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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"implied author"”.
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Reading Houellebecq And His Fictions
This dissertation explores the role of the author in literary criticism through the polarizing protagonist of contemporary French literature, Michel Houellebecq, whose novels have been both consecrated by France’s most prestigious literary prizes and mired in controversies. The polemics defining …
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Ideology and righteousness in Matt 5.20: a study in identity politics from the Sermon on the Mount
… the 66-73 Jewish revolt against Rome. Thus, the implied author of the SM employs the rhetorical function of the SM to consolidate a Christian community in the aftermath of the destruction of the second Jerusalem temple by contesting the Roman empire, borrowing from Israel‘s religious heritage …
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Divine-Human Dialogue and Resolution in the Book of Job
… final form of the text to be coherent and the implied author purposeful in conveying meaning that is complex yet bounded. I argue that literary resolution is evident from the text of the divine whirlwind speeches (38:1–42:6) and Epilogue (42:7–17) read in context. Divine-human dialogue has the …
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Female Voice and Agency in Film Adaptations
… derived from narrative analysis where "the implied author" is the agency responsible for the overall relationship of narration (story telling) to narrative (story) and is also the "voice" - the rhetoric of the text. Psychoanalysis forms a conceptual framework for exploring the performance of …
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Return to Synagogal values? The Didache’s religious purpose
… ways with Judaism. Taking into consideration the implied author/audience of the Didache while addressing the text’s speech acts will reveal the reasons for the Didache’s use of Matthew. This utilization of Matthew reveals a complex Christology in the Didache stopping short of recognition of Jesus’ …
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“The most popular humorist who ever lived” : Mark Twain and the transformation of American culture
… “Mark Twain” not as the name of a literary author, but as a fictional creation who was narrator and implied author of both fictional and non-fiction texts, a performer who played his role on lecture platforms and other public venues, and a celebrity whose fame spread from the American west …
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Paulo Coelho: Transnational Literature, Popular Culture, and Postmodernism
… the narrative elements in Coelho’s novels – implied author, authorial audience, settings, characters, narration, structure, ethos/pathos, etc. – as well as possible interpretation pathways to such elements. Particular attention is paid to the author’s major themes, namely, self-realization …
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Narrative voice and focalization in the narration of generational conflicts in selected Kiswahili novels
… in the selected novels? ii. How have the authors deployed narrative voice and focalization techniques in the depiction and reading of the generational conflicts in the novels? iii. How does the implied author in each novel perform a cultural communicative act with the implied reader? iv. …
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The Theognidea in Reperformance: A Rhetorical Rereading
… up the problem of poem divisions. There is no authoritative scheme of poem divisions. Indeed, there are almost as many different schemes of poem division as there are versions of the texts, as I show in the results of a survey of the poem divisions made by 16 manuscripts, 21 editions, and two …
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Doomed to Irony, Condemned to Laughter: The Structure and Function of Irony in the Prose Fiction of Nikolai Gogol
… sense the lurking presence of Gogol himself (as implied author). Once we recognize this we interpret the massive abrogations of narrative sense he weaves through his tales as being intended by the "speaker." The result is the emergence of "ironic discourse." This transition is illustrated through …
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Theorizing Digital Narrative: Beginnings, Endings, and Authorship
… narratological theories of structure and authorship. Simultaneously, though, I demonstrate that narrative theory must be revised and expanded to account for some of the innovative techniques inherent to digital-born narrative. Across media formats, theories of narrative beginnings, …