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Confronting eternity : strange (im)mortalities, and states of undying in popular fiction.

When the meritless scrabble for the bauble of deity, they ironically set their human lives at the “pin’s fee” to which Shakespeare’s Hamlet refers. This thesis focuses on these undeserving individuals in premillennial and postmillennial fiction, who seek immortality at the expense of both their humanities, and their natural mortalities.
I will analyse an array of popular modern characters, paying particular attention to the precursors of immortal personages. I will inaugurate these analyses with an examination of fan favourite series

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:canterbury.ac.nz/oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/9680
Date January 2014
CreatorsBacon, Edwin Bruce
PublisherUniversity of Canterbury. English
Source SetsUniversity of Canterbury
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic thesis or dissertation, Text
RightsCopyright Edwin Bruce Bacon, http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/thesis/etheses_copyright.shtml
RelationNZCU

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