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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Children's Story"”.
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Toward a model of children's story comprehension.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Thesis. 1972. Ph.D.
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The Role of Discussion Questions in Children's Story Comprehension
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Representing and analyzing temporal complexity in children's story books
In this thesis, the temporal complexity in children's stories is analyzed to better understand the development of children's perception of time. The temporal complexity increases both in greater deviations from a chronological presentation of events, as well as an increase in the different kinds of …
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Effectiveness of Story Enactments Versus Art Projects in Facilitating Preschool Children's Story Comprehension
… this study was twofold: (a) to compare preschool children's comprehension of a story after either enacting the story or participating in an art project, and (b) to qualitatively describe the children's interactions during the more interactive story enactment instruction. Twenty children from two …
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Der Struwwelpeter: a song cycle for soprano and chamber ensemble
… of the stories from the iconic, mid-19th century children's story by Heinrich Hoffmann. The text set is from a widely published, anonymous English translation, dating contemporaneously to the original work. Chief among the thematic and compositional problems presented by the text is the question …
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Created Spaces: Domestic Myth-Making in the Novels of Elizabeth Bowen
… author, Elizabeth Bowen writes often of children in her various works, yet her novels and short stories could hardly be considered for the consumption or pleasure of a young audience. Nevertheless, there exists an exception within her oeuvre - The Good Tiger, a colorful and charming story …
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Theorie und Praxis im dramatischen Werk Rainer Lewandowskis
… will show the importance of Rainer Lewandowski's children's theater, for example his stage adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's children's story The Strange Child. Next, his musicals Me, Marlene, Mambo Mortale and Don't Panik, and his plays Tonight Neither Hamlet and The Birthday or the Same …
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Reconciling narrative spaces : conceptual blending in Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince and Calvino's Invisible Cities
… Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, the former a children's story and the latter a postmodern experimental work of fiction. While many narratologists and literary theorists focus on the destabilizing aspects of postmodern fiction and claim that it is "anti-narrative" because it resists assumptions …
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The Golden Heroine: An Analysis of the Domestic Heroine in Golden Age Children's Literature
The Golden Age of children's literature (1860s-1910s) was a period in literary history that saw the publication of many a beloved and, now, classic children's story. It was a time of reinvention for children's literature: writers came down from their moral high-ground and began to address children …
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Multimodal generative models for storytelling
Storytelling is an open-ended task that entails creative thinking and requires a constant flow of ideas. Generative models have recently gained momentum thanks to their ability to identify complex data's inner structure and learn efficiently from unlabeled data [34]. Natural language generation …
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Technological uncertainties and popular culture
… lying. A case is made for considering fictional storytelling as sociology and hence, the sociological value of lying. It is by close examination of a fictional story that this study aims to contribute to a sociology of translation. The greater part of the thesis comprises an ethnographic study of …