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A Hermeneutic Approach To The Detective Story In Our Mutual Friend, Peter Spriggins
A Hermeneutic Approach To The Detective Story In Our Mutual Friend, Peter Spriggins
Theses : Honours
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The Uses Of Language In The Portrayal Of Character In Mansfield Park, Anne Chadwick
The Uses Of Language In The Portrayal Of Character In Mansfield Park, Anne Chadwick
Theses : Honours
My study of characterisation in Mansfield Park seeks to advance the field and scope of current literary criticism. Recent developments in narrative criticism have included other fields of study in order to elucidate the assertions and observations proposed by literary studies. The findings of traditional literary criticism will be validated and extended in my examination of Mansfield Park, through the application of linguistic theories. My investigation of characterisation intends to assert the significance of linguistic theories in the study of literature.
Fractured Certainties: Epistemology And Ontology In David Malouf's Child's Play, The Great World And Remembering Babylon, Chris Lyon
Theses : Honours
This thesis is an exploration of the way in which David Malouf develops ideas of epistemology and ontology in three of his novels. The novels discussed are Child's Play (1982), The Great World (1990) and Remembering Babylon (1993). Of particular concern here are the different ways in which figures in the text are constructed as having imperfect and sometimes contradictory systems of making sense of their world.
Ratbags On The Fringe: Exploring Feminism Through Crime, Danielle Brown
Ratbags On The Fringe: Exploring Feminism Through Crime, Danielle Brown
Theses : Honours
This dissertation considers how feminist crime fiction, can transform a traditionally male dominated genre. Contemporary feminist crime writers reject the codified masculine crime genre to create ever-expanding spaces for literary representation. I concentrate on three texts which are ordered as a progression. Firstly, I explore the conservative "male." writing of Jennifer Rowe in The Makeover Murders. I then go on to The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender by Marele Day which privileges a concern with the socio-political position of women and their access to socio-political power. The last text, Finola Moorhead's Still Murder, is a radical work of feminist …