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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Literariness"”.
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Metaphysical balm and the poet as legislator
… the Russian Formalists on how to establish the "literariness" of a text and the ability of a text to "defamiliarise", as well as the devices that can be used by a poet to achieve literariness and defamiliarisation. It will touch on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and his concepts of folk humour and …
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Особенности структуры повествования в письмах: эпистолярий Марины Цветаевой /
… This dissertation explores the issue of forms of literariness in autobiographical texts as based on Marina Tsvetajeva’s epistolary legacy. The corpus of correspondence includes larger blocks of writings, consisting of Tsvetajeva’s letters to N. Gaidukevitch, S. Andronikova-Galpern, A. Bachrach, A. …
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A bibliographical and textual study of the wordbooks for James Miller's Joseph and his brethren and Thomas Broughton's Hercules, oratorio librettos set to music by George Frideric Handel, 1743-44.
… history, and Chapter Two reclaims the literariness of the librettos and demonstrates their effectiveness. Chapter Three examines the two librettos in the composer’s and copyist’s manuscript musical scores prior to first publication of the wordbooks and reveals verbal changes made during …
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Reading Between The Lines: An Account Of The Cognitive Gain From Literary Fiction
… the mind’ attribute some significance to literariness but do not say how the literary features of literary fiction help to develop cognitive gain. An explanation is required in order to meet anti-cognitivist scepticism. I rule out the view that cognitive gain is irrelevant to our aesthetic …
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No More Heroes? The Representation of the English Working Class in the Booker Prize Shortlists
… influence concentrate on its creation of ‘literariness,’ its links with prize culture and its influence on the development of the postcolonial canon. This thesis charts and examines the depiction of English working-class characters over the period 1969-2013. It questions whether, in recent …
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A Cultural analysis of resistances to digital poetries
… of distinction, and the role of the concept of literariness. This is a creative critical thesis document which mixes academic writing with modes of writing which are nonstandard as an illustration of the proposed distributed subject position of practitionerresearcher. As a practice-based and …
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OMNIA VINCIT AMOR: parody and tone in Ovid's Amores 3.11a&b
… need not preclude seriousness, and that its literariness does not come at the expense of emotional intensity. Ovid's elegiac lover in the Amores, like the praeceptor in the Remedia Amoris, treats love as a game to be won through strategy and artifice. I suggest that, in Am. 3.11, Ovid …
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The Bridges of Madison County and Iowa: Production, Reception, and Place
… novel of its era. Bridges' pretension to literariness touched a nerve with New York cultural gatekeeping literary reviewers, who conflated its perceived sub-literary qualities with its Iowa origins, middlebrow readership, and even cultural disease. Readers, however, identified with and …
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Anglophone Chinese modernity,1860-1910
… presuppositions, theoretical underpinnings, and literariness as defined by Anglophone subjects who lived a cross-national existence between China and the United States. I argue that anti-writing as an American literary occurrence produced four types of realism—temporal geography, object(ive) …
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Space, place and spatial loss in North African and Canadian writing in French
… question of the status and relationship of literariness (or poetics) and political engagement (or politics) of the texts produced within the postcolonial Francophone context.
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Responsible responding: the ethics of a literary criticism of the Other
… audit of texts, with a view to exploring their literariness, he responds irresponsibly in Levinasian terms to Levinasian ethics. If his position is regarded as Levinasian, certain conceptual problems arise for his critical method. Should Levinas’s ethics be regarded as the source of …
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J.M.Coetzee and the Novel: A Return to the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Novel
Scholars argue that Coetzee’s novels critique and disavow the origins and legacy of the novel tradition and its influence on the contemporary novel. They also claim that J.M. Coetzee’s novels herald in the demise of the contemporary novel. These interpretations are motivated by the political …
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The Valuation of Literature: Triangulating the Rhetorical with the Economic Metaphor
<p>Several theorists, including the Marxist theorists Trevor Ross, Walter Benjamin, and M.H. Abrams, have proposed theories to explain the eighteenth-century shift from functional to aesthetic conceptions of literature. Their explanations attribute the change to an increasingly consumer-based …
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Olhares cruzados sobre a consciência social feminina através de algumas obras de Ana Paula Tavares, Florbela Espanca, Paulina Chiziane e Teolinda Gersão
A presente dissertação visa empreender uma abordagem comparatista que procurará relacionar entre si as obras poéticas, Ritos de Passagem de Tavares e Charneca em Flor de Florbela, por um lado, e por outro, na qualidade de ficção narrativa, Balada de Amor ao Vento de Chiziane e O Silêncio de Gersão, …