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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Character Types"”.
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"Character Types In Sir Philip Sidney's ""new Arcadia"" And In Italian Romance Epic"
Although the characters of The New Arcadia are typical for the romance epic, Sidney develops them in the manner of the moralist and anticipating the novelist, focusing not on action itself, but on the moral significance of the action and thus on the characters' inner lives. Consequently, the heroes …
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From Behind the Curtain: Liudmila Petrushevskaia's Gender and Age Character Types in Late Soviet and Post -Soviet Contexts
A final chapter analyzes Petrushevskaia's post-Soviet fairy tales, in particular her Wild Animal Fairy Tales and Adventures of Barbie collections. Read within the context of the fall of communism and the rising influence of Western consumer culture, these tales reveal a process in which traditional …
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An Investigation into the uncanny: character design, behaviour and context.
… valley, defining research that contextualises a character as they would normally be viewed remains an unexplored area. Often previous research focused solely on realistic render styles giving characters an unfair basis that tended towards the realistic, thus facilitating only one mode of …
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To be prosecuted, banished, and shot : motives, morals, and the modern American hero
… Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains three character types which serve as models for the protagonists of certain twentieth century writers. The distinguishing characteristics of Tom, Jim, and Huck reappear in the central figures of later American novels, novels dealing explicitly with the …
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The Didactic Function of Proverbs 1-9 for the Interpretation of Proverbs 10-31
… three features of the entire book of Proverbs: character types, educational goals, and the book’s theology. Character types involve the identity and function of certain characters in Proverbs, such as the wise, wicked or diligent man. Educational goals account for the overall aims and values …
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Darth Bane : The Monomyth's Dark Liberator
… archetypal hero has been thought to be the only character that met the requirements of Campbell's theory. However, through Karpyshyn's trilogy of novels about the Sith Lord, Darth Bane, Bane illustrates what the epitome of an antihero is and also that he can make the monomyth his own. The …
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Types in Transition: The Evolution of the Working Man in New Hollywood Cinema
… break in either industrial or auteurist terms, Types in Transition argues that the quintessence of New Hollywood cinema can be found in its treatment of character types. The notion of ‘types’ had been acknowledged in early film scholarship but not fully confronted until critics began to …
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Proverb lore in Shakespeare's comedies.
… patterns of usage: moralization, ornamentation, character portrayal, and structural function. As moralizing elements they underline theme and plot, stress sententious wisdom, and express comic or serious reflections on human life. As instruments of ornamentation they provide anecdotes and …
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The use and significance of the matchmaker in representative novels of Henry James
… of modern society, he often resorts to character types to illustrate his judgments and evaluations of the human condition. Since the novelist deemed human relations an essential element in his development of theme and meaning, one such role that seems especially appropriate in this …
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"What a Poor, Passive Machine": The Psychosomatic Heroine from Richardson to Austen
… project examines the psychosomatic heroine, a character type I observe emerging throughout the long eighteenth-century who responds to social, domestic, and personal pressures and stressors with mental and emotional preoccupations that lead to physiological symptoms. I demonstrate through close …
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The Psychology of Plato's Republic: Taking Book 10 into Account
… namely the <em>Republic’s </em>notion of character. On the one hand, Socrates never launches an explicit inquiry into this subject, and on the other hand, the character types displayed in Books 4, 8, and 9 seem idiosyncratic caricatures—most people seem not to fit into any of them. In …
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The archetypal development of the American woman through literature
… level, the reasons behind certain recurrent character types in twentieth century American literature about women. Because of his emphasis on the "collective unconscious," the theories of psychologist Carl Jung are used as the basis for this study. The basic feminine archetype, herself …
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Negotiating the gothic in the fiction of Thomas Hardy
… and romance genres in describing Hardy’s plots, characters and settings, very few of them make a direct and explicit connection to the Gothic novel. Second, the few who do broach the Gothic elements in Hardy’s fiction limit their understanding of the kind of Gothic Hardy employs mainly to the …
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The Freedom of Flexibility: Lessons from the Child Characters in Flannery O'Connor
… for repetition, often revisiting the same character types, plot devices, and overriding ideas in two or more stories. This repetition always goes hand in hand with reinterpretation. Even when the characters and plots seem suspiciously similar, the differences signal both O'Connor's …
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Digital Organisational Storytellers: Online Marketing as Identity Work
… includes the introduction of four different character ‘types’ that summarise the way the DOS approaches sensemaking and sensegiving processes. The second contribution extends an understanding of online marketing work in contemporary B2B organisations. Accordingly, it can be categorised as a …
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Carry On Joking: Freud, Laughter and the Hysterical Male in the Carry On films
… often with the same actors playing the same character types telling the same jokes. The aim of this thesis is to explore a number of questions: How were audiences positioned to laugh at the same 'dirty' joke that was told over and over again? What was the relationship between the verbal joke …
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Joseph Haydn and the dramma giocoso
… pescatrici and L'incontro improvviso (1775), the characters are portrayed as stock character types and the structure of the libretto generally adheres to the separation of serious and comic characters. In these works Haydn follows the musical conventions for each character type with only slight …
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History, identity, and the marginalized: an analysis of selected works by Han Shaogong and Su Tong
… to modern Chinese fiction, in terms of characterization, authorial style, and personal vision. This thesis examines the return of the individual from the specific angle of marginalized character and motif, since they are frequently used by contemporary writers to express an individual …
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THE DANCE MOTIF IN ZOLA'S "L'ASSOMMOIR" (FRANCE)
… precedent in French ballet with repect to plot, character, theme, atmosphere, and symbolism. The method by which Zola achieves this evocation of ballet consists of three parts: word choice; association of gesture with certain situations and character types; and the use of techniques associated …
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Sex and the City, Platinum Edition: How The Golden Girls Altered American Situation Comedy
… and Hot in Cleveland) are made in terms of character types and plotlines. The conclusion is drawn that The Golden Girls was the first adult female ensemble in situation comedy television and these shows were inspired by the program.The second chapter of the project examines how each of the …
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