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Showing 1 to 20 of 438 for “"Tropes"”.
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Fog Tropes: A social and cultural history of the foghorn
This thesis considers the interconnectedness of sound (the foghorn), weather (fog) and place (the coast) through interrogating the foghorn’s role as a sonic marker along British coastlines, from the end of the 19th century to its decline a century later. Foghorns are the sonic equivalent to the …
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Stage(d) mothers: mother-daughter tropes in Twentieth-Century American drama
… features of the mother-daughter relationship—“tropes”—are put into dialogue with one another. As a work of feminist scholarship, this work seeks to both identify patriarchal messages contained in plays throughout twentieth-century America, as well as the potential for resistance to those …
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Metamorphosis and fairy tale tropes in Christa Wolf’s Patterns of Childhood
… German writer Christa Wolf’s use of fairy tale tropes in her novel Patterns of Childhood, first published in German in 1976 in East Germany as Kindheitsmuster. Wolf uses fairy tale tropes to explore themes that she could not write about openly under East German censorship, which prohibited East …
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Romancing the Reader: An Analysis of Tropes in the Romance Genre
… 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 both classic and contemporary works, specifically looking at Thomas of England’s medieval tale …
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VILIFYING OBAMACARE: CONSERVATIVE TROPES OF VICTIMAGE IN THE 2009 HEALTH CARE DEBATES
… examine the destructive power that conservative tropes and victimhood rhetoric have on the ability to engage in productive discourse in the political sphere. I examine three episodes in the 2009 summer debates to outline the progression of the conservative attack on health care and to illuminate …
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Polecats, Poison, and Prejudice: Naturalized Anti-Judaic Tropes in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale
<p><em>The Pardoner’s Tale</em>, one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s <em>Canterbury Tales</em>, is a fourteenth-century allegory against gluttony, told by a corrupt, gluttonous pardoner to the rest of the pilgrims on their way to St. Thomas Becket’s shrine at Canterbury. In the Pardoner’s initial …
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53x+m³=Ø? (Sex+Me=No Result?): Tropes of Asexuality in Literature and Film
<p>This dissertation examines the concept of asexuality and a variety of representations of asexuality in literature, film, and popular media. I argue that asexuality, often defined as a "lack of desire or sexual attraction," challenges the notion that sexual object choice is always a central point …
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Cultural Translation: An Analysis of Chinese Tropes in Emerging Luxury Chinese Lifestyle Fashion Brands
… impact of Orientalism in the 1990s, Chinese tropes began to be widely deployed in global luxury fashion brand collections. In the late twentieth century, following the success of ‘China style’ effects, the use of Chinese tropes was a dominant trend in emerging luxury Chinese branding …
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Country and city: a study of autobiographical tropes in Ncumisa Vapi's novel Litshona limpume
… this thesis, Country and City - Autobiographical tropes in Ncumisa Vapi's Litshona Liphume arises out of a complex understanding of the author's narrative and literary intentions. Country refers to the fact that the story is set in a specifically named rural area in the Eastern Cape in the late …
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NARRATED TRAVEL AND RHETORICAL TROPES: PRODUCING "THE TURK" IN THE TRAVEL WRITING OF CYPRUS, 1955-2005
… of narration and self-representation create the tropes that fix other people in ideological space. This analysis examines the production of difference in selected travel narratives set in Cyprus in the later modern era, which coincides with the rise of anti-colonial politics, nationalism, and …
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Effective framing strategies for service advertising: The impact of narrative, rhetorical tropes and argument on consumer response across different service categories
This thesis investigates the role of information framing strategies for services advertising. The framing strategy refers to the distinguishable pattern in the manifest advertisement (McQuarrie and Mick 1996) and represents the structural composition of the information presented (Tsai 2007). …
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Effective framing strategies for services advertising: The impact of narrative, rhetorical tropes and argument on consumer response across different service categories
This thesis investigates the role of information framing strategies for services advertising. The framing strategy refers to the distinguishable pattern in the manifest advertisement (McQuarrie and Mick 1996) and represents the structural composition of the information presented (Tsai 2007). …
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The representation of disabled women in Anglo American advertising : examining how cultural disability tropes impact on the subjective wellbeing of disabled women
… use oppressive portrayals and cultural tropes surrounding disability and gender as an opportunity to reassert their affirmative identities as disabled women. I intend for the conclusions of my thesis to be used by the makers of advertisements who aim to promote authentic, rather than …
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Conspiracy, exile, & resistance : planning & narrative in Chelsea, Massachusetts
… in the rhetorical patterns collectively known as tropes, hypothesizing that three specific tropes reflect the institutional dimensions of the conflict at hand: *the trope of conspiracy (causality and motive), *the trope of exile (invisibility and exclusion), and *the trope of resistance (authority …
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Trickster-hero and rite of passage: effects of traditionally west African folklore forms on postcolonial Afro-Caribbean literature
… on the implied presence of African storytelling tropes and characters in postcolonial Afro-Caribbean literature. It argues that Afro-Caribbean writers deliberately utilize these tropes in order to separate themselves from a vestigial European cultural presence. The three main tropes and …
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