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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Stream of Consciousness"”.
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Musical Thinking as Exemplified in Music Criticism
The purpose of this study was to consider the thought processes involved in the formulation of written music criticism. Using John Dewey's definition of thinking as a basis, the works of metacritics Francis Sparshott, Theodore M. Greene, and D. W. Gotshalk and critics Virgil Thomson and M. D. …
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The immanent life of things : embodiment, materiality, and agency in Virginia Woolf’s “A sketch of the past,” and To the lighthouse
This report explores the agency of material entities in Virginia Woolf's autobiographically-influenced works, "A Sketch of the Past," and To the Lighthouse. It argues that Woolf's stream-of-consciousness aesthetics underscores the agency that material objects hold in, and via, human actions, …
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James Joyce and His Influence : William Faulkner and Anthony Burgess
… basis for examining and analyzing the influence of Joyce on selected works of William Faulkner and Anthony Burgess especially in regard to the major ideas and style, and pattern and motif. The works to be used, in addition to Ulysses, include Faulkner's "The Bear" in Go Down, Moses and Mosquitoes …
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Jane Austen's Persuasion: A Study of Narrative Art
Jane Austen’s last novel reveals a new dimension of her narrative art; Persuasion contains qualities that resemble those of twentieth century stream-of-consciousness novels. The narrative technique of Persuasion as forerunner of the modern novel differs from Miss Austen’s other novels primarily in …
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Reflective thinking as exemplified in musical decision-making
"Two forms of data served as the basis for this inquiry into the extent of reflective thinking represented by musical decision making. Articles written by pianists, arrangers, and conductors served as primary sources from extant literature. A verbal protocol representing the ""stream of …
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Joyce's Symbolic Use of the Colors black, White, and Red in Ulysses
<p>Nearly every reader can discover something of importance in Ulysses. There is, of course, Joyce's stream-of-consciousness technique, which seems to present a first-hand recording of the flow of thoughts. There is also the creation of a whole new world in minuteness of detail. Add to this the …
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"Mrs. Brown's" Journey: An Imagined Correspondence Between Virginai Woolf and Jean-Paul Sartre
… explores the idea that Woolf’s experimental stream of consciousness writing style anticipates themes of Existentialism, the twentieth- century philosophical interpretation of existence based on existence preceding essence, in other words, individual responsibility in an unknowable universe. …
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47 Via Ricasoli, Florence, an English Translation of the Novel By Thierry Laget
"Fallen on a field of honor in August 1914 near Charleroi, Prosper Poppet entered literary history alongside Péguy and Alain-Fournier. The foremost representative of the symbolist movement, he is the author of a single novel, La Rosée, which appeared just a few days before the start of World War …
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Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment Raskolnikov: Image of a Modern Man
… portrays his characters skillfully in the play of Rem- brandtesque lighting. Like Rembrandt, Dostoevsky focuses hie attention on the dark side of man, and the only light that is visible comes from within the depths of man himself. When Dostoevsky created characters, he began with their innermost …
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Higher Than God
Higher than God is a collection of twelve pieces of fiction in a variety of formats such as modern short story prose, the memoir, the epistolary, poetry, and more experimental forms such as the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story and stream-of-consciousness writings. The works were written with the …
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Undefinitive
… Undefinitive, examines the cyclical process of destruction, transformation, and rebirth through installation, ceramics, and text. With a deep unease toward my own gendered body, I investigate how vulnerability, both physical and psychological, can become a site of resistance and empowerment. …
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The Machine's Effect on the Psyche of the American Woman: A Dramaturgical Analysis of Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
<p>Sophie Treadwell's style is often associated with the male contemporaries of her time: Eugene O'Neill and Elmer Rice. During the 1920s, these writers were being influenced by German Expressionistic theatre in a way that the American stage had not yet witnessed. Expressionistic drama is …
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Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage: the superficial or the profound?
… (1915-‐1938), presents an introspective view of Miriam Henderson’s life during the early 1900s. Richardson developed an unusual writing style similar to that of James Joyce which became known as ‘stream of consciousness’. It was a term she disliked and disputed, even though the term conveys …
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The Little Weird: Self and Consciousness in Contemporary, Small-press, Speculative Fiction
… from other genres in depicting the processes of consciousness in narrative. I study how the confluence of contemporary cognitive theory and experimental, small-press, speculative fiction has produced a new narrative mode, one wherein literature portrays not the product of consciousness but its …
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Architectural Narrative through Spatial Sequencing
… Within this paradigm, we perceive the passage of time and space as an infinite stream of consciousness, or narrative of events, successively linked through memory. Bernard Tschumi describes this sequence as “space, event, movement”, a fragmentary slice within the infinitely repeating sequence …
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From a young Bolshevik to a professional writer : A critical study of Wang Meng 's novels with reference to his writing from the 1950s to the 1990s
Wang Meng is one of China's most high profile and prolific writers, having produced a substantial body of fictional work since the 1950s, much of which has surprised readers and critics alike because of its high level of innovation, and because of its challenge to the dominant Chinese traditional …
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Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind and the Subject
… a phenomenologically-informed ontological model of the subject of experiences. This model will attempt to explain how it is possible for a subject to have experiences with a subjective character, which are like something for their subject. It will also address how the subject can have experiences …
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The Futility of Conformity: The Danger of Gender Constructs In the <em>Sound and theFury</em>
… plays in Quentin Compson's construction of identity. I propose that Quentin is incapable of reconciling his potential homosexuality with the expectations his family, friends and elite Southern society place on him, thereby causing him to commit suicide. Examining Caddy Compson's overt …
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The Jaded Garden:a cross-cultural comparison of nostalgic female characters by Pai Hsien-yung and Tennessee Williams
This study consist of a comparative analysis of the nostalgic female characters in Pai Hsien-yung's two short stories: "Wandering in a Garden, Waking from a Dream," and "A Celestial in Mundane Exile," and Tennessee Williams's two plays: The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. Beginning …
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More Hills to Climb
The dissertation is a collection of seven original short stories, each portraying a central character who struggles to climb a symbolic "hill" towards a new pleateau of self-awareness or maturity. The stories are realistic, peopled with individuals cast in familiar (and frequently complementary) …
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