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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"literary genres"”.
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Making Confessions: The Confessional Voice Found Among Literary Genres
… writing can take different forms in different genres. In this thesis, works by contemporary authors of personal lyric poetry, memoir, and fiction are discussed and an investigation of confessional writing within their work is undertaken. While not all authors use a direct confessional voice, …
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The Book of Resh Melle by Yoḥannan bar Penkaye: an Introduction to the Text and a Study of its Literary Genres
… of the East. Chapter two investigates the life, literary works, and importance of the author. The works that have been traditionally attributed to John are discussed and their authenticity assessed. The chapter also discusses John’s importance for modern scholarship in various fields of study, …
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The makings and unmakings of Americans: Indians and immigrants in American literature and culture, 1880-1924
… to regimes of “making Americans” in a variety of literary genres and in silent film, this project shows how American Indian and Immigrant students of American democracy carved their own spaces in turn-of-the-twentieth-century American culture.
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Scriptural Storytelling: Using the Homiletic Theory of Edmund Clowney for Christ-Centered Preaching of Old Testament Narratives
… discipleship programs, and other biblical literary genres.
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Learning through Reading: A Handbook of Literature-based Lessons for ESL
… and meaningful to students. The use of various literary genres corresponds to the different learning styles of students (based on Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory). The author hopes that incorporating lessons based on authentic literary material supplemented by audio-visual presentations …
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Catfish Dinner & Other Malicious Morsels
… the feasibility of combining the three different literary genres, each with its own strong identity and literary history, in a work that appeals to readers reaching the age of young adulthood. Named for the titular story, the collection features seven short stories of varying lengths depicting the …
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Comics carnet : the graphic novelist as global nomad
… Comics camet incorporates features from other literary genres: journalism, autobiography, ethnography and travel writing. Its creators, primarily European rriales, document their experiences visiting countries that Europe has traditionally defined as belonging to the 'East'. A visual and …
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Clockwork Heroines: Female Characters in Steampunk Literature
<p>Steampunk is a progressive literary genre that evokes, imitates, and re-imagines the nineteenth century and favors the Industrial Revolution ideals of science and technology. In a historical framework, it mixes nineteenth-century conventions and retrofuturistic machinery with science fiction and …
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Essays in the History of the Masque: Essence and Echoes
Literary genres are dynamic; they do not remain permanently fixed, but reflect the mutability of society and literary tradition. In this respect, genre development can be viewed as a series of evolutionary stages which culminate, not in a single or simple form but in "modes" which are then mixed …
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Two Plays by the Islamic Dramatist, Ali Ahmad Bakathir Translated Into English With Critical Commentary
… to modern Arabic literature in several literary genres; drama, poetry, and the novel. In addition to his great sum of poetry, he wrote more than sixty plays, six novels, many one-act plays and short stories. Bakathir's study of English literature, and of Shakespeare in particular, guided …
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Perverted in Neon
… in Neon challenges traditional distinctions of literary genres, often incorporating elements of non-fictional pop culture into fictional worlds, and vice-versa. The stories throughout aim to interrogate some notion of emotional maturity, or lack thereof—characters who think they understand the …
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Talking through the text : Rakugo and the oral/literal interface
… as well as its generic relation to Japanese literary genres. The study will also examine the esthetic dynamics of live performance where the performer’s creativity is brought into parity with tradition and social norms; and hence it will highlight the significance of oral tradition in a …
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Fossil Capitalist Realism: Petrofiction, Climate Change and the Endless Twentieth Century
… environmental politics relate to the realism of literary representation, which has largely ceded the task of depicting environmental crisis to non-realist genres like science fiction and apocalypse? What exactly is the “reality” named by these political and literary realisms, and why does it …
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A ceaseless becoming : narratives of adolescence across media
… contexts reveals affinities between disparate genres and strong connections between fiction and the discourse of adolescence in psychology, anthropology, and sociology. Adolescence narratives illuminate both the transgressive boundaries of a given culture and the normative center, and make …
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Vasilii Shukshin, the writer and his times
… most representative works from all of the literary genres on which he worked. The objective of this dissertation is to trace the connection between Shukshin, an individual, and a civic minded writer on one hand, and contemporary society on the other, in order to evaluate his impact on the …
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Victorian literature and historical time: Genre and historicity after Walter Scott
… examines how Victorian writers experimented with literary form to create narrative temporalities capable of negotiating these changes. Georg Lukács famously associated literature's historicity with the realist novel’s ability to capture social movement through typical characters, a narrative form …
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Resistance through literature in Romania (1945-1989)
… any manifestation of civil and political rights. Literary production, as a form of contesting the totalitarian regime in Romania, was one of the fewest outlets that allowed the Romanian people to experience freedom within a world dominated by an enormous and ubiquitous apparatus of total control, …
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Spalding Gray's Life As Art Story: Toward A Critical Perspective Of The Autoperformance
… transgresses the boundaries of traditional literary genres and traditional art forms. It, therefore, blurs the lines between art and life, fact and fiction, literature and rhetoric, high and popular culture, and writing and performing. Consequently, Gray's art resists classification. While …
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Literary Dimensions of National Identity: The Historical Novel of the Late Soviet Period (1960s--1980s)
… by such an approach for the study of popular literary genres, particularly historical fiction. This methodology provides the basis for the main argument that historical novels in Russian and Ukrainian literatures culturally and ideologically were moving in different directions, thereby …
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Sudanese literature in English translation: an analytical study of the translation with a historical introduction to the literature
… Western, and principally English, literature and literary criteria as well as by a modern system of education. The study highlights what it claims to be highly distinctive and indeed unique features of Sudanese literature, reflecting the many-sidedness and complexity of its country, itself being a …
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