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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Fictional Narrative"”.
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History of a particular it: a fictional narrative of practice
Throughout the duration of the research I have been concerned with finding ways to present, interrogate and speak about practice – through, in and as practice. Encompassing the practices of dancing and writing, the inquiry seeks to resist the codification, definition and traditions of formal …
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The playwright and his theatre : Howard Brenton, David Hare and Snoo Wilson
… the playscript, as an example of written fictional narrative, dependent on the theatre for its realization but not its creation, still commands an independent status as a work, and the fiction enables the playwright to explore and evaluate reality in his own terms.Snoo Wilson's works …
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Cohesion in text differentiation : a study of English and Arabic
… this effect, three text types, namely, literary fictional narrative, newspaper editorial and science were analysed to ascertain the intra- and inter-sentential trends in textual cohesion characteristic of each text type in each language. In addition, two small scale experiments which aimed at …
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Long Man, Small Island : The Reluctant Student Missionaries of Majuro
… problems and satisfactions a writer finds in narrative writing can best be understood through the production and examination of a sustained narrative. <em>Long Man, Small Island </em>takes non-fictive events and characters and imposes an order upon them to abstract what one of the characters …
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An investigation of discourse prosody in naturally occuring read text
… frequency than sentence onsets. However, the fictional narrative did not show this tendency. The results suggest that increases in complexity of text structure are reflected in the prosodic structure.
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The story of a video game: reading the Assassin's Creed universe
<p>In the digital age, fictional narratives worthy of serious analysis are no longer confined to print. In recent years, video games have come under the eye of scholars from many fields. What can video games offer? How do they change the hature of fictional narrative? And how can we study them with …
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Rethinking the informed citizen in an ago of hybrid media genres : Tanner '88, K-Street, and the fictionalization of news
… as accurate and complete. In addition, fictional narrative has the power to foster viewers' personal investment in particular characters and, in this way, could provide additional incentive for active information gathering by creating narratives where characters stand to be directly …
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Swimming: Writing Childlessness, a Novel and Exegesis
… The novel, Swimming, in the first volume, is the fictional narrative of one woman's life and her experience of being childless. Kate, the protagonist of the novel, is not me though she has a number of similar experiences. Kate is the subject of her own narrative, a woman, whose existence presents …
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Salman Rushdie in the Postmodern Current: New Venues, New Values
… fragmented self, and suspicions of grand narrative. Furthermore, I will argue that there is an association between Rushdie's postmodern narrative technique (his mixing of history and fantasy) and his political stance when it comes to his notion about America, and that postmodernism enables …
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POST-2003 IRAQI FICTION: VOICE, AUDIENCES, AND NARRATIVE AUTHORITY
… conceived of as technical supplements, miniature narratives that complement and counterpoint the storyworld – a concept the thesis summarises with the Arabic manṭiq ‘point of articulation’. The thesis is divided into two sections. The first discusses texts in which non-fictional narrative …
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Dual Narration and Externalizing Interiority in Esther Yi's 'Y/N'
… claiming direct ownership. It first examines the narrative relationship between Esther Yi, N, and Y/N as a fictocritical dynamic, where the line between fictional narrative and literary critique is blurred due to its paratextual subject. It then proposes N as a failed fictocritic: one attempting …
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Fiction and travel writing in Ireland, 1750-1840
… and Sydney Owenson, are critical of the travel narratives produced by British travellers to Ireland, and their resistance to these narratives is woven into their works. Edgeworth attaches great importance to eastward travel to Britain, in contrast to the focus on westward journeys conducted by …
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The ‘Telling Stories’ Project: A case series study of narrative interaction between children who use speech generating devices and their educational staff
… (AAC) have limited opportunities to develop narrative compared to their typically developing peers. The current study aimed to explore narrative construction in communicative dyads comprising an aided speaker (AS) and natural speaker (NS). A case series design was employed to investigate …
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'Muchos Méxicos': widening the lens in Rulfo's cinematic texts
… importance of Juan Rulfo’s two major pieces of fictional narrative work—his haunting, enigmatic novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and his unrelenting depictions of the failures of post-revolutionary Mexico in his short story collection El Llano en llamas (1953). In her foreword to the Margaret Sayers …
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The Godwinian psychology of hope and its legacy in the work of Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley
… of liberal improvement in society becomes a semi-fictional narrative of faith. This political philosophy is developed alongside a Dissenting literary theory that understands literature as discussion, locating the means of improvement in the written text's influence over the mind of the reader. …
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Después del exilio: El regreso y el retorno en la autoficción latinoamericana del siglo XXI
… for the theme of the return and the auto-fictional narrative processes that have been developed over the last two decades.</p> <p>El presente trabajo analiza el regreso —ambos el regreso físico y el regreso anticipado—al país de origen después de vivir en el exilio, el acto de recordar …
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Exquisite Corpses : an architectural mystery
… meaning within architecture through the use of narrative, anachronous formal languages, and literary devices. If we are to take the dismissal of postmodern architectural discussions as a given, we can place meaning as an archaic subject matter limited to autonomous formal readings (i.e. …
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Essays on the Role of Identity in Economic and Political Behavior
… the other hand, additionally watching a short, fictional narrative about a young, initially apathetic woman who goes on to organize a climate march has large effects on political efficacy and subsequently large effects on donations to climate lobbying groups and revealed interest in climate …
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May I Walk Beside You? Exploring the Journey into the Careers of African American Women in Childcare Through Their Stories
… life experiences are heard through the use of narrative inquiry and oral history. Often perceived as individuals who could not become teachers in the K-12 system, the women presented tell the reader in their own words what factors lead them to becoming childcare providers. By focusing on oral …
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Refugee housing in the United States: improving the Refugee-Welcoming Rental Market
… research with RWRM stakeholders, I present a fictional narrative case study with two scenarios illustrating two frequent stories of RWRM matching in the housing journey of USRAP clients. The case shows that a wide variety of factors can drastically impair the rent capacity and, by extension, …
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