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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Readers expectations"”.
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Cross -Border Critical Race Theory: Black and Native Fiction, American and Canadian Legal Policy
… against the American writers by overturning readers' expectations and multiplying the ethnic affiliations of their characters. I then examine works from both sides of the border that comment on the government's rhetorical redefinition of Native peoples in order to remove privileges granted in …
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Community journalism as ritual: A case study of community and weekly newspapers in Laurel, Maryland
… journalists, advertisers, city officials and readers. Using James W. Carey's theory of ritual communication as its theoretical foundation, the study examines the role of Laurel's two weekly newspapers in creating and maintaining community in Laurel. Findings suggest that when the community …
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Barbed Wire Fever: On Seeking and Providing Refuge (Creative Non-Fiction)
… the Subversion of Genre’ that addresses the expectations of ‘Holocaust literature’. It looks at works of non-fiction and fiction about ‘difficult’ subjects that both employ the rules of genre and subvert them, and it is an explanation of why I am rejecting the limitations of Holocaust …
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20th century lipogrammatic novels and their translations
… important, the target culture and the target readers' expectations cannot be ignored either. This study investigates the stylistic implications of this formal constraint and the possibilities and limitations of translating lipogrammatic prose.Parallels are drawn between the process of writing …
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Empty heroics, low comedy and pointless death: Structures of melancholy in the early novels of Kurt Vonnegut
… deconstructs established values and subverts readers' expectations. Occasionally, the thesis discusses the novels' poststructural concerns as appearing to precipitate melancholy within both readers and characters. However, the thesis also explores how melancholy has been seen historically to …
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The role of translation in shaping media and political discourses in times of conflict : the Syrian "Spring" in context
… what not?) - with the "what-else" left for the readership- are critically interpreted in an attempt to demystify the translators‘ practice and delve deep down into its root causes with special consideration of the cross-linguistic and cross-cultural discrepancies that feature English and Arabic …
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O livro e a leitura : expectativas dos utilizadores face às atividades da BE
Uma das funções primordiais da Biblioteca Escolar consiste na promoção do livro e da leitura. A leitura e, sobretudo, a sua compreensão determinam o sucesso individual, não só do aluno, como do cidadão em geral. A leitura é uma competência que condiciona os níveis de literacia da população. …
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Truth Games: Fact, Fiction, and Performance in British Autobiographical Comics
… not a contract, but an invitation to play with readers’ expectations of autobiography. The model is not restricted to comics, however, and can be applied to autobiography in other media, such as prose and film. This research also tests reader reaction to autobiographical comics and truth with a …