Browsing Department of English Literature Graduate Theses by Subject "Nostalgia"
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A Littoral Place: Loss and Environment in Contemporary Newfoundland Fiction
(2015-11-04)This dissertation examines three contemporary Newfoundland novels to reconsider the relationship among loss, environment, and Newfoundland identity. Studies of Newfoundland literature often perform environmentally deterministic ... -
"You Can't Get There From Here": Small-Town Ontario, Nostalgia, and Urban Memory in Works of Selected Ontario Writers
(2015-07-29)This dissertation examines the role of memory in the construction of small-town Ontario in the work of a number of Ontario writers. After an initial overview of the vexed position the small town holds in Canadian and ...