Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2005. / Thesis advisor: Jason B. Jones. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-62). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Wong Winne. / Thesis submitted in: July 2003. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-142). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Review on some criminological theories --- p.5 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- The Old Boys --- p.31 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Other People's Worlds --- p.68 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Felicia's Journey --- p.110 / Conclusion --- p.138 / Bibliography --- p.141

Plankwalk is a creative thesis in the form of a novella and critical afterword. The essay explains how the author makes use of a variety of sources, and how he shapes their effect according to an original conception of the form of the contemporary novella. There follows a discussion of this form and its relation to the confessional narratives of Vladimir Nabokov, and to cultural critics' views on the social role of criminals. The author demonstrates how the changing nature of criminality and confession is reflected in the works of de Sade, Poe, and Nabokov. The issues of the handling of irony, paranoia and the relation of crime to work emerge as the key elements. The author posits the fusion of confessional narrative with the literature of genre overdetermination, in which the expectations of genre dominate a character's interiority.

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