Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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Stop Making Sense: Synaesthesia and Subjective Dissonance In Children's and Young Adult Fiction

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Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Rowland, Samuel John, Thesis advisor (ths): Epp, Michael, Degree committee member (dgc): Bailey, Suzanne, Degree committee member (dgc): Caple, Natalee, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>ABSTRACT</p><p>There is a growing number of juvenile novels and picture books that mean to educate the reader about synaesthesia. The synaesthete in these texts for young readers desires to be a social agent, yet sh/e also considers synaesthesia to be a healing power and a deeply personal psychedelic form of escapism; I argue that the synaesthete in these texts `uses'… more

Punk as Public, Punks as Texts: Some Of This Is True

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Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Platana, Janette, Thesis advisor (ths): Hodges, Hugh, Thesis advisor (ths): Chivers, Sally, Degree committee member (dgc): Bailey, Suzanne, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This thesis is an attempt to explore the role that musical texts played in the development of a public by writing a work of fiction and then applying to it a critical exegesis. Part One, the literary text Some Of This Is True, (re-)creates and remembers punk in its iteration in Regina, Saskatchewan, in the late 1970s. Part two, the critical exegesis, examines how the theories of public… more