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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Textuality"”.
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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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Caryl Churchill’s Later Plays: Textuality and Practice
Despite the widespread fascination with the later work of Caryl Churchill, critical description of the plays is still catching up with what have appeared to be a series of innovations and new departures. This thesis builds on recent critical work on these plays, notably that by Elaine Aston, and …
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The Textuality of the Body: Orlan's Performance as Subversive Act
In this paper, I argue that the performance artist Orlan uses feminist tactics of subversion in her presentation of the body as art. I enter the feminist debate over Orlan's work to indicate that the critics who consider the history of performance art produce more fecund discourse. At the same …
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Down These Mean Streets: Textuality & the Search for Meaning in Crime Fiction
… search for meaning is the genre's interest in textuality, encompassing related issues such as the reading process and the nature of language. This dissertation examines how interpretive frameworks are formed, employed and developed through various sub-genres in crime fiction, and the ways in …
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Between the Cloud and the Page: Repetition and Textuality in Post-Conceptual Poetics
… approach post-conceptualism through the lens of textuality. I assert that the post-conceptual text lives in the expanse between immaterial ideas (what one can call the “cloud”) and the physicality of words on the page. Therefore, the aesthetics of post-conceptualism can be said to be an …
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Migrant Textuality: On the fields of Aimé Césaire's Et les chiens se taisaient
… drama based on the Haitian Revolution. “Migrant Textuality” explores the several versions and fragments of the play—from the manuscript to its last authorial instantiation in OEuvres Complètes in 1976—in order to shed light on the author’s troubled relationship with the history the play refers to …
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On Colonial Textuality and Difference: Musical Encounters with French Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Algeria
… phenomenon that may be characterized as colonial textuality in music. Drawing from Homi Bhabha, I define colonial textuality as a space where signifiers of value, judgment and power are encountered, negotiated and embedded within colonial discourse. Three composers--Ernest Reyer (1823-1909), …
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E-textuality, e-medieval, e-Malory : the rebirth of Le morte d'Arthur on the web.
Until recently, traditional textual criticism has been unable to account for the rich historical and literary contexts surrounding medieval textual culture, especially the culture of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Finally, though, electronic resources provide the means for reconstructing these …
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Reading Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs in Illustrations to Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Other Poems: a study in context and textuality
… King and Other Poems:’ A Study in Context and Textuality. This thesis focuses on a prime example of how photography’s rhetoric and discourse were capable of providing a first-rate narrative tool in poetry in the early beginnings of this artistic medium. Circumstance that, together with the …
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The pain of the pleasure of the text : Tournier, reading and sexuality.
… the dissertation there is a double emphasis: on textuality and sexuality. Textuality in Tournier is rendered tense and sentient as the writer tries to inscribe his texts in the pain and pleasure of the flesh of the reader. Sexuality, conversely, takes on a metatextual value where desire is read …
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The megatext : towards a literary theory of the media
… broadly textual phenomenon, literary theories of textuality and inter-textuality are discussed in the framework of contemporary media production and consumption patterns and applied to the common media text. Once it has been established that the myriad of media texts that exist are indeed …
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Towards a postmodern theatre
… Authority guarantees an unlimited weaving of textuality, that is called the intertextuality. This thesis attempts to ""misread"" Antonin Artaud's writings on theatre in the postmodern perspective."
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Severed texts : aspects of aestheticization in Roland Barthes’ post-structural writings
… upon changing notions of the human subject and textuality presented in Barthes' writings from "The Death of the Author" (1968) until Camera Lucida (1980). The opening chapter discusses aestheticizing and decadent discourses in nineteenth century French and English literary traditions, identifies …
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The signification of speech and writing in the work of Charles Dickens
… of the social process of language and textuality. The Jakobsonian model of language as a code common to all is rejected, and language is seen as 'heteroglossia' a collection of diverse voices. Bakhtin's focus on dialogue and the social context of utterance is balanced by Derrida's …
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The literary and non-literary text: translating and discourse
… of texts are examined, as is the nature of textuality itself. Chapter 2 concentrates ön the literary text, while acknowledging the need to he wary of facile typological dichotomies. The nature of textuality in general and the characteristics of dramatic discourse in particular are discussed, …
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On interpellation: an introduction to specular sociology
… intelligibility, in effect, mediate forms of textuality do not receive sufficient recursive iteration during practices of socialisation (cf. Sollers 1983; Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe, 1992; Pêcheux, 1982; Angermüller, 2005; Solomon, 2012). To understand the interpellative effects of socially …
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'n Musikale model van koherensieverhoudings getoets aan die hand van J.S. Bach se Schübler-koraalvoorspele : 'n loodsstudie (Afrikaans)
… inter-disciplinary field of study concerning the textuality of texts in conjunction with coherence, can probably be of great importance in current musicology, especially as the problem concerning musical meaning, is still an ongoing debate. The design of a musical model of coherence relations is a …
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Gadamer's ontology: an examination of Hans-Georg Gadamer's concept of being in relation to Heidegger, Plato and Hegel
… our finite faculties, then that his account of textuality involves an appeal to an ideal ‘text itself’ that is beyond our reach, and finally that this structure is extended to language and this this extension is seen as the basis of all being. His idea of a reality that can guide our …
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Garciá Márquez, magic realism and language as material practice
… the political through a flawed understanding of textuality. Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude stands in stark contrast with Chimera since it underscores the political consideration central to discourse through stressing the text's material, historical context. This distinction …
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An analysis of Gender issues in Zambian Literature in English
… of analysis utilises theories of gender and textuality, particularly Gerard Genette's theory of textuality. The findings of this study reveal that Zambian literary works written in English are not only male-dominated, but also perpetuate and largely reflect the gender inequalities of Zambian …
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