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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Introducing Mr Perky : subverting the fantasy trope of immortality in contemporary speculative fiction

Ryan, Jennifer Joan January 2009 (has links)
The Tide Lords series of fantasy novels set out to examine the issue of immortality. Its purpose was to look at the desirability of immortality, specifically why people actively seek it. It was meant to examine the practicality of immortality, specifically — having got there, what does one do to pass the time with eternity to fill? I also wished to examine the notion of true immortality — immortals who could not be killed. What I did not anticipate when embarking upon this series, and what did not become apparent until after the series had been sold to two major publishing houses in Australia and the US, was the strength of the immortality tropes. This series was intended to fly in the face of these tropes, but confronted with the reality of such a work, the Australian publishers baulked at the ideas presented, requesting the series be re-written with the tropes taken into consideration. They wanted immortals who could die, mortals who wanted to be immortal. And a hero with a sense of humour. This exegesis aims to explore where these tropes originated. It will also discuss the ways I negotiated a way around the tropes, and was eventually able to please the publishers by appearing to adhere to the tropes, while still staying true to the story I wanted to tell. As such, this discussion is, in part, an analysis of how an author negotiates the tensions around writing within a genre while trying to innovate within it.
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Do sonho à desconstrução: a nação em Mayombe e Predadores, de Pepetela / From the dream to the desconstruction: the nation in Mayombe and Predators of Pepetela

Jose Antonio Pires de Oliveira Filho 17 August 2012 (has links)
A formação deste trabalho tem como horizonte a comparação entre as obras Mayombe e Predadores do autor angolano Pepetela, principalmente no tocante a perspectiva nacional que está impressa em cada texto, todavia de maneiras diversas. A possibilidade de ler as obras de maneira muito próxima aos fenômenos históricos angolanos é aquilo que faz com que se projete sob os olhos a questão nacional que é tão cara à série literária angolana, principalmente caso se tenha em mente a formação do jovem país e a necessidade de construir a identidade. As obras em questão registram, em momentos diversos, esta construção e as nuances ideológicas no processo nacional, cada qual em uma época e quando olhadas uma em relação a outra, consegue-se depreender mais, primordialmente aquilo que está no âmbito ideológico da desconstrução e da perda de paradigmas, sejam eles políticos ou culturais. É o efeito da pós-modernidade que obriga a sociedade em questão a descobrir-se sem chão e sem certeza de nada, uma vez que não mais se pode falar de estado colonial, mas sim pós-colonial e, como tal, terra aberta a possibilidades, sejam elas propositivas ou niilistas com relação à formação nacional. Dessa maneira, para depreender mais que obviedades da relação dessas obras, deve-se ter em mente que as formações híbridas desse espaço obrigam o desapego teórico, caminhando na direção da colaboração entre as disciplinas de modo a captar significativamente algo deste contato. Assim, interrogar-se sobre as obras Mayombe e Predadores tanto no que toca nos pontos de contato quanto nos de repulsão é mais que exercício teórico, é questionar-se quanto à legitimidade do processo nacional que está subentendido nas duas obras. Pepetela, como uma espécie de demiurgo, registra aquilo que está fora do lugar, destoando a análise, e que aos poucos, apresenta como um acre sabor na boca de quem lê, aquilo em que se transformou o sonho de libertação angolana, justamente o antípoda do processo que se apossa e faz com que o capitalismo mais selvagem possível arrebate o sonho comunista de princípio, e que não mais é possível crer num Estado aos moldes do Ocidente do século XIX, mas simplesmente os frangalhos do mesmo. Entretanto, não se pode ler o contexto acima verificado de modo apenas negativo, uma vez que dele pode se verificar obras literárias complexas que não só dão conta da fotografia histórica, mas também de todo um trabalho de linguagem e de sentido que, para ser de fato apreciado, demanda o trabalho técnico hermenêutico de avanço e retrocesso, do micro ao macro, para que se produza algum conhecimento satisfatório a respeito das obras. / The formation of the horizon of this work is the comparison between the literary works of the author of Predadores and Mayombe, the Angolan writer Pepetela, specially at the perspective of Nation that is founded on each text, but in differently ways. The ability to read the works in very closely way to the Angolan historical phenomena is what makes this project closed to the national question, which is so relevant to the Angolan literary series, especially if you have in mind the formation of this young country and the need to build its own identity. The narratives in question express in different times this ideological construction and the variations in the national process, each one at the time, and when they are viewed one relation to another, it can be inferred more, primarily in what this ideological deconstruction and loss of paradigms whether political or cultural. It is the effect of post-modernity which requires the concerned company to find themselves without the ground and not sure of anything, since one can no longer speak of the colonial state, but post-colonial land and as such are open to possibilities they purposeful or nihilistic related to the nationally formation. Therefore, to remove more than superficialities of the relationship of these narratives we should keep in mind that the hybrid formations of this area require the detachment theory, moving toward the collaboration between disciplines in order to capture something significantly of the Contact. So ask yourself about the books Mayombe and Predators both in terms as the contact points as the points of repulsion is more than a theoretical exercise, question itself about the legitimacy of the national process that implied in the two works, makes Pepetela a kind of demiurge, whose records what is out of right place, diverging the analysis, and gradually presents as an acrid taste in the mouth of the reader, what it became the dream of Angola freedom, in the antithesis of the process which takes places and makes the most savage capitalism that destroyed the communist dream of beginning, and that is no longer possible to believe in a state along the lines of the West of the nineteenth century, but simply whats left of it. However, you cannot read the background above only for the negative way, because it can verify the complex literary works that not only realize in the historic photograph but also the work of language and meaning that to be truly appreciated by the reader it demands technical and hermeneutical work, from microspical to the macroscopical, to its bring a satisfactory knowledge about the works.
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Deathly Landscapes: The Changing Topography of Contemporary French <i>Policier</i> in Visual and Narrative Media

Piper, Paige M. 28 December 2016 (has links)
No description available.
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In the Name of A Love Story: Scholar-Beauty Novels and the Writing of Genre Fiction in Qing China (1644-1911)

Li, Mengjun 30 December 2014 (has links)
No description available.

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