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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"key narrative"”.
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Species Sadness: Race, Gender, And Animality In Twentieth-Century Mexico And Central America
… argues that thinking through the animal was a key method through which twentieth-century writers revised what ought to be considered “natural” and normative. The hypothesis that this project explores is that the animal operates as a figure that contests how the human—or a certain type of human …
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Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Actual Play Show: Author, Audience, and Adaptation
… how TRPGs function as a vehicle for long-form narrative. As an inherently collaborative form of narrative, the TRPG demonstrates a unique relationship between author and audience, as participants take on both roles during play. Previous narratological models of author-audience interaction are …
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Hydropolitical peacebuilding. Israeli-Palestinian water relations and the transformation of asymmetric conflict in the Middle East.
… ethnography, foucauldian discourse analysis and narrative inquiry. This study discursively traces Israel¿s development into a hydrohegemonic state in the Jordan River Basin, from the late-19th century to 2011. Recognising conflict as a power-laden social system, it makes visible the construction, …
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Patriots and Fribbles: Effeminacy and Politics in the Literature of the Seven Years’ War and its Aftermath, 1756-1774
… politician John Wilkes (1725-1795). Taking one key narrative of Wilkite opposition, namely, the resistance in The North Briton to the excise on cider, Chapter Three shows how the defence of a gentleman’s property provokes debates about the nature of privacy and publicity that enfold into the …
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A qualitative exploration of family members’ experiences of paediatric chronic illness
… having a son with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Narrative analysis was applied to seven semi-structured interviews of five women and two men. The analysis identified key narrative elements from their stories that were then collated into demographics and contextual data, individual summary stories …
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Adaptive Narrative Interventions to Foster Psychosocial Wellbeing
… continued use. This dissertation examines a narrative-centered approach to address these limitations by inviting users to reflect on the context and meaning of their experiences. Narratives can help people interpret difficulties, identify recurring themes, and connect with shared experiences. …
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Blossom from a Crack in Stone: A Maslovian Study of Chinese Danmei Readers
… reader-response theory, and thematic narrative analysis, the study adopts Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to offer a comprehensive explanation of danmei’s resonance among well-educated urban Chinese women. It locates danmei within a global genealogy of female-produced queer male romance …
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Coaching and the growth of three New Zealand educators: A multi-dimensional journey
… semi-structured interviews as conversations in a narrative inquiry approach with educational criticism as the tool for data analysis. Key narratives emerged through the stories the participants told and these were examined over time to see whether growth and development had taken place. The …