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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"800 Literature & rhetoric"”.
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Into the abyss : a study of the mise en abyme
… thesis concerns the mise en abyme in English literature. In approximately the last third of the twentieth century, the concept has increasingly been associated with ‘postmodernism’ and the essential groundlessness of all claims to general or universal truth. In this thesis, I argue that the …
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The paradox structure in humorous narrative: an analysis of intellectuals as comic heroes
This thesis is to study certain humorous phenomena in several literary works written in different languages. The humorous texts chosen for analysis in this thesis are: 1) Candide written by the French writer Voltaire, published for the first time in French in 1759; 2) The British Museum is Falling …
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The formulation of an author's 'other' in late postmodern fiction
Legal Immigrants is a darkly comedic fiction novel incorporating real-life news stories and historical research about lucrative German organized crime in the United States and abroad. The novel also details the bizarre misadventures that unravel when three motley siblings launch cataclysmic revenge …
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Transformational texts: genre, discourse and subjectivity in the self-help book
… possibility which is expressed through typical rhetorical strategies. Furthermore, that the publications are a significant element in the therapeutic discourse prevalent in contemporary society. It suggests that as well as being a highly successful commodity, the self-help book is theoretically …
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The Countenance Divine & 'nothing more important than trifles': critical reflections on The Countenance Divine
In 1666, poet and revolutionary John Milton completes his epic Paradise Lost amid a/ever of prophetic speculation: is this the year God will finally deliver a terrible judgement on London? in 1777 an apprentice engraver called William Bloke has a defining spiritual experience; thirteen years later …
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Nomino za Kiarabu katika Ngeli za Kiswahili
Tasnifu hii ni utafiti unaohusu Nomino za Kiarabu Katika Ngeli za Kiswahili.. Nadharia iliyotumika katika kazi hii kuhusu uwasilishaji na uchanganuzi wa data ni ile inayohusu maumbo ya maneno katika lugha; yaani nadharia yakimofolojia. Tasnifu nzima imeundwa na sura sitae Sura ya kwanza inahusu …
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A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Literature
… a close reading of the novels and a review of literature on the gendered representations in Kezilahabi’s novels as well as critiquing the representation of masculinity in them. Kezilahabi’s novels reveal that masculinity is a circumstantial, mutable and contestable subject. It is constructed …
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The Representation of Masculinity in Euphrase Kezilahabi’s : A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Literature
… a close reading of the novels and a review of literature on the gendered representations in Kezilahabi’s novels as well as critiquing the representation of masculinity in them. Kezilahabi’s novels reveal that masculinity is a circumstantial, mutable and contestable subject. It is constructed …
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A theory and praxis of a city poetic: Jakobson, poetic function and city space: women, deixis and the narrator: a city poem: 'Shades of light: a triumph of city'
This thesis re-examines Jakobson's theory of poetic function and develops the axial model of his metaphoric and metonymic poles in order to construct a suggested iconic and poetic space, with special reference to a city poetic. The suggested model is used to develop a possible genre of a city …
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Lost in Menippea: the metabiography of Dambudzo Marechera
This creative writing thesis on Dambudzo Marechera divides into two parts: creative practice and critical commentary. In the creative practice, I dwell on the extraordinary life of Dambudzo Marechera, the late Zimbabwean writer, a life inseparable from Marechera’s equally remarkable fiction. This …
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The 'author' in theory and documentary practice: authorship, (auto)biography and shared textual authority
There is an inherent irony in assembling a range of published and broadcast outputs which share my name, for the precise purpose of contextualising them in a Commentary concerned with interrogating the very idea of individual authorship. This submission consists of a number of such outputs, the …
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Poststructuralism, postmodernism and British academic attitudes: with special reference to David Lodge, Malcolm Bradbury and Gabriel Josipovici
The central sections of this thesis examine the critical and fictional writing of three British academics, David Lodge, Malcolm Bradbury and Gabriel Josipovici, in order to elucidate their attitudes towards poststructuralist and postmodernist thinking in the quarter century roughly between the …
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A materialist and intertextual examination of the process of writing a work of children's literature
… seeks to uncover how a highly specific mode of literature comes to be written. It is my contention that descriptions of such a process are unsatisfactory unless they incorporate and combine the following four elements: i) an examination of how the particular self under consideration (me) was …
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The biosemiotic imagination in the Victorian frames of mind : Newman, Eliot and Welby
This thesis traces the development of thought in the philosophical and other writings of three nineteenth-century thinkers, whose work exemplifies that century’s attempts to think beyond the divisions of culture from nature and to reconcile empirical science with metaphysical truth. Drawing on …
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Sprachgebrauch im Alltag. Die Verwendung des Rätoromanischen in verschiedenen Domänen: Wechselwirkungen und Einflussfaktoren
Welche Sprache sprechen Rätoromanische in den verschiedenen sozialen Kontexten und wodurch wird die jeweilige Sprachwahl beeinflusst? Diese Fragen bilden den Ausgangspunkt der empirischen Untersuchung, die in verschiedenen Gemeinden des rätoromanischen Sprachgebiets sowie in der Kantonshauptstadt …