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Satire in Contemporary Catholic Authors
Satire might be defined as the whip with which the literary minded lashed the social, economic, and religious follies of the age In which they lived with a view not only to denounce the evil but to effect a reform. "Great evils create their own scourge," and as long as human nature exists, evil, …
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The Relationship Between Use of Characters and Authors' Sex in the 1982 Young Authors Manuscripts
… number of characters used by female and male authors. The sample of the study consisted of 84 females and 54 males in southwest Missouri whose manuscripts were selected for the 1982 Young Authors Conference at Southwest Missouri State University. The two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was …
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Contemporary American Authors' Questioning of Religion
… in the novels discussed in this paper. Some authors could come to no conclusion but did see difficulties in accepting religion the way it is. Others felt that inconsistencies should be ignored. Humanism was proposed as a more relevant substitution for religion in today's world. Conclusions. …
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Types of Poetry Written By the 1983 Young Authors
… through six who were selected for the 1983 Young Authors' Conference at Southwest Missouri State University. The sample of the study consisted of nineteen male and female authors who composed a total of three hundred fifty-eight poems. The types of poetry forms included: free verse, haiku, …
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Textual Politics: Women Authors Rewrite the Enlightenment, 1790--1805
… discusses four British, French, and German women authors from the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries who wrote novels and plays that responded quite explicitly to texts written earlier in the eighteenth century by major male writers. The choice of texts by Karoline von Gunderrode …
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A virtual environment authoring interface for content-expert authors
… reality can be regarded as a medium across which authors can communicate with a target group. However, many experts in non-computer-related areas, looking to exploit VR often come unstuck trying to take advantage of this medium. In these cases, one cannot blame these content-expert authors as they …
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A Study of Five Victorian Authors and their Religious Fiction
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The Literary Response of German-Language Authors to Selma Lagerlof
By focusing on the impact of a significant yet neglected woman writer, this study contributes to gender-related literary scholarship. It also adds to our knowledge of Scandinavian-German literary relations during the early years of this century. Since the German writers who responded to Lagerlof …
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A web API service for calculating credit attributable to authors
… on providing a means to allocate credit to the authors of works cited by research on the UniCoin platform by means of citation network analysis and the calculation of centrality measures. In particular, I present a web service that is able to generate citation networks for a given piece of …
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Cunning Authors and Bad Readers: Gendered Authorship in "Love in Excess"
… novel reveals connections between discourses of authorship and gender. Male and female characters, along with the narrative voice, employ the same strategies to author texts that engage the reader’s desires. Variations in these strategies are linked to but not determine by the author’s gender. I …
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"Old Tales in New Skins": Three Authors Reinvent the Fairy Tales
… (1977) and Emma Donoghue's examines the authors' distinctive revisionist practices - -
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Women writing men : female Victorian authors and their representations of masculinity
This dissertation covers five female Victorian authors (Elizabeth Gaskell, M.E. Braddon, Dinah Craik, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Edith Nesbit) and the representations of masculinity in their novels. By taking a masculinity studies approach, this dissertation finds that these novels, in an attempt to …
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Survey of Classroom Practices and Attitudes of Teachers of Young Authors
… in the Southwest Missouri State University Young Authors' Conferences for at least one of the past four years, including 1984. A self-report survey instrument was developed and administered to assess the frequency and duration of creative writing sessions. The instructional practices, evaluation …
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Techniques used by elementary library media specialists to teach authors and illustrators
… studies and which techniques that teach authors and illustrators were considered most effective by elementary school library media specialists. Of the 46 respondents to the mail survey, 55% replied that author/illustrator studies were very important, 36% replied that they were important, …
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The Sun Also Sets: British Authors and the Death of the Empire
… through the perspectives of prominent British authors, beginning with Rudyard Kipling's Kim, which establishes the height of the British Empire. Thereafter, the Empire's decline is incisively chronicled through the various catalysts that contributed to the overall demise of the Empire: E.M …
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Digital Self-publishing as Planned Behaviour: Authors' Views on E-book Adoption
… explore which factors have the most influence on authors' decision to self-publish e-books, and, conversely, which factors influence others' decision not to. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 11 authors in the Ottawa area who have self-published or who are considering doing so in the near …
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Selling a Feeling: New Approaches Toward Recent Gay Chicano Authors and Their Audience
Gay Chicano authors have been criticized for not forming the same type of strong literary identity and community as their Chicana feminist counterparts, a counterpublic that has given voice not only to themselves as authors, but also to countless readers who see themselves reflected in their texts. …
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Authors of Our Own Lives? Individuals, Institutions and the Everyday Practice of Sociology.
Theories of practice suggest that social structure is reproduced and transformed through the everyday enactment of mundane practices. However, individuals' careers, institutions and policy interventions are typically marginalised within conceptual frameworks and empirical studies, of 'practice' and …
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Poems of Debate and Praise: Women as Published Authors in Sixteenth-Century France
<p>Non-fictional, published poetic exchanges between men and women in sixteenth-century France provide new perspectives into how women writers operated in a literary culture whose main producers and dominant voice were male. Contrary to the notion repeated by many critics that women of that period …
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