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Networking Albertan Literary History, 1975-1979: A Bibliographic and Social Network Analysis
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Can a bibliographic network identify the major characteristics of a corresponding social network, and what can those networks reveal about Albertan literary history in the 1970s? By combining bibliometric network methods with social network analysis, this thesis attempts to answer the above...
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Moving Beyond Survival in Twentieth-Century Canadian Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction 1948-1989
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This thesis examines settler-Canadian post-apocalyptic science fiction (SF) by English-language and Francophone Québécois authors published between 1948 and 1989, in order to investigate how historical settler imaginations of disaster are articulated. This study is in service of several ends:...
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The Super Unknown: Canadian Women’s Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Circulation of White Feminist Politics, 1896–1941
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This thesis examines the early tradition of Canadian women’s genre fiction, with a specific focus on six fantastical and science fictional texts published between 1896 and 1941. Heretofore, this tradition of early Canadian women’s genre fiction has been unrecognized as a field in and of itself,...
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Spring 2019
This thesis examines a selection of print materials from the radical and Communist-affiliated Left in the 1930s, a group and time period that are often passed over in assessments of Canadian literature. While similar texts have been studied in the context of legal evidence or political...
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Fall 2017
“Open Border, Open Road: The Anglo-Canadian Road Narrative” tells a new story about the contemporary Anglo-Canadian road narrative, a genre that I argue came into fruition with the construction of the Trans-Canada Highway. The dissertation traces how the contemporary Anglo-Canadian road genre...
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Fall 2015
In this dissertation I will discuss how English-Canadian writers of recent historical fiction incorporate ghosts for the purposes of recuperation: to suggest both the persistence of historical injustices and to signal the possibility of healing. Recognizing that views of Canada’s alleged...
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Canadian Writers, McClelland & Stewart, and the Paperback Book: Remediation, Publishing, and Cultural Context
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This dissertation analyzes the relationship between literature and new media through an investigation of the book in a Canadian context and draws on book history and new media studies. To better understand the relationship between print and digital forms of publishing, I look backwards to a...
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Fall 2009
In this dissertation I examine representations of the events surrounding the disappearance and murder of women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, in the interests of animating a sense of implication in these events among a wider public. To do so, I build on theoretical concepts developed in the...