Browsing Theses by Subject "Fiction"

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Building Fiction: The Architecture of Narrative in Harry Potter

Young, Holland Alicia (University of Waterloo, 2015-04-29)

A person does not experience architecture as a purely physical construct. Lived space transcends mere materiality, as each individual experiences the world outside oneself through the unique filter of one’s own mind. In ...
A series

Dehond, Chanel (University of Waterloo, 2014-12-12)

I have written a series of abstracts — an infinite string of summaries with formal and functional resemblances — none of which ended up in my thesis. The complication was that of practicality, none of the abstracts could ...
Tale of Two Cities

Baktash, Pooya (University of Waterloo, 2010-05-20)

It was the best of cities, it was the worst of cities, it was a place of giddying boom, it was a place of economic despair, it was a utopia, it was a dystopic no-topia, it was the world centre of fantasies, and the world ...
When and Where?: Time and Space in Boris Akunin's Azazel' and Turetskii gambit

Kilfoy, Dennis (University of Waterloo, 2007-08-27)

Boris Akunin’s historical detective novels have sold more than eight million copies in Russia, and have been translated into nearly a dozen languages. Boris Akunin is the pen name of literary critic and translator Grigory ...