Add to ORKGThe reading of selected literary texts in this thesis traces the changes from a divinely ordered world of stability (Thomas Mann's Bud<lenbrooks) to surroundings characterized by insecurity (William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury) to an unstable environment giving rise to largely futile attempts at finding answers to seemingly illogical questions (Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49). As a product of the accelerated speed of technological progression and the information revolution in the twentieth century, man is more often than not incapable of adjusting to changed circumstances in a seemingly hostile environment. Indeed, instability and unpredictability are external factors determining the sense of insecurity and uncertai...
grantor: University of Toronto"Nihilism" denotes the conclusion that life has no meaning o...
This paper offers an analysis of two characters, Joe Christmas and Joanna Burden, in William Faulkne...
Reading a literature is entertaining and useful because it will help the readers to gain more knowle...
This book draws on positioning theory and systemic psychology to establish a new way of thinking abo...
Among the many illnesses that literary characters might suffer from, the peculiar relationship with ...
Over the course of this thesis the author considers the problem of truth in life as manifested in Wi...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine three rather diverse novels of John Steinbeck which are lin...
The aim of this thesis is to examine two "large" and somewhat diffuse questions: the first is the qu...
An important line of adverse criticism maintains that Faulknerian form reflects only confusion of th...
This doctoral dissertation, «The Retrospective Novel: The Romance of the Self,» focuses on the relat...
My subject is literary aesthetics. The guiding principle of the thesis as a whole is to set out and ...
This thesis takes up two novels written by Thomas Pynchon, and attempts gain a better understanding ...
This research focuses on the exploration of fictional finalism failures that happen to J. Alfred Pru...
The subject of this thesis is self-conscious escapism in a selection of contemporary American novel...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis is a sustained discussion of the relationship be...
grantor: University of Toronto"Nihilism" denotes the conclusion that life has no meaning o...
This paper offers an analysis of two characters, Joe Christmas and Joanna Burden, in William Faulkne...
Reading a literature is entertaining and useful because it will help the readers to gain more knowle...
This book draws on positioning theory and systemic psychology to establish a new way of thinking abo...
Among the many illnesses that literary characters might suffer from, the peculiar relationship with ...
Over the course of this thesis the author considers the problem of truth in life as manifested in Wi...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine three rather diverse novels of John Steinbeck which are lin...
The aim of this thesis is to examine two "large" and somewhat diffuse questions: the first is the qu...
An important line of adverse criticism maintains that Faulknerian form reflects only confusion of th...
This doctoral dissertation, «The Retrospective Novel: The Romance of the Self,» focuses on the relat...
My subject is literary aesthetics. The guiding principle of the thesis as a whole is to set out and ...
This thesis takes up two novels written by Thomas Pynchon, and attempts gain a better understanding ...
This research focuses on the exploration of fictional finalism failures that happen to J. Alfred Pru...
The subject of this thesis is self-conscious escapism in a selection of contemporary American novel...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis is a sustained discussion of the relationship be...
grantor: University of Toronto"Nihilism" denotes the conclusion that life has no meaning o...
This paper offers an analysis of two characters, Joe Christmas and Joanna Burden, in William Faulkne...
Reading a literature is entertaining and useful because it will help the readers to gain more knowle...