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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Literary conventions"”.
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Особенности структуры повествования в письмах: эпистолярий Марины Цветаевой /
… an issue that is examined by means of the literary conventions available to a given culture. 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 …
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Neoclassicism in eighteenth-century literature: an analysis of realistic conventions in Cleland and Hogarth
<p>This paper does a comparative study of literary conventions in the eighteenth century realism. The central works of this paper are John Cleland’s two novels and two of William Hogarth’s engraving series. The paper gives an overview of theories on realism from the Greek philosophers, Aristotle …
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Good to Fight, Good to Eat, Good to Think: Food Disputes in Premodern Japanese Texts
… (gunkimono), which pigeonholes them as a fixed literary category akin to a genre. In doing so, this thesis contributes to research on premodern Japanese literature, anthropomorphism, and food culture. Chapter 1 focuses on the oldest text that describes a battle between edible protagonists, …
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Thermals: a collection of short stories in an examination of women's experience stories
… of women's experience stories as an emerging literary paradigm. It is asserted that experience stories are written out of the raw material of women's lives, that they attempt a re-writing of women's scripts, that they challenge literary conventions, that they involve a fall into awakening, …
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Distortions, Collections, and Mobility: South Asian Poets and the Space for Female Subjectivity
… I explore questions of poetic form and British literary conventions in the work of these poets, especially in the wake of national displacement and diaspora. In studying the work of these poets, my objective is not to compartmentalize their narratives and experiences, but rather to illustrate …
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"Baits for curious tasts" : the Gothic as a heuristic in the poetics of Andrew Marvell
… England, Marvell foreshadows certain Gothic literary conventions usually associated with eighteenth century prose. Attention is given to similarities between the contemporary logic of casuistry--the means by which individuals adopted their personal beliefs to the demands of political …
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The concept of motherhood in the Bible = Ha-Imahut ba-Mikra
… areas are explored in this study, namely: 1. Literary Conventions 2. Rhetorical Strategies, and 3. Linguistic Developments. Each of these respectively constitutes a sub-section of the study. The first section is composed of two chapters. Chapter one traces those biblical stories which follow …
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English literature on the Ottoman Turks in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
… but also in the sense of a discourse, sharing literary conventions, citing similar sources, recycling information, accepted ‘facts’, anecdotes and images and drawing upon the same authorities. I examine this literature from its sixteenth-century roots, tracing its growth at the turn of the …
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Theodoret of Cyrus and the ideal monarch
… Theodosius did nothing. An examination of the literary conventions available to Theodoret has been undertaken. Frances Young's discussion of mimesis and Leo Strauss's explanation of exoteric interpretation are particularly helpful. It is suggested that Theodoret made use of both literary …
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Doing justice to the Unjust Steward: An exegetical examination of Luke 16:1-13 and its context
… its language, historical background, and literary context. Chapter 1 introduces the parable's interpretive problems, acknowledges that it is perhaps the most difficult of Jesus' parables to understand, and offers a method for deciphering the meaning. Chapter 2 offers a detailed …
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Making Confessions: The Confessional Voice Found Among Literary Genres
… feel to his or her work. While the lines of literary conventions separate genres, confessional writing tends to blur those lines by bringing the message of the work to the forefront. A piece of literature said to be of a particular genre is challenged when one discovers a confessional voice, …
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The Convergence of Discourse Analysis and Rhetorical Criticism in Luke 3-5
… directed toward persuasive intent through shared literary conventions. Few attempts have been made to appropriate select components of both methods to combine them for practical exegesis. Therefore, this project seeks to address these deficiencies by considering the extent to which discourse …
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Jezebel's Daughters: A Study of Wilkie Collins and His Female Villains
… never fully capable of breaking the prevailing literary conventions which dictated that wickedness be punished and virtue rewarded (The Legacy of Cain is perhaps an exception, depending on how one views Helena's feminist revolution). The reading of Collins's novels offered in this study presents …
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"Something old and dark has got its way": Shakespeare's Influence in the Gothic Literary Tradition
… suggesting that Shakespeare used the same literary conventions that Gothic writers embraced as they struggled to create a new subgenre of the novel. By borrowing from Shakespeare’s canon, these novelists aimed to persuade readers and critics that rather than undermining the novel’s …
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Stranged marriages : unconventional matrimony in western American fiction.
… to perpetuate them. Embedded within marital conventions are traces of a society's assumptions regarding race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and politics. Fictional marriages, therefore, traditionally signal a return to social order, an affirmation of the dominant values of a given …
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Decolonizing Gender: Indigenous Feminism and Native American Literature
… balance through ideological subversion. I read literary conventions as creating complementary and reciprocal relationships in order to develop critical awareness thus enacting an Indigenous feminist ideology. An authors rhetorical and literary use of these principles attempts to create a …
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Die poëtika van die liriek in die Afrikaanse literêre kabaret
… It needs urgent attention, not only for the literary importance, but also for the social relevance. Towards this end the assistance of Hennie Aucamp, who gave me access to his entire extensive cabaret collection, was of invaluable importance. Other information was collected in Europe in 1991. …
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History, identity, and the marginalized: an analysis of selected works by Han Shaogong and Su Tong
… posit a challenge to the dominant ideologies and literary conventions of the last forty years of mainland Chinese literature. This analysis of the techniques of characterization, narration and imagery, illustrate show marginalized character and motif are defined in each work and how they are used …
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Committed to the Fragment: Feminist Literature and the Promise of Wellness
… <p>This dissertation explores how literary genres and forms reject psychic well-being as a privilege of bourgeois liberalism and a panacea for heteronormativity’s discontents. These texts are what I read as “feminist literature.” They turn to emergent genres and forms to refigure …
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"The ""intellectual entertainments"" of Charlotte Lennox: Literary strategies of an eighteenth century professional woman writer"
… and had expertise in each of the dominant literary genres--fiction, poetry, drama, literary criticism, and the periodical. Each chapter of this dissertation focuses on a different genre and shows how Lennox adapted the literary conventions she chose so that she could better express her …
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