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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"Mikhail Bakhtin"”.
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Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Appeal of Polyphony
… the relationship between Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin, especially Bakhtin’s notion of polyphony. This thesis traces the presence of the polyphonic approach in Williams’ work to three main issues: the debate around the nature and future of the Anglican Communion, the debate around the …
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Frank Zappa and Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais's carnival made contemporary
<p>For this project, the author uses Bakhtin's theory of carnival to illuminate Zappa's sound and rhetoric. The author hopes that by using this theoretical lens allows audiences to understand Zappa's choices in subject matter. Those who can see his work as satire and understand the use of …
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Frank Zappa and Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais's carnival made contemporary
<p>For this project, the author uses Bakhtin's theory of carnival to illuminate Zappa's sound and rhetoric. The author hopes that by using this theoretical lens allows audiences to understand Zappa's choices in subject matter. Those who can see his work as satire and understand the use of …
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When the carnival is over : Peter Barnes' Red Noses and the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin
… polysenic texts in Red Noses in performance. Mikhail Bakhtin's theories are usually applied to verbal and, in particular, printed texts. Indeed, Bakhtin (1981, p.266) himself has stated that the organisation of languages in drama does not allow for the dialogic interpenetration of one language …
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The touristic text and sociopolitical struggle: An application of the principles of Mikhail Bakhtin to the study of tour guidebooks of Japan, 1955 to 1991. (Volumes I and II)
"The critical theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and his circle are employed to analyze the texts of selected editions from two series of comprehensive guidebooks to Japan: the Fodor's guidebook series, 1962 through 1990; and the Japan Travel Bureau's Japan, the Official Guide, 1955 through 1991. The …
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A Carnivalesque Perspective of Graham Swift's Last Orders
… containing carnivalesque elements as defined by Mikhail Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World. Through the examination of Bakhtin’s theory of the carnivalesque and through a corresponding close reading of Last Orders, this article details the carnivalesque nature of the locations visited by the …
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As poéticas de Chico Buarque e Gilliard : uma leitura comparativa intertextual
… e Chico Buarque fundamentadas teoricamente em Mikhail Bakhtin. As primeiras partes da pesquisa contem uma introdução à Música Popular Brasileira da qual os poetas e compositores fazem parte. Entre os assuntos abordados teremos o de biografia dos autores, música brega, cultura Popular no Brasil, …
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Corporeal Modification In The Hollywood Musical: New Paradigms For Genre Analysis
… them. Using the work of Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin, this project reveals that these films feature dark and satirical para-realities of murder, debauchery and cannibalism that act as a catharsis to their audiences' most salient fantasies and desires.</p>
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Carnivalized narratives in the postmodern long poem
… multi-voiced narration---situations described by Mikhail Bakhtin as "dialogism" and "carnival," receptively---into the canon of American long poems. These innovations allow the postmodern long poem to evolve past the thematic and aesthetic strictures imposed by the texts of modernism.
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Subversive pseudo-dialogic : W.B. Yeats's use of the dialogic to present the monologic.
The application of Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the dialogic provides unique insight into the poetry and plays of W.B. Yeats. Though this early twentieth century Irish writer favored poetry over the novel form on which Bakhtin based his studies, his compositions can be better understood and his …
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Talking Sports: Rhetorical Benefits Of Blogging Sports Journalism
… of blogging through the theoretical lenses of Mikhail Bakhtin and Mary Hocks while analyzing the sports blog, SB Nation. Then, the author conducts survey-driven research with actual blogging sports journalists to understand their opinions and viewpoints about blogging. After collecting all of …
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"Equal Partners in Crime": Narration in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
… authentically for the subaltern. The writings of Mikhail Bakhtin, Gayatri Spivak, and Scott McCloud work together to uncover the political and ethical implications of Yunior’s willful erasure of Beli’s voice. In the sections detailing her early life, Yunior draws attention to the gaps in the …
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Opening windows into the past: A study of the importance of annotations, footnotes, and the resulting reaccentuation of Victorian editions for students
… or editorial purpose. I researched the works of Mikhail Bakhtin and Wayne Booth along with other relevant resources, and I studied the effects of existing or potential annotations and footnotes in several editions of Jane Eyre, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Lady Audley's Secret, and The Romantic …
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BECOMING INFINITE: A BAKHTINIAN CONSIDERATION OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE’S INFINITE JEST
… and literary theories of renowned scholar Mikhail Bakhtin to create a new lens through which to consider Wallace’s thematic project. Combining Bakhtin’s linguistic theories of dialogic conflict and heteroglossia with his literary theories on the grotesque provides an integrated stylistic …
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Las máscaras del poder y resistencia de la mujer en la narrativa de Rosario Ferré.
… the conceptualizations of Michel Foucault and Mikhail Bakhtin in both the power relations in the socio-political setting and in the literary discourses.
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"About as shapeless as the Man in the Moon" : the representation of desire and transition in six films of Charles Laughton
… freedom for the self. Drawing on major works of Mikhail Bakhtin and Gilles Deleuze, as well as related theoretical explorations of the representation of identity in film and performance, Laughton is approached as an artist who explores the different ways in which film acting can articulate …
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Narrative strategies in the gospel according to Luke : a Bakhtinian exploration
… century Russian literary scholar and linguist, Mikhail Bakhtin, this thesis has set out to explore narrative strategy in the Gospel of Luke, the aim being to consider how this would affect a generic reading, and what implications this would have in assessing the discourse of this text. Bakhtin …
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Murdoch, Woolf, Rhys, and the Ethics of the Resistance to Narrative Closure
… project deploys the narratological theory of Mikhail Bakhtin and D.A. Miller to define narrative closure and the Murdochian heuristic, namely, constructing a narrative perspective that engenders and deploys the concepts of attention and contingency to repeatedly encounter and resist the …
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An Aesthetics of Exclusion: Konstantin Vaginov's Kozlinaia pesn'
… Ivanov, Viktor Shklovskii, Roman Iakobson, Mikhail Bakhtin and Lev Pumpianskii. In addition, critical reception centred around the novel’s status as roman-à-clef is also challenged, particularly the insistence that the novel accurately depicts the reality of intellectual life during the …
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The Performance of Refugeehood on Social Media in an Era of Superdiversity: A Digital Ethnographic Study of Arab Refugee Identities and Literacies on YouTube
… theoretical perspectives, including notions from Mikhail Bakhtin, Erving Goffman, and Pierre Bourdieu, the study analyzes YouTube videos by two refugee YouTubers from Syria, who have been resettled in Germany and Sweden. By investigating their use of language and other semiotic resources on the …
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