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Showing 1 to 20 of 169 for “"Literary Theory"”.
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Shakespeare in South Africa : literary theory and practice
… African Shakespeare". Relying on post-colonial theory as primary framework, it views colonised culture not as secondary and responsive, but as primary and creative. The main work of the thesis is to trace the role played by "Shakespeare", as a set of texts and as an icon, in a particular …
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According to Luke: Redefining Authorial Intent in Literary Theory
… text to consider. My aim is not to elevate the theory at the expense of textual analysis but, rather, to develop a fuller understanding of the literary doxastic practice and thereby come to a fuller understanding of authorship itself. Through all of this, I unabashedly promote our …
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The megatext : towards a literary theory of the media
The Megatext: Towards a Literary Theory of the Media argues for a new conception of the media landscape; one that manages to critically engage the mass dimensions of the contemporary phenomenon of media without losing the value of particular socio-economic and cultorological approaches that have …
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Mikhail Bakhtin's Literary Theory Applied to Selected Plays by Tennessee Williams
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Games and the open world : reading digital games through literary theory
… the shortcoming of the magic circle and show how literary theory already presents an alternative through concepts such as the rhizomatic. This will be followed by the conclusion which shall aim to gather all the points made within the dissertation, see how they coagulate and propose a way forward …
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Catholic Literary Theory: The Conditional Existentialism of Four Protagonists and Their Creators
<p>According to Catholic literary theory, the novelist, like the Divine Mystery to a certain extent, creates her characters freely and free with the possibility and probability that they may speak against their creator and even finally rebel. This dissertation reflects upon the relative …
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Using Young Adult Literature and Literary Theory to Teach Middle School Students How to Read Through Critical Lenses
… language arts teachers are not aware of critical theory and, if they are aware, rely solely on classic literature when teaching critical literacy. Research shows students are responding to young adult literature (YAL) therefore a more effective approach when teaching critical literacy would be to …
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The value of literature: the disparity between 'Practical Criticism' and 'Modern Literary Theory' with a case study of Thomas Hardy
… work of a number of twentieth-century academic literary critics and theorists, with the aim of exploring the ground of some of the disputes between exponents of different approaches to literary analysis. It asks to what extent, and how, the fundamental assumptions and principles concerning the …
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Marketing, the literary & the logos of cool: A poststructuralist enquiry into the appropriation and impact of literary theory on marketing discourse and its implications for the re-presentation of consumer dispositions of characterised by cool
… which postmodern marketing's engagement with the literary helps consolidate interpretive approaches that claim to offer a deeper understanding of the more nuanced needs of the sovereign consumer. I challenge this Whiggish version of a 'progressive' marketing by problematising its deployment of the …
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Layers of Literacy: A Theoretical Journey
Literary theory.
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The Spirit and the Letter of Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique
… defines, analyses, and puts into practice a theory of speculative reading as developed from the work of G. W. F. Hegel, and assesses its importance for literary theory. Hegel’s relation to literary theory is seemingly paradoxical. One the one hand, ‘theory’ often names that which has …
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Gender-konstruksies in die afrikaanse letterkunde : 'n ondersoek in kultuurstudies, litterêre teorie en kreatiewe skryfwerk
… homosexualities et al.) are read against modem literary theory. When applicable a particular theory is tested from a creative perspective. The outset of the thesis is metafictional and selfreflexive seeing that the thesis sets out to "test" theory and to undermine the stereotypical notion that …
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Some Aspect of Wit in the Prose Works of John Dryden
… great body of prose which represents Dryden’s literary theory and criticism, there is, as would be expected in any seventeenth-century material, an interesting recurrence of the term wit It is used in conjunctions which gradually demand recognition of the significance of this term as a means by …
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Composite City: Towards A Theory of the Composite Urban In Contemporary Multi-/Ethnic Literature
… and challenging the spatial, theoretical, and literary representations of the urban. The space of the city has been a predominant figure in literary conversations, namely because the city is a particularly robust space for considering the renegotiations of identity. As Saskia Sassen notes, the …
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An exploration of the portrayal of the Girl-Child in Erna Muller's it all goes wrong and when you dance with the crocodile
… The researcher employed the African feminist literary theory in this study. The African feminist literary theory was used to study how the girl-child is portrayed in the patriarchal world. The study used a qualitative research design to interpret the depiction of the girl-child in the two …
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Anatomy of Influence: The Decisive Effect of Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism on James Reaney’s Donnellys Trilogy, as Directed by Keith Turnbull
… the context of or with reference to Frye’s literary theory, making clear how the understanding of one contributes to the comprehension of the other. The relationship between a literary theory and live performance is here a powerful tool to understanding these theatrical works. This research …
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