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Bell, Alice M. "The possible worlds of hypertext fiction." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434659.

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Stump, Christina M. "Leaves From Other Worlds." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu158618674890876.

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Mooney, Susan. "Drawing bridges : publicprivate worlds in Russian women's fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60561.

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This thesis questions how Russian women's identity is attached to the textual use of public/private spaces in contemporary literature by Russian women writers by drawing from feminist theories. I. Grekova and N. Baranskaia portray female protagonists in their everyday lives, public and private worlds overlapping. While these heroines create stable support systems with other women, male figures enter as interruptive forces in women's lives. Hospital settings in several works by Russian women allow comparisons between women's fictional hospital experiences and those of Muscovite women interviewe
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Schaub, Danielle. "Fragmented worlds: narrative strategies in Mavis Gallant's short fiction." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212667.

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Kneale, James Robert. "Lost in space? : readers' constructions of science fiction worlds." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309071.

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Raghunath, Riyukta. "Alternative realities : counterfactual historical fiction and possible worlds theory." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2017. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19154/.

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The primary aim of my thesis is to offer a cognitive-narratological methodology with which to analyse counterfactual historical fiction. Counterfactual historical fiction is a genre that creates fictional worlds whose histories run contrary to the history of the actual world. I argue that Possible Worlds Theory is a suitable methodology with which to analyse this type of fiction because it is an ontologically centred theory that can be used to divide the worlds of a text into its various ontological domains and also explain their relation to the actual world. Ryan (1991) offers the most approp
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Dillon, Amanda. "'Prism, mirror, lens' : metafiction and narrative worlds in science fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2011. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/39033/.

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Jessee, Sharon A. "A monotony of fine weather imagined worlds in contemporary American fiction /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1986. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/8616607.

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Chunjing, Liu. "Seeking identity between worlds: A study of selected Chinese American fiction." University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5176.

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Magister Artium - MA<br>The literature of the Chinese diaspora in America is marked by a tension between ancestral Chinese traditional culture and the modernity of Western culture. This thesis explores diaspora theory, as elaborated by Stuart Hall, Homi Bhabha, Gabriel Sheffer and others to establish a framework for the analysis of key Chinese American literary works. Maxine Hong Kingston's seminal novel, The Woman Warrior (1975), will be analysed as an exemplary instance of diasporic identity, where the Chinese cultural heritage is reinterpreted and re-imagined from the point of view of an e
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Garbutt, Ian. "Asperger's syndrome and fiction : autistic worlds and those who build them." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26133.

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Do tangible, testable links exist between the autistic spectrum and creativity? How would such links work from the perspective of an author with Asperger's Syndrome? To what degree would autism mould the author's work, and how would it affect writing technique and style compared to neurotypical (non autistic spectrum authors)? Do these links provide a tangible advantage? Can an Asperger's author successfully engage a non-Asperger's readership? Has Asperger's become fashionable in fiction and if so what are the benefits/consequences? Can an “extraterrestrial stranded without an orientation manu
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Bünger, Maja. "Janet Cardiff : Portholes into other Worlds." Thesis, Södertörn University College, The School of Culture and Communication, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-2068.

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<p>This essay is about the relationship between the spatial reality and the imaginary reality in the auditory artwork The Missing Voice (case study b) by Janet Cardiff. The analysis is based on a semiotic model that differentiate between two types of signifieds; a denotative signified and a connotative signified. Those terms, with focus on connotation, is used in relation to sound and linguistic signs in the auditory reality of the artwork.</p><p>The first chapter “Den okroppsliga rösten” discusses the relationship between the several voices of fiction and the spatial reality in The Missing Vo
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Wagner, Jill E. "New worlds lost domains as tranforming enclosures in selected fiction of John Fowles /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2005. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.A. )--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2005.<br>Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2848. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as 2 leafs ( iii-iv ). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 233-237).
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Ibrahim, Wesam. "Linguistic approaches to crossover fiction : towards an integrated approach to the analysis of text worlds in children's crossover fantasy fiction." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.684376.

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Laurie, Henri De Guise. "Transferentiality :|bmapping the margins of postmodern fiction / H. de G. Laurie." Thesis, North-West University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9670.

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This thesis starts from the observation that, while it is common for commentators to divide postmodern fiction into two general fields – one experimental and anti-mimetic, the other cautiously mimetic, there remains a fairly significant field of postmodern texts that use largely mimetic approaches but represent worlds that are categorically distinct from actuality. This third group is even more pronounced if popular culture and “commercial” fiction, in particular sf and fantasy, are taken into account. Additionally, the third category has the interesting characteristic that the texts within th
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Canepari-Labib, Michela. "Word-worlds : the refusal of realism and the critique of identity in the fiction of Christine Brooke-Rose." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266448.

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Schmidt, Marcus. "Creating Worlds: Fan Modifications of Civilization 4." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Akademin för humaniora, utbildning och samhällsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-75153.

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The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between author, text and user-generated modifications in the context of the computer game Civilization 4. These relationships are studied in part by analyzing how the game mechanics have been modified, and in part through analyzing the communication taking place between players of Civilization 4 in the CivFanatics online forums. The study concludes that fans as creators are increasingly leaning on each other and their self-produced accumulated body of knowledge in the generation of new and further changes to the narrative universe, and that
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Chapin, Elizabeth. "What Fantasy Can Do for Her: A Critical and Creative Exploration of Secondary and Fractured Worlds." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1199.

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In making a distinction between secondary and fractured worlds, we can begin to determine the possibilities that fantasy literature, as a wider subject, holds for female characters and for feminine themes. These two areas of fantasy represent very different possibilities for women and the feminine, as a result of their approaches towards the presentation of ideology and authority. These approaches find their root most clearly in the creation of a story’s place and time, a fact I will explore through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of the “chronotope.” For, though both high fantasy and the
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Jackson, Vivian Elaine. "New technology in education as viewed through the utopic and dystopic worlds of science fiction." Click here to access dissertation, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2007/vivian_e_jackson/jackson_vivian_e_200701_edd.pdf.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007.<br>"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." In Curriculum Studies, under the direction of John A. Weaver. ETD. Electronic version approved: May 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 386-402) and appendices.
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Ibrahim, Wesam Mohamed Abdel-Khalek. "Towards an integrated approach to the analysis of text worlds in children's crossover fantasy fiction." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.547986.

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Blackburn, Alison Carol. "Writing in Other People's Worlds: Two Students Repurposing Extracurricular Fan Fiction Writing to Fulfill Curricular Assignments." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6394.

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Through interviews and writing sample analysis of two secondary students who are fan fiction writers, this article examines the tensions between curricular writing and extracurricular fan fiction writing. This study finds students have rich extracurricular writing lives, and they repurpose familiar practices from fan fiction writing for the classroom. This study further discusses the role of genre in effective repurposing. This study argues students who develop genre awareness repurpose their extracurricular writing more effectively to fulfill curricular assignments.
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Derek, Gingrich. "Unrecoverable Past and Uncertain Present: Speculative Drama’s Fictional Worlds and Nonclassical Scientific Thought." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31507.

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The growing accessibility of quantum mechanics and chaos theory over the past eighty years has opened a new mode of world-creating for dramatists. An increasingly large collection of plays organize their fictional worlds around such scientific concepts as quantum uncertainty and chaotic determinism. This trend is especially noticeable within dramatic texts that emphasize a fictional, not material or metafictional, engagement. These plays construct fictional worlds that reflect the increasingly strange actual world. The dominant theoretical approaches to fictional worlds unfairly treat these pl
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Lottiaux, Mathieu. "Herméneutique des mondes disjonctifs : le sacré et ses conséquences dans la fantasy et la science-fiction (1950-1989)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Valenciennes, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021UPHF0051.

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L’objectif de notre travail est de réunir, au sein d’une analyse commune, les récits de science-fiction et de fantasy, d’en comprendre les mécanismes transversaux et d’en proposer à la fois une relecture et une herméneutique. Pour cela, nous posons l’hypothèse, en nous appuyant sur les travaux de Mircea Eliade et Marc Angenot, que les récits de fantasy et de science-fiction sont des « histoires sacrées » soutenues par un deus otiosus au sein de mondes disjonctifs. La diégèse (le monde fictionnel) de ces récits inclut donc un sacré qui se manifeste (hiérophanies) différemment selon les récits,
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Tabib, Claudia. "Samtalets betydelse i högläsningen : En kvalitativ studie om hur lärare i årskurs 4–6 hjälper elever att bygga föreställningsvärldar med hjälp av samtal om skönlitteratur i samband med högläsning i svenskundervisningen." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-44508.

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This study aimed to investigate how some teachers talk to students in grade 4-6 about fiction, more specifically, how the teachers in their reading aloud teaching enable students to develop imaginary worlds through conversation. The material was analyzed based on Langer’s (2005) theory about imaginary worlds. Two questions were formulated to answer the study’s aim: How do some teachers plan their conversations about fiction in reading aloud teaching? Moreover, how do teachers’ conversations about fiction vary in reading aloud teaching? The results showed that all teachers plan their conversati
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Arauz, Valéria Angélica Ribeiro. "Indivisíveis, intangíveis, impossíveis : mundos ficcionais em I nostri antenati, de Italo Calvino /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/102374.

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Orientador: Maria Lúcia Outeiro Fernandes<br>Banca: Adriana Iozzi Klein<br>Banca: Maria Gloria Cusumano Mazzi<br>Banca: Rejane Cristina Rocha<br>Banca: Hilário Antonio Amaral<br>Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objetivo empreender uma análise sobre a construção dos mundos ficcionais da trilogia I nostri antenati, composta pelos romances Il visconte dimezzato (1952), Il barone rampante (1957) e Il cavaliere inesistente (1959) de Italo Calvino, considerando esses romances como um marco para as escolhas estéticas que acompanhariam esse autor por toda a sua produção ao longo do século XX. Essa leitu
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Arauz, Valéria Angélica Ribeiro [UNESP]. "Indivisíveis, intangíveis, impossíveis: mundos ficcionais em I nostri antenati, de Italo Calvino." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/102374.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-05-22Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:42:27Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 arauz_var_dr_arafcl.pdf: 518515 bytes, checksum: aad5577c808839d40806e7925738424e (MD5)<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>Este trabalho tem como objetivo empreender uma análise sobre a construção dos mundos ficcionais da trilogia I nostri antenati, composta pelos romances Il visconte dimezzato (1952), Il barone rampante (1957) e Il cavaliere inesistente (1959) de Italo Calvino, consid
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Tokdemir, Gokce. "Worlds Subverted: A Generic Analysis Of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, The Subtle Knife, And Harry Potter And The Philosopher." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12609698/index.pdf.

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This dissertation aims to study three very important works in English children&rsquo<br>s fiction: C. S. Lewis&rsquo<br>s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Philip Pullman&rsquo<br>s The Subtle Knife, the second book of his trilogy His Dark Materials, and J. K. Rowling&rsquo<br>s Harry Potter and the Philosopher&rsquo<br>s Stone. The novels will be analyzed in terms of their approaches toward the conventions of fairy tale, fantasy and romance<br>to this end, the novels are to be evaluated in relation to their concept of chronotope, and the quest of good versus evil. While the secondary worl
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Hultqvist, Kristian. "Den gröne mannens börda : Kolonial plikt i H G Wells The War of the Worlds." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-196217.

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In 1898, H G Wells published The War of the Worlds, a scathing indictment of colonialism from the perspective of the colonized. The following year, Rudyard Kipling penned The White Man’s Burden, describing colonial conquest as driven by duty, for the sake of the subjugated. They shared a vantage point from the literary pedestal of fin-de-siècle London, but what they saw was very different.            The War of the Worlds can be read as an allegory of colonialism where the tables are turned and the colonial masters are suddenly exposed to a ruthless and technologically superior power. What can
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Rosén, Eriksson Ellinor. "Elever och lärares resonemang kring läsning av skönlitteratur. : Redogörelse över hur läsning av skönlitteratur i klassrummet påverkas av lokala faktorer, regler och strategier." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-68361.

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Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilka faktorer som påverkar elevers intresse och lust till att läsa skönlitteratur och vilka strategier som används för att motivera till läsning. För att möjliggöra denna studie intervjuas femton elever i en klass fem och deras tre lärare genom en metod som kallas fokusgrupper. Fokusgrupper är en kvalitativ intervjumetod som grundar sig helt på deltagarnas personliga upplevelser och åsikter. Deltagare i fokusgrupper får i förhand information om vad som skall diskuteras vid intervjutillfället. Det är deltagarnas diskussioner och reson
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Andolfatto, Lorenzo. "Paper worlds : the chinese utopian novel at the beginning of the twentieth century, 1902-1910." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO30033.

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A travers cette recherche, nous souhaitons identifier et définir le genre duroman utopique de la fin des Qing via la lecture attentive d'une sélection deromans chinois écrits entre 1902 et 1910. A partir de l'analyse de romans telsque Xin Zhongguo weilai ji de Liang Qichao (1902 ), Shizi hou de Chen Tianhua(1905), Xin shitou ji de Wu Jianren (1908) et Xin Zhongguo de Lu Shi'e(1910), nous pensons qu'un tel genre littéraire puisse être considéré à la foiscomme un produit particulier du climat de fragmentation socio-historique quicaractérise la période de la fin des Qing, et comme un prisme utile
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Bauer, Jessica, Theresia Ertmer, and Josefin Kühn. "Medienpädagogische Analyse des Films „In This World“." Technische Universität Dresden, 2018. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A31429.

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Im Rahmen des leitenden Themas „Kinder auf der Flucht“ soll der Film „In This World“ als ein geeignetes Medium dienen, eine Filmanalyse unter Betrachtung medienpädagogischer Mittel vorzunehmen. Die mehrfach prämierte Semi-Dokumentation vermag die Realität unserer politischen Welt so mit Fiktion und Inszenierung zu verbinden, dass eine klare Trennung vom Zuschauer nicht mehr eindeutig auszumachen ist. Die dadurch überzeugende Darstellung der globalen Wirklichkeit bezieht sich auf eine Problematik, die trotz gesellschaftlicher Kritik oft unausgesprochen bleibt: vom Krieg und dessen Folgen, die i
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Cristofari, Cécile. "Cosmogonies imaginaires : les mondes secondaires dans la science-fiction et la fantasy anglophones, de 1929 à nos jours." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM3030.

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J'ai voulu étudier un phénomène qui sous-tend l'écriture de la littérature spéculative (science-fiction et fantasy) aujourd'hui : la création d'un « monde secondaire », selon l'expression de J.R.R. Tolkien. Deux problèmes se posaient de prime abord. Premièrement, l'ensemble culturel et éditorial que recouvre l'expression « littérature spéculative » est relativement flou, du fait des problèmes de délimitation des genres et de la problématique culturelle plus générale (la littérature spéculative est-elle définie par des motifs littéraires, ou par l'appareil culturel qui l'entoure ?). Deuxièmemen
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Romagnoli, Bethonico Marina. "IMAGE-FICTION, IMAGE-ACTION. Mise en jeu de la photographie contemporaine entre théorie des mondes possibles et théorie des actes d’image." Thesis, Paris 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA030034.

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Cette recherche porte sur la possibilité d’une application des théories des mondes possibles aux arts visuels. Une introduction à cet univers théorique est d’abord présentée, à partir des textes fondateurs, ainsi que son application dans les études littéraires, jusqu’au contexte des arts visuels. Une introduction aux théories des actes de langage est également réalisée, pour arriver au champ des actes d’image. À travers un corpus hétérogène, composé de photographies contemporaines produites par des artistes de diverses nationalités, les catégories d’image-fiction et d’image-action sont dévelop
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Imber, Thomas. "Poétique des mondes mythographiques : essai sur la bande dessinée de science-fiction et ses super-héros." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030143.

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Cette étude de la littérature transautoriale (récits traités par plusieurs auteurs), notamment la mythologie gréco-romaine et les comics américains de super-héros, est centrée autour des mondes fictionnels. L’étude comporte une analyse des structures et des contraintes narratives spécifiques aux œuvres traitant de récits ou de personnages hérités d’un auteur antérieur, et de la tendance à remplir le temps mytho-historique d’une tradition. Des questions de temporalité, séquentialité, et simultanéité sont abordées. Le rôle que joue la relation entre un monde fictif et le monde empirique dans la
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Singh, Ravinder Sher. "Journey to another world in the works of Nirmal Verma /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11097.

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Lopez, Miguel Anthony. "New World Massive." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3675.

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A New World, At Last is set on a distant colony world, many thousands of years into the future. The path there has not been direct or bloodless. The humans who colonized this New World are the descendants of an Earth that has suffered cataclysmic climate change, collapse, and a subsequent millennia-long reconstruction. They stand on the shoulders of giants, uncovering and exploiting the technology of the Old Earth in order to ensure that such a collapse, once discovered, can never happen again. These new people, Colonials, set about making the New World in the image of their own. A scant hundr
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Blázquez, José M. "Participatory worlds : audience participation in fictional worlds." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/53599/.

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Consumer participation in the production of information, knowledge and culture has become increasingly popular in the last three decades. Although these participatory practices have been successfully incorporated into business models in many sectors, media and entertainment industries are still quite reluctant to invite audiences to create canonical content for their storyworlds. Media conglomerates hold a firm grip over their intellectual property and only allow selected parties to participate in the production of official content for their franchises. In contrast, participatory worlds are fi
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Boyne, Martin R. "Rebuilding words, constructing worlds : a stylistic analysis of lexical and syntactic creativity and their role in fictional-world creation in Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.655730.

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Russell Hoban's 1980 novel Riddley Walker is most obviously characterised by distinctive orthography, yet it also contains a high degree of lexical and syntactic creativity. This study explores the nature and extent of that creativity, illustrating that, while much of the novel is written in standard English, in the area of the lexicon there is a range of neologisms, including derivations, original coinages, and reanalysed forms; in the area of syntax, the novel contains a number of standard and nonstandard sentence types, with several participial and verbless sentences and many instances of p
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Dreshfield, Anne C. ""All are finally fictions": Fan Fiction as Creative Empowerment Through the Re-Writing of "Reality"." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/237.

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This paper examines online fan fiction communities as spaces for identity formation, collaborative creativity, and fan empowerment. Drawing on case studies of a LiveJournal fan fiction community, fan-written essays, possible world theory, and postmodern theories of the hyperreal and simulacrum, this paper argues that writing fan fiction is a definitive, postmodern act that explores the mutable boundaries of reality and fiction. It concludes that fans are no longer passive consumers of popular media—rather, they are engaged, powerful participants in the creation of celebrity representation that
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Hensley, Martin. "The Green World of Dystopian Fiction." TopSCHOLAR®, 2006. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/276.

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Northrop Frye was the first theorist to develop the green world archetype; Frye used the term to refer to a recurring motif in Shakespearean comedy. In several of Shakespeare's comedies, the protagonists leave the civilized world and venture into the green world, or nature, to escape from the irrational law of society, which is the case in such comedies as As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Elements of the green world can also be found in Shakespearean tragedy, where the natural retreat serves as a temporary escape for the protagonists. Such a green world exists in three of the most
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Maynes-Aminzade, Elizabeth. "Macrorealism: Fiction for a Networked World." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11157.

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Victorian novels were, generally speaking, big. But what forms did their bigness take? Why did a "macro" aesthetic prevail in the mid-nineteenth century? And why, after losing influence in the following century, has it returned in recent years? This dissertation identifies three distinct features - one spatial, one temporal, one intellectual - crucial to that aesthetic. Moreover, it explains why that kind of fiction, which I call macrorealism, has come into fashion at two different historical moments.
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Herzing, Melissa Jean. "The Internet World of Fan Fiction." VCU Scholars Compass, 2005. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1046.

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Fan fiction, the most popular creative outlet for fans, allows the amateur writer an opportunity to be published and receive immediate feedback from peers. As educators, we can learn from the fan communities as they participate in online activities, especially fan fiction. Students are more likely to embrace entertaining and creative assignments. And since much of the world is linked to the Internet in one way or another, we can allow students an opportunity to not only improve their writing skills, but also enhance their knowledge of the Internet and its capabilities. My study included online
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Branigan, Jacob. "The Better World Movement." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4751.

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This thesis is a portion of a novel manuscript. The novel is tentatively titled The Better World Movement. These thirteen chapters introduce the reader to the main character, Smith Anderson, who is banished from his dream college after the first semester of his freshman year. Forced to start again at a different college, Smith becomes close with his roommates, meets a girl, and begins assisting an ethically ambiguous professor. When the professor implements troublesome social experiments on the student body, Smith and his friends must reconcile the mistakes of their pasts and decided what i
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Pfalzgraff, Ella. "The World Still Undiscovered." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2352.

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“The World Still Undiscovered” explores a particular way of seeing the common setting, i.e., the so-called West, of all seven of the short stories contained therein, specifically responding to two ideas of the West: in America, that the West is somewhere you can go to find the freedom to grow up independent of the oppression of civilization; and in Canada, that the West is a place that is inherently deadly and therefore boxes people into small, narrow towns. Each of these stories resists that binary.
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McGowan, Lee Hugh. "Faster Than Words." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/59448/1/FasterThanWords_LMcGowan.pdf.

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This practice-led research contextualises and advances the novel as a form within the fiction of football (commonly referred to as soccer in Australia). This is a field which has undergone very little academic scrutiny. Through adapting and developing a distant reading model of abstraction and using it in conjunction with closer textual analyses, this research develops the first historiography of football fiction. The model is used to realise a set of broad conventions, map relationships across the body of work and identify growth areas. The thesis argues that football fiction exhibits qual
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Best, Karen. "A FLOATING WORLD: STORIES." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2070.

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A Floating World is a collection of short stories inspired by fairy tales. Often set in worlds where the mundane and the fantastic come together, these stories explore moments of strangeness that slip beyond the bounds of realist fiction. Fantastical events intrude into mundane reality as characters attempt to reconcile the known with the unknowable.<br>M.F.A.<br>Department of English<br>Arts and Humanities<br>Creative Writing MFA
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Reu, Allison. "At the End of the World." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1889.

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Burton, William James. "In a perfect world : utopias in modern Japanese literature /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11144.

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Kawakami, Chiyoko. "The hybrid narrative world of Izumi Kyōka /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6670.

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Rine, Abigail. "Words incarnate : contemporary women’s fiction as religious revision." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1961.

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This thesis investigates the prevalence of religious themes in the work of several prominent contemporary women writers—Margaret Atwood, Michèle Roberts, Alice Walker and A.L. Kennedy. Relying on Luce Irigaray’s recent theorisations of the religious and its relationship to feminine subjectivity, this research considers the subversive potential of engaging with religious discourse through literature, and contributes to burgeoning criticism of feminist revisionary writing. The novels analysed in this thesis show, often in violent detail, that the way the religious dimension has been conceptuali
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Vang, Jens. "Bland gröna gubbar och röda faror : En historisk studie om vanligt förekommande teman i amerikansk science-fictionskräckfilm under McCarthyeran." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-74648.

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The following study has its origin and context in the politically polarised McCarthy era of the American history. With the WWII in retrospect, politicians in Western nations quickly acknowledged the potential impact and sphere of influence of popular culture and its ability to form public opinion. During this period attempts were made to censor culture from underlying socialist messages in order to spread and awake support for the government, especially in mainstream Hollywood productions. However, how successful were these attempts and did it actually create a resistance against the censorshi
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