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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Literary interpretation"”.
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Three Greek Islands: A Literary Interpretation by Lawrence Durrell
… qualities that make each unique, each worthy of literary consideration. In Prospero’s Cell there is a magical quality to the landscape on Corfu and an innocence in the quality of life. Reflections on a Marine Venus is embedded with the harshness and difficulties, the postwar struggle on Rhodes …
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Mural visions: viewing histories in the works of Michael Ondaatje
… thesis seeks to challenge traditional notions of literary interpretation by examining the interaction between visual and verbal representation in literature. To this end, I critically examine several elements of visual culture in the literary works of poet/novelist Michael Ondaatje and seek to …
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Interart Studies from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era: Stylistic Parallels between English Poetry and the Visual Arts
… to bring a new insight to an unresolved topic in literary interpretation or to offer a new interpretation of a major poem in English literature. The approach is best characterized as "synchronic," a term that Murray Roston uses to designate the interrelation of the visual and literary arts of the …
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Exploring literary perspectives of poetry though an interactive, multimedia, learning environment
… learn how to interpret poetry from various literary perspectives. Four literary perspectives--feminist, psychological, religious, and reader-response--were thoroughly explained and applied to a poem through the use of "hot words". As the students chose a hot word or phrase in the poem that …
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Towards an Edition of Troilus and Criseyde: The Work, Authorial Versions, and Digital Tools
… century, and (3) to rethink how we conceptualize literary works and the role of editors. By addressing these issues, the study engages with the broader debate on what constitutes a “work.” The analysis reveals that most textual variations in Troilus can be explained by the copying process, …
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ENGLISH WORD-MAKING
… and usage study, spelling, composition, and literary interpretation.</p><p>The main body of the text consists of ten chapters, each exploring, diachronically and synchronically, a primary category of English word-formation: compounding, reduplication, derivation, conversion, clipping, back …
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Francis Brett Young’s Birmingham: North Bromwich – City of Iron
… North Bromwich novels, showing it to be a valid interpretation, though biased to suit the anti-urban prejudices of its author. Chapter One sets Young in his biographical and literary context. Birmingham during the North Bromwich era (c1870-1939) is examined and the role of novels as historical …
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Re-making the Auden canon : new readings and critical interpretations of W.H. Auden's 1930's poems based on revised texts
… "Audenesque" has become part of the language of literary criticism describing a particular poetic style. Yet it was his poetry of the '30's that Auden later in his life revised and/or repudiated, creating textual problems involving basic critical issues related to literary interpretation, …
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Beyond Allegory: Postcolonial Debates in Science Fiction
… Capitalism,” have long been canonized in literary studies. The undertaking of a postcolonial debate on literary interpretation is a necessary step toward readjusting postcolonial study into the paradigm of critical analysis prioritized by Marxism. Here, I demonstrate that both The …
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Hans Habes Roman Christoph und sein Vater - Zwischen persönlicher Verarbeitung und den westdeutschen Schuld- und Aufarbeitsdiskursen der Nachkriegszeit
… but today he is unknown and unnoticed by literary scholars. The beginning of this thesis (chapter 2) summarizes the investigated book and highlights biographical information about Hans Habe. The main topic of the book is the relationship between Veit Harlan, the director of the …
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Reading, Travel, and the Pedagogy of Growing Up in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
… adult world.</p><p>Through historical study and literary interpretation of cultural production of the 1880s and 1890s, this project ultimately seeks broad insights into the pedagogical and psychological value of the intersections of travel and reading, and, in doing so, attempts to answer some of …
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The reader's quest : reading and the constitution of meaning in five novels
… I attempt to show how the concept of reading as literary interpretation has been influenced by the insights of the psychoanalyst and theorist Jacques Lacan (1901-1981). Broadly speaking, I call for a revised view of the role of the reader and the act of reading in the light of arguments such as …
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Analytical writing and identity development of diverse adolescents in an alternative high school preparatory academy
… writing classroom—specifically, the four-month literary analysis unit—and the students’ writing development therein. First, I analyze the discourse of the writing classroom on developing interpretative statements about literature. Analysis shows that the teacher highlighted three aspects of …
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The Last Romantic Knight: A Study of Selected Short Fiction of Hermann Hesse, 1899-1948
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Mikhail Bakhtin's Literary Theory Applied to Selected Plays by Tennessee Williams
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Maurice Sendak: The Compleat Artist
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The Literary Criticisms of George Eliot
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Mencken's Criticism of Religion, Sex, Literature, and Politics in America
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Mark Twain: Lecturer and Entertainer
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Visions in New Expanses: Blake and the Art of Complexity
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