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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Textual self"”.
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“All This Was My Life”: Constructing Textual Self-Identity in Diaries
… in consideration of an audience of the self and others, is part of the diary’s identity-building and meaning-making function. This thesis analyzes the process by which the diaries of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and Janet Schaw construct multiple textual identities and conceptualize …
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Royal Self-Fashioning: King James VI and his Demonology
… as it relates to the themes of masculinity and self-fashioning. By analysing James, through his demonological treatise, I illuminate James’s anxiety of the learned man and show his masking of that anxiety through textual self-fashioning as it appears in his Daemonologie.
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Strategies of self-disclosure in the first-person narratives of Gabrielle Roy
… exhibit evidence of a quest to understand the self. These narratives demonstrate both an evolution in the textual construction of the self portrait and a consistency of perspective with regard to textual self-disclosure. This can be explained by the dual nature of the ""I;"" both self-character …
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"It's Like We Were Being Watched ... Like There Were Only 3 Walls, And Not a Fourth Wall": Manifestations of Metafiction in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
… the project also endeavors to show how textual self-consciousness can be housed outside of the tradition space of the diegesis in favor of a paratextual element instead. <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em> serves here as the primary example of this paratextual application towards …
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Comprehensive Self-Selected Reading and Student Engagement With the Novel: A Program Evaluation
… not reading may lie in the CSSR (Comprehensive Self-Selected Reading) program chosen for focus in this study. In this high school student-reading program, incoming students are guided through a process of textual self-selection and evaluation in an enthusiastic, engaging, and motivating manner. …
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The Art of Self-Making: American Modernist Fiction and the Performances of Identity and Authorship
… for the relatedness of the authorial desire for textual self-representation visible in many works of American modernist fiction and the modern myth of the self-made man. I contend that the historical and cultural forces which shaped both phenomena in the latter half of the 19th and the first half …
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Subversive narrative techniques and self-reflexivity in Vladimir Nabokov's the real life of Sebastian Knight, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire and Ada, or Ardor: A family Chronicle
… to be stressed that this application is not itself a deconstructive reading, rather that deconstruction offers the interpretative horizon for an analysis of the inner logic of self-reflexivity in the novels in question. which is defined with de Man and against Derrida as a procedure of textual …
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Textuality and Travel from Gray to Byron.
This thesis explores the relationship between textuality and travel in the writings of a key selection of eighteenth-century and Romantic authors. While existing critical work on the travel literature of this period tends to concentrate only on published versions of texts and does not fully address …
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PERSUASION IN REWARD-BASED CROWDFUNDING: THE ROLE OF VISUAL IMAGE
… to the incongruence between the entrepreneurs’ textual and visual self-presentation? Drawing upon the signaling theory, Study 1 identifies visual signals captured from the main images of all existing restaurant reward-based CF projects on Kickstarter using Google Vision API and conducts a series …
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The ethics of space, secrecy, and solitude: domestic space in French sixteenth-century literature and visual culture
… nascent individualism of the period and affects textual production, the ethics of personal behavior, and the notions of solitude and secrecy. Alberti, Serlio, and De l’Orme use their architectural treatises to both propose their ideal ways of building the family home and to present projects that …
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Poetics of Dislocation: Comparative Cosmopolitanism in Charlotte Brontë, Flora Tristan, and Toru Dutt
… texts. I suggest that through their masked, textual selves, they transformed their intensely traumatic, idiosyncratic experiences into public battles about women's status in patriarchal societies.