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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Narrative fiction"”.
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Insecure Adult Attachment Predicts Engagement with Narrative Fiction
… the extent to which they become invested in fictional social worlds? In Studies 13, we found that an interaction between attachment anxiety and avoidance predicted becoming more absorbed into a story at both the trait and state level. To extend these findings and to gain a more nuanced …
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Social class depiction in selected award-winning children's narrative fiction
1 PDF file (iv, 189 pages)
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Irony and otherness : a study of some recent South African narrative fiction
… and otherness in selected recent South African fiction. Van Heerden's Kikoejoe, as an allegory of the refusal to narrativise otherness, is read as being caught in the double bind of irony; Matlou's Life at Home is read as a text intimating an otherness at the heart of domesticity and within the …
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The Contemporary British Novel and Conspiracy Theories: Hinges, Certainty, and Trust in Narrative Fiction
… theories as they appear in contemporary British fiction. Proposing an epistemic spectrum of conspiracy theories from the reasonable to the extreme, and focusing upon the centre of this spectrum, this thesis seeks to bring to literary representations of conspiracy theory a rigorous …
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Fourth-Grade Narrative Fiction Writing: Using Content Analysis to Examine the Intersection of Place, High Ability, and Creativity
… in the intermediate elementary grades engage in narrative fiction writing. Qualitative content analysis (Hsieh and Shannon, 2005) was used to analyze 237 stories written as the culminating project of the semester-length Fiction unit of Promoting PLACE (Azano et al., 2017a), a place-based language …
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ΠΑΙΧΝΙΔΙΑ ΜΕΤΑΦΗΓΗΜΑΤΙΚΗΣ ΜΥΘΟΠΛΑΣΙΑΣ: ΤΟ ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΟ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΙΧΝΙΔΙΟΥ ΣΤΟΝ ΚΙΝΗΜΑΤΟΓΡΑΦΟ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΜΥΘΙΣΤΟΡΗΜΑ
… TECHNOLOGICAL MEDIA AND AS TWO ART FORMS OF NARRATIVE FICTION. THE COMMUNICATIVE ASPECT OF THESE ART FORMS IS STRESSED IN ORDER TO FACILITATE AN EXAMINATION OF THE NARRATIVE SITUATION IN ITS ENTIRETY AND IN ORDER TO EXPLORE THE ONTOLOGICALSTATUS OF ALL THE FICTIONAL ASPECTS OF THE TEXT. THE …
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An interdisciplinary exploration of religion, science and identity
… presented in two sections: a substantial work of narrative fiction titled Athos, and an essay in the form of a postscript.
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La escritura autobiográfica en el fin del siglo XIX: el ciclo novelístico de Pío Cid considerado como la autoficción de Ángel Ganivet
… expose the characteristics of autobiographical narrative fiction in Spain at the end of 19th century. For that purpose, we studied the general idea of autobiography and its makeup as a hypothetical literary gender in the dawn of Modernity. In our research we have used Ángel Ganivet's works and …
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What We Understand to Be Ghosts
… Poetics through the practice of writing short fiction. The stories collected in the thesis explore these ideas by taking advantage of different approaches to narrative form and content and exploring current trends in literary fiction including fabulism, flash-fiction, and non-narrative fiction. …
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Picnic in the abattoir
… subvert, the traditional three-act structure of narrative fiction and film. These poems not only serve as a continuation of my work in the past two years within horror tropes and ontologies of "victimhood," but also broach new topics for me, like the influence of film on ways of seeing and …
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The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800
… meaningfully intersect with eighteenth century narrative fiction. Through analysis of a variety of surveillance fictions, including spy narratives, financial tell-alls, periodicals, amatory secret histories, and domestic and Gothic fictions, I incorporate the idea of surveillance into …
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Structure Stories
… will speculate on how interweaving among these narratives might suggest spatial and social futures that translate into the language of architecture. This thesis investigation will comprise three layers: 01 Reading and analysis of current events journalism, with a focus on social injustice and …
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Pathos : a metaphoric exploration of cannibalistic, gluttonous and consumptive impulses in fiction writing
… nouns, when used as metaphors, operate within fictional writing, by examining them in relation to my thesis novel Pathos. To conduct this examination, the developed metaphors of autophagia / cannibalism, gluttony and consumption are applied to three distinct yet intertwined concepts in the …
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Language, emotion, and imagination: Constructing human identity through Hemingway's work
… and imagination emphasizes that readers decode fiction as they decode reality: in the way it affects them.</p> <p>In the act of reading narrative fiction--as this thesis demonstrates--human beings enhance their identities in the same way that they construct the stories they read: by attributing …
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Incongruent subjects: crisis narratives in Argentina and Spain (2001-2012)
"Incongruent Subjects: Crisis Narratives in Argentina and Spain (2001-2012) studies narrative fiction and film produced in Argentina and Spain in the last decades, focusing on the cultural construction and representation of the recent financial and political crises and its effects on middle class …
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A temporal analysis of natural language narrative text
Written English texts in the form of narratives often describe events that occur in definite chronological sequence. Understanding the concept of time in such texts is an essential aspect of text comprehension and forms the basis for answering time related questions pertaining to the source text. …
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Geographies of confinement : America's carceral bulwark, 1973-2022
… Focusing on museums and tourist attractions, narrative fiction, visual media, and real estate development in rural California, this study considers the prison’s novel importance to the cultural and economic function and survival of the state and nation at-large. The proliferation of the …
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Daniel: A Novel With Accompanying Critical Dissertation Exploring Child Abuse in Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys and Barry Hines' A Kestrel for a Knave.
… victimhood and culpability within literary fiction is considered in both the novel and the accompanying dissertation. <br/>The novel and dissertation offer examples of and refer to experiments with narration. The novel constitutes practice-as-research and progresses alternatively between …
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Diving: using fiction narrative and intermedial assemblage to understand family histories in colonial India between 1933-1947
… practice-based research project investigates how narrative fiction, using intermedial and narratological methodologies, can be constructed in such as way as to reflect upon and understand the power relations generated within a colonial family at a particular moment in the British colonial past in …
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