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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Critical texts"”.
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"The thick dark current runs": As I Lay Dying -- A Multi-Theoretical Approach
… led to there being only a handful of full length critical texts devoted entirely to the book. The narrow approach used by most articles and critical texts leads to a necessarily cursory glance at the novel. The complexity of this narrative demands a multi-theoretical approach where no one theory …
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Machine
… combines a poetic narrative with citations from critical texts to create an environment in which the poem offers a theoretical and interpretive approach to its contents. Structured into eight books, the poem explores the isolation and alienation created in a world which is slowly enveloped by a …
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Processing Writing: From Text to Textual Interventions
This submission comprises the main bulk of the critical and textual work I have researched and developed over the last five years. Throughout this period, I have been particularly interested in exploring issues of interdisciplinarity for writers and text-practitioners, at both a critical and a …
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Rhetoric and the social production of knowledge in criticism of Henry V
In this thesis, Henry V and its critical context are used as a context for examining critics attached to the critical issues that underpin the tension in literary studies between more traditional approaches to texts and contemporary developments within criticism. Moreover, critics are organized …
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Gender-konstruksies in die afrikaanse letterkunde : 'n ondersoek in kultuurstudies, litterêre teorie en kreatiewe skryfwerk
… theories are blended with creative texts to undermine the notion that gender is a mere biological or given position. The conventional boundaries of a literary thesis is thus challenged and the thesis argues that critical texts and creative texts rely on this interactive reading.
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Using literature to educate students about bullying
… as having a role in issues around bullying. Critical texts help to engage students in discussions about critical issues. Students related to the characters and events in the stories. The stories center around the bullying of the main characters. A learning community was established that …
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Screaming in silence: exploring gender empowerment & representation in contemporary horror narratives
… readings of selected horror films, novels, and critical texts. By analyzing the representation of women in horror, this thesis explores how female characters have evolved from mere victims to empowered protagonists, deconstructing patriarchal norms and challenging societal expectations. …
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Identidade, tempo e espaço: formação do/a professor/a de jovens e adultos para a educação etnicorracial
… that allowed us to reflect on the historical contexts, current public policies and curriculum guidelines for anti-racist education. We use references: Brazil (1996, 2003, 2012); Bauman (2003); Carvalho (1987), Freire (1996); Gomes (2003); Hall (2011); Munanga (1999); among others. Identify …
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Indigenous tradition and the colonial legacy : a study in the social context of anglophone African literary criticism.
… discourse. It begins by engaging with Marxist critical traditions, with particular reference to two areas of debate: the question of the epistemological relationship between literature and criticism, and the question of criticism's being a discourse which, in its articulation with a given …
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The Subjecthood of Slime Mould: modelling single-celled intelligence through living systems art
… form of artworks, methods for co-enquiry, and critical texts. Selected published works, produced predominantly between 2015 and 2019, are discussed in the context of theories, histories, and cultural frameworks drawn from biology, art, and philosophy. The behavioural characteristics of slime …
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Reading V.S. Naipaul : fiction and history 1967-1987
… taking account of fictional and nonfictional texts. Chapter 3 advances such a theory, based on the idea of opposing centrifugal and centripetal tendencies in reading. In chapters 4-6 this theory is tested with three sets of readers, using two of Naipaul's books from the late 1960s, a novel …
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Aida Overton Walker, “Actor Lady”: Unveiling Race and Gender in African American Performance Motifs, 1900-1912
… Brooks and Jayna Brown. I will explore such critical texts alongside primary material, including the scripts and song sheets for In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy (1902), and Sons of Ham (1901). The black female performer in musical comedy at the turn of the twentieth century, I argue, …
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Towards a Professional Learning Dialogue in Mexican Contemporary Art Museums
… art museum practice in Mexico, using critical texts and practical evidence from interviews with educators, curators and directors. The thesis investigates, in particular, the case study of the Enlaces programme at the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MuAC). This is a learning …
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Gothic times : feminism and postmodernism in the novels of Angela Carter.
… women novelists, before discussing the critical neglect of Carter's fiction. Chapter 2 explores more extensively the confluence of feminist, postmodernist and psychoanalytic models of the subject and offers an exemplary reading of a short story by Carter, in order to demonstrate certain …
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Literary Writing, Print Media, and Urban Space in Modern Japan, 1895-1933
… examines a selection of fictional and critical texts from the turn of the century through the 1930s to demonstrate how mass-produced typographic media both served to produce mass consumer society in this period and functioned as sites for its critique, extending the aesthetic, …
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The Tyndale House Greek New Testament and Nestle-Aland Tradition as Complementary, Not Competitive Critical Editions
This dissertation is a detailed comparison of the texts and textual apparatuses of the Tyndale House Greek New Testament (THGNT) and Nestle-Aland tradition (especially the NA27 and NA28). Its thesis is that these two editions should be viewed as complementary rather than competitive editions of the …
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An Investigation into Textual Characteristics of the Early Greek Majuscule Pandects
… by comparing manuscripts to a published critical text. This is likely to be circular, because critical texts are frequently produced using assumptions which favour particular manuscripts. My own method works by attempting to reconstruct the initial text at a range of variation units, …
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Waugh revisited : destabilizing language and structure in Vile bodies, A handful of dust, and Brideshead revisited by Jabe Ziino.
… of full-length, or indeed even article-length, critical texts on Waugh's work. This phenomenon can perhaps be explained in part by the seemingly autobiographical nature of his best-known novel, Brideshead Revisited, which was adapted in 1981 into an enduringly popular BBC miniseries and in 2008 …
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La Casa : Experimento y matriz : La Casa de Ofir (1958), de Fernando Távora, y la Casa de Vila Viçosa (1962), de Nuno Portas y Nuno Teotónio Pereira, en el proceso de revisión crítica de la arquitectura moderna en Portugal
… direct reading of the designs and buildings with texts written by their authors and critical texts of referential authors of Portuguese architecture historiography. The investigation evaluates the importance of the two houses in study, as experiment and matrix, in the process of critical revision …