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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Narrative strategies"”.
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Narrative strategies in selected novels of Henry James
… reflectors. This thesis attempts to explore the narrative strategies through which the shift is implemented. It will be seen that aspects such as ambiguity, imagistic representation and the deployment of analeptic excursions through the consciousness of the reflector as opposed to the narrator …
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Ghost Kingdoms and Phantom Worlds: Narrative strategies in adoptee autofiction
… Ghost Kingdom as it appears in adoptee-written narratives. Lifton describes the Ghost Kingdom as a “psychic reality” where what-if projections of lost or wished for persons (often conceptualized as characters) reside. Her theory describes both the ontological position of the adoptee situated in …
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Narrative strategies in the gospel according to Luke : a Bakhtinian exploration
… Bakhtin, this thesis has set out to explore narrative strategy in the Gospel of Luke, the aim being to consider how this would affect a generic reading, and what implications this would have in assessing the discourse of this text. Bakhtin classifies early Christian writings as part of the …
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Private Reader, Public Redactor: Narrative Strategies of the Nineteenth-Century Female Revisionist
… to the text that she creates, for the final narrative product is not only a public revision but also a series of private, gendered negotiations that define the woman writer and determine her contribution to female authorship. </p><p> With a specific focus on Geraldine Jewsbury, Elizabeth …
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‘hwonne habbe we ðonne ne gemotad?’; Narrative Strategies in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century English Property Disputes
This thesis examines the language and narrative strategies employed by tenth and eleventh- century charter draftsmen in the composition of vernacular lawsuit documents. It poses the question: on what authority did late Anglo-Saxon property disputes close or remain closed, arguing that the document …
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One or Two Things I Know About Us: Narrative Strategies for Autoethnography, Self-Representation and Healing in Four Memoirs by Poor-white Women from the U.S. South
… Glass Castle. Each of these writers engage in narrative strategies that do not defend a violent, masculinist Southern culture from misrepresentation by outsiders, as do male “redneck autobiographers,” but rather re-establish connections with their families, native communities, and natural …
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discovered by the Process: A Methodology for Twentieth-Century Moral Fiction
… of the moral enabled through deployment of form, narrative methods, rhetorical and linguistic devices, and literary techniques. My method is to select texts in which particular thematic moral issues appear especially salient, but then, through a careful rhetorical and narratological analysis of …
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Romance vs Novela. Recuperación y renovación de la materia caballeresca en la novela española del siglo XX: de Morsamor (1899) a Olvidado Rey Gudú
… ways, as well as how it has been looked for the narrative strategies that have allowed creating singular novels. Historical and lyrical novels, bildungsroman, even tales, will have influenced in these last ones along the past twentieth century.
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A Study of Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club As a Coming of Age Novel
… society. Both chapters will also analyse the narrative strategies Coe employs to achieve his thematic aims. The third chapter is a reflection on my own writing project (a novel entitled That Summer, The Sky) in light of studying The Rotters’ Club, examining similarities and differences in …
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Narrative technique and readerships in postcolonial African fiction : towards reception theory
… of a range and variety of interesting narrative strategies and axes of reading constituencies in African fiction. To demonstrate the vitality of such a critical methodology, this thesis explores the style and readers in select novels from Anglophone Africa. The result would certainly …
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Zakes Mda’s other arts: an intermedial study
… these intermedial instances woven throughout the narratives. Drawing onW.J.T. Mitchell’s concepts of nesting, braiding, and weaving, the thesis suggests that such narrative strategies offer deeper insights into the socio-political and racial upheavals within pre- and post-colonial contexts. It …
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Wicked widows, crazy spinsters, and competent heroines : the single woman in sentimental fiction
… Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl borrow narrative strategies from the sentimental genre, but they also subvert that genre by redefining and radicalizing the virtuous heroine. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Sacrifice as a Narrative Strategy: The Construction and Destruction of the Self in May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D.
… thesis investigates sacrifice in experimental narratives of the early twentieth century by May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D. (Hilda Doolittle). I argue that sacrifice is used as a narrative strategy for negotiating the relationship between self and other, not only on a thematic level, but …
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The German Jewish Post-Holocaust Novel: Narrative and a Literary Language for Loss
… authors employ a particular cluster of varied narrative strategies: the dialogic, linguistic and cultural elements of Eastern European Jewish culture, and a literary trope I term the "almost lost story," as components of a narrative practice that allows the novels' narrators--and by extension, …
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Evolving a Genre: Doctor Strange Comics as Post-Fantasy
… of the postmodern. Such use of postmodern strategies disrupts the suspension of disbelief on which popular fantasy often relies. To show this disruption and its effects, this thesis examines Strange Tales and Doctor Strange (2015) as they relate to the fantastic cornerstones of Tolkien's …
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Modernism, Responsibility, and the Novel
… of the other. With particular attention to narrative fragmentation, I claim that reading modernism in terms of responsibility yields an uncommon yet critical understanding of its practitioners as deeply invested in ethical problems related to representation. I argue that in the context of …
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Warring opinions: an investigation into the sublime aesthetic narratives of contemporary warfare.
… opinions reflect different aesthetic and narrative strategies: different ways of representing one's position in the world and of managing overpowering forces and emotions. Opinion itself is built and supported through our emotional narratives of sublime antagonism and/or sublime interest …
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A Bog Approach: An Ethnography, Or, An Anthropology Of Climate Emergency
… and, 4) the parallelism of expositive and narrative strategies in corporate, public, and individual climate accounting.
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Exploring Intimacy and Authenticity in Greek Folk Music Documentaries: A Hybrid Form of Ethnographic Filmmaking
… filmmaking integrate intimate, authentic narratives while preserving cultural heritage? The research articulates how the filmmaker’s autoethnographic lens enhances authenticity. Sub- questions examine the collaborative processes involved in storytelling and the role of technical and …
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