| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| Adaptation and amplification in Paul Auster's City of glass |
2009 |
17736 |
Paul Auster’s meta-fictional detective story, City of Glass, involves a complex
linguistic investigation into the nature, function, and meaning of language. Using a
highly conventional literary genre, detective fiction, Auster, using deconstruction... |
| Put me in coach : surviving the bench and the locker room in adolescent basketball literature |
2009 |
3058 |
This thesis examines the off-court spaces of adolescent basketball literature. In most sports literature, the spotlight is placed on the field of play, whether it be a football field, a baseball diamond, or a basketball court. However, I take the spo... |
| Fruits of knowledge : gender roles, power, rebellion and the transformation of Eve in Philip Pullman's His Dark Material Trilogy |
2009 |
10269 |
Philip Pullman, an outspoken critic of Christianity, has frequently voiced his desire to
overturn the core elements of the Fall; to break it down, tear it apart, and allow for a new vision
of the old story. In his trilogy consisting of three novels... |
| The thongs that bind : how Georgia Nicolson negotiates her identity as an adolescent girl |
2009 |
10153 |
In a series of novels by Louise Rennison, beginning with Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging, female protagonist Georgia Nicolson tries on various articles of clothing like thongs and bras and applies makeup like “lippy” and mascara, in an attemp... |