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
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:canterbury.ac.nz/oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/9680 |
Date | January 2014 |
Creators | Bacon, Edwin Bruce |
Publisher | University of Canterbury. English |
Source Sets | University of Canterbury |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Electronic thesis or dissertation, Text |
Rights | Copyright Edwin Bruce Bacon, http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/thesis/etheses_copyright.shtml |
Relation | NZCU |
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