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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Narrative Agency"”.
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Hope as Reclaiming Narrative Agency: The Communication Processes Facilitating Hope at a Community-Based Support Program
… wellness, positive and supportive communication, narrative, and mutual aid groups, there are no studies that focus on emergent hope or the communication processes facilitating hope. Hope is widely accepted as critical to life and wellness. However, there is a gap in the existing literature across …
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Examining the Utility of Life Narratives for the Assessment of Personality Pathology in Emerging Adults
… self-direction), scholars have proposed that narrative methods might be useful for the assessment of one’s sense of self, and thus, improve the detection of personality pathology. The narrative identity framework offers a phenomenologically rich account of the self as a story, holding the …
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The widow's might: Law and the widow in British fiction, 1689-1792.
… eighteenth-century fiction, the widow embodies a narrative agency that has as its actual counterpart the directive relation to property granted to widows by English law: unlike a wife, a widow had a separate legal identity and could hold real property as could a man. Common law dower granted her a …
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Mourning Gendered Discipline: Virginia Woolf and the Modern Elegy
… by traditional male elegists, and gives up the narrative agency which is traditionally attributed to male elegists--Woolf rejects the normative representation of male mourners and destroys the traditional assumptions about masculine discipline in mourning. Through the representation of the two …
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On videogames : representing narrative in an interactive medium
This thesis investigates the function of narrative in videogames, challenging views that games do not—and should not—have anything to do with narrative. It tests videogames against literary narrative theories and examines ways in which videogames have evolved beyond other narratives and narrative …
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Assessing Industry Ideologies: Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Sexual Violence in the Book Versions and Film Adaptations of The Hunger Games Trilogy, The Divergent Trilogy, and The Vampire Academy Series
… constructionist feminist and queer theory and narrative analysis to identify messages about gender, sexuality, and sexual violence in both the book versions and film adaptations of The Hunger Games trilogy, the Divergent trilogy, and the Vampire Academy series. These three series are …
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Unlocking 'fixed narratives' in the pursuit of social innovation
… innovation around the world, yet the overriding narrative of our time remains embedded in a value system that maintains things just as they are. By looking at the stories we tell and the ways we tell them this study seeks to understand the role that 'narrative' plays in shaping our world, the …
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Identität bei Herta Müller: Schreiben als Mittel der Selbstbehauptung
… narrator in Müller's work gain a certain agency, which empowers them to put up resistance against their oppressors. Additionally, Müller constructs a narrative agency, whose 'authority' regains some of the lost continuity and stability. Finally, although Müller considers language as being …
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Deseos de comunidad en el personaje intersticial y marginal: en la novela y el cine de los noventa en México
… The marginal character, on the other hand, lacks narrative agency and fails in his or her attempts to build group cohesion based on values and community ideals. These interstitial and marginal characters emerge due to profound socioeconomic, political and cultural changes caused by economic …
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Female Voice and Agency in Film Adaptations
… they are taken.<br/><br/>The thesis explores the agency and voice of four novels and their film adaptations,<sup>1</sup> using techniques derived from narrative analysis where "the implied author" is the agency responsible for the overall relationship of narration (story telling) to narrative …
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Film, Music, and the Narrational Extra Dimension
… the view that music is instrumental in building narrative facts, in favor of one that holds music to be significant to the very processes of film narration, affecting how a film is presented.
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Discourse, Narrative and Agency: A Contribution of Local Stories to Disability Theory, Research and Professional Practice
… realisation that the post-structural concept of agency was relevant to disability studies. In locating this study as a contribution to the knowledge of disability and disablement, the initial chapters explore the theoretical genealogy of disability studies and the methodology for the study. In …
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ʻIdle, Drunk and Good-for-Nothingʼ: The Rank-and-File Perpetrators of 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine and Their Representation in Cultural Memory
… practice, and examines how different cultural narratives frame the question of the agency of the perpetrator. While Soviet-era Ukrainian texts characterise the perpetrators as purely ideological participants, post-Soviet and diaspora artists cast them as the Other, while dissident authors …