Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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Collection
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eng
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The Shaman Detective: A Comparative Reading of Enchantment and Animism in Contemporary Japanese Detective Fiction

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Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Dennis, Samuel Francis, Thesis advisor (ths): Hollinger, Veronica, Degree committee member (dgc): Epp, Michael, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This thesis examines a specific figure that appears throughout contemporary Japanese detective fiction (across different media), which I have termed the Shaman detective. A liminal figure that combines Japanese folk cosmologies with contemporary detective work, the Shaman detective is at once similar to, yet separate from, western postmodernist detective fiction. Invested in narratives… more

Authenticity, Authority and Control: How Rock Artists Are Responding to the Possibility of Collaborative Music Publics Online

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Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Headley, David Alexander, Thesis advisor (ths): Hodges, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Epp, Michael, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This three-part history explores Web 2.0's ability to make music products a collaborative, ongoing creative process that is reflective of early twentieth century live-music publics, where the realization of a performance was actualized by performers together with their audience in a shared physical space. By extension, I follow the changing dynamic of the producer/consumer… more

Alpha and Omega: Interpretive Strategies and Freedom of Choice in Fallout 3

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Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Morton, Robert Travis, Thesis advisor (ths): Mitchell, Liam, Degree committee member (dgc): Hodges, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Epp, Michael, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Game texts present unique and dynamic opportunities for lability: how readers can make choices while reading that alter the narrative's nature or outcome. Labile decisions are neither simply correct nor incorrect--the reader renders judgement to produce a desired outcome. When encountering labile challenges, players employ an interpretive strategy to resolve them. Many game texts… more