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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Wayne Booth"”.
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"Oh, Must We Dream Our Dreams And Have Them Too?": Transformation Through Reading In Elizabeth Bishop's "Questions Of Travel," Carol Shields' Swann, And Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck's The Lives Of Others
… texts. Louise Rosenblatt, Wolfgang Iser, and Wayne Booth analyze how readers interact with texts transactionally, as a phenomenology, and as an ethical exchange. This grounding gives a foundation on which to analyze and define the interpretive acts demonstrated by readers. Poststructuralist …
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Opening windows into the past: A study of the importance of annotations, footnotes, and the resulting reaccentuation of Victorian editions for students
… I researched the works of Mikhail Bakhtin and Wayne Booth along with other relevant resources, and I studied the effects of existing or potential annotations and footnotes in several editions of Jane Eyre, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Lady Audley's Secret, and The Romantic Adventures of a …
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Negotiating Hope and Honesty: A Rhetorical Criticism of Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
… <p>Using a rhetorical approach established by Wayne Booth in <em>The Rhetoric of Fiction</em> and <em>The Company We Keep</em>, this thesis traces the reasons for the inclusion of hope and the strategies by which hope is created and maintained. Booth's rhetorical approach recognizes that a …
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Public Politics, Private God: Political Rhetoric of Religious Morality in Selected American Social Novels
… of ethical and political critics such as Wayne Booth, Martha C. Nussbaum, Irving Howe, and Frederic Jameson.</p><p>In this study, I present textual analyses of four American social novels—Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Rebecca Harding Davis' “Life in the Iron Mills,” Edward …
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The Essentials of Narrative: A Synthesis of the West and the East
… the essay challenges theories proposed by Wayne Booth, Michel Foucault, Umberto Eco, Stanley Fish, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Derrida, Jonathan Culler and Tzvetan Todorov. The major texts discussed are Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, Luo Guanzhong's Three Kingdoms, William Faulkner's …
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Malcolm Lowry's design-governing postures : a rhetorical analysis of Under the volcano
… theories of Edward Corbett, Mark Schorer and Wayne Booth to adumbrate the notion that a rhetorical analysis addresses the writer's intent, his work and thee work's impact upon its aud4ence to evaluate the effectiveness of a piece of literature. As an illustration, Lowry's essay "Garden of …
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The grotesque in Gogol and Poe
… emphasizes its close relationship with what Wayne Booth calls infinite irony stresses the possibility of a positive movement in the grotesque which seeks to transcendentally reconcile the disparity between the ideal and the real through the clash of seemingly incompatible elements in a work …
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Centers of Consciousness: Protagonism and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… always Dorothea" of its likeable heroine, while Wayne Booth describes identification as an "immature" approach to literature that occludes "aesthetic experience." Character, however, is not always so all-consuming. I argue that both the brevity and the sheer numerousness of depictions of minor …
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The Rhetoric of Violence
This thesis seeks to understand how we read and understand the use of depictions of violence by examining its rhetorical presentation. Although the media gives us a mixed understanding of the way that experiencing violence secondarily (that is, through all types of media) affects us, scholarship in …