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Showing 1 to 20 of 1701 for “"The reader"”.
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The Reader of Milton's "Higher Argument" in Paradise Lost
Milton has a literary place within the Christian understanding of grace, entangles his reader into Paradise Lost, and embeds a "higher Argument" of an economics of salvation of grace within the text which thus forms a transcendent reader who responds by a choice for the kingdom of heaven or the …
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The Reader on My Shoulder: Teaching Writing through Audience Awareness
Curriculum and instruction.
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Romancing the Reader: An Analysis of Tropes in the Romance Genre
<p>This thesis looks at the endurance and steady popularity of the romance genre through literary history through the lens of three of the most used tropes: forbidden lovers, slow burn, and enemies to lovers. Through comparative literary analysis, this work examines how these tropes are used in …
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'The reader and I are making faces': W. S. Graham's Management
… a writer intensely vigilant of and generous to the requirements and responsibilities of his reader, whomever they prove to be. But he is equally interested in directing the reader’s imagination, of carefully (and sometimes aggressively) managing their response, of curating the spaces into which …
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Solving the reader collision problem with a hierarchical Q-learning algorithm
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.
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Imagining The Reader: Vernacular Representation and Specialized Vocabulary in Medieval English Literature
William Langland's The Vision of Piers Plowman was probably the first medieval English poem to achieve a national audience because Langland chose to write in the vernacular and he used the specialized vocabularies of his readership to open the poem to them. During the late thirteenth and fourteenth …
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Temporal structure and meaning : the defamiliarization of the reader in Faulkner's Go down, Moses
This study of Faulkner's Go Down, Moses uses the reader-response theories of Wolfgang Iser to examine the affective impact of strategically-arranged folk conventions and mythopoeic devices upon a textually-based, white "civilized" reader. Using the devices of Southwestern humor, the trickster, and …
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The reader and the page : textual gaps, textual arrangements and images in prose fiction
This thesis is a reader-focused analysis of unconventional graphic devices that appear onthe pages of graphically innovative prose fictions. The main aim is to provide a study ofthe implications that unconventional and graphically disruptive pages have on the readingprocess and how the reader can …
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The Culture of the Reader, the Origin of the Text, and How Children Predict as They Read
The impact of culture on reading comprehension is recognized by practitioners in the field of teaching English as a Second Language. Culture is an important part of what the reader brings to the page in terms of previous experiences which are stored and structured as knowledge. Cross-cultural …
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The Reader: an exploration of the history and present place of Reader ministry in the Church of England
A substantial part of the Church of England ministry is provided by Readers, but little information is available about their past or present position in the church. This thesis addresses this absence of knowledge by the exploration of Reader history and its contemporary expression. History is …
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The Elusive "Poem of the World": The Task of the Reader and the Problem of Knowledge in Heinrich von Kleist's Novellas "Die Marquise von O..." and "Das Erdbeben in Chili"
The literary works of Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811) have long been an important influence on thinkers and writers interested and engaged in the German cultural tradition, particularly due to the enigmatic and highly problematic nature of his narrative approach. In recent years, however, there has …
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The Elusive "Poem of the World": The Task of the Reader and the Problem of Knowledge in Heinrich von Kleist's Novellas "Die Marquise von O..." and "Das Erdbeben in Chili"
The literary works of Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811) have long been an important influence on thinkers and writers interested and engaged in the German cultural tradition, particularly due to the enigmatic and highly problematic nature of his narrative approach. In recent years, however, there has …
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Textual Space and Metafiction in Mark Z Danielewski's House of Leaves
The thesis presents an argument that through employing metafictional techniques, experimentation with textual and graphic space and allusions to hypertextual devices, Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves seeks to remind the reader of the presence of the book in print fiction. Danielewski dispenses …
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Reading Daniel as a theological hermeneutics textbook
Reading Daniel as a Theological Hermeneutics Textbook is a thesis that sets out to read the book of Daniel as a narrative textbook in the field of theological hermeneutics. Employing such disciplines as historical criticism, literary criticism, narrative theology and hermeneutics, this thesis seeks …
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What Not To Do: Learning by Example in the Republic and Gulliver's Travels
Through aesthetic techniques, Plato’s The Republic and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels provide the reader with efferent knowledge, benefitting the reader’s understanding of the entirety of each text. Plato and Swift employ form, characterization, and the theme of vision to challenge readers to …
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Examining experiences that develop responsivity in practitioners
This thesis has been produced to meet the requirements of Brock University's Masters of Education program. It is the result of many peoples' reflections on and beliefs about the act of teaching in today's world. This manuscript is intended to provide the reader with an engaged interpretation of the …
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An Introduction to Local Multipoint Distribution Services with an Investigation of the Effects of Vegetation on the Radio Channel
This thesis takes the reader through an overview of issues pertinent to Local Multi-point Distribution Services (LMDS). The reader will first learn what LMDS is and then review the system architectures that are made available for LMDS technologies. After summarizing the basics of LMDS, we will …
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Becoming “so terribly altered”: Reading transformations of the self in “The Fall of the House of Usher”
In this thesis, I try to situate the effects of the text, specifically on the reader, by looking at ideas of transformation. My primary investigation is to determine the extent of the effect on the reader and the reader's reality, and if it is possible to alter the reader by inducing a …
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