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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"monologues"”.
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Thrown Voices : A Series of Dramatic Monologues, With a Discussion of the Genre
… thesis provides a selection of original dramatic monologues in various styles and featuring characters ranging from the prophet Jeremiah to a modern-day plastic surgeon, tied together by the theme of imaginatively filling in historical gaps and erasures with speakers in times of great political or …
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Monologues from the margins: Voices and experiences of racially minoritized French immersion students
… to create autoethnographic counter-stories and monologues about their experiences in FI. Participants in Stage 1 also created a list of suggestions and needs to improve FI. Stage 2 of the study employed a qualitative and quantitative online questionnaire. FI Stakeholders across Ontario and …
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Putting Women Back on Top?: (Re)constituting Power and Audience in The Vagina Monologues
Eve Ensler's goal in writing The Vagina Monologues was to generate a dialogue regarding women's sexuality to counter the silence that pervades the patriarchal culture that they inhabit. To achieve this goal, Ensler constructs two ideologies—one grounded in patriarchy and another supposedly grounded …
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'Hidden stitches, silent chords : a play in monologues' and 'Exegesis : a stitching from the inside out (including an audio CD featuring my original song, None Can Name)
… actor playing seven characters across of fifteen monologues. The play explores the small moments in women’s lives from points of view represented by characters of different ages and eras. The piece is devised to accommodate minimal production costs, so that it can be performed anywhere from a …
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Sanctuary and other stories
… are interposed with brief first-person monologues. The longer stories explore how the alienated characters, who are either unconsciously unwilling or psychologically incapable of articulating themselves, nevertheless inadequately fumble into moments of haphazard connection in which they …
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Entertainment Bias: A Case Study of the Tonight Show and the California Gubernatorial Recall Election in 2003
… is that Jay Leno showed political bias in his monologues towards his friend and gubernatorial candidate, Arnold Schwarzenegger. This theory was tested through a highly detailed descriptive analysis of monologue jokes and summary data for the time period March 31, 2003 to October 6, 2003. In …
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Dialogue and dialectic in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Occitan and old French courtly lyric and narrative
… lyrics; dialogues within narrative texts; and monologues (within lyrics and narratives) which break down into clear internal dialogue, or which use formal structures which are suggestive of dialogue. Chapter one stands as an introduction to the substantial tradition of debate both in Occitan …
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Browning and music: a study of Robert Browning's use of musical structuring principles to unify the dramatic monologues of the <i>Men and Women</i> of 1863 and <i>The Ring and the Book</i>
<p>Robert Browning often insisted that he had studied music seriously and that he knew what he was about when he talked of or wrote about music. Moreover, he claimed that he had given “much attention to music proper…to the detriment of what people take for ‘music’ in his poetry.” Nonetheless, there …
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Students with Physical Disabilities in High School Drama Education: Stories of Experience
… participants were given the option to write monologues in response to the prompt, “What does drama mean to you as someone with a physical disability?” I then performed and recorded the monologues to better understand the intentions of the participants and make connections to their stories. …
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Delilah Returns Home
… verse, persona poems, and dramatic monologues. My main objectives in this thesis were to capture a balance between autobiographical details and fiction, narrative and lyric modes, and difficulty and accessibility in order to demonstrate how poetry is not need not be confined to the …
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Parts of Women
… three-part story composed of three first-person monologues. "Controlled Burn" involves a woman anthropologist who discovers asbestos in her office. "Tango Lessons" is about a middle-aged woman who's always in search of her true self. "Expatriates" concerns a man who enters the lives of his Hare …
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Telling Utterances: Education, Creativity & Everyday Lives
… of imagined texts comprising dialogues and monologues. The texts fuse a wide range of sources into a series of performed analyses of education policy and creative practice. Primary, secondary and archival sources bring together the voices of: artists; designers; other creative practitioners; …
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Mécanismes linguistiques de la communication orale de l’humour: Une approche analytique de corpus
… dans l'analyse d'un corpus qui se compose de monologues tirés des 10e, 15e et 20e Galas de l’École nationale de l’humour ainsi que des extraits de la collection des meilleurs moments du Festival Juste pour rire 2008 et 2011. L'analyse du corpus nous confirme la nature primordiale de la notion …
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Transnational feminism and gender-based violence: Exploring the relationship between feminist theory and V-Day
… for more localized interpretations of The Vagina Monologues and thoughtfully engaging voices of dissent and debate within V-Day.
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Religion and Proto-Feminism in Victorian Women's Poetry
… Leigh (Barrett Browning), and the dramatic monologues “Xantippe,” (1881) “Magdalen,” (1884) and “A Prayer” (1881) (Levy). This thesis examines the secular and religious institutions that these authors are tackling in their respective texts, looking at marriage specifically as the primary …
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Representing children in opera
… writing for children's voices; extracts from monologues, dialogues, ensembles and solos with instrumental accompaniment are analysed. Chapter 2 explores methods by which composers have evoked notions of childhood; examples of songs, nursery rhymes, lessons, learning, scale, fantasy, and …
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Rivonia
… the form of ten separate interlinking dramatic monologues and a critical and reflective commentary. The poem is called ‘Rivonia’ and it is about the Rivonia Trial at which Nelson Mandela and six co-accused were sentenced to life imprisonment, and about the fall of the apartheid regime in South …
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Web Conference Summarization Through a System of Flags
… do not flow in the same manner that monologues or well-structured articles do. This thesis proposes a system of flags used to extract information from sentences, where the flags are fed into Machine Learning models to determine the importance of the the sentence with which they are …
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Exploring meaning in Xhalanga Blues: a theatre of ntsomi palimpsests encouraging sustainable storytelling
… extensive use of long speeches or monologues and survival construct. The research further explores the challenges of using these poetics as I try to make sense of my experiences, the visibility of black theatre-makers and self-representation. The research essay is presented as an …
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