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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Literary Genre"”.
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The Hollywood Novel : An American Literary Genre
… Hollywood Novel is an American regional fiction genre that treats characters working in the film industry either in Hollywood or with a Hollywood production company on location. Although pre-Hollywood film novels set in the eastern filmmaking capitals flourished as early as 1912, the Hollywood …
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The Echtrae as an Early Irish Literary Genre
… this thesis is concerned with the echtrae as a genre m early Irish literature Chapter I looks at the basic use of the term in medieval Irish tale-lists and elsewhere, and then briefly considers modem scholarship and vanous issues raised by it regarding the nature and function o f the pre-Norman …
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The ballad as a literary genre: studies toward a redefinition
Literary critics disagree over a satisfactory definition for the literary ballad and over the degree of its indebtedness to similar forms such as the Bunkelsang or bench ballad, the popular ballad and the chanson. The problem is compounded when discussion turns to contemporary ballads believed …
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Literary genre and philosophical discourse in the Buddhist poetics of Han Yongun (1879-1944)
… the history of modern Korean literature, and his literary fame rests primarily upon his 1926 collection of vernacular free verse poetry, Your Silence (Nirnw ch'irnrnuk). Despite the quality of the poems contained in this collection, a crucial element in securing Han's literary reputation has been …
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Literary genre and philosophical discourse in the Buddhist poetics of Han Yongun (1879-1944)
… the history of modern Korean literature, and his literary fame rests primarily upon his 1926 collection of vernacular free verse poetry, Your Silence (Nirnw ch'irnrnuk). Despite the quality of the poems contained in this collection, a crucial element in securing Han's literary reputation has been …
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La novela histórica de ayer a hoy La tierra del fuego como prototipo ilustre
… the current status of the Historical Novel as a literary genre through the analysis of the novel La tierra del fuego (1998), by the Argentinian novelist Sylvia Iparraguirre. The main objective of the investigation is to provide an overview of the theoretical approaches and the current standing of …
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The representation of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women as heroines in the novels of four Jewish-American women writers
… their characters as both conventionally literary and specifically Jewish heroines. Firstly, the use of features drawn from literary genre: Bildungsroman, domestic novel, melodrama and comedy of manners and secondly the use of what can be read as specifically Jewish feminine models – Binah …
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Precursors of Costumbrismo: the creation of a genre at the end of the Spanish Enlightenment
… been understood as an early nineteenth-century literary genre associated primarily with the artículos de costumbres of the canonical costumbrista writers Ramón de Mesonero Romanos and Mariano José de Larra in the context of 1830s Madrid. However, critics widely agree that costumbrista literature …
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Meaningful Reading: Broadening Perspectives Through Literature
… understanding in the classroom through various literary genre including historical fiction, biographies, autobiographies, classics and contemporary novels. By using different forms of literature, students can gain global awareness and broad perspectives, and develop an appreciation for the …
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"Ps.-Seneca ""de Spe"" (Anth. Lat. 415 Riese): Prolegomena, Text, Translation, Commentary"
… and popular belief are discussed, and De Spe's literary genre (the locus de Fortuna) and models are examined. The Commentary elucidates textual, grammatical, hermeneutic, and metrical problems, and Realien are investigated. In the Preface, reasons are adduced for believing that De Spe cannot be …
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Representation d'une " neo-humanite " chez Maurice Dantec, Michel Houellebecq et Jean-Christophe Rufin
… we first propose to look at science-fiction as literary genre and consider the forefathers of Francophone science-fiction, determine the role of the twenty-first century writer and the role of literature in our society and future society. Secondly, we attempt a detailed textual analysis of …
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Crafting Prose Poetry. A Comparative Study of Alfonsina Storni’s and José Ángel Valente’s Creative Journeys
… However, they fail to consider the role of this genre in their writing and the consolidation of their poetic voices. This thesis tackles the presence of prose poetry in their poetic itinerary as a journey of exploration that allowed both poets to refine their poetics, embark on new creative paths …
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Pan African narratives: sites of resistance in the Black diaspora
… these various sentiments have emerged in Black literary expressions. The quest of this study is to advance Black narrative tradition by proposing a theoretical framework informed by these constructs and predicaments to establish a genre of literature referred to here as Pan African narratives. …
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"We Are the Thing Itself": Embodiment in the Künstlerromane of Bennett, Joyce, and Woolf
… embodiment. Born of the field of aesthetics, the literary genre of Künstlerroman inherits its conflicts. The chief dilemma of the form is how an isolated artistic consciousness connects with the world through a creative act. Bennett, Joyce, and Woolf offer different and contradictory resolutions. …
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Incognitos: Modern Slumming Narratives and the Unmaking of Sexual Identity
"Though the slumming narrative is a minor literary genre that typically uncovers and classifies urban racial-ethnic and sexual ""perversions,"" ""Incognitos"" contends that some sexually suspect early-twentieth-century writers---white and Black---manipulated its form to avoid sexual exposure and to …
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This Book Will Destroy You: A Critical Comparative Analysis of YA Heroines
Despite the progress the Young Adult literary genre has made to diversify their characters and stories, the representation of a female protagonist has remained formulaic and predictable. YA commonly centers heroines who embody characteristics associated with female likability, resulting in the loss …
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Valleys of the Shadow of Death: The Apocalypses of the Inferno and One Hundred Years of Solitude
The literary genre apocalypse is unknown or, at best, vague to literary scholarship. The genre apocalypse is an important category of religious and world literature. Apocalypses communicate diverse worldviews. They rationalize existence. They encourage audiences unto righteousness and warn …
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Biblical Revision Both Ancient and Modern
… fit to revise the biblical text: creating a new literary genre that is in this paper termed "rewritten Bible." Maxine Grossman's literary critical method, as advocated in <em>Reading for History in the Damascus Document: A Methodological Method</em>, helps us to understand the different types of …
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Clockwork Heroines: Female Characters in Steampunk Literature
<p>Steampunk is a progressive literary genre that evokes, imitates, and re-imagines the nineteenth century and favors the Industrial Revolution ideals of science and technology. In a historical framework, it mixes nineteenth-century conventions and retrofuturistic machinery with science fiction and …
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