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Showing 1 to 20 of 203 for “"Literary Studies"”.
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Literature Meets Biology: An Evolutionary Approach to Literary Studies
… engages with the relatively young development in literary studies, called evocriticism, which uses scientific perspectives to look at literature. It first gives an overview of the current state of English departments and their decline in numbers, budgets, and cultural relevancy, mostly due to …
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Literature Meets Biology: An Evolutionary Approach to Literary Studies
… engages with the relatively young development in literary studies, called evocriticism, which uses scientific perspectives to look at literature. It first gives an overview of the current state of English departments and their decline in numbers, budgets, and cultural relevancy, mostly due to …
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Endophoric and evidential metadiscourse markers in literary studies: english vs lithuanian /
… metadiscourse markers in English and Lithuanian literary studies, highlighting their role in structuring texts and conveying information sources. Endophoric markers, which refer to elements within the text, help organize the narrative and guide readers through the argument. Evidential markers …
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Exploring the political impact of literature and literary studies in American government
… explores the role of literature and practices of literary study in American government. Specifically, it looks at how the President’s Council on Bioethics (PCBE) and the Supreme Court have deliberately embraced the humanities to fulfill their respective responsibilities. I begin by examining the …
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Structure and system as basic metaphors in literary studies : a criticism of one aspect of contemporary structuralism
The subject of this essay is Structuralism, and the point of view, that of a student of literature. And this much the title conveys. However, there are points which need to be made by way of a preface in order to clarify what this essay attempts and what it does not. First, there is the problem …
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Oe no Masafusa and the Convergence of the "Ways": The Twilight of Early Chinese Literary Studies and the Rise of Waka Studies in the Long Twelfth Century in Japan
… trajectories: that of kangaku (Chinese studies), specifically the Kidendô (history and literature) curriculum that flourished at the State Academy in the Heian period (794-1185), and kagaku (waka studies), which emerged in the twelfth century. I trace the concept of "way" (michi) as it …
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Partners in Practice: Contemporary Irish Literature, World Literature and Digital Humanities
… opportunities and implications afforded Irish literary studies by developments in the newly emergent disciplines of world literature and the digital humanities. Employing the world literature theories of Wai Chee Dimock, David Damrosch, Franco Moretti and Pascale Casanova in the critical …
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Rhetoric and the social production of knowledge in criticism of Henry V
… the critical issues that underpin the tension in literary studies between more traditional approaches to texts and contemporary developments within criticism. Moreover, critics are organized through an understanding of the social production of knowledge so as to consider connections between their …
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The Play of Silence and Talk in Difficult Conversations about Literary Texts
… aspect of difficult conversations about literary texts. Being in silence, being with others in a class discussion setting disrupts the expectation that deep enriching discussions about literature will occur. Hermeneutics begins in disruptions to expectations and familiar understanding so …
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Narrating Literary Transnationalism in Zake Smith and Dave Eggers
… for a greater reception of transnationalism in literary studies. Though the steady rise of transnationalism has already been studied in many areas of academia, literary studies has only begun to pay attention to it, and scholars appear to remain largely rooted in postcolonial or nationalistic …
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Hieroglyphic, Oral, and Performative: (Re)Evaluating Resistance to Colonialism in the Works of Melville
… Melville’s legacy in nineteenth-century American literary studies remains prolific. Recent scholarly inquiry, such as those by Christopher Freeburg, Geoffrey Sanborn, and Birgit Brander Rasmussen, critically read key texts of Melville for their unique depictions of Polynesian and African cultures. …
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Affirmation and "Make It New": Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Great Dictum of Modernism
… occurs at the intersection of modernist studies, new modernist studies, and theories of affirmation. In terms of modernist studies, I offer the first and long overdue sustained study of Pound's modernist battle-cry, "Make it new." In doing so, I argue that "make it new" is a style of …
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The Words. Or Holes. Or Both: Writing as an Integrative Methodology for Trauma
… psychology, I will expand the field of Cognitive Literary Studies from a focus on the reader to a focus on the writer by linking neurological functions with narrative tools.</p>
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Beyond '9/11': counter-narratives of grief in post-9/11 literature
… portraits of grief? While there is a plethora of literary studies focusing on trauma in ‘9/11 fiction’, which often conflate or misdiagnose grief as trauma, there is not yet a critical study with a sustained focus on grief in post-9/11 literature. Although there is an emerging trend away from …
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"Disinheritance" : identity constructions in the prose works and archives of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
… work through privileged access to her bequeathed literary archive at the British Library. The thesis addresses how her creative life’s chronology, and itinerant history, connects to the ways she engages with ideas about dislocation, and diasporic identity, in her prose. The study draws on other UK …
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Otherwordly modernism: magic, mediums, and coloniality
… modernism. Through the analysis of the literary, philosophical, and artistic projects of George and William Butler Yeats, Pamela Colman Smith, Jean Rhys, and Mina Loy, I demonstrate how these authors and artists seek “otherworlds” to revitalize their lives and art but how their …
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Toward a New Psychological Model for Literary Analysis Illustrated by Contemporary Spiritual Self-Help Texts in Emerson's Tradition
… charts new territory in the field of literary studies by introducing a new theoretical lens rooted in cognitive-behavioral psychology, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT, which until now has not been used as a tool for literary analysis, offers an innovative framework through …
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Being and suffering: toward an existentialist understanding of memory, suffering, and violence
… thought and apply it to the fields of memory studies and trauma studies, broadly conceived. The methodology blends those of literary studies and philosophy, given that the subjects of the current investigation themselves blur the lines between literature and philosophical production. This work …
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