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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"The Experience of Reading"”.
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Gone song
Gone Song is a collection of poems divided into two primary sections. With its major themes of loss and grief, the book explores different means of survival, looking both toward the outside world—landscape, other people, other writers—and toward the self/body and interior consciousness and the …
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Liturgy, imagination and poetic language : a study of David Jones's The Anathemata.
The thesis seeks to attempt an examination of David Jones's long poem The Anathemata primarily from a theologically informed standpoint. It sets out to understand, from the literary-critical point of view, the forces and influences that have come together in order to make the poem. At the same …
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Reading selection as information seeking behavior: A case study with adolescent girls.
The aim of this research, Reading Selection as Information Seeking Behavior: A Case Study with Adolescent Girls, was to explore how the experience of reading fiction affects adolescent girls aged 13 through 15, and how that experience changes based upon four activities: journaling, blogging, a …
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Choreographing Memory: Performance and Embodiment in Multimodal Narrative
Drawing from a body of philosophical and theoretical reflection about movement, Choreographing Memory explores the embodied dimensions and inherent performativity of writing and reading multimodal texts situated in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century remix culture. Multimodal texts use …
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Comic strips and the making of meaning: emotion, intersubjectivity and narrative drawing.
This study argues that the experience of reading comics is comprehensible as a series of intersubjective relationships represented in physical form. Considering concepts of self-conciousness, perception, embodiment and social experience, it develops a narrative model that brings the physical forms …
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Improving Critical Thinking Skills Using Paideia Seminars in a Seventh-Grade Literature Curriculum
There are many programs which purport to teach thinking skills. If thinking skills of reasoning, logic, explaining, judging, and deciding can be taught, are there some ways to teach thinking that are more effective than other ways? The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of Paideia …
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The Collective Moment: Reading Time in the Greek Anthology
This thesis argues that anthologies are texts of multiple temporalities, taking as its case study the Greek Anthology. My analysis demonstrates that ancient Greek anthologies’ negotiation of the diverse temporal perspectives of their constituent epigrams offers a complex source for …
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Double bind: female subjectivity in selected works by Elfriede Jelinek and Anne Duden
… project takes as its central focus constructions of female subjectivity in selected texts by the writers Elffiede Jelinek and Anne Duden. At the time of writing, few full-length studies which engage with this concept in texts by German women writers have been published. A clear preference is still …
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Doomed to Irony, Condemned to Laughter: The Structure and Function of Irony in the Prose Fiction of Nikolai Gogol
This dissertation characterizes the particular brands of irony at work in Gogol's fiction over the course of his career and analyzes how they are generated, how they act upon readers, and how they relate to the broader aesthetic and ideological project to which Gogol ultimately dedicated himself - …
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A Study of Constellational Novel Form
This dissertation defines and theorises ‘constellational form’ in the novel, a term I develop from the work of Walter Benjamin. By ‘constellational form’, I mean an associative, essayistic, digressive, allusive, and densely patterned form of prose writing—one that is attuned to interconnection and …