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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"literary form"”.
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Automatic Modernism: Habit, Embodiment, and the Politics of Literary Form
<p>Literary modernism followed a century during which philosophical speculations about the mechanistic basis of human life found experimental validation in the work of physiologists, who stressed the power of environment to shape and delimit thought and action. By the late 19th century, the …
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Itinerant narratives: travel, identity and literary form in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction
… identity intersect with the deployment and transformation of various literary forms. While there is a small but growing number of critical articles and book chapters discussing Gurnah’s work, there has been no in depth analysis of his fiction to date. Contrary to most of the work published on him …
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The radical south: Grassroots activism, ethnicity, and literary form, 1960-1980
… of which insist on the specificities of local forms of oppression, community memory, and familial bonds against the more abstracting vision of a global Marxist struggle. In the final chapter, I demonstrate how Toni Cade Bambara’s 1980 novel The Salt Eaters by embracing the paradox of what I …
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Post-Pandemic Theatre: The Transformation of the Literary Form Through the Digital Landscape
… operations has enabled the rise of digital literary forms, such as audiobooks and electronic literature, which have opened up new possibilities for interpretation and pedagogy. At the same time, this literary transition to technology has enabled the revival of oral traditions in literature, …
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The Cultural Constitution of the Post-Republic: Eighteenth-Century Politics and Nineteenth-Century Literary Form
… of Post-republicanism,"" revisits the tropes and literary performance of Webster's commemorative address at Bunker Hill by giving a close reading of Frederick Douglass's speech to abolitionists in Rochester, New York commemorating the Fourth of July in 1852. In the speech, Douglass positions …
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Writing the New Life: Literary Form in the Spiritual Imagination of Middle-Class Ethical Socialism, 1880–1900
… the close relation between political and literary forms integral to the late-nineteenth century ‘socialist revival’ in Britain (1881–ca. 1906), widely marked by a belief that educationalism and propaganda, or ‘making socialists’, would be sufficient to realise social transformation. Within …
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Playing in the Literary Sandbox: An investigation of fanfiction writers and readers, exploring relationships between fanfiction as a subversive and dialogic literary form, and issues of authorship, representation, empathy and community
… in this thesis as a subversive and dialogic literary form. Through use of semi-structured interviews conducted with fanfiction writers, this thesis employs qualitative analysis of data to emphasise that the experiences and beliefs of members of the fanfiction community are not homogenous. …
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Reflections on political authority and rootlessness in works of Hawthorne and Melville
… conversation about how we should live. The literary form of their political reflections recalls the incarnation of political theory in Plato's dialogues. The stories of Hawthorne and Melville enlarge our understandings about political authority and rootlessness, two features of every …
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Kenneth Burke's early works: A study of permanence within change
… most influential books (The Philosophy of Literary Form, A Grammar of Motives, and A Rhetoric of Motives) are usually discussed without the benefit of a careful analysis of his earlier books, Counter-Statement, Permanence and Change, and Attitudes Toward History. Since the later books are …
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Habitats of Abandonment: Subjectivity and the Aesthetics of Dispossession from the Industrial Revolution to the Great Depression
… racial logic. This study examines, therefore, literary representations of poverty, homelessness, forms of working-class labor, and the work that race and gender do within these conditions of existence. It arises from the intersection of the Marxist, feminist, poststructuralist, and queer theory …
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Silence as Voice: Silence, the Body and the Decoloniality of Quiet in Raduan Nassar and Sara Gallardo’s novels of the country.
… Novels of the Country, investigates silence as a literary form and an embodied mode of agency in Latin American literature. Focusing on Raduan Nassar’s Ancient Tillage and Sara Gallardo’s Enero, the study explores how silence functions not as absence or erasure, but as a generative and affirmative …
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Re-imagining the past, negotiating the present: the lived diasporic experience in S.J. Naudé and Jaco van Schalkwyk's fiction
… Although very different in style, tone, and form, Naudé and Van Schalkwyk both ask questions about the nature of belonging, pain and loss associated with the diasporic experience: How does one come to terms with one's past?; How does one navigate oneself in an increasingly estranging global …
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What hidden lies : a novel
… can be read as a straightforward genre novel conforming to the conventions of the murder mystery form, with a tightly constructed plot involving a police investigation, a range of suspects, planted clues, red herrings and a surprise ending. But the novel also seeks to use this accessible literary …
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Die literêre soortlikheid van die fantasie, met spesiale verwysing na die Narnia-verhale van C.S. Lewis, die Huppelkind-reeks van W.O. Kühne en Ken jy die Kierangbos? van Freda Linde
… regarding the nature of the fantasy as a literary form, with special reference to children's literature. In Chapter 1 some recent theories on fantasy are examined in order to establish a theoretical basis for the study. A model is proposed in which the fantasy element is seen as the …
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The Aesthetic Use of Syntax: Studies on the Syntax of the Poetry of E. E. Cummings
… emotively, and conceptually) the informational content of a text of discourse--these effects being the syntactic realizations of more general aesthetic effects (i.e., iconicity, focus, emphasis, pace, tension, surprise, ambiguity, development, parallelism, transcendence, and stance) …
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Healthy debate: medical discourses in the early novel
… about how the early novel was distinct as a literary form, this thesis draws on those ideas that emphasise the novel’s capacity to formulate and address issues of major concern to a broad section of eighteenth-century society. Modern experience was shaped by new epistemological and …
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Here, In This Place: An Essay Collection
… within creative nonfiction. Defining the form in terms of the fragment, specifically the fragment as it was envisioned by Romantic philosophers, acknowledges the contemporary personal essay’s roots in both ancient literature and the Essais of Michel de Montaigne, as well as its modernist …
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Outer Reaches of the Palindrome
… is an exploration into the palindrome, both as a literary form and an expression of infinity. The first two chapters address the fascinating manner in which the mind contextualizes fragments of speech and ludicrous grammatical implications that are spawned by the poetic structure of the palindrome …
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Hacks/Müller: Zur Selbstbestimmung der DDR-Dramatik in Bezug auf die literarische Tradition und sozialistische Gegenwart
… This dissertation joins a conversation in German literary studies about East German literature's role, identity, and characteristic features. The thesis discusses the phenomenon of autonomy of the dramatic compositions written by Peter Hacks and Heiner Müller in the 1960s and 1970s in the GDR. The …
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