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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Literary Praxis"”.
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Literary Praxis and Pedagogic Philosophy in British Educative Fiction after Rousseau
… towards the end of the 1790s as a philosophy of literary reception that was grounded in active, practical experimentation and literary praxis. Drawing a line between didacticism and education, Rousseau opened up the possibility for an educational philosophy that shifted the focus away from …
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Music in the life and work of Patrick White
… the extent to which music played a part in his literary praxis, both at the narrative level, and as a structural framework. A survey of White’s exposure to, and subsequent embrace of music over the course of his life is followed by a critical overview the extent to which music shaped four …
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Understanding Lists: Umberto Eco's Rhetoric of Communication and Signification
… production and interpretation. Throughout his literary praxis, Eco implements these theoretical notions into story-form, and with his fifth novel, <em>The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana</em>, affirms the mutual necessity of communication and signification. Ultimately, Eco urges us to list as a …
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Making Home : (Re)Writing Motherhood and Identity in African American Women’s Fiction
… of resistance under white patriarchy, exploring literary rewritings of maternal identity within and against these contexts. It suggests that mothering forms the core of each text’s engagement with anti-racist feminist politics, with the familial homespace functioning as an important site of this …
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Sedition, Equality, Nature, and Love: Anti-colonialism in the Literary Corpus of Kazi Nazrul Islam, 1900-1930
… I chart Kazi Nazrul Islam’s life and literary praxis driven by secularist ambitions and affinities for concepts such as self, truth, and justice. As the first Bengali Muslim to declare <em>puran swadhitnatha</em> (complete independence) in a literary periodical, the central question …
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Connectivity and Contemporaneity in Ali Smith’s Oeuvre: A Critical Study
… attention across her experimentation with literary forms and genres, including: novels, short stories, children’s literature, lectures, essays and nonfiction, prefaces and introductions, playscripts, poetry, and hybrid literary-critical works. By attending to both specific and diachronic …
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Navigating the Wreck: Writing women’s experience of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. Salvaged from the Wreck: A novel -and- Diving into the Wreck: A critical essay
… on the people of Singapore and Malaya, and the literary and historical processes of exploring, interpreting and depicting the past. The Japanese occupation of Singapore has, to date, been described mostly by Western historians and former prisoners of war who have forged a predominant patriarchal …