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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"literary device"”.
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Medications in Lady Audley's Secret: Medicine as Historical Symbol and Literary Device
… objects that the novel uses a both a narrative device and a symbol of Victorian uncertainty about medical authority and madness.</p>
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Silence as Weakness or Strength in Hurston and Morrison
<p>In literature, voice is a literary device authors use to empower their characters. In fact, both Zora Neale Hurston, in her renowned novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Toni Morrison, in her 1981 novel Tar Baby, exploit voice in different ways. This thesis will investigate and explore the …
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Blues Trope as a Cultural Intersection in Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar and Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
… emphasis of this thesis is to investigate the literary portrayal of the interethnic relation between African Americans and Native Americans through the blues trope. The blues trope provides an intriguing literary platform for the psychological and physical struggles in finding an identity …
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"A Soft Lad the Like of You": Complex Father-Son Relationships in Three "Millennial" Irish Texts
… fathers and sons in three highly successful literary texts that grapple with Irish nationalism: Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl, J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, and Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People. Each text comes from a different historical moment, but each of these …
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Living With Men : A Novel
… coded messages during wartime serves as a literary device leading to the 'deciphering' of the dead woman's character. The style is episodic and informal, relying heavily on dialogue. The introspective insights might place it in the tradition of Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway." As a book …
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Metamorphosis and fairy tale tropes in Christa Wolf’s Patterns of Childhood
… fairy tale tropes function as a “broken mirror” literary device within Wolf’s novel, I identify instances of metamorphosis and fairy tale tropes that reflect Wolf’s multifaceted depiction of working through the past.</p>
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Essence Apparatus
… with the genre of science fiction and its literary device ‘cognitive estrangement', the tradition of writing the uncanny and the weird, and my Scandinavian and South African sources of inspiration. The short story collection Essence Apparatus feature zombies in Finland; an animalistic …
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Executable Texts: Programs as Communications Devices and Their Use in Shaping High-tech Culture
… construction of comments, including a look at a literary device that relies on the plural pronoun "we" as the subject. The comments used in this analysis are derived from within the source code of the Linux kernel and from a Corporate environment in the US.
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An investigation of significant form: through an application of the "script analogue" to Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books
… In particular, attention has been focused on the literary device of metaphor, due to its capacity for referencing and extending traditional landscape themes. While the potential for metaphor as a creative and interpretation device is recognized, the distance which separates theory from practice is …
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“Fotos y recuerdos” : decolonial ephemera strategies in twenty-first century Latina literature
… lives of U.S. Latinas. The archive as a literary device couples the ephemerality of Latina histories with the permanence of the traditional archive, and in doing so disrupts the binary between precarity and permanence that often defines how we interpret knowledges as illegitimate or …
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Sentimentalism Made Strange: Shklovsky, Karamzin, Rousseau
… imperatives. Specifically, it looks at love's literary forms--epistolary, triolet, conte--as models and spaces for autobiography, and compares love and self-expression as two literary phenomena that, for these three authors, demand the undoing of cultural mores as the means for their artistic …
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On making sense : some recent investigations in time, metaphor, and ecology
… process extrapolated from the familiar literary device, whereby meanings and associations are transferred from one object or context to another. The key operations of transfer, translation and abstraction are elaborated upon through Rates of Accumulation, past work, and select examples …
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The metamorphosis of the drunkard in selected fiction of Stephen Crane
… Crane's new vision into a cleverly developed literary device.
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Translating intertextuality as intercultural communication a case study
… by other (inter)texts present in it. As a literary device taking forms like allusion, quotation, pastiche, translation, etc., it depends on the presupposition of the presence of intertexts (or hypotexts) in (hyper)texts and on the reader’s recognition of such presence. For the recognition …
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Identity and Language Use in Adolescent Latina/o Literature
… emphasis is placed on code switching as a literary device in adolescent Latina/o literature. Investigations on code switching point to this, that many authors use code switching as a way for authors and characters to show the difficulties of living between two cultures. I examined the works …
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"I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul." A functional analysis of fate in Fornaldarsögur
… that fate in the Fornaldarsögur may as well be a literary device used by the authors to express Christian ideas and moral values in a pagan time. Another aim of this thesis is therefore to challenge the idea of fate in the sagas as only representative of a Pre-Christian belief. Fate has mainly …
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Politics and Covenant in the Divine Davidic Kinship: A Diachronic Approach to Covenant in the Book of Samuel
… changes not only over time but between different literary settings. This thesis critiques and advances studies of covenant by presenting a new model for interpreting “berith” both as a literary device and as a textual component, specifically a legal formulation with ongoing consequences, with a …
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Psychodynamic perspectives on the master-servant relationship and its representation in the work of Doris Lessing, Es'kia Mphahlele and Nadine Gordimer
… then established. Colonial literature, and the literary device of irony are examined. Links are drawn between irony, the metaphor of the body, the rejection of the notion of the purely private individual, and the functioning of denial, splitting and projection. In the subsequent three chapters, …
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The genesis of poetic prose in the works of Louis-Ferdinand Celine through the transgressive and maieutic agency of the figure of the Double
… who exerted an influence on both the medical and literary careers of the author; Celine's transgressive use of idiolect, and the presence in the author's work of Dionysian and Apollinian elements as a metaphor for creative conflict. The second section examines those aspects of the Double which are …
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Mystery writers in foreign settings: The literary devices and methods used to portray foreign geographies
… and attention to detail as the basic literary devices that convey sense of place. This thesis questions the manner in which successful mystery novelists writing about foreign places meet Hausladen's model. Specifically, do they use all four of the literary devices, which are most …
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