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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"close textual analysis"”.
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Screening Difference: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Autism in Contemporary Film
… autistic characters. Data were collected through close textual analysis of narrative structures, dialogue, and cinematic techniques. Findings reveal persistent reliance on the savant stereotype and several caregiver-centered narratives that privilege neurotypical perspectives. The study …
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George Eliot's Middlemarch: The Making of a Modern Marriage
… marital values. For the purposes of this analysis, the applicable aspects of modern marriage are sexuality, shifting gender roles, and a dismissal of social class as the major factor in choosing a partner. In order to achieve this end, I apply close textual analysis as well as a New …
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The figure of Christ in the works of Oscar Wilde
In this study I consider, by a process of close textual analysis, attention to larger symbolic registers, and comparative reference to other works of the author and his contemporaries, the thematic and structural function of the figure of Christ in the mature writings of Oscar Wilde. I have avoided …
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Moments of Revision: Thomas Hardy and the Modern Manuscript, 1890-1928
… and study of literary manuscripts. Combining close textual analysis of Hardy’s drafts with a broader assessment of their significance to the field of manuscript studies itself, the project argues – taking Hardy as its central case study – for a reconsideration of the critical fertility of …
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Rhetorical and musical synthesis and the strategies for inter-generational resonance in Queen's Bohemian rhapsody
… an inter-generational scope. Through the use of Close Textual Analysis (CTA), with an emphasis on metaphoric criticism, combined with Music Analysis of the score using popular song analysis tools, this study deconstructs the song and uncovered rhetorical strategies of the music and the lyrics as …
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The mediation of consciousness in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
This study sets out to investigate, through close textual analysis, how a reader's conscious involvement both with the characters, and the world that they inhabit, is generated in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, and how this is maintained through the novel. Chosen as a prototypical …
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Gaming narratives : Chinese culture in digital mediums
… markets. To address this question, it conducts close textual analysis of three landmark titles: Genshin Impact (2020), Naraka: Bladepoint (2021), and Black Myth: Wukong (2024). It examines narrative motifs, visual and architectural design, and music in the context of China’s policy framework and …
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Perilous pop: ragtime, jazz and progressive social thought in the early 20th Century Press, 1900-1930.
… of progressive social thought. Through close textual analysis, the author illustrates the ways in which musical spaces, musical sounds, and dance practices, operated as the fulcrum for debates about how to reconstitute an "ideal" public in the wake of industrial modernity. For some …
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Elizabeth Bowen and the art of visuality
… visual modes as a personal modernist idiom. Close textual analysis of Bowen’s fictions forms the dominant methodology of this thesis and facilitates my delineation of her engagement with the Futurist and Surrealist aesthetics in addition to broader aspects of her visuality, including her …
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Who is Paying for God: A thematic analysis of Henry Arthur Jones's religious plays in relation to the modernist trend
… Modernist movement in the theatre. Using a close textual analysis of Jones’s plays <em>Michael and His Lost Angel, Judah, </em>and <em>Saints and Sinners, </em>this project examines Jones’s use of popular theatrical genres to provide commentary on the religious and fiscal tensions in the …
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LIONS AND POLAR BEARS AND GENDER ROLES, OH MY! The Treatment of Women and Femininity in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials
… and gender roles are called into question. Using close textual analysis, this thesis examines the contrasts and continuities in the portrayal of female characters between Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia and Pullman’s His Dark Materials, in order to demonstrate how authors can unwittingly repeat …
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LIONS AND POLAR BEARS AND GENDER ROLES, OH MY! The Treatment of Women and Femininity in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials
… and gender roles are called into question. Using close textual analysis, this thesis examines the contrasts and continuities in the portrayal of female characters between Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia and Pullman’s His Dark Materials, in order to demonstrate how authors can unwittingly repeat …
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A critical systematic-ethical appraisal of the ethical design by Miroslav Volf within the South African context
… theological method, the research engages in close textual analysis of Volf’s major works, placing them in sustained dialogue with contextual theological voices and lived South African realities. Drawing additionally on David Schweiker’s multidimensional ethical framework, the study evaluates …
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The monumental turn: metonymic synergy between the Statue of Liberty and 'The New Colussus"
… needed. After examining the history and applying Close Textual Analysis to both artifacts, the study concludes that the meanings embodied in the Statue of Liberty’s structure have remained stable over time. The sonnet modifies the rhetorical intent of the statue and adds layers of meaning to the …
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"What a Poor, Passive Machine": The Psychosomatic Heroine from Richardson to Austen
… to physiological symptoms. I demonstrate through close textual analysis that the psychosomatic heroine originates with Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa and continues as a trope that Frances Burney’s Cecilia and The Wanderer, Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion, and Geraldine Jewsbury’s …
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Warrior Women and the Shaping of Narrative in Medieval French Literature
… to the production of the text itself. Through close textual analysis and by using gender theory and historical methods to frame the question, the dissertation investigates the ways that the character of the warrior woman informs the text. Through the lens of gender theory, the dissertation …
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Mind the Gap: (Re)Reading Narratorial Construction in Selected Novels of Ernest Hemingway
… selected novels of Ernest Hemingway. Drawn from close textual analysis, the theory works to reconcile critical difficulties by recognizing an implicit gap between the narrator-character construct appearing in the text and its conceptual origin—a new idea and term called arche-narrator. The role …
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Time Bending: Temporal Malleability and Organizational Response in Crisis Situations
… during and after the events of 9/11. Using Close Textual Analysis as configured by Michael Leff, the time focused rhetorical analysis is extended to include slices of time. How CEOs use experienced time and interpreted time to gain stockholder confidence, control the crisis and create a …
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A Production Notebook On Waiting For Godot
… a workable concept for the production. (For a close textual analysis of the play the reader should refer to the handwritten notations in the prompt book.) Three aspects of the script are examined: first, the externals; second, the characters; and third, the theme.
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Existing without permission: a visual rhetorical analysis on Banksy's NOLA children and the betrayal of authority
… interpretative framework for Visual Rhetoric. Close Textual Analysis and Kenneth Burke's Dramatistic Pentad combine as methods informed by scholarship in visual design and visual rhetoric. The study concludes by noting Banksy’s condemnation of authority figures for their role in betraying the …
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