The question of beauty in contemporary fiction
Beauty, while having been accused of being an over-determined, vague and even outdated concept, remains more important than ever at the center of literature’s incantations and imagination in the contemporary age. The thesis explores how principles of beauty pattern the narrative fabric and form of t...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1655732023-04-04T02:58:00Z The question of beauty in contemporary fiction Teo, Tiffany Xi Qing Neil Murphy School of Humanities CAMurphy@ntu.edu.sg Humanities::Literature Beauty, while having been accused of being an over-determined, vague and even outdated concept, remains more important than ever at the center of literature’s incantations and imagination in the contemporary age. The thesis explores how principles of beauty pattern the narrative fabric and form of the chosen novels, which in turn enact within the reader’s reception the drama of awakening consciousness. Master of Arts 2023-03-31T00:20:46Z 2023-03-31T00:20:46Z 2022 Thesis-Master by Research Teo, T. X. Q. (2022). The question of beauty in contemporary fiction. Master's thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165573 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165573 10.32657/10356/165573 en This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
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Beauty, while having been accused of being an over-determined, vague and even outdated concept, remains more important than ever at the center of literature’s incantations and imagination in the contemporary age. The thesis explores how principles of beauty pattern the narrative fabric and form of the chosen novels, which in turn enact within the reader’s reception the drama of awakening consciousness. |
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