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Undoing Addiction: The Biopolitics of Social Suffering in Contemporary Canadian Fiction
(2013-08-13)
Biomedical and popular discourses for understanding addiction persistently essentialize behaviors labelled “addictive” as signifying individual dysfunction and aberrance; the Canadian novels examined in this study expose ...
Ethics and Love in the Aesthetics of Alice Munro
(2012-12-06)
Whether classified as realist, modernist, or postmodernist, the fiction of Alice Munro combines a strong mimetic impulse with a recognition of the limitations of mimesis. This dissertation examines the ethical dimensions ...
West Coast Apocalyptic: A Site-Specific Approach to Genre
(2011-01-26)
Key studies of apocalypse in previous years have consciously and unconsciously understood the genre in terms of its paradigmatic consistency across examples. This emphasis points out valuable similarities among a wide range ...