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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"mise-en-abyme"”.
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Into the abyss : a study of the mise en abyme
As no single English study of the mise en abyme with its examples in our late-modern world has been undertaken, this thesis concerns the mise en abyme in English literature. In approximately the last third of the twentieth century, the concept has increasingly been associated with ‘postmodernism’ …
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Mise en abyme et réflexivité dans Moravagine de Blaise Cendrars
Cette thèse examine l'apport de la mise en abyme et des procédés réflexifs dans la construction du sens du roman de Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine. L'analyse est menée conformément à la typologie élaborée par Lucien Dällenbach dans le Récit spéculaire (Dällenbach, 1977) et incorpore certaines notions …
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Putting Tamar in her Place
… her Place: Rosalie Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh Tamar and Genesis 38 strayed by accident into my life during MPhil research. Such an intriguing account inspired this dissertation, which set out to answer three questions: - What part does this unusual story play in the bible and especially in the Book of …
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L' antichambre du destin suivi de Du premier mot... le chaos
L'Antichambre du destin est un ouvrage en deux parties : 1) la création d'un roman : L’Antichambre du destin 2) l'analyse du roman : Du premier mot... le chaos Le roman raconte l'histoire de Marianne à qui tout réussit, et qui se retrouve, à 35 ans, face à l'événement incontournable : le cancer. Au …
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How Time Becomes (Mise En) Obsolete
Abstract (My abstract is purposely vague and enigmatic, this is to prepare the viewer for the work. I do not give too much away, i want the viewer to enter the Mise En Obsolete with as few pre suppositions as possible in order for them to form their own of ideas of what the work is about, without …
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O Narrador: considerações sobre a obra de Alejandro Zambra (ou A busca por uma voz narrativa legítima nos romances Bonsái, La vida privada de los árboles e Formas de volver a casa)
… midiáticos, é inegável que o escritor chileno Alejandro Zambra surge, neste início de século XXI, como um fenômeno editorial da cena literária internacional. Autor de uma prosa leve com a qual desenvolve temas profundos como a Ditadura Militar chilena, o ofício do escritor e as novas …
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'David as reader': 2 Samuel 12: 1-15 and the poetics of fatherhood
… interpretation of the story of the Amalekite messenger in 2 Sam 1 leads to the conclusion that the polysemy of the Amalekite's utterances is turned against him. David as reader re-writes the Amalekite's utterances. This leads to a theoretical investigation of what it might mean to refer to a …
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Lives in Limbo: Memory, History, and Entrapment in the Temporal Gateway Film
… which contemporary cinema from a range of different countries, incorporating a variety of styles and genres, explores the relationship to the past of people living in the present who are affected by traumatic national histories. These films, which I’ve grouped under the term ‘temporal gateway’, …
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Out of the Néant into the Everyday: A Rediscovery of Mallarmé's Poetics
… of art to society. Whereas Mallarmé has often been branded as an ivory-tower poet, invested solely in abstract ideals and removed from the masses, my research demonstrates his interest in concrete essences and the small events of the everyday. As such, the Vers de circonstance offer an …
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Autobiography as a Curiosity: Generic (In)definition, Narrative Time and Figuration in Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory, Georges Perec’s W or the Memory of Childhood and Javier Marías’s Dark Back of Time
… thesis is an investigation of the relation between generic indeterminacy, narrative time and figuration through a comparative analysis of three generically ambiguous texts: Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory(1951/1966), Georges Perec’s W or the Memory of Childhood (1975) and Javier Marías’s Dark …
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Compilation and Creativity in Medieval Fíanaigecht: a Case-Study of 'Three Men and the Dog of Irúath'
… study of the medieval Irish corpus of ‘Three Men and the Dog of Irúath’. This story survives in different forms (poetry and prosimetrum) in manuscripts ranging in date from the twelfth to the nineteenth century. The present study focusses primarily on the poem ‘Dámh trír tháncatar illé’ ‘A …
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The Level Game: Architectures of Play in American Fiction and Theory, 1968–2018
… and levels in games. Postmodern fiction engages levels in the ontological sense, employing literary devices such as reflexivity and narrative embedding in order to interrogate the nature of fictional worlds. In the later stages of postmodernism, approaching the millennium, technological …
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Korngold's Dream States: An Analysis of Transitional Passages in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Opera "Die tote Stadt"
<p>This thesis aims to compare Korngold’s treatment of altered states of reality in his 1920 opera <em>Die tote Stadt</em> to that of other composers and apply a theoretical approach to explain the transitions between the diegetic realms, or multiple narrative levels, that the work is contained …
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Diegetic stories in a video mediation: a narrative analysis of four videos
This textual study is one element of a doctoral research based on a videotic mediation of four narratives. It functions as a critical reflection on the practical element of the research project and also analyses the theoretical issues arising from the videotic realisation of a diegesis. The text …