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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"The Storyteller"”.
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The storyteller's voice: The dialogic art of Elizabeth Gaskell.
Elizabeth Gaskell was a gifted storyteller. Her letters and her fiction attest to an imagination rooted in oral narrative, marked by the digressiveness and dispersiveness of living speech. She wrote her first novel, she said, as if she were "speaking to a friend over the fire on a winter's night," …
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The storytelling tradition and documentary moviemaking
This thesis is concerned with the relationship between the storytelling tradition and documentary moviemaking. This relationship is evaluated in three distinct points of departure. The evolution of the storytelling process from a traditional oral form of communication, by word of mouth, to its …
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Everyday storytelling : supporting the mediated expression of online personal testimony
… who we are as individual and social beings. This thesis presents 'Everyday Mediated Storytelling', a model of the casual storyteller's process of capturing, creating and sharing personal mediated narratives. The purpose of this model is to better support rich-media storytelling through systems …
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Rock & Roll: a novel
Through unfolding, fragmentary memoirs, the disconnected odyssey of Nick Numbers, a rock music critic working in London and LA through the 1970s into the early 1980s, Rock & Roll explores the multiple realities that exist between documentary, documentable fact and supposedly pure fiction. Real …
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In search of the holy story: an exploration of storytelling in relation to Heidegger's phenomenological model of art, and the power of storytelling to re-enchant the world.
… on specific roles and cocreate an artwork in the form of a story-told. As a Heideggerian Artwork this discloses the Being of beings, specifically through a mode of engaging with beings which lets them be independent from the role of resource within a technological culture, in which all beings …
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Pressing the Seed: Thoreau's Rhetorical Strategies
… of sentences and correspondingly criticized for the discontinuity in his longer works. This study explores the question of pace in Thoreau's prose--how that pace is achieved and how it relates to our rhetorical expectations as readers. To analyze the shifting tones in Thoreau's writing, …
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Shame in the Fabliaux
In this thesis I highlight the literary techniques used in fabliaux to understand the power struggles traversed by the characters. This work focuses on methods of avoiding the shame emasculation in scenes from the fabliaux Berangier au lonc Cul, Du Prestre qui fu mis au lardier, Du Prestre …
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Seeking the chameleon: the influence of native rhetoric and the oral tradition on Native American literature
<p>This project seeks to explore the impact of rhetoric and the oral tradition on Native American literature by demonstrating that unique features are evident as a direct result of this influence. Characteristics which have functioned to preserve their culture (e.g.; the morphogenetic nature of …
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Storied navigation : toward media collection-based storytelling
… to create coherent and engaging narratives. This thesis proposes a novel storytelling system called Storied Navigation, which lets users assemble a sequence of video clips based on their roles in telling a story, rather than solely by explicit start and end times. Storied Navigation uses textual …
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The architecture of storytelling : children's shelter in Venice, California
The thesis investigation began with my experience with storytelling. Verbal stories told to me as a child provided a form of cultural continuity. Stories were a way of transferring culture, ideas, religion, morals, and values. The moral of the story changed depending on who was the storyteller. My …
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Being believed: Life history and the healing journey of Indian Residential School survivors
This study explored the lives of two Elders who are Indian Residential School Survivors and asked whether they felt that being believed was a component of their healing processes of overcoming violence at Indian Residential School. I used the notion of “being believed” as an experience linked to …
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How non-native speakers make do with words when doing things with words : an analysis of communication strategies in storytelling by Mandarin-speaking learners of English
… analysis (CA) approach, which is concerned with the analysis of closely transcribed examples of actual talk recorded in naturally occurring settings. The study aims to describe and analyse sequences of actions generated by Native Speakers( NS) and Non-Native Speaker( NNS) in the course of telling …
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Story as an Approach for Facilitating a Knowledge Management Innovation
The ontology of organizational story begs us to discover when stories work best and why. Is there a best practice for creating and telling stories? This study examined one organization's use of storytelling as a means of facilitating an innovation and what happened from the perspective of the …
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Aspects of supernatural belief, memorate and legend in a contemporary urban environment.
The aim of the study is to move away from the antiquarian bias of previous work on the folklore of the supernatural in order to shed light on present day attitudes and concepts. In the past, folkiorists have done very little to collect their own culture, or even to recognise its forms. This has …
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Metalinear cinematic narrative : theory, process, and tool
… to cable television, from motion picture film to the promise of digital video disks, as the media evolves, so do the stories told over these media. We already share many more stories and more types of stories from many more sources than we did a decade ago. This is due in part to the development …
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The Lived Experiences of Older Women in Alcoholics Anonymous
The purpose of this study was to describe, analyze, and better understand the lived experiences of women age 50 and older in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Guiding this inquiry were the following research questions: 1) How do the older women participants experience the AA program? 2) What aspects of AA …
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Story beads : a wearable for distributed and mobile storytelling
… of different forms and serve many functions. They can be as energetic as an entire life story or as simple as a case of directions to a favorite beach. Storytelling processes are challenged and changed by technological developments in the worlds of text and image manipulation. The invention of …
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Telling History Through the Stories of Women: Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies and In the Name of Salomé
<p>My thesis discusses the ways in which Julia Alvarez's <em>In the Time of the Butterflies</em> (1994) and <em>In the Name of Salomé</em> (2000) are revolutionary texts contesting traditional, male dominated history and redirecting historical and communal foci to the lives of Dominican women. I …
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