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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"master narratives"”.
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"We met in a bar by happenstance": Master narratives in couples stories
… the underlying cultural assumptions, or Master Narratives, across four couples narratives that I elicited. I use Deborah Tannen's work and definitions to frame my analysis (2008). She identifies three narrative types: small-n narrative, the accounts of specific events or interactions that …
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Buying into (Re)tale Therapy: Establishing Identity, Exercising Freedom, and Pursuing Happiness Through Circulations of Personal and Master Narratives About Shopping
… Retail therapy is a compilation of therapeutic narratives about shopping’s ability to give purpose and meaning to life. This dissertation composes a constellation of retail therapy, or rhetorical forces that construct, define, administer, and evaluate capitalistic norms as they engage with other …
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Queering Composition: A Language for LGBTQIA+ Perspectives in First-Year Writing Instruction
… Rogerian, rhetorical failure, </em>and<em> master narratives. </em>To provide evidence for this, I have included data from a study I conducted with four sections of English 1102. By analyzing the words of actual composition students, I highlight a need within composition to recognize …
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Destabilizing science from the right : the rhetoric of heterosexual victimage in the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS controversy
… actually results in the reification of master narratives.
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A redefined feminine from paleolithic to twenty-first century through children's literature & film
… of the feminine that Western tradition, through “master narratives,” silenced, subverted, and deferred. My guidelines were drawn from the deconstruction of philosophical works by Jacques Derrida and redefined the unique circle of “Being and beings” to be not just God and man, but God, Goddess, and …
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Walking the Rift: Alfred Robert Tucker in East Africa, idealism and imperialism, 1890 – 1911
… prove less than satisfactory. The need for new master narratives which move beyond the old paradigms of Western expansion and African victimization are being called for by scholars of both North and South; narratives which allow room for strong archival evidence of an egalitarian joint endeavor …
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Ideology and Clothes: The Rise and Decline of Socialist Official Fashion
… were informed by ideological shifts within the master narratives in the respective countries. I conclude that the problematic relationship between socialism and fashion was caused by their ontological differences.
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Inscrições contemporâneas: a palavra-imagem no projeto da visualidade pós-moderna
… to Arthur Danto's ldea of the end of the master narratives of art, and intended to question the formal possibilities of the word, related to the art work, and its role as an element of rupture and transformation of the modern art's limits. In this sense the written word turned into …
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The underside of borders: reading Chican@ and Native American literature at the turn of the twenty-first century
… that gives voice to peoples and historical narratives often willfully erased by master narratives of the nation.
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An analysis of the political rhetoric of South African President Jacob Zuma's speeches on climate change
… climate change speeches during COP to identify master narratives, given the president’s visibility and political direction at these high level meetings. This dissertation contributes to the lack of scholarship on how the president communicates climate change within the communication field and …
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Counter-Narratives of La Raza Voices: An Exploration of the Personal and Professional Lived Experiences of Mexican-American/Chicana/O Faculty at California Catholic Institutions of Higher Education
… use of this methodology, La Raza counter-story narratives shed light on various degrees of racism pertaining to their social and cultural climate, tenure and promotion process, and level of job satisfaction as ethnic minority faculty members in Catholic higher education.</p> <p>Themes elicited …
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Sosiale konstruksionisme as ’n pastoraal-terapeutiese benadering (Afrikaans)
… diagnosis, essentialist thinking and therapeutic master narratives. It encourages a not-knowing position, multiple descriptions of the reality experienced as the problem, a narrative understanding of identity and the development of local meaning in the therapeutic conversation. If the above …
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Une certain équivoque? A study of Vincent van Gogh's ambivalent engagement with prostitution, highlighted by the 1888 Courrier Français controversy
… prominence afforded prostitution in biographical narratives of the artist for that year. It is not however my intention to perpetuate canonical master narratives, or generalized life- and work-studies. By adhering to the principles of micro-history - approaching the well-trodden centre from the …
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The Plot and The Archive: Curation, Provisional Histories, and Novels
… Libra. Chapter three moves away from overarching master narratives to examine memory and familial archives in Junot Diazs The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Chapter four focuses on Daphne Marlatts Ana Historic to explore how curationcoupled with imagination and memorycan provide authors and …
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Mediating Opera for America: Magazine Biographies, Opera Singers and National Identity
… to both media developments and closure of master narratives about the eventual international triumph of the American opera soprano.
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Articulated Absences and Silenced Souvenirs: exploring Switzerland’s complicity in the trading of Nazi gold through a counter-archive
… archives to being used as instruments to uphold master narratives, marginalise histories and obliterate unfavourable facts. The counter-archive thus emphasises archival exclusions to invite questions about the impact of political objectives on our remembrance of Switzerland’s past. It reflects on …
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Enclosed Edens, Contested Waters & Failed Utopias: An Ecocritical Reading of Epistemic Land Claims in Okanagan Literature
… as they can disrupt and defamiliarize master narratives and initiate counter possibilities capable of interrogating and making new, established social structures (31). This dissertation offers a sustained examination of regionally born imaginaries through literary works by writers, …
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Restoring performance : personal story, place, and memory in post-Katrina New Orleans
… marginalized stories; counter and resist master narratives; forge bridges of pre-and post disaster identities; and open an imaginative space to envision recovery. For this study I draw from the theoretical work of Jill Dolan, Peggy Phelan, Elin Diamond, Diane Taylor, Joseph Roach, Sylvie …
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It’s All About “We”: Negotiating Accounts of We-Building Therapy Interactions and Preferred “We” Identities with Families in Therapy
… accounts related to dominant discourses and master narratives about family. I describe four themes across families’ accounts of we-building therapy interactions, in which members were depicted as taking a fun, light, or humorous tone, communicating effectively, noticing positive changes or …
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"Education at last! Taiwanese grandmothers ""go to school"""
… in Taiwan. Through examining autobiographical narratives, master narratives about elders, and classroom discourses, this study explores the historical construction of their sociolinguistic marginalization and their negotiation and resistance of such marginalization. The majority of the elderly …
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