charismatique. Dans le premier chapitre, j'ai étudié le caractère
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Marques, Maria João Brasão. "The one who knocks: the hero as villain in contemporary televised narratives." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/19738.

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Esta dissertação pretende analisar o storytelling televisivo contemporâneo norte-americano, considerando os eventos históricos e políticos que conduziram a uma aparente revolução criativa no final do século XX. Esta evolução na programação televisiva de qualidade ficou conhecida como a terceira “Golden Age” da televisão americana, cujo centro passou a estar ocupado por um novo tipo de protagonista, sugerindo uma mudança no arquétipo do herói. Através de exemplos significativos de algumas séries de televisão, tais como Oz (1997-2003), The Sopranos (1999-2007), The Wire (2002-2008), Dexter (2006
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Lafrance, Geneviève. "Créer du théâtre en région : le discours de la marge chez les Turcs Gobeurs d'Opium." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21260.

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