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Linguistics and the Structural Analysis of Literary Texts
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First- versus second-language reading comprehension of literary texts
This study compared the English (L1) and French (L2) reading comprehension and inferencing skills of undergraduates enrolled in an introductory French literature course at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Forty-two participants read opening chapters of two different contes …
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The Role of Literary Texts in Pakistani EFL Classrooms: Issues and Challenges
This study presents the role of literary texts in a sample of Pakistani EFL classrooms. The study primarily aimed to explore the perceptions of undergraduate students about the role of literary texts in their learning of English language. It also investigated some socio - contextual and textual …
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The Play of Silence and Talk in Difficult Conversations about Literary Texts
… aspect of difficult conversations about literary texts. Being in silence, being with others in a class discussion setting disrupts the expectation that deep enriching discussions about literature will occur. Hermeneutics begins in disruptions to expectations and familiar understanding so …
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Ancient Mesopotamian concepts of death and the netherworld according to ancient literary texts
… netherworld found within Sumerian and Semitic literary texts. This particular topic has received very little attention in the past but studies of a similar nature have tended to take a fairly general approach dealing with Mesopotamian concepts in their entirety. Sumerian and Semitic cultures …
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African authors' perceptions of women's achievements : exploring cultural expectations in selected isiZulu literary texts
In indigenous African societies, cultural expectations compel women to restrict themselves from excelling in whatever they do as a way of conforming to prevailing customary expectations. This is because those women who are said to disregard cultural expectations by aspring to achieve more than …
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African male voices: representation of women images in selected isiZulu literary texts; reality or idealism?
… of women images in the selected isiZulu literary texts. From the late 1940’s up to 1994 South Africans struggled under the apartheid regime. During this period of time Black women were doubly oppressed by their patriarchal and traditional cultures as well as by the apartheid system of …
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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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Reimaging the Greek Element: The Influence of Diaspora Translators on Shaping (re)Translated Literary Texts
Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία διερευνά την επίδραση που έχει η ταυτότητα ενός μεταφραστή της διασποράς στις στρατηγικές λογοτεχνικής αναμετάφρασης, εστιάζοντας στις αγγλικές μεταφράσεις της κλασικής ελληνικής ποίησης. Ειδικότερα, συγκρίνει τις μεταφραστικές προσεγγίσεις του Kimon Friar, ενός …
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Between Self, Others and Thinking: A Phenomenological Study of Adolescents in Dialogue About Literary Texts
… Study of Adolescents in Dialogue About Literary Texts This study explored 14–15-year-old students’ experiences of classroom dialogue about literary texts using phenomenological methods. Philosophical literature underpinning the theory of dialogue, alongside a growing field of 21st …
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Rhizomes, Parasites, Folds and Trees: Systems of Thought in Medieval French and Catalan Literary Texts
… and fourteenth-century French and Catalan literary texts and their manuscript witnesses. Each of the three chapters explores a separate corpus of texts, using two of four interrelated network theories: Michel Serres’ notion of parasites and hosts as the basic interconnecting units that …
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The Immortality Phantasy: an extension of the instinctual model of creativity and its application to classic literary texts
This thesis puts forward the hypothesis that there exists within us an Immortality Phantasy which can help to explain the relationship between creativity and destruction. The Immortality Phantasy occurs in response to sublimation, leading to desexualised libido and the release of self-destructive …
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A Grounded Theory study of English as Second Language (ESL) students’ experiences with literary texts, with reference to the University of Zululand
The study of ESL students’ experiences with literary texts generated a theoretical model accounting for the intricate relationships among some interwoven phenomena. The model was informed by the precepts of the systematic procedures of Strauss and Corbin (1990) and the attendant central phenomenon, …
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Intelligibility and *Context in Reader Responses to Contact Literary Text
This study thus focuses on both the texts, the reader responses of capable readers to these two texts, and the interaction of the various contexts of reader, writer, and the text in analyzing what is both unique and potentially problematic in the reading of contact literary texts. Utilizing a …
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discovered by the Process: A Methodology for Twentieth-Century Moral Fiction
… of the great ironies of the "ethical turn" that literary criticism has taken in the last several decades is that while we as literary critics strive to be ethical or moral, we usually feel embarrassed at actually taking about moral concepts, especially as they are manifested in literary texts. As …
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The role of a spatial-temporal deictic paradigm in literary analysis : an evaluation of Karel Schoeman's triptych "Stemme” ['Voices']
… is that deixis could also be a viewed as a literary paradigm in the analysis of literary texts. The deictic paradigm can also be especially important, as a narrative structural principle, in the evaluation of literary texts where space and time causes particular difficulty. In order to …
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'Insidious Pollen': Literature and Industrial Toxicity, 1935-Present
… poisons from the past’. It focuses chiefly on literary texts about industrial toxicity written in Britain, or in response to British imperial projects, from 1935-present. Critically, it situates itself within the field of what I call ‘environmental justice scholarship’, and in Anthropocene …
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