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Showing 1 to 20 of 393 for “"Narration"”.
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Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper
This dissertation analyses and compares the narrative strategies in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Marlene van Niekerk’s Die sneeuslaper and considers the implications of these strategies for the authors’ exploration of the ethics of writing. Much has been written about the literary oeuvres of both …
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A Pence-ive narration of a gendered vice-presidency
This thesis analyzes the gender narrative surrounding the vice-presidency and the 2016 election. It reviews the traditional feminine gender roles assigned to the vice-presidency and as evidenced in Governor Mike Pence’s participation in a 60 Minutes interview, nomination speech at the 2016 national …
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"Narration and vision in the Old English ""Genesis B"""
The Old English poem Genesis B is a complex narrative representation of the actions and motivations of Satan, Adam, and Eve, based on a theological understanding of these characters' modes of perception and capacity for spiritual vision. Its narrative concurrently is a description of the biblical …
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States of displacement: voice and narration in refugee stories
… probes three texts to explore pathways between narration and refugee voices. In Dave Eggers’ text What is the What (2008), the words ‘novel’ and ‘autobiography’ on the title page set a framework for an exploration of the displacement of both genres. As Achak Deng, the Sudanese refugee-exile …
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Dual Narration and Externalizing Interiority in Esther Yi's 'Y/N'
<p>Positive and negative reviews of Esther Yi’s <em>Y/N</em> (2023) almost exclusively focus on the novel’s relationship with online fan culture, which, while prevalent, says little about N, its lead character and narrator. This paper therefore places N at the root of its discussion of …
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Diction and narration in I. Compton-Burnett's novels (1925-1939)
Diction and Narration in I. Compton-Burnett’s Novels (1925 – 1939)Compton-Burnett (1884 – 1969) wrote the nineteen novels of her canon between 1925 and 1969. Compton-Burnett wrote retrospectively: her settings were the large country houses of the upper middle class during the late Victorian era and …
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Who Speaks for the State? Narration, Representation, and the JCPOA
… plural and continuous implication of Iran in the narration of U.S. identity enabled, even incentivized, an outcome that defied the systems-level imperatives of representative governance.
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Narration of light : computational tools for framing the tonal imagination
… of the design process. The implemented tool, Narration of Light is a plug-in that runs on the 3D Studio Max 7 environment, where realistic images can be rendered without any evaluation for the generated images. The tool aims to create a more self-conscious rendering environment that would …
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Revealing the potential of Compressed Earth Blocks : a visual narration
Compressed Earth Blocks (CEB) is a developed earth technology, in which unbaked brick is produced by compressing raw soil using manual, hydraulic, or mechanical compressing machines. Revealing the potential of an affordable sustainable material like CEB may help tackle today's fundamental …
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'...and one of time.': A Composition for Full Orchestra with Narration
‘...and one of time.' is a reinterpretation of a small musical moment from Philip Glass' opera, Einstein on the Beach, centered around the phrase "Berne, Switzerland 1905." This reinterpretation is realized through the use of several different compositional techniques including spectral …
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"Telling Balzac's Stories: Narration, Narrators, and Narratees in ""La Comedie Humaine"""
The faults between the layers of diegesis enable the informed reader to enter the Balzacian world, and to appreciate the instability of this supposedly monolithic text. This is Balzac's ultimate triumph: His artistic reproduction of early nineteenth-century France is not a still-life; rather it is, …
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Lucky's : a novel ; and, Changing voices : a study of narration and arrangement
… novels—texts in which narrators and forms of narration proliferate throughout the narrative. Once this inquiry specifies the narrators and narrating positions in these novels, the question remains as to which agency we ascribe the connections between chapters and the overall arrangement of …
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A Close Encounter with Death: Narration in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief
… strategies underlying Death’s contradictory narration, which is at once anthropomorphized and constitutively nonhuman. Scholars of <em>The Book Thief</em> often assume the narrator’s omniscience, but I find that Death is crucially <em>not</em> omniscient; rather, he merely performs …
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Oral Narration of African American Students in General and Gifted Education Programs
… education programs. The differences in oral narration among 50 students in general and gifted education programs, grades two through five, were investigated. Students produced audiotaped oral narratives based on a wordless book, Frog, Where Are You?, and on child-friendly story prompts. …
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The Liminal Space of Dreams: Narration of Dreams in Graphic novel and Comics
… of dream narrative, I demonstrate that dream narration offers an allegory by means of which both creator and reader can explore issues of identity, desire and trauma in an intimate and healing way. In analyzing these functions of dream narration, I draw upon ideas from theorists such as C.J …
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