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Showing 1 to 20 of 436 for “"Close Reading"”.
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Interactive Close Reading
… seldom engaged with by the public. I argue that reading poetry requires a skillset that must be learned, practiced, and refined. While close reading is traditionally trained in college classrooms, such spaces cannot reach broad audiences. To address this dearth, I have developed a web app that …
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CLOSE READING AND CRITICAL THEORY
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>CLOSE READING AND CRITICAL THEORY</p> <p>By</p> <p>Kimberly L. Rosewall</p> <p> Close reading is the very foundation of literary studies, yet this interpretive practice can be very difficult, especially for undergraduate students. The purpose of this study was to explore my own …
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Augmenting free-form annotations with digital metadata for close reading of poetry
… people, literary critics in particular, practice close reading, making annotations by hand while performing a detailed analysis of a text. Current digital tools for literary criticism,however, have many limitations with respect to annotation. In this work, we present an ethnographic study of 14 …
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The Impact of Offering Students Choice in Close Reading on Their Attitudes and Achievement
Close reading is a practice that is gaining a larger share of instructional time in contemporary classrooms largely due to the Common Core State Standards. Although it finds its roots in the New Criticism movement, only recently has it caught the attention of the primary and secondary education …
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The Correlation Between Close Reading as an Instructional Strategy with Reading Comprehension in Elementary Schools
… quantitative study was to analyze the effects of close reading instruction on students’ reading comprehension. Close reading is an instructional strategy that allows students to dig deep into the reading and gain a profound understanding of the vocabulary, writing structure and author’s message. …
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The fan fiction reading guide: the use of multimedia and comments as close reading tools
… in fan fiction multimedia and its effects on the close-reading and critical analysis skills of readers. By completing an illustrative and cumulative case study with three fan fiction authors who are currently writing and publishing a new fiction (fic), the author was able to view the production …
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The political philosophy of Miki Kiyoshi: A close reading of the philosophical foundations of cooperative communitarianism
… been considered a humanist Marxist in Japan. A closer reading cannot support either view. The thesis argues that the Anglophone study of Japanese philosophy is a degenerating research programme ripe for revolution in the sense of returning full circle to an original point. That means returning …
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Accounting for Gender in International Refugee Law: A Close Reading of the UNHCR Gender Guidelines and the Discursive Construction of Gender as an Identity
<p>This thesis conducts a close reading of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ “Guidelines on International Protection: Gender-Related Persecution within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees” – a document that …
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The formation of the prisoner-theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer: a close reading of Letters and papers from prison, from April 5,1943 to July 20, 1944
… liminality as a lens for analysis, it offers a close reading of Bonhoeffer’s prison writings, examining the porous nature of the sociocultural and metaphorical boundaries of the prison space as expressed in notes, letters, essays, prayers, poetry, and theological letters. In doing so, the thesis …
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Representing the past in the present with the future in mind : a close reading of the ‘Cell Stories’ exhibition at the Robben Island Museum
… Museum. This dissertation seeks to undertake a close reading of the 'Cell Stories' exhibition at Robben Island Museum, in order to explore if the exhibition has created a counter narrative to the dominant triumph narrative. The exhibition was established in 1999 and it consists of 38 cells in …
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The Impact of Reading Intervention on Retained Elementary-Age Students
… of student failure. After implementation of a close reading program, participating students made growth on the state reading test. My main goal was to examine which key elements of this program supported retained third grade students resulting in learning gains. My data showed t-test findings …
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`ROAMING IN THE GARDEN OF FREEDOM:' CONSTRUCTIONS OF U.S. IDEOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND THE PAST IN TELEVISION NEWS'S ANNIVERSARY COVERAGE ABOUT THE BERLIN WALL
<p>This study employs a multimodal close reading to examine and compare how NBC's Nightly News and various primetime CNN news shows construct the story of the Berlin Wall's opening from 1990 through 2009. It does so first by examining the networks' 1989 coverage and assessing the themes and …
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Dedalus And Icarus: The Influence of James Joyce on the Poetry of Hart Crane
… As such, it is both an influence study and a close reading of Crane's finest poems in a new light.</p><p>The first part of the essay (the introduction and the first three chapters) tackles the question of influence, the authors who helped shape Crane's literary make-up, and the extent and …
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A feminist reading of la Vieille's speech in Jean de Meun's portion of Le roman de la rose
This dissertation undertakes to produce a close reading of la Vieille’s speech in Jean de Meun’s portion of Le roman de la rose. This speech has been traditionally interpreted as ironic, but this analysis seeks to incorporate the work of feminist critics as well as a relatively new area of research …
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Cyborgs, Wolves, and Aliens, Oh My: Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles and Diversity in YA Fairy Tale Retellings
… begins the work of filling that gap. Through a close reading of The Lunar Chronicles, I argue that Meyer's tetralogy is an influential, complex, and thematically comprehensive example of an ongoing shift away from feminist fairy tale revisions for adults toward young adult fairy tale revisions …
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A Carnivalesque Perspective of Graham Swift's Last Orders
… of the carnivalesque and through a corresponding close reading of Last Orders, this article details the carnivalesque nature of the locations visited by the characters in the narrative, of the grotesque incidents that occur in these locations, and of the narrative style and structure of the novel …
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The Cultural Constitution of the Post-Republic: Eighteenth-Century Politics and Nineteenth-Century Literary Form
… commemorative address at Bunker Hill by giving a close reading of Frederick Douglass's speech to abolitionists in Rochester, New York commemorating the Fourth of July in 1852. In the speech, Douglass positions himself within the patriotic discourse of the Revolution, but he also positions himself …
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"Les figures du labyrinthe dans ""A la recherche du temps perdu"". (French text);"
… of Proust's novel by Gallimard. Through a close reading of several early versions of each of these episodes I develop the problematics of Proust's style and thought.
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How do different kinds of contemporary Anglo-American storytelling engage audiences with the complexities of human / nonhuman and more-than-human relationships in the Anthropocene?
… work takes an approach from ecocriticism in its close-reading analysis, each theme acts as a response to the ecological crisis. This PhD is shaped by digital humanities and also looks beyond-the-text to how audiences discuss, circulate, disseminate, develop and expand key themes from the text …
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