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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Experimental Writing"”.
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New Orientations: Touch in Women's Experimental Writing
Through the analysis of women's experimental writing, this thesis examines the significance of touch in exceeding individual and social boundaries, contending that touch has the radical potential to elicit transformation. This thesis explores the way in which touch materialises throughout the …
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After The End Of The World: Poetics, Time, And Black Experimental Writing
… End of the World" is a study of the poetics of experimental writing, focusing on the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Nathaniel Mackey, Suzan-Lori Parks and Kamau Brathwaite. By thinking form as a locus of political and conceptual contestation and transformation, I seek methods for conceiving politics …
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MYTHOGENESIS AS A RECONFIGURATION OF SPACE IN AN “ALTERNATE WORLD”: THE LEGACY OF ORIGIN AND DIASPORA IN EXPERIMENTAL WRITING
… mythogenesis as it derives from and applies to experimental Caribbean writing. The themes explore spaces within language that reconfigure the past into the present by using techniques of voice multiplicity, epic, dream, imagination, and spirituality. The first chapter builds from the work of …
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The effects of writing about traumatic experiences on adolescents identified as emotionally disturbed (ED)
… of this study was to explore the effects of writing about traumatic experiences on adolescents identified as Emotionally Disturbed (ED). Adolescents identified as ED (N = 48) were randomly assigned to an experimental writing condition or a writing control condition. An additional group of …
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‘As I cannot write’: transforming perceived barriers toautobiographical writing through the use of experimental writingpractices
… disadvantage those who have difficulties with writing for reasons such as cognitive impairment, mental health problems, physical disabilities, or literacyissues. Such disadvantages can be a barrier to their ability to engage with writing activities which promote wellbeing, as current approaches …
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To Whom Occurs the Haunting: A Singular Exploration of a Disturbed Femme Psyche
<p>By utilizing critical experimental writing, my capstone project will be an exploration of the haunting effects of transgenerational trauma and its lasting impact on the present-day psyche of one disturbed female subject - myself. Relying on multiple formats of writing, including but not limited …
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The effect of online translators on L2 writing in French
… qualitative effects of OT use on L2 composition writing. A study conducted among 32 third- and fourth-semester L2 French students compared the results of three conditions: participants who were allowed to use an online translator for writing tasks after attending a training session on OT …
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A questão da escrita filosófica na obra de Walter Benjamin
… this problem in the scope of his philosophical writing. The thesis deals with this theme through three perspectives which give structure to the author's work: the way language andwriting happen; the relation between writing and epistemological critique, as well as in his presentation of the …
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Subterranean Prose : The Thematic Similarity in the Novels of Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Kenneth Patchen
… the advent of a new upsurge of underground writing labeled "Subterranean" prose. The problem posed in this thesis was to define the function of Subterranean prose and, once defined, to investigate into any progressive qualities contained in the prose. Procedure. Investigation into …
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Inventory’s paper assembly: fierce sociology, sovereignty and self-organisation in London’s small press publishing scene 1995 to 2005
… 5 discusses the journal’s presentation as writing or literature and the relation between the whole and its parts developed philosophically in the previous chapters in terms of the form of the journal itself as a constellation and the writing it cohered around and presented. This chapter …
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Liminal entities : transition and the 'space between' in the short fiction of Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf
… neglected area, particularly in terms of women's writing. Traditionally, critical interest in Virginia Woolf's novels and essays has tended to eclipse her short fiction, whilst the stories of Dorothy Richardson and May Sinclair are virtually absent from serious critical discussion. Only Katherine …
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Suffering and survival: considering trauma, trauma studies and living on
… such a double operation can only occur through a writing which, paradoxically, touches on what exceeds it. To structure this argument, the thesis proposes a distinction between 'Trauma Studies‘ – as a discipline or field of academic study – and a trauma study; the latter being a writing (on) …
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Frank Lloyd Wright beyond America
… early twenty-first century. The thesis adopts an experimental writing-as-design approach to research and as such I use a narrative mode of writing to negotiate between ‘creative’ and ‘critical’ perspectives of research. This method allows my experience to inform my analysis of Wright’s sites of …
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Big Backed Black Femme Erotics
… Lorde’s erotic to Black feminist creative writing allows me to think through what literary spaces allow for Black femme sexuality to be spoken. Following a literary study, I then include auto-theory as a means of speaking to the spaces in real life in which my own fat Black femme sexuality …
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Rewriting the Oeuvre: Raymond Queneau and the Art of Translation
… translator for two decades (1934-1953), and his writing was greatly influenced and impacted by his readings and translations of Anglophone writers. This dissertation provides insight into the role of translation in his conception of writing and language, and the inseparability of the different …
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Middlebrow Modernism: Professional Writing, Genre, and the Circulation of Cultural Authority in U.S. Mass Culture, 1913--1932
… reading attached to a specific set of forms or writing techniques. This genre was, paradoxically, a convention of experimentation and surprise. As such, it anticipates what critics have called postmodernism's flattening-out of modernism into a set of codes; yet, where this flattening-out is …
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Parallel Texts: Contemporary Women’s Experimental Art Writing in North American Exhibition Catalogues from the 1970s to the Present
Experimental writing can inhabit liminal spaces in-between genres and disciplines as it strives to rupture normative rhetorical patterns by playing with form and pushing language beyond its expected conventions. When this mode of writing is brought to bear upon an art object, the resultant text …
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Twelve Hearts of Clay and Selected Stories
… short stories. "Calluses," my foray into experimental writing, is perhaps the most completed piece in the collection, having found publication in the October 2010 issue of Blue Crow Magazine, an Australian literary journal. "Dead Baby Jokes," the short short piece included here, was also …
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Collage in the Posthuman Era: Gender and Becoming
… within the fields of art, gender studies and experimental fiction. This practice—as—research project, incorporating visual collage, animation and experimental writing, guided via key texts by philosopher Rosi Braidotti and feminist scholar Donna Haraway, culminated materially in the creation …
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Dissolving Borders: The Integration of Writing into a Movement Practice
… idea that a combined practice of creative writing and movement improvisation enhances the artist's articulation and assimilation of the experience of dance, consequently developing a deeper connection to the experiences of the body in relation to one's environment. Refuting common …
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