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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"literary language"”.
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The German Jewish Post-Holocaust Novel: Narrative and a Literary Language for Loss
… of Eastern European Jewish culture, and a literary trope I term the "almost lost story," as components of a narrative practice that allows the novels' narrators--and by extension, the readers--to imagine a discursive space for this disnarrated testimony, or "anti-archive." This study …
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Towards a Phenomenology of Literary Language: Wyndham Lewis and the Expressions of Being
… is to transcend the academic orthodoxies of literary scholarship to restore the reader to their rightful place as the subject of Wyndham Lewis’s writing. As a case study for a phenomenological approach to literary theory rooted in an exploration of the phenomenological potentialities of …
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An Investigation of the Role of Guided Reading in Proficient First Grade Reader's In-School Writing
… of orthography, and the student use of literary language. Findings regarding the student view of what constituted a written composition included student experimentation with various forms of writing including a listing of facts on a given topic and personal narratives. Over the course of …
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Une sensibilisation à la littérature et son incidence sur le développement langagier de trois enseignants d'anglais langue seconde dont l'anglais n'est pas la langue maternelle
… and Bachman and Palmer's model of communicative language ability from the domain of second language acquisition framed this exploratory mixed-methods developmental case study. The study examined the acquisition of both pragmatic language and language processes as they are related to the reading …
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How to connect : applying Martha Nussbaum's literary ethical theory to E. M. Forster's Howards end
… is especially fruitful when applied to novels. Literary language constructs the form to convey the content to the reader. Form illuminating content may make the fundamental issue of ethics accessible to a larger reading public. This thesis argues the congruence between the philosopher Martha …
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Primers, Commentaries, and Kanbun Literacy in Japanese Literary Culture, 950-1250CE
… seeks a new perspective on issues of literacy, literary language, and cultural contact in the literature of premodern Japan by examining the primers used to study Chinese-style literature in the Heian and early medieval periods (c. 900-1250CE). Much of Heian literary production was centered on …
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Mario Bellatin: El Giro Hacia El Procedimiento y La Literatura Como Proyecto
MARIO BELLATIN: THE PROCEDURAL TURN AND THE LITERARY PROJECT Andrea Cote Botero Director: Reinaldo Laddaga This dissertation studies the work of Latin-American writer Mario Bellatin as a paradigmatic example of a tendency in contemporary literature that I called the procedural turn. This notion …
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Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) : his relationship to Carl Heinrich Graun and the Berlin circle
… in the establishment of a national spoken and literary language. In a gradual progression of liberation and purification, the German language broke away from the dominant voices and cultures of its closest neighbours, leading to the crystalization of a clearly indigenous culture later in the …
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Fifteenth century literary culture with particular reference to the patterns of patronage, focussing on the patronage of the Stafford family during the fifteenth century.
… to investigate the nature of the role played by literary patronage in fostering fifteenth century English literature. The topic is approached by means of a detailed examination of the books and patronage of the Stafford family. The fifteenth century witnessed the "triumph of English" and its …
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A Chinese Writer's Vicissitude in the Political and cultural Context of Early Modern China
… social and linguistic contexts of Shen Congwen's literary works, with a particular focus on (1) the way his works enriched and stratified nationalist ideology/narratives and (2) the linguistic ideologies, the historical images and the literary images registered as semiotic processes which mediated …
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Afterlives: Translations of German Weltliteratur Into Yiddish
… changes in the cultural value placed on German language and literature in Yiddish discourse at significant points of historical transition between 1876 and 1966. I compare German literary texts with their Yiddish translations in the context of contemporary understandings of world literature and …
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Dawn dweud: A study of colloquial and idiomatic welsh
… with a number of subjects that inform the spoken language, such as the use of personal and place names and the use of English in Welsh.<br/><br/>The study is intended as part of a broad guide for those learning Welsh and is a broad-brush portrait of the colloquial language. The work contains many …
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These People are Not Your People: Class Conflict and Ideology in Faulkner's Sanctuary
According to William Faulkner's assessment, the mixing of the classes fails because very different ideologies have emerged and are in competition and conflict with one another. The discourses and therefore the ideologies of the characters in Sanctuary are seen to be in conflict with one another, …
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Poems of Debate and Praise: Women as Published Authors in Sixteenth-Century France
… into how women writers operated in a literary culture whose main producers and dominant voice were male. Contrary to the notion repeated by many critics that women of that period were supposed to stay out of the public sphere, my study finds that publishing a woman’s poems did not …
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Poetic irony in Thomas Hardy's Satires of Circumstance.
… using the poetics approach to analyze literary language, poetic structure, narrative elements, and reader response. These four chapters focus upon irony in narrative strategies, use of the doppelgänger motif, thematic ironic elements, and interweaving of ironic and ambiguous elements. …
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Ghostly Sounds and Questions of Belief in Thomas Hardy and Walter de la Mare
… their works, especially at the height of their literary activities in the early twentieth century. Despite their singular admiration for each other and strikingly similar working methods, their mutual influence has never been explored. This thesis traces and reevaluates their literary …
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Jewish folksong: an ethnomusicological study of categories of Yiddish folksongs within the context of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, from the nineteenth century up to World War II, including partisan songs, and songs of the Holocaust and resistance
… historical, sociological, musicological, literary, and linguistic - and researched it on an emic basis. The research material was obtained from a number of sources - from oral information, literature, song collections and sound recordings, and from personal observation. The aim of this …
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Jewish folksong: an ethnomusicological study of categories of Yiddish folksongs within the context of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, from the nineteenth century up to World War II, including partisan songs, and songs of the Holocaust and resistance
… historical, sociological, musicological, literary, and linguistic - and researched it on an emic basis. The research material was obtained from a number of sources - from oral information, literature, song collections and sound recordings, and from personal observation. The aim of this …
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"""You don't speak correct English"": Teacher knowledge about linguistic diversity/language acquisition and its role in pedagogy"
… diversity, particularly African American Language. This study is foregrounded by the language of all students and the ways teachers enact knowledge about this topic in their classrooms. Language is, after all, a foundation for all learning; academic content, assessment and instruction are …
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