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Reading suburban narratives
This thesis discusses London suburban-set fiction as enacting a key semiotic problem of modernity: how the individual must interpret, make sense of, and inhabit a particular locality. By semiotic here I mean the individual's drive to capture external reality, to read and constitute a sense of what …
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Memorable family narratives
<p>Memorable narratives are highly under-studied in the world of family communication. By understanding what memorable messages entail and what a story is, we can bridge that gap and explain a narrative. In this study, 13 participants were recruited and interviewed. Only participants over the age …
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Tattoo Narratives and Counseling
… research, however, showed that people’s tattoo narratives can relate to how they view self, others, and the world, and to how they approach life. A narrative approach to qualitative research was used, and ten people participated in the study. Participants’ views of self, others, and the world …
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Justificational narratives : what is the role of fear in Israeli narratives of war?
… political speeches (which I have called 'policy narratives') delivered by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the period February 2002 - October 2003. I have sought, with reference to Aristotle and other writers on persuasion, to delineate the rhetorical devices employed by Sharon and his …
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Personal Narratives & Their Unique Personalities
… also endorses the principle of crafting these narratives with love and one’s being—hands, voice, and other tangible ingredients. It focuses primarily on explicit storytelling through music, picture books, comics, et al. It also looks at some relevant terms like catharsis, misfit, vulnerability, …
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Leadership: Personal Narratives of Practitioners
… journey and conversation, along with 22 personal narratives to help differentiate the nature of leadership from management theory. Of the 22 narratives the researcher analyzed 5 stories describing the participants' lived experiences fit Rost's definition. Six stories partially reflected the …
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Dramatic narratives and the holocaust
This thesis analyses dramatic and historical narratives about the Holocaust. Primarily, it focuses on Israeli, German and Austrian writers from the time of the Final solution (1941) to the mid 1990s. In particular, I will highlight how the 'trauma' of the Holocaust has influenced collective …
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Repair-Making: Craft, Narratives, Activism
… it as a craft of its own, as creating and hiding narratives, and implicitly and explicitly relating to activism. Repair-Making is social as well as material: a field of exciting actions, communities and politics, changing objects, mindsets and habits. Underpinned by a philosophical and material …
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Visual Metaphor and Drawn Narratives
… which the production and comprehension of drawn narratives are structured by metaphorical conceptualisation. The argument develops from the observation that metaphor theory does not account for the perceptual character of depiction. I begin by focusing on an overlooked distinction between …
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Conspiracy Narratives in Latin Literature
… I compare the structural similarities of three narratives of coniuratio by three very different authors: Livy's account of the Bacchic conspiracy (39.8--19), the conspiracy of Calpurnius Piso in Tacitus' Annales (15.48--74), and Cicero's Catilinarians. All three stories have a similar pattern to …
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Information extraction for clinical narratives
… domain knowledge is available regarding clinical narratives. There are also several tools like SpecialistLexicalTools, MetaMap, etc. which help in analyzing clinical narratives. I integrate the domain knowledge and features derived from these tools in the local statistical models. Clinical …
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Digital Narratives for Self-Therapy
… This thesis explores the application of digital narratives in encouraging emotional healing and self-therapy. Storytelling has been a significant means of growth and learning throughout all of human history and across all cultures. The potential for reading personal stories to become a popular …
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Narratives in landscape photography: the narrative
… we perceive transitional landscapes, the type of narratives they suggest and what prompts them to interpret the images as specific narratives. The main findings ofthe study revealed that: 1. The iconographic austerity of transitional landscapes appears as a fertile ground for narratives as …
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The Diagnosis Narratives & The Healing Ritual
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>THE DIAGNOSIS NARRATIVES & THE HEALING RITUAL</p> <p>by JAMES PETER MEZA</p> <p>December 2013</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Andrea Sankar</p> <p>Major: Anthropology (medical)</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p> The goal of this dissertation was to describe healing practices in the …
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Acts of Resistance: Nurses' Personal Narratives
… for their stories of acts of resistance. The narratives were analyzed using an approach that combined the methods of other narrative researchers. The narratives of these eleven nurses revealed their experiences in the hierarchical world health care. The nurses recognized the concepts of acts …
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Entropy in Two American Road Narratives
… with Kris Lackey's analysis of American road narratives presented in his book RoadFrames, the presence of entropy and how it is applied within the American road narrative becomes apparent. Although Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Cormac McCarthy's The Road were published over sixty years apart …
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