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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Monologue"”.
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The Monologue as an Independent Genre in The Theater of Latin America
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British Dialect for the American Stage
… includes the application of the dialect to a monologue. Accompanying sound clip is of a monologue selection from The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot performed by Allison Gregory, beginning with Received Pronunciation, transitioning to Cockney, and then to Estuary.
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Thrown Voices : A Series of Dramatic Monologues, With a Discussion of the Genre
… nature of the poetic genre of the dramatic monologue by providing multiple perspectives on the genre--namely, those of the literary critic and the creative writer. This thesis provides a selection of original dramatic monologues in various styles and featuring characters ranging from the …
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Gesture signs in social interaction: how group size influences gesture communication
… is like dialogue in smaller groups but like monologue in larger groups. It was predicted that gestures would be influenced in a similar way by group size. In line with predictions, communication in groups of 5 was like dialogue whereas in groups of 8 it was like monologue. This was evident …
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Fluency and the Role of Training in Second Language German
… on a Picture Story description task and a monologue task. The results reveal that training did not improve learners’ fluency and that the learners performed better at the monologue than the Picture Story. Speech stream factors such as speech rate, filled non-lexical pauses, filled lexical …
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Medea in Victorian Women's Poetry
… Athens” (1870) was featured as the lead dramatic monologue in her collection Portraits, and Amy Levy whose closet drama “Medea: A Dramatic Fragment” (1881) was published as a part of her collection A Minor Poet and Other Verse. Both these writers examine Medea’s psychology and the context in which …
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Rich, Attractive People In Attractive Places Doing Attractive Things
… 1950's named Sunny Marcus. The novel is Sunny's monologue from Hell and features many well-known figures from American pop culture including Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, Clark Gable, William Powell and Babe Paley. It traces the upward trajectory of Sunny's life from a modest childhood in …
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Estrangement and the Thinking Subject in Psychological Prose Novels by Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Andrei Bitov
… of modernity. I also look into the interior monologue, narrated monologue, and the sensory impression, which are key for the integration of estrangement into the narrative. They also model the possibility for critical thought and creativity. Tolstoy, Proust, and Bitov use diverse narrative …
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The Youngberg Manifest Anxiety Scale
… in the first-person, more akin to theatrical monologue than traditionally plotted narrative, these works are majestic in the way they stage the self against the realities of the world. The women who narrate them (and they are nearly always women) are whip-smart, almost to a fault, and depend …
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Astraea Unmasked: The Desires of Aphra Behn
… accompanied by a video of a performance of the monologue. Behn came to prominence during the English Restoration period and although best known as a playwright, she was also a prolific poet, translator, editor and short story writer. She traveled to the New World, served as a spy for Charles II, …
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Critical opinions of Robert Browning as a craftsman 1950-1965.
… of the paper is the development of the dramatic monologue by Browning. A discussion of his technical ability includes rhythmic patterns, verse forms, language usage and Browning's special poetic vocabulary. These topics seem to be the main interests of the critics in discussing Browning's …
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Browning's Caliban : humanity, liminality and the search for transcendence
… to Caliban in his situation, treating his monologue as a type of ritual performance. Chapter three concentrates more closely on the language, syntax and peculiar grammatical choices of the poem and what this reveals about the psychology of Caliban and his concept of himself. The fourth …
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Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination
… influenced the development of the dramatic monologue. But Browning’s instrumental deployment of the genre brings with it the underlying Gothic emotions, terror-sublime and horror-disgust, coalescing in the uncanny with its subversion of selfhood, language and time, the very building blocks …
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Audition Technique: A Survival Guide (For College Undergraduate Students)
… and many mediocre actors do. Why? The perfect monologue and great song isn’t enough to get you hired. Sadly, students are not prepared and equipped with the necessary skill set to take control of their careers. In this economic climate, the ability to audition could not be more imperative. In …
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An investigation of discourse prosody in naturally occuring read text
… which is a collection of mostly read or prepared monologue. Two types of read text; news broadcasts and a short story were analysed to ascertain whether findings in the literature were generalisable across text types. The prosodic transcriptions of the texts were used to identi& the onset …
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A Jew from Nebraska: An Actors Attempt at Stand-up Comedy
… 60 years. Stand-up comedy can take many forms: a monologue of entertaining incidents that form a story, or a string of one-liners, or a succession of jokes. This performance project and thesis is an examination and an attempt at the art form that we call stand-up comedy. It will answer the …
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从语码转换到语言转移以槟榔屿潮州话为例 = From Code-Switching to Language Shift: A Case Study on Penang Teochew
… stage in language shift, after analyzing 50 monologue corpus gathered via the Pear Stories video. There is a neat shift in language choice around the 20s, whilst code-switching is not observed.
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The Relationship between Speech Disfluencies Produced under Delayed Auditory Feedback and Auditory Processing Skills in Fluent Speakers.
… (20 males and 20 females) read and produced monologue at no delay and 3 different delay levels of 100, 200, and 400 ms. Auditory processing skills were evaluated using dichotic digits test (DDT) and staggered spondaic word (SSW) test. Males produced significantly more Stuttering-Like …
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The Cherry Orchard
… entertaining the reader—a dialogue rather than a monologue. No matter how public or private a topic may be, the poems make themselves accessible to the reader, but also require active engagement. Both as a collection and as individual pieces, my hope for these poems is to add another voice to the …
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Rivonia
… the form of ten separate interlinking dramatic monologues and a critical and reflective commentary. The poem is called ‘Rivonia’ and it is about the Rivonia Trial at which Nelson Mandela and six co-accused were sentenced to life imprisonment, and about the fall of the apartheid regime in South …
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