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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Genre Studies"”.
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The ballad as a literary genre: studies toward a redefinition
… whether they constitute a single literary genre. Because poets of the literary ballad were influenced by earlier models, representative bench and popular ballads were examined first. The chanson and the contemporary ballad, which are interpreted as reactions to more traditional forms, …
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Genre Studies: Temporary Homogeneous Grouping to Improve Reading or Merely another Form of Tracking?
… a special literacy block of classes, known as Genre Studies, had on the reading scores of 102 at risk children enrolled in a southern California secondary school. In addition to measuring the absolute success of these students, their relative success was also measured by comparing them with a …
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"A Memorial and a Name": Construction of Public Memory Through Chronotopic Arrangement of Antecedent Genre at Yad Vashem
… I draw on two concepts from Rhetorical Genre Studies—the chronotope (Bakhtin) and antecedent genre (Jamieson)—to examine the relationship between genre and the making of public memory. The findings of this analysis point to the importance of the antecedent genre of Holocaust testimony in …
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Stage, Body, Text: Beckett's And Weiss's Theaters Of Embodiment
… concepts of the performing body in film genre studies, playwriting styles and acting systems, and in specific experiments with text, body, and technology in modernist theatre.
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An exploration of the LAL development of pre-service ESL teachers through the processes of item writing
… the potential of employing perspectives of genre studies in further research on item writing practices is discussed.
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Pop Potentiality: Renegotiating Networks of Power and Relation Through Contemporary Speculative Fiction
… to various popular media forms and speculative genres to examine how new and rapidly evolving narrative modes circulate concepts about power and relationality in the American cultural consciousness. The creators I include in "Pop Potentiality" leverage their position in the cultural zeitgeist, …
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Seventy Years of Swearing upon Eric the Skull: Genre and Gender in Selected Works by Detection Club Writers Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie
… “Seventy Years of Swearing upon Eric the Skull: Genre and Gender in Selected Works by Detection Club Writers Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie” shows how the texts produced by Detection Club members Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie challenge assumptions about the value and role of …
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Transformational texts: genre, discourse and subjectivity in the self-help book
… theory to investigate the notions of genre, discourse and subjectivity in the contemporary self-help book. It argues that these texts have links with classical and modern ethics of optimum living and are predicated on an ontology of transformative possibility which is expressed through …
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GENRE FLUIDITY AND WRITING IDENTITY: ACTIVIST WRITERS, QUEER FEMINIST RHETORICS, WORKING FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
My dissertation proffers genre fluidity as a term to describe the rhetorical acts of shifting across and moving among genre conventions by blending and/or transgressing genre boundaries. Genre fluidity is defined as two rhetorical strategies writers and communicators use: 1. employing multiple …
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The Epistemologies They Carry: An Investigation of Feminist Writing Assignments
… engagement and thinking. Drawing on rhetorical genre studies, feminist pedagogy, and composition scholarship on writing assignments, I argue that because writing assignments are genres that position students in particular subjectivities and carry implicit arguments and values, they are texts …
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Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: The Everyday Southern Epic
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (GWTW) has long been termed an "epic" of the American South. The implications of that term, however, have not been fully investigated, particularly as they concern generic criteria. How can we assign the generic characteristics of the epic narrative to GWTW? …
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Seasons and Sovereigns: Succession in the Greenworld, 1579 - 1621
… contextualizes these issues by delineating how genre studies have responded to the presence of calendars and months in literary texts. Chapter 2 argues that a remarkable number of late sixteenth-century texts flood (or threaten to flood) a greenworld to reflect anxiety over succession. The …
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Wandering, Idleness, and the Nineteenth-Century Tales Novel, 1836-1895
… even speak of the mixing or hybridization of genres in a particular work if the genres themselves had not yet been conclusively defined" (60). This question serves as a warning to genre studies scholars seeking to tease out new observations from history. This dissertation, however, seeks to do …
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Redrawing the Frontier: A Cultural History of American and Franco-Belgian Western Comics
… study provides a cultural history of the Western genre in the comics medium, from the late 1800s up until the 1970s. Historically, this chronology is not arbitrary, and represents the core years in which the Western genre was forged and prospered in a range of popular media. The genre maintained a …
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Text and Context in International Trade Communication: A Case Study of Email Business Communication Among Professionals in the Asia-Pacific Region
… insights and concepts from the disciplines of genre studies, pragmatics and cognitive message production has enabled the study to claim that there is a genre of international trade email communication in the Asia Pacific based on the established communication conventions evident in the shared …
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Representations of Dyslexia Across Genres in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Sitting at the intersection of disability studies, genre studies, and children’s and young adult (YA) literature scholarship, this doctoral thesis centres the representations of dyslexia and dyslexics across genres. Commonly defined within the medical model of disability as the struggle to read, …
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The Piratical Ethos: Textual Activity and Intellectual Property in Digital Environments
… property in the Humanities and Writing Studies. Next, this project develops and implements a communicational-mediational research methodology to theorize how both discursive and material data lend themselves to a more nuanced understanding of the ways that technologies of communication …
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The Native new wave: creative sovereignty in twenty-first century Indigenous genre fiction
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Go With the Flow: A Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Structures of Gender and Gendered Authority in Shakespearean Stage Literature as a Scholarly Alternative to Conventional Generic Categories
… scholarship in Shakespearean linguistics and genre studies to refine my quantitative focus on patterns of opposition and contrast, especially as they relate to authority and gendered relationships. These patterns offer a natural alternative to conventional generic labels. I discuss conceptual …
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Citizens of a Genre: Forms, Fields and Practices of Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Ethnographic Fiction
… contexts and thematic problems that comprise a genre I call "ethnographic fiction," whose development we can trace throughout the twentieth century in several geographic locations and in distinct historical moments. During the twentieth century in France, anthropology as an institutionalized …
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