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Spring 2022
In this dissertation, I identify an aesthetic tradition in settler literary texts that parallels the settler state’s political response to such policies as multiculturalism and Reconciliation. I argue that modern Canadian fiction in English continues the tradition of romantic art in Hegel’s...
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Spring 2013
This thesis considers Clive Barker’s child predator in terms of the greater cultural discourses that accompany its treatment and attempts to demonstrate how Barker's treatment of the predator is proportional to his adherence to the structural form of the narrative. Specifically, the intrusion...
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Fall 2011
Unlike secondary world fantasy, such as that of J.R.R. Tolkien, what I call syncretic fantasy is typically set in a world that overlaps significantly with the contemporary "real" or cognitive majoritarian world in which we (i.e. most North Americans) profess to live our lives. In terms of popular...