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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"genre criticism"”.
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Genre criticism : an application of BP's image restoration campaign to the crisis communication genre
… campaign's failure through an application of the genre model of criticism. By defining the crisis communication genre and applying it to the artifact, the current study uncovers the reasons behind the failure of the campaign. Through this discussion, this analysis identifies that BP did not …
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Benjamin Wallin: A Respectable Minister's Proclamation of the Gospel in Eighteenth-Century London
… gospel to unbelievers. Through the use of form criticism, specifically genre criticism, Wallin’s sermons are compared to those of John Brine to identify the homiletical fidelity of each man's sermons with the established sermonic genres of the Protestant church.
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History and Ambiguity: Graham Greene's <em>The Third Man</em> and <em>The Quiet American</em> in Print and on Screen.
… thesis, I shall examine Graham Greene’s place in criticism of the British novel by focusing on <em>The Third Man</em> and <em>The Quiet American</em>. In terms of theoretical approach, I shall focus on a close, critical reading of the texts employing elements of cultural, historical, …
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Andrew Sarris and the Politique des Auteurs (1962-1974): An Assessment and an Analysis
… 1973, the dominant methodology in cinematic criticism. It was tentatively formulated by Francois Truffaut in 1954 and greatly expanded upon by Andrew Sarris in 1962. Briefly, the “auteur theory” (as it is known in English speaking countries.) contends that aesthetically important films are …
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The poetic self in the English ode, 1740-1820
… Wordsworth, and Keats. With the rise of New Criticism in the 1930s, genre criticism has been neglected. The importance of the individual poem has led to ignoring the context or labeling process of poems which share a group of common characteristics in form and purpose. The English ode in …
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Detective/text/critic
… and the very institution of academic literary criticism itself. The notion of a detective genre, and genre-criticism in general, is put into question by analysing the legal and coercive nature of a literary concept that styles itself as objective, scientific and historical. The power of the …
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The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy, ca.1567-1623
… thesis offers a materialist account of dramatic genre. It shows how English revenge tragedies were mediated by the social circumstances of their early modern dramatic production, and how in turn such circumstances found expression in dramatic form. Its method draws on Marxist critical theory, but …
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"Teamsters are Beautiful" in the Twenty-first Century: The 'Sisterly' Organizing Rhetoric of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
… Tim Kuhn's work on organizational communication genres, this project seeks a generic understanding of Teamsters organizing rhetoric through analysis of the unique rhetorical situation at hand: the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) organizing female members by using rhetoric that …
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<b><em>Black Beauty</em></b> as Antebellum Slave Narrative
… sketched several commonalities between the two genres. In 2003 Tess Cosslett made an explicit-if brief-comparison of the animal autobiography and the slave narrative, a comparison developed in depth in her 2006 study Talking Animals in British Children's Literature 1786-1914. This thesis …