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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"fictional character"”.
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Fictional Selves: Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography
<p>Fictional Selves: Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography is about fictionality and the role that processes of fiction play in our experiences of personal subjectivity. I argue that the particular and historically situated form of the Victorian fictional autobiography helps us …
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Portraying The Role Of Giuseppe Zangara In Sondheim's Assassins
… the process an actor goes through in creating a fictional character based on a historical person. It is not intended to be a guide for other actors but instead a look at the work of one particular actor in portraying Giuseppe Zangara in Sondheim and Weidman's Assassins. This thesis consists of …
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Perry Smith and Josef Kavalier: Historical and Literary Victimized Victimizers
… <em>In Cold Blood</em>, and Josef Kavalier, a fictional character in Michael Chabon's <em>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay</em>, represent these ambiguities. Both men become murderers acting out violence that was inflicted upon them as children. However, only Kavalier seems to work …
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Brahms's Kreisleriana : Johannes Brahms's identification with Johannes Kreisler
… Brahms's identification with E.T.A. Hoffmann's fictional character, Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler. It seeks to develop a more representative understanding of the phenomenon than that which existed previously. Chapter 1 surveys existing scholarly examinations of Brahms's Kreisler identification …
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"Mrs. Brown's" Journey: An Imagined Correspondence Between Virginai Woolf and Jean-Paul Sartre
<p> “Mrs. Brown” is a fictional character referred to by Virginia Woolf in her essay titled. “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" in which Woolf discusses how to create characters in fiction, and explores the differences between earlier writers and her contemporaries the “moderns” in writing fiction. This …
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Fictional Writing: The Role of Positive Affect and Empathic Concern
The purpose of this study was to examine fictional writing, the positive moods produced by fictional writing, and the ability to empathize and fantasize as predictors of helping behavior. Forty-four female student participants (ranging in age from 18- 26) at Texas State University-San Marcos were …
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A year in the city
… the American author Mark Twain appearing as a fictional character in the opening and closing. A Year in the City seeks to represent the fragmented, multicultural nature of Sydney through a diverse range of narrators and styles. Each of the chapters is linked through the themes of belonging, …
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Playing on-line : sexual subjectivity, gender play and the construction of the dyke SM fantasy
… erotic writing of emails. Once in cyberspace, a fictional character, the transgender cyborg is created for theoretical and erotic illustration of the power of such performances and to stand as a personal emblem for such on-line playings. Considering this character as an edge-dweller--existing …
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Fabricated Preservation
… storytelling which forefront text and human characters over architecture, props, and environment, and critically examines how an environment can play a crucial role in a narrative. The narrative itself focuses on one question: if a genealogy company had access to past environments via time …
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Let these things be written
… of repurposing hagiographical texts for fictional ends, of balancing known or accepted facts with the need for creative originality and the translation of an iconic historical figure into a fictional character. For the purposes of the PhD I have divided the novel into two sections. The …
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Toward an Understanding of the Novelistic Dimension of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile
… Sophie’s pedagogical programs? (3) Rousseau as a fictional character in a novel: What is the function of Rousseau’s fictionalized self-representation in the Emile as Jean-Jacques the tutor? The findings of each chapter prompt a re-thinking of Rousseau’s novelistic technique in the Emile as it …
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Language on music : Beethoven, Mann and the absolute
… from Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, in which the fictional character Wendell Kretschmar delivers a lecture on and performance of Beethoven's Opus 111. Various metamusical and systemic issues are discussed: it is shown that Mann draws on a large number of established musicoliterary traditions, with …
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Generation, Detection, and Evaluation of Role-play based Jailbreak attacks in Large Language Models
… of instructing the LLM to take on the role of a fictional character that does not adhere to the model developer’s ethical guidelines and will comply with any request. Role-play based jailbreak attacks remain a critical safety issue and open-ended research question due to their success in getting …
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The Artist as a Dramatic Character in Contemporary British Drama: A Critical Study of Stoppard, Barker and Wertenbaker
… is the representation of the artist as a character in British theatre. In this study, which includes three chapters and one introductory chapter, I attempt to show that British playwrights, whether male or female, use their main fictional characters as artists either for self-reflexivity …
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Erlesene Stimmen : semantische und funktionale Analyse von Stimmdarstellungen in englischen fiktionalen Texten
Die Arbeit ist eine korpusbasierende Analyse von Stimmbeschreibungen in englischsprachigen fiktionalen Texten, die sowohl einen sprachwissenschaftlich-semantischen als auch einen literaturwissenschaftlichen Ansatzpunkt wählt. Ersterer geht dabei auf den "Pool" des Stimmbeschreibungsmaterials ein, …
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Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel
… problem of logic and its complex relationship to character. But it was the realist novel, I argue, that allowed for the fullest development of this problem through its own strategies for developing fictional character and representing the fullness of psychic and affective life and its often …
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Decaying gentility in A streetcar named Desire: An actress' analysis of Blanche DuBois
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