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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"literary characters"”.
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Noctua literaria : a computer-aided approach for the formal description of literary characters using an ontology
In diesem Ansatz wurde eine Ontologie zur Modellierung von Figurentheorien entwickelt. Zentrale Idee ist dabei die Modellierung von mentalen Repräsentationen von Figuren, die durch Beschreibungskategorien angereichert wird. Dafür wurden mehrere bereits vorhandene literaturwissenschaftliche Ansätze …
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A Study of the Attitudes of Sixth Grade Children Toward Literary Characters Represented as Speaking Nonstandard Dialects of American English
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Gender and reading: the gender-related responses of four college students to characters and relationships in six short stories
… and friends have on their responses to several literary characters and the relationships among these characters as presented in six short stories. Four college students, two men and two women, read and responded to the stories in writing and in interviews with the researcher. The stories depict …
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THE LITERACIES OF LITERARY TEXTS: RHETORICAL BRIDGES BETWEEN ENGLISH STUDIES DISCIPLINES AND FIRST-YEAR WRITERS
The Literacies of Literary Texts: Rhetorical Bridges Between English Studies Disciplines and First-Year Writers seeks to blend rhetoric, composition, and literary discourses to illustrate how the subfields may engage in interdisciplinary collaboration and conversation. These conversations are …
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Gambling with virtue: The moral ramifications of female gaming in the early novels of Frances Burney
… is inextricable from both historical and literary studies of the period. In the novel, gaming functions as a tangible social vice; the financial perils and moral recriminations suffered by literary characters is an essential part of their personal development; Frances Burney uses gaming as …
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The Divided Self: Internal Conflict in Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience
… how self-division has been depicted in the literary works of Edgar Allan Poe, Don DeLillo, and Mary Shelley. It examines the ways in which artistic renderings alternately assimilate, resist, and/or critique dominant philosophical, psychological, and scientific discourses about the self and …
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Ausonius’ cities: perception of the urban space in fourth-century Gaul
… education and Ausonius enjoyed setting his literary characters in the décor of a classical city. However, his works also emphasised the rising image of the walled city, both as a topographic reality of his time, but also as a metonymic representation of the city. Finally, the poetry and …
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The Portrait of The Jew in The Balzacian Novel
… century, Honore de Balzac created important literary characters who were Jewish. Although he borrowed certain traits, his Jews were not the stereotypes commonly found in earlier literature. Balzac used his ability to penetrate the facade of reality in order to explore human experience and to …
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Motherland
… originated in a more imagined realm—poems about literary characters, found punctuation, and dreams, for instance. The three sections coalesce into a collection, progressing from a quest for understanding within a larger context in 'Foreign,' to a search for defining moments or experiences in …
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Desolation Road
<p>Desolation Road is a novel-length, literary parody of “Desolation Row,” a song written and performed by Bob Dylan in 1965. Filled with surrealist imagery, historical and literary characters, as well as, graphic depictions of institutional decadence and decay, the haunting lyrics and rhythmic …
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A winter of animal suffering: sacrificial logic, the discourse of animality, and sensory rhetoric in Richard Adam's Watership down
… interrogates the notion of sensory rhetoric as a literary motif to better address the issues associated with anthropomorphized literary characters. This project makes no attempt to suggest that literature can mend the real-life animal harm resulting from ideology; it merely seeks to explore and …
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Exiles, Knowledge, and Power: Utopian and Dystopian Worlds in Early Modern England
… ways in which exiled early modern writers and literary characters engage with power and access knowledge, often through the creation of utopian and dystopian worlds, which either leads to their exilic identities and disempowerment or allows them to renegotiate their identities from the …
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She "Too much of water hast": Drownings and Near-Drownings in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Women
Drowning is a frequent mode of death for female literary characters because of the strong symbolic relationship between female sexuality and water. Drowning has long been a punishment for sexually transgressive women in literature. In the introduction, Chapter 1, I describe the drowning paradigm …
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A characterization of Samuel in terms of the psychological model of Erikson
… along with Moses and Jeremiah, is one of the few characters whose full life history is documented in the Biblical text: we not only have the significant events which lead up to his birth, but he makes an appearance again after his death. Given this detail, the purpose of this study is to …
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Interpreting Death in Paradise Lost
… of Sin's mutilated maternal body refers to other literary characters such as Edmund Spenser's Errour and Duessa, Ovid's Scylla, and Ariosto's Alcina. Sin's womb and antecedents as well as Death's disembodied nature alternately invite and repulse allegorical reading. Sin's body becomes the grounds …
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Elegit Domum sibi Placabilem: Choice and the Twelfth-Century Religious Woman
… that she inhabited. Other historical women and literary characters from the eleventh through thirteenth centuries flesh out more of the discussion. These case studies and presentations fit into three body chapters that examine the power exercised by parents, complications of the enclosure, and …
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The changing role and portrayal of 'the individual' in historical context in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emma, George Eliot's Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, and Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the d'Urbervilles
… and plot in the novels, especially focusing on literary conceptions of character as an individualistic being within the wider framework of society. The emphasis is on the characters' engagement with their society, and how the portrayal connects with the social and historical context. The …
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"Intertextuality in Goethe's ""Werther"""
… references to authors, scholars, literature, and literary characters from other novels clearly identifiable in Werther. Werther’s explicit references to other literary texts elicit various intertextual dialogues. Werther creates a dialogic network of literary relations through its references to …
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The Alienated Character in Selected Short Stories of Doris Lessing
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