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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"female voices"”.
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Fictions of Female Voices in Hellenistic Poetry
This thesis examines female voices in Hellenistic Poetry. It argues that fictions of female voices in Greek literature produced in this period assume unprecedented importance. Fictions of female voices of course appear within these poems in the form of character voices. They also, however, …
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Embodied female voices: sexuality and artistry in Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
… weight” in Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818), the female protagonist in Lawrence’s novel gives voice to her erotic desires. The novel’s powerful illustrations undermine her agency, however, by emphasizing her body’s passivity; she always takes up reactive positions rather than active ones. Lady …
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Shakespearean Polyphony. An exploration of female voices in seven selected plays using a dialogical framework.
… an ideological position held by a character and voices within a dialogical relationship test dominant social ideas. In doing so, the aim is to explore how employing a linguistic approach allows us to develop a more nuanced perspective towards women and female voices in Shakespeare. Taking the …
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Exploring male and female voices in the reporting of gender-based violence in the Namibin media
… this paper aimed to look at the roles male and female voices play in reporting Gender Based Violence in the media. The media plays a big role not only in creating awareness but also educating the masses on gender-based violence. Mass media communications reach and influence large numbers of …
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“VERBAL HYGIENE” ON THE RADIO: AN EXPLORATION INTO PERCEPTIONS OF FEMALE VOICES ON PUBLIC RADIO AND HOW THEY REFLECT LANGUAGE AND GENDER IDEOLOGIES WITHIN AMERICAN CULTURE
… In particular, it investigates the perception of female voices on public radio. As women’s voices enter the public sphere through an authoritative medium, such as National Public Radio, they challenge traditionally held notions of “good” language use. This project considers expectations of how men …
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Effects of voice coding and speech rate on a synthetic speech display in a telephone information system
… study was whether use of alternating male and female voices to code different levels in the database hierarchy would improve user search performance. Other issues investigated were basic intelligibility of these male and female voices as influenced by different levels of speech rate. All …
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Robert Schumann and the Gesangverein: The Dresden Years (1844 - 1850)
… male voice choirs) and Frauenchoren: female voice choirs). These segregated choirs became a phenomenon and established themselves throughout middle-class Germany and the surrounding German-speaking regions, resulting in an abundance of compositions from every composer of significance …
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Authority through Polyvocality in The Poisonwood Bible
… and intradiegeitc perspectives among female narrators. I analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, as well as how they shape one another. I discuss how the intersection of these voices develops the identity and enhances the authority of each narrator. Kingsolver employs …
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The Effects of a Humanoid Robot's Non-lexical Vocalization on Emotion Recognition and Robot Perception
… to investigate the effect of regular non-verbal voices (female voices and male voices) and basic emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, and relief) on user perception. We also further explored the impact of participants' gender on emotion and social perception toward robot Pepper. While listening …
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Portfolio of compositions and exegesis: composing for a choral spectrum.
… in three parts; a choral work for teenage treble voices; a multimedia choral work for boys with changing voices with a moving image DVD; a choral work for male voices; choral works for adult female voices; a complex choral work for adult choirs of a professional standard; and a larger scale choral …
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A quién le importa? Exploring Latina Women's Diabetes Experiences at a Community Care Center: A Community-Based Participatory Research Study
… male homogeneity is prevalent, drowning out female voices and most often communities of color. This study incorporates a CBPR (Community Based Participatory Research) approach with a LatCrit theoretical framework in order to recognize the efforts our community members make to better this …
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Taunggyi Dreamer: Exiles, Diasporas, and Pleasures
… are told through, in part, by ancestral female voices—grandmother and mother— but mostly through the daughter in woman-centered hybrid narratives. It is the community of women, in domestic and public spaces of the home and the world, in India/Burma and the diaspora, that helps define my …
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Medea in Victorian Women's Poetry
… impact and relevancy of Webster and Levy as female voices in the Victorian literary tradition.
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Re-Examining the Female Voice in Chaucer's Italian-Sourced Works: A Study in Paleography, Textual Transmission, and Masculinity
… the areas seldom examined is what I will term "female voice," a term that encompasses the thoughts and speech of women in literature. This project analyzes the representation of female voice in Chaucer's work, and it explores alterations to female voices within the largely male worlds (both …
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MRS HEMINGWAY A novel What Was Lost: Manuscripts and the Meaning of Loss in the Work of Ernest Hemingway
… The novel aims to bring to the fore the female voices that have been lost, or at least sidelined, by the hyper-masculinised narrative of the writer’s life. It also seeks to disrupt the homogenous reading of Hemingway’s first marriage as the only one of lasting importance: a view begun in …
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`I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century
… to explore how these texts represent the young female voices of their protagonists becoming the means by which they express and define their identity. As both female and children, the girls in these books are doubly marginalized within a predominantly male, adult culture. While there have been …
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Coletivos estudantis negros e formação em dança no ensino superior: rotas de encantamento emancipatório do corpo
… black intellectuals, giving special attention to female voices, highlighting Luciane Ramos Silva, Inaicyra Falcão dos Santos, Nilma Lino Gomes, bell hooks, Sueli Carneiro, Amélia Conrado, Grada Kilomba and others such as Luiz Rufino, Rodrigo E. de Jesus and José J. Carvalho.
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“I can't completely run free”: understanding the lived experience of the menstrual cycle for female clients working with male psychotherapists: An interpretative phenomenological analysis with a critical feminist phenomenological lens
… in western society. In an endeavour to place female voices at the heart of the narrative, this study uses interpretative phenomenological analysis (Smith, Larkin and Flowers, 2009) to explore how women experience their menstrual cycle during the process of psychotherapy with a male therapist. …
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Press ‘1’ to speak to a machine: An examination of the psychological factors influencing preference for interaction with artificially intelligent actors
… reliant on the generalized preference for female voices, I find that individuals prefer female (versus male) voiced artificial intelligent agents when occupying roles that are female-typed, but not male-typed, demonstrating a stereotype congruence effect. I extend this finding to show how …
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Children's Perception of Speaker Identity from Spectrally Degraded Input
… to differentiate their mother's voice from the voices of unfamiliar women. Young hearing children were tested on the same tasks and stimuli. Although child implant users performed more poorly than hearing children overall, they successfully differentiated their mother's voice from other voices. …
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