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Showing 1 to 20 of 1108 for “"genres"”.
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Making Confessions: The Confessional Voice Found Among Literary Genres
… writing can take different forms in different genres. In this thesis, works by contemporary authors of personal lyric poetry, memoir, and fiction are discussed and an investigation of confessional writing within their work is undertaken. While not all authors use a direct confessional voice, …
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Genres of Parody: Autofiction, Horror, and the Contemporary Novel
… exhibit a parodic relationship to their own genres, and I situate this argument within tentative designations that I call Digital Autofiction and Weird Horror. Parody here is re-contextualized in the contemporary moment to reflect a mode of genre engagement that decidedly moves away from …
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Metric Schemas and Projections in Three Colombian Folk Genres
… through the analysis of three Colombian folk genres—cantos de boga and currulaos from the Pacific region and joropos from the Eastern plains bordering Venezuela. Specifically, it considers the tension between metric perceptions which arise from bottom-up mechanisms for entrainment (such as …
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Clearing out: Escape genres and American culture, 1880-1915
… destinations; the worlds created by these genres dialectically engage discourses of sentimental domesticity on the one hand, and discourses of authoritarian imperialism on the other. Although critics usually examine such genres as separate cultural formations, I argue in this project that …
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Violin music in mid-18th-century Madrid: Contexts, genres, style
… To date, research on specific composers and genres have been carried out, but global studies on the use of this instrument in specific cities are scarce. In the case of Madrid, some investigations in Spanish pay attention to the increase of violin compositions that took place around the …
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Emerging genres, dangerous classifications: The kairos of digital composing policy
<p><em>Emerging Genres, Dangerous Classifications: The Kairos of Digital Composing Policy</em> argues that writing policy infrastructure plays a significant (if often invisible) role in affording emerging digital genres in rhetoric and composition. Within the last few decades, the accelerating …
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Relative Use of Phonaesthemes in the Constitution and Development of Genres
… play a role in the constitution and evolution of genres? A phonaestheme is a phonemic grouping that correlates well above chance with a particular semantic quality in etymologically unrelated words; phonaesthematic words are generally seen as vivid, expressive, and involved. I explore the nature …
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Case Not Closed: Whiteness and the Rhetorical Genres of Freedom Summer
This dissertation examines the role of whiteness and its relationship to identification in rhetorical representations of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Texts examined at length include recruitment materials, media coverage, pamphlets, and letters produced during the project, as well …
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Representations of Dyslexia Across Genres in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
… representations of dyslexia and dyslexics across genres. Commonly defined within the medical model of disability as the struggle to read, write, spell, and acquire literacy skills, dyslexia is a learning disability which is estimated to affect up to 10% of the world’s population. While various …
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In two genres : Blood intimates and The Smiths and the coelacanth
There has been a change of regime in a place with very different co-ordinates to the real world, and the President and his intimates - his chef, barber and portraitist - are being held accountable for their complicity by the new Commander. Each man in turn speaks of his appetites, the physical, the …
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Creative Writing Techniques across Genres: A Portfolio of Applied and Creative Works
Short fiction, creative nonfiction, and essays
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Medieval Hermeneutic Pedagogy: Teaching with and about Signs in Several Didactic Genres
… in the instruction of several medieval genres--Latin and vernacular religious drama, French fabliaux, and Spanish exempla--encompassing both the lesson that is taught and the method for teaching it. It is my contention that teaching the proper way to interpret signs is the didactic focus …
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Gender-Based Ideology in Film and Literature: The Fantastic and Related Genres
… ideology in the fantastic and related genres. It begins with a general definition of the genre and an examination of its production in filmic and literary texts. Chapter 1 thus situates the fantastic while chapter 2 explores the identity and the otherness of the fantastic agent as …
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Toward a genre writing curriculum: Schooling genres in the Common Core State Standards
… detailed functional explanations of the kinds of genres students are expected to write in and the kinds of language students might use in those genres in order to fulfill the CCSS. The results of the anal y sis shows a series of attested genres organized around six genre families, with a clear …
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Show of Force: film, ghosts and genres of historical performance in the Indonesian genocide
… a theory of performativity, spectrality and genres of historical performance; specifically, it is argues that spectres are performatively conjured as the obscene to any symbolic performance - including both historical acts as well as their rehearsal and restaging in re-enactment, testimony, …
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Teaching Text Structure to Elementary Students: A Comparison of Two Methods Across Four Genres
… The two methods were compared among four genres: the personal narrative, the directive-expository, the descriptive-expository, and the persuasive genres. Two 4th/5th combined, gifted classes participated. Results revealed that a provided text structure helped children compose in those …
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Personal Essays and Short Stories: With an Introduction Exploring the Difference Between the Two Genres
… use a variety of techniques found in other genres, especially those of the short story. This thesis project explores the problems involved in distinguishing the personal essay from the short story. The critical introduction is a three-part analysis of the role of story in personal essays. I …
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