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The Magical And The Mundane: Individualism, Corporate Identity, And Postmodern Pastiche In The Detective Novels Of Haruki Murakami, Diana Lynn Garland
The Magical And The Mundane: Individualism, Corporate Identity, And Postmodern Pastiche In The Detective Novels Of Haruki Murakami, Diana Lynn Garland
Retrospective Theses and Dissertations
In Murakami's detective novels, pop culture references, irony, and hard-boiled genre conventions combine with magic realist prose to articulate the search for individual identity in a Japanese milieu structured by traditional communal values. At the same time, Murakami's work remains grounded in Japanese literary tradition, and he sees himself very much as a product of modern Japan. The thesis traces the blending of these diverse tendencies in three of Murakami’s most popular novels: A Wild Sheep Chase, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and Dance, Dance, Dance.
The Introduction provides an overview of the product, …
Information On The Assembly Line : A Review Of Information Design And Its Implications For Technical Communicators, Jason Nichols
Information On The Assembly Line : A Review Of Information Design And Its Implications For Technical Communicators, Jason Nichols
Retrospective Theses and Dissertations
Technological advances have made endless amounts of information on nearly every subject easily accessible, while at the same time fostering an economic climate conducive to international trade and partnerships. The challenge for companies then becomes one of figuring out how best to manage and use this mass of information, a task complicated by the increasingly global nature of business that requires products to be tailored to more specialized user groups in a wider array of formats and in different languages. Hence the emergence of information design, a field that technical communicators would do well to associate themselves with. Information design …
Enterface: A Novella, Hubert Calip Mcleod
Enterface: A Novella, Hubert Calip Mcleod
Retrospective Theses and Dissertations
A computer screen places each of us in an interface and virtual reality provides a totally simulated environment, a virtual world that we can enter. Enterface is a novella that examines the question first posed by Michael Heim: How far can we enter cyberspace and still remain human? It also explores the power and the limitation of language and the role of stories to shape reality in human life. Its themes are death, technology, ethics, and love. It is informed by Wittgensteinian philosophy, Norse mythology, and the "metaphysics of virtual reality."
The plot involves Moses Mackinow, a former Air Force …
The Incident At The Colonel's, Jason G. Clark
The Incident At The Colonel's, Jason G. Clark
Retrospective Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Close To Home, Donald P. Gagnon
Close To Home, Donald P. Gagnon
Retrospective Theses and Dissertations
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Path To Chaos : Excess, Absence And Anarchy In Tennyson's Idylls Of The King, Peggie A. Howerton
Path To Chaos : Excess, Absence And Anarchy In Tennyson's Idylls Of The King, Peggie A. Howerton
Retrospective Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Hanging Back With The Brutes: Barbarism In Tennessee Williams' The Red Devil Battery Sign, Jeffrey Sowder
Hanging Back With The Brutes: Barbarism In Tennessee Williams' The Red Devil Battery Sign, Jeffrey Sowder
Retrospective Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.