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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"focalisation"”.
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The role of chemokine receptor trafficking in regulating neutrophil migration to inflammatory sites
… a more dispersive and exploratory behaviour. Focalisation acts to concentrate local neutrophil effector responses but excess clustering can prove detrimental, resulting in undesirable tissue damage. Neutrophil dispersal promotes the encounter of alternative signals and therefore drives …
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The relation between form and ideology in Doris Lessing's Children of violence
… by means of close textual analysis of narrative focalisation and representation of subjectivity. It is a central contention of the study that literature is influenced by political and historical events and emerges from a social and cultural milieu which helps shape form and content. The …
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Lucky's : a novel ; and, Changing voices : a study of narration and arrangement
… the functions of various narrators and variable focalisation within multi-narrator novels. Of primary interest is the relation between narrators in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Both are centrifugal novels—texts in which narrators and forms …
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Comme des galets sur la grève (nouvelles), suivi de Rêver le "réel" l'espace dans la nouvelle fantastique onirique (essai)
… de la narration et, surtout, de la focalisation.La partie création de la thèse, soit le recueil de nouvelles homogène intitulé Comme des galets sur la grève , met en place neuf textes plus ou moins courts et participant du fantastique onirique. Ce recueil témoigne de mon parti pris …
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LA DIFFÉRENCE DES SEXES DANS L’OEUVRE D’AGOTA KRISTOF
… was used, with an emphasis on voice and focalisation. The textual analysis undertaken shows that, from this perspective, her work can be divided into two different periods. The first one contains her earlier writing in the form of the short stories and plays, where, in a few stories, …
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From Novel to Film: Claude Chabrol's adaptations of Ruth Rendell's A Judgement in Stone (La Ceremonie) And The Bridesmaid (La Demoiselle d'Honneur)
… From a literary angle of study, the questions of focalisation and organisation of the diegesis will be dealt with by using Genette’s criteria. Narrative tools will be compared to filmic ones and the study will evidence differences in the range of devices each artist might use, and their different …
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The Syntax of Relative Clauses and Related Phenomena in Proto-Indo-European
… of discourse-driven movement (Topicalisation and Focalisation) and clisis (“Wackernagel’s Law”) in the left periphery, my reconstruction has implications beyond relative clauses, shaping our understanding of the significant role pragmatics plays in the ordering of constituents in PIE, as well as …
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Katherine Mansfield and Conceptualisations of the Self
… learns to exploit literary techniques such as focalisation and free indirect discourse in order to represent the ‘hundreds of selves’ experienced by her characters. <br/><br/>The thesis will illustrate from a selection of stories, how the spirit and uniqueness of Mansfield’s experimental …
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Etude de la structure génétique des populations de pétoncle géant (Placopecten Magellanicus) du sud du golfe du St-Laurent par analyse de l'ADNmt et des loci enzymatiques
… déshydrogénase (IDH) ont été analyses par focalisation isoélectrique sur gel de polyacrylamide. Les variations alléliques de ces loci, caractérisées par l'expression des isozymes, ont fait l'objet d'une analyse statistique menant a l'élaboration d'une distance génétique relative pour les …
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Ecoconscious: Skilful Sensing in Young Adult Fantasy Literature
… in nature. The first chapter studies how focalisation can present sight as an embodied, relational skill. In J.K. Rowling’s "Harry Potter" series and Nnedi Okorafor’s "Nsibidi Scripts" trilogy, human–animal gazes define and conduct relationships, sometimes antagonistic and sometimes …
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Literature, interarts, and multimodality in the narrative of Seán Virgo: a transmedial inquiry into pictorial, architectural, theatrical, musical, and iconotextual tranfers
… psycho-affective plausibility and consistent focalisation to its round character life. Chapter 4 explores the histrionic (and dimly inspected) field of theatrical painting into fiction. The investigation will not be so much based on explicating the mechanisms of dramaturgy, which are …
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Word Order, Focus, and Clause Linking in Greek Tragic Poetry
The thesis comprises an investigation of three aspects of sentence structure in Classical Greek (henceforth CG) dramatic poetry: order of the main sentence elements (subject, verb, and object) within the clause, the emphatic position at the start of the clause, and the structure of inter-clausal …