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A collection of poems exploring ghosted ancestors, folktales, the queer black body, gender, and magical realism.

Through parallelism with characteristics of magical realism, the building is materialized by deciphering the unseen images latent in ordinary life. WAAC radio station. Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia. / Master of Architecture

L’architecte-peintre, scénographe et paysagiste émigré russe André Beloborodoff est un artiste oublié de la première moitié du XXème siècle. Il commence une carrière prestigieuse dans la Saint-Pétersbourg prérévolutionnaire, sous l’égide du renouveau néoclassique. En exil, il a vécu et travaillé à Londres, à Paris et à Rome, où il était connu pour ses vues d’Italie et ses chefs-d’œuvre architecturaux, le château de Caulaincourt en France et la villa Pepoli pour Maurice Sandoz à Rome. L’œuvre extrêmement originale et personnelle est influencée par les divers courants et pays dans lesquels il a vécu : la Russie impériale, la France de l’entre-deux-guerres d’une élite privilégiée, l’Italie artistique fasciste avec le mouvement Novecento mais aussi métaphysique avec ses amis Giorgio De Chirico, Savinio, Dalí et Eugène Berman. L’Italie et le classicisme transcendent son art et son architecture. Il y intègre discrètement la modernité et l’associe au monde surréaliste et onirique. Beloborodoff fait partie d’un petit groupe d’architectes-décorateurs privilégiés au service d’une élite de luxe. Ses égaux sont Emilio Terry, Jean-Charles Moreux, Tomaso Buzzi et Armando Brasini. Eternellement métaphysique, inconnu jusqu’à présent et défendu par Mario Praz, il est un acteur majeur du réalisme magique. / The Russian émigré architect and painter, stage and garden designer André Beloborodoff is a forgotten artist from the first half of the 20th century. Under the aegis of the neoclassical revival he embarked on a prestigious career in pre-revolutionary Saint Petersburg. In exile he lived and worked in London, Paris and Rome, where he became known for his Italian scenes and his architectural masterpieces, the Château de Caulaincourt in France and the Villa Pepoli for Maurice Sandoz in Rome. His highly original and individualistic work was influenced by the various movements and countries within which he lived: Imperial Russia; the inter-war France of a privileged elite; the artistic, fascist Italy by not only the Novecento movement but also the metaphysical movement with his friends Giorgio de Chirico, Savinio, Dalí and Eugène Berman. Italy and classicism perfuse his art and architecture through his subtle blending of modernity into a surrealistic and dreamlike world. Beloborodoff was part of a small group of privileged architects and interior designers working for an extravagant elite. His peers were Emilio Terry, Jean-Charles Moreux, Tomaso Buzzi and Armando Brasini. Eternally metaphysical, as yet unknown and championed by Mario Praz, he is a major protagonist of magical realism.

The aim of this dissertation is to explore the functions of narration in Amy Tan’s novel The Hundred Secret Senses. The dissertation is divided into three parts: 1 ‘Introduction’, 2 ‘Analysis’ and 3 ‘Conclusion’. After presenting the writings of Amy Tan and my chosen primary literature, I give a brief survey of terms, theories and previous research. Part 2 ‘Analysis’ is presented in an order that corresponds approximately to the chronology of the primary literature, and will be divided into three chapters: 2.1 ‘Explain, Build a Relationship and Reflect’, 2.2 ‘Influence Thinking and Behaviour’ and 2.3 ‘Remember, Unify and Transmit’. Chapter 2.1 has the first half of the novel as its main focus. It is organised mainly after the clarity of the narrator’s voice, i.e. if the narrator shows (e.g. ‘indirect explanation’) or tells (e.g. ‘explicit explanation’), and analyses how narration functions in order to ‘explain’, ‘build a relationship’ and ‘reflect’ on events and other things. Chapter 2.2 elaborates on the narration that takes place before and after the trip to China, an event that divides the novel into two halves. This chapter deals with the function of ‘influence’, which can be seen as a result of the narrator’s authority and is summarised in the section called ‘Steps of Influence’. Chapter 2.3 delves into the functions of narration most visible in the novel’s second half, which takes place in China. The functions of ‘remembrance’, ‘unification’ and ‘transmission’ have many sub-functions in common, which could perhaps be seen as a result of the blurred perspectives in the novel’s plot. Part 3 aims to summarise the results of the analysis. A theme that recurs through the analysis of functions is the relationship and balance of authority between the two characters/narrators. Sometimes a narrator’s authority, or a shift in this balance, is a prerequisite of a function of narration.

This thesis offers a thematic analysis of Victor Pelevin’s Generation ”П” and Empire V. The objective is to determine which themes can be regarded as central when the novels are compared to one another, and how these themes function in the two novels. This analysis shows that in Generation ”П” and Empire V, Pelevin constructs two overarching, parallel myths – the myth of Babylon and the myth of the Word, building a narrative that is solidly anchored in contemporary discourse. The study concludes that these myths are not built to serve as narrative explanations of, or answers to, the issues explored in the novels. Instead, the myths serve as vehicles for an open-ended, exploratory process, which might never be finally concluded. In contrast to previous research, this study contends that the construction of these myths may be the novels’ primary purpose and that through these myths the novels present the reader with a fictional framework, through which to regard the real world.

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