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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"genre conventions"”.
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TRANSLATING GENRE: POST-2003 IRAQI FICTION AND CRITIQUES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
… on texts that Anglophone publishers market as genre fiction. Iraqi writers, I contend, use genre fictional conventions purportedly derived from U.S. and European traditions at the same time that they alter these conventions by adapting them to the setting of occupied Iraq. A model of …
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Tranny Muse
… lineated poems, enacts yet queers traditional genre conventions by transgressing their boundaries as I wrestle with finding form for desire, ethics, trauma, and dis/eu-phoria.
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Communication in the Sciences: Genre and Gender Differences in Scientific Writing
… important. This study examines two major genres of scientific writing: academic journal articles and popular science magazine articles. The first aim is to improve the efficacy of writing in the sciences by providing a better understanding of genre conventions and effective linguistic …
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Gay Comics and Queer Male Comics in America: History, Conventions and Challenges
… male comics' production is dominated by two key genres: gay porno comics and gay ghetto comics. The conventions and characteristics of these genres help to construct and reinforce a dominant gay male habitus that is both sexual and social. Drawing on interviews as well as close readings of a …
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Jazz contacts : envisaging Basil Breakey's photographic remains beyond the archive
… a local site for an international photographic genre is largely under-researched. In consequence, its iconic trajectory, with its interconnected sets of specific historical and cultural contexts, is still inaccessible to a larger viewership. One of the very few books of South African jazz …
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An original script for the stage – Case 121: The Shadowless Corpse plus accompanying essay
… The play is a pastiche in style of the film noir genre, using genre conventions to ease the audience into a familiar world of detectives and crime before undermining the assumptions by including the philosophical elements. The accompanying essay analyses the considerations and decisions made …
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Representations of Dyslexia Across Genres in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
… at the intersection of disability studies, genre studies, and children’s and young adult (YA) literature scholarship, this doctoral thesis centres the representations of dyslexia and dyslexics across genres. Commonly defined within the medical model of disability as the struggle to read, …
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Textual curators and writing machines: authorial agency in encyclopedias, print to digital.
… “Author Construct” is not static across eras, genres, or textual technologies. In contrast to traditional considerations of the poetic author, the encyclopedic author demonstrates a different form of authorial agency that operates within strict genre conventions and does not place a premium on …
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Beyond This Point Are Monsters
… the manner in which the show defies its own genre conventions. I chose <em>Dark Shadows</em> as the foundational source for my text because it is a program which incessantly crosses its own boundaries. Conventionally, soap opera is a form of fictional realism, but the digressive concerns of …
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Desire for Transformation: The Actualization of Self-identity Through Change In the Films <em>Raw</em> and <em>Titane</em>
… as monstrous, due to the implementation of genre conventions, they play on perception of the monstrous feminine, to reveal cultural perceptions that these transgressions are dangerous, destructive, and disruptive. Yet through primary identification with the protagonists, as well as the …
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Beyond Consensus: A Rhetorical Genre Analysis of the Mountain Valley Pipeline's 401 Public Hearings
… and institutional uptake of the public hearing genre. More specifically, this study examines how public hearing genre conventions are established and how those conventions inform and often govern tensions that arise in public discourse about a contested environmental project. In my research, I …
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The Analysis of Multimedia through the Lens of Music Theory: A Model for Analyzing the Interaction of Auditory, Visual, and Narrative Stimuli in Multimediatic Artforms
… analyzing narrative multimedia applicable across genres and platforms. Synchronization schemas account for the combination of sonic, visual, and narrative elements through the shared metric of intensity. I explore the interaction of these various modalities by focusing on a particular …
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Notes towards & Maggie Nelson’s Rhetorical Fictions: a study of Bluets
… in which Nelson revises the boundaries of the genre. These include her fragmentation and complication of the lyrical ‘I’ and the disruption and incorporation of non-poetic linguistic discourses into the matter of poetry in order to create narrative. The thesis identifies two prose genres in …
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From whodunnits to literary fiction: The charting of an author’s transition from crime writer to literary novelist
The study examines the nature and functioning of genre in the commercial marketplace and the negotiations concerning genre labelling that a contemporary writer must undertake in relation to publishers’ decisions, reader expectations and critical responses. Part One assesses and theorises some …
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Using Science Read Alouds and Inquiry Activities to Enhance Student Writing in Family Message Journals
… can learn the basic components of science genres in a context where they are guided to compose such texts through teacher-led joint construction of models followed by independent practice. Family message journals provided an interesting venue for exploring the deliberate …
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Dual Auteurs?: The Case Study of Gordon Hessler and Christopher Wicking
… the 1950s and 60s, but personal responses to the genre and the era. The four movies are analysed as the body of work of the writer and director team and compared and contrasted to the films of the other artists who influenced them. The study examines the genre conventions as well as the original …
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'The Slaves of Chance': Aspects of the Exposition of Change in Some of Shakepeare's Works and their Sources
… of the Time-Fortuna-Occasio topoi and of· genre conventions in Early Modern discourse on change; and seeks to identify some of the complexity in Shakespeare's use of them. An appendix to the chapter addresses the question of the inconsistency of discourse in the source-texts. In the …
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Return to the scene of the crime: The returnee detective and postcolonial crime fiction
… investigates the ways in which the crime novel genre has been taken up and adapted in order to depict and grapple with ideas of justice in selected postcolonial contexts. It approaches this investigation through the figure of the 'returnee detective' in these texts and determines how this …
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The Digital Turn in Indian Film Sound: Ontologies and Aesthetics
… these shifts shaped the aesthetics, styles, genre conventions, and norms of image-sound relationships in Indian cinema in comparison with similar practices from Euro-American film industries. I analysed nearly 60 hours of interviews I conducted with sound practitioners in India, examined …
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