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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Focalization"”.
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Narrative voice and focalization in the narration of generational conflicts in selected Kiswahili novels
… explores the deployment of narrative voice and focalization in the narration of the theme of generational conflict. The focus is on four Kiswahili novels: Vuta n’kuvute, (Shafi, 1999) Kufa Kuzikana, (Walibora, 2003) Kipimo cha Mizani (Burhani, 2004) and Tumaini (2006). The study is motivated by …
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Ars Audax: The Myth of the Flight of Icarus and Its Reception Since Antiquity
… employs Icarus — whether he is the object of focalization or the subject of focalization — and the manner in which each author employs the concept of audacia ('daring') and makes use of sailing metaphors constitute distinct reception threads. I then trace these threads of reception through a …
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Linguistics peculiarities of contemporary feline narrative
… In western linguonarratology tradition animal focalization is a "work-in-progress" concept that is studied by Genette and W. Nelles among other linguists. Animal focalization is used to conceal the authors' message/ideas behind an imaginary "pet/wild creature" figure in order to lower the …
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The narrative thematics of the late style of Henry James : incorporating an analysis of The wings of the dove
… concepts of the Narrator, Speech Representation, Focalization and Figural Narration. This is the main emphasis of part I. The work of the different theorists is examined selectively in order to give a concise but comprehensive summary of the chosen narrative concepts. Part II of the dissertation …
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The eyewitness in American specular narrative : empiricism, representation, and the gaze
… figure of the eyewitness (by way of narration, focalization, and narrative technique) to render a supposedly transparent relation between narrative and reality. This study draws upon theories of narrative, realism, subjectivity, and the gaze to explore this narrative eyewitness, tracking how the …
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Writing Away: Old Affinities and New Itineraries in Contemporary African Writing
… emerge at the levels of style, intertextuality, focalization, and aesthetic inclinations. Guided by traces of referentiality and self-reflexivity within the texts, as opposed to an existing theoretical frame, I read for the affiliative impulse, conceptions of ‘home,’ and negotiations of identity …
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Reading the Akedah narrative (Genesis 22:1-19) in the context of modern hermeneutics
… can be grasped from many angles. By using the focalization theory of narratology one can illuminate differing points of view involved in the process of narration. The narrator's voice should not be regarded as the only representation of the events as there are also the characters' ways of …
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Voice, Silence and Narrative Distance in the Stories of Prosper Merimee
… irony, antithesis, narrative perspective (focalization) and ellipsis. Characters' voices are predominantly represented directly, cut off from the narrator's dominant level of enunciation, confined behind bars of punctuation. Their voices are ironized by a narrator who appears unable to …
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The Elusive "Poem of the World": The Task of the Reader and the Problem of Knowledge in Heinrich von Kleist's Novellas "Die Marquise von O..." and "Das Erdbeben in Chili"
… by examining the issues of closure and focalization in the two narratives. Furthermore, I will illustrate how a narratological/reader-response approach to Kleist’s work can also inform a feminist critical approach and, likewise, how a feminist analysis can complement the former. In the …
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The Elusive "Poem of the World": The Task of the Reader and the Problem of Knowledge in Heinrich von Kleist's Novellas "Die Marquise von O..." and "Das Erdbeben in Chili"
… by examining the issues of closure and focalization in the two narratives. Furthermore, I will illustrate how a narratological/reader-response approach to Kleist’s work can also inform a feminist critical approach and, likewise, how a feminist analysis can complement the former. In the …
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Memorable Acts/active Rememberers: Contemporary Canadian Memory Plays
… drama's a-perspective with narrative's focalization; drama's showing with narrative's telling. The unusual coalition of mimesis and diegesis provides an excellent forum in which to explore memory. What does the past, personal and communal, mean to us--and how do we make it meaningful? …
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A Framework for Agile Collaboration in Engineering
… in design processes is enhanced via stakeholder focalization, based on the systematic communication of decision-critical information content.
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A categoria de aspecto: forma e função
… aspect supplies information concerning to the focalization of the temporal internal structure of the situation, being, therefore, a property of the sentence and not of the enunciation; the aspect expresses a subjective point of view of the speaker in relation to the development and to the …
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The Contemporary British Novel and Conspiracy Theories: Hinges, Certainty, and Trust in Narrative Fiction
… an understanding of the function of narrative focalization. The second chapter reads Zadie Smith’s *Swing Time* (2016) as illustrating that judging a conspiracy theory to possess fictionality is a learnt skill, dependent upon trust, and that the exercising of this judgement reflects certainties …
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Unreliability in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Narration, Masculinities, and the Affects of Trauma, Guilt and Shame in Damian McNicholl's "A Son Called Gabriel" and John Boyne's "A History of Loneliness" and "The Heart’s Invisible Furies"
… I also tackle other related terms such as focalization, Catholic confession, or life narratives, given the plot of the selected novels. Chapter five is devoted to an analysis of the affects of trauma, memory, guilt, and shame, since their understanding is essential to comprehend next the …
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Centers of Consciousness: Protagonism and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… techniques such as first-person narration and focalization, the limited amounts of text allotted to minor characters can yield brief flashes of depth. These depictions of consciousness may lack the "exhaustive presentation" that Ian Watt claims is inherent to the novel, but they are nonetheless …
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Higher order asymptotic inference in remote sensing of oceanic and planetary environments
… such as matched-field processing (MFP) and focalization. Finally, a method is developed for simultaneously estimating the instantaneous mean velocity and position of a group of randomly moving targets as well as the respective standard deviations across the group by Doppler analysis of …
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Modeling the interaction of light with photonic structures by direct numerical solution of Maxwell's equations
… are also slightly treated, along with their focalization by means of an approximated diraction formula useful for their numericall FDTD representation. Finally, a thorough description of planarly multilayered media is included, which can play an important ancillary role in the homogenization …
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Design of a positron beam for the study of the entanglement in three gamma-rays generated by positronium annihilation
… trap, the acceleration, time-compression, and focalization of the positron bunches into a target in a free field region. To each step corresponds a part of the PSICO positron beamline. During this thesis work all fours parts have been designed, the last three parts are now under construction, …