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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Narrative conventions"”.
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African and European narrative conventions in the novels of C.T. Msimang
… other artists of the modem world in producing narratives of high quality and standard in the light of contemporary prose narratives. Ngcongwane, (1987:36) alludes to this art form as follows: Narrating is an old human activity. All of us do it - just as much as all ofus who are not crippled can …
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Interaction and collaboration in narrative postproduction.
… changed significantly during the last decades. Narrative conventions have developed over time. New conventions are still being developed by filmmakers such as Lynch, Tarantino and many others. The transition from analog to digital technology was one of the major developments in film industry …
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The Shape of a Thought: A Made Up Game
… performance address our preoccupations with narrative?" It reframes what are frequently discussed in screenwriting handbooks as "the rules of storytelling" as "narrative conventions," then asks what central cognitive preoccupations lie behind these conventions. This research addresses …
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Mastering the Story/Storying the Master: Philosophy of Education Discourse and Empire
… distinctions as well. I analyze the racialized narrative conventions of liberal modern Enlightenment philosophy and the role these conventions continue to play in the creation and maintenance of a violent racial state. Drawing upon Critical Race Theory, feminist epistemologies, narrative theory, …
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Howells' Dialogic Realism
This study traces the changes in Howells' narrative techniques as he confronted the paradox that novels create their own narrative logic and unity independent of (and often contrary to) the vision of reality depicted in the work. Howells' novels are characterized by competing or contradictory …
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A ceaseless becoming : narratives of adolescence across media
Thesis explores the broad appeal of narratives with adolescent protagonists across a variety of media, including literature, film, and video games. An analysis of key texts within their historical contexts reveals affinities between disparate genres and strong connections between fiction and the …
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An Exploration of the Psyche in "Era of Black"
… The first is an introductory exploration of the narrative conventions that have become, over time, established tropes in Fantasy Fiction as a brief discussion of my conscious strategy to reject the normative structures set in modern fantasy literature in my own fiction project “Era of Black.” …
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Att förklara människan : Diskurser i populärvetenskapliga TV-program
… That includes media genre, production and narrative conventions as well as the wider historical, social and political/ideological context and discourse practices of which the issues represented are a part. The critical discourse analysis has been complemented by ideas about different …
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`I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century
… against a pattern of confining and silencing narratives. I argue that storytelling is used as both a metaphor and a device to unsettle repressive master discourses, develop alternative voices and imagine identities which exceed the limits of traditional narrative conventions. The inclusion of …
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The Ogress, The Innocent, And The Madman: Narrative and Gender in Child Homicide Trials in New Zealand, 1870-1925
… on the interpretive power of familiar cultural narratives to convey meaning and achieve composure. Homicides involving children, though often disparate and deeply ambiguous events, were bounded by a narrow yet profoundly influential body of images, characters and representations. This repertoire …
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Food for Sympathy: Illness, Nursing, and Affect in Victorian Literature and Culture
The profuse illness and nursing narratives in Victorian texts frequently feature sympathy for physical suffering as a major cultural and literary trope. In a wide variety of texts ranging from social reform writing to autobiographies, from novels to poetry, physical suffering was often closely …
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The Predicament of Illegality: Undocumented Aliens in Contemporary American Immigration Fiction
… As this project demonstrates, immigration narratives often rely on conventional structures, themes and tropes that privilege the legal immigrant subject. Indeed, the legality of protagonists is often taken for granted in many novels about immigration. Thus, by foregrounding fundamental …
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Sociolinguistic variability in oral narrative.
… non-explanatory and cannot accout for narrative dynamics and style shift. Therefore, an in-depth qualitative examination of the data (which draws mainly on Narrative and Discourse Analysis) forms the major part of the analysis. The study first analyses features common to all the …
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An allergy and Novelists of the past, historians of the present
… truth and identity across a number of genres, narratives, periods and voices. That history and fiction share many similarities is an idea well-established by both historians, critics and novelists, from Lionel Gossman and Hayden White to Richard Jenkins and E. L. Doctorow. The fiction–history …
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“For you, Tommy, the War is Over… Or is it?” British War Comics 1945 to 1985
… within British popular culture and their narrative conventions and formal construction. Further, the precursors of the War Comic will be examined in some detail to establish the prominence of this strand of literature for a significant portion of the British public, and the evolution of …
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Narrative structure and the individual in the Íslendingasögur: motivation, provocation and characterisation
… drawing attention to characters that I term narrative triggers, I offer a way of reading the sagas that relies both on the narrative conventions of tradition and on the less predictable, personal interactions between the cast of any given saga.In the case of both major and minor figures in …
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The Individual after Stalin: Fedor Abramov, Russian Intellectuals, and the Revitalization of Soviet Socialism, 1953-1962
… in Soviet history, in fact echoed earlier narrative conventions. For the purpose of close reading, I center the project around Fedor Abramov (1920-1983), a leading writer of the post-Stalin era, and how he used his diary and personal notebooks to fashion himself into a New Man. I analyze …