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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"fictional writing"”.
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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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Tourists and travellers: women's non-fictional writing about Scotland 1770-1830
… the travels, and the travel and other non-fictional writings, of five women who travelled within Scotland during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century: the anonymous author of A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland; Sarah Murray (later known as Sarah Aust); Anne Grant of Laggan, …
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Poststructuralism, postmodernism and British academic attitudes: with special reference to David Lodge, Malcolm Bradbury and Gabriel Josipovici
… sections of this thesis examine the critical and fictional writing of three British academics, David Lodge, Malcolm Bradbury and Gabriel Josipovici, in order to elucidate their attitudes towards poststructuralist and postmodernist thinking in the quarter century roughly between the mid-nineteen …
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Playing with the Other: The Stories of Mu Xin and Vladimir Nabokov
… creation. By accommodating the Other in their fictional writing, Nabokov and Mu Xin free the self from temporal, spatial and cultural constraints.
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Pathos : a metaphoric exploration of cannibalistic, gluttonous and consumptive impulses in fiction writing
… nouns, when used as metaphors, operate within fictional writing, by examining them in relation to my thesis novel Pathos. To conduct this examination, the developed metaphors of autophagia / cannibalism, gluttony and consumption are applied to three distinct yet intertwined concepts in the …
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Lithuanian literary history: a theoretical study of writings /
… the beginning of Lithuanian Literary History writings from the first historiography narrative episodes in the 19th century and the first amateur and professional literary history attempts in the first half of the 20th century. The research covers all forms of Lithuanian literary histories …
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Lietuvių literatūros istorija: teorinis rašymų tyrimas /
… the beginning of Lithuanian Literary History writings from the first historiography narrative episodes in the 19th century and the first amateur and professional literary history attempts in the first half of the 20th century. The research covers all forms of Lithuanian literary histories …
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Feminist critique and the Pueblos as textual : an architectural translation of Monique Wittig
… artifact (the pueblos); and experiment (the fictional writing of Wittig) - themes, elements, and attitudes which can have spatial, perceptual, and, thus, architectural significance. A portion of the thesis rests on what I have construed to be some aspects of feminisms' affinity with the …
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From denotation to detonation : aestheticization, memory and emphathic readings in trauma narratives
… extreme human experiences through modes of fictional writing. I am essentially looking into the renderings of unspeakable subject matter that occupies a liminal space in language's functioning. I aim to explore the potentialities of the most irredeemably strange or seemingly incoherent …
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The out of school literacy practices and semiotic resources of two grade 4 boys who excel at creative writing
… research has shown the importance of creative writing and that children's creative writing is fuelled by their interests . It is believed that reading and writing is intimately connected and that those who can read well should be able to write well and vice versa. However, teachers have argued …
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The unhealed wound : Olive Schreiner's expressive art
… Schreiner's social context and the form of her fictional writing. It is not intended as an interpretation of her work but rather represents a preliminary sketch of the social and political discourses which structured her environment. I suggest that for Olive Schreiner writing is not a means of …
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The Museum Within Us: Exposing artist-led curatorial strategies in an expanded practice
… objectifying and distancing style of academic writing and could be described as revelatory and reflective non-fictional writing. The visual, as the primary language, and the textual, as the secondary language, are used here to document the research process. This recording of my past practice is …
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Bessie Head : re-writing the romance : journalism, fiction (and gender)
… I claim, in this thesis, that early journalistic writing by Head, which has been critically ignored, and even dismissed, not only merits critical attention but, furthermore, that knowledge this work will yield new insights into Head's fictional writing for which she is famous. Between 1959 and …
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Language, Character and Decision in Robert Louis Stevenson
… profound implications for the aesthetics of his writing. This thesis argues that Stevenson’s choice of words gives rise to an aesthetic patterning that defines much of his fiction and that this patterning is shaped by his ideas on decision. This dissertation is the first full-scale examination of …
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From a young Bolshevik to a professional writer : A critical study of Wang Meng 's novels with reference to his writing from the 1950s to the 1990s
… writers, having produced a substantial body of fictional work since the 1950s, much of which has surprised readers and critics alike because of its high level of innovation, and because of its challenge to the dominant Chinese traditional literary discourse. Wang Meng is significant for …
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Dispossession, Adoption, and (Dis)Inheritance: The Sympathetic Sublime in George Eliot’s Fiction
… of George Eliot’s sympathetic sublime in her fictional writing. To arrive at this designation for Eliot’s literary project, the dissertation synthesizes three distinct yet interconnected strands within Eliot scholarship: her emphasis on building absorbing sympathetic relationships between …
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Nancy Huston in Self-translation. An Aesthetics of Redoublement.
… bilingual author of both fiction and non-fiction writing, born in Anglophone Canada but living in France since the early Seventies. While secondary bibliography exploring single couples of her self-translated texts presently covers a good deal of her novels, a comparative analysis of the evolution …
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Stendhal and Europe: The Portrayal of National Character and Cross-Cultural Consciousness in the Early Nineteenth Century
… and Europe. Covering a great range of Stendhal’s writing, and focusing on lesser-known texts and materials, it aims to explore his perception of national character, and the role of inter-European dialogue in his realism. Part One hypothesizes the importance of national identities as integral to …