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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"narrative device"”.
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Medications in Lady Audley's Secret: Medicine as Historical Symbol and Literary Device
… material objects that the novel uses a both a narrative device and a symbol of Victorian uncertainty about medical authority and madness.</p>
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Imaginary Friends: Engaging the Unconscious Mind through Picture Books
… the potential of the ‘imaginary friend’ as a narrative device in picture book storytelling. By combining the research of Marjorie Taylor on ‘imaginary companions’ and Lois Rostow Kuznets on ‘toy animals’ in literature, I seek to give form to the concept of the imaginary friend, to then explore …
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Mirroring Financial Speculation and Late Capitalism Through Speculative Fiction: Worker Gullibility and Guilt as Re-imagination of Human Value
… and Wall Street. Tragedy becomes an organic narrative device for self-realization for the readers, suggesting in the power of literature and reading responsibly to humanize characters counter to their own consent to the uncritical logic and acceptance of late capitalism that shapes their …
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Authorial Cameos in Post-Romantic Russian Literature
… discourses of romanticism, autobiography, and narrative theory. My main focus is a narrative device I call "the figured author," that is, a background character in whom the reader may recognize the author of the work. I analyze the significance of the figured author in the works of several …
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The Third Story: An Exploration of Intergrating Ironic Counterpoint into the Multimodal Text-image Relationship of Children's Picturebooks
… the implementation of "ironic counterpoint" as a narrative device. Recognizing the complexity inherent in multimodal narratives, this study aims to clarify how the interplay of verbal and visual modes not only creates meaning but also fosters reader engagement. Building on the framework …
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The (Im)possibility of Detective Fiction in Sicily: Sciascia, Camilleri and Piazzese
… of the detective as a protagonist and organizing narrative device. The contemporary Sicilian detective novel, as demonstrated by the works of the three selected writers, reveal the importance of place. This thesis compares and contrasts the manner in which the Sicilian locale or setting is …
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A Microhistory of Migrants and Their Identifications in a Paris Tenement (1882-1932)
… That crowded place, whose unity is as much a narrative device as an epistemological tactic, is itself at the core of the first chapter. Both the buildings, situated at Nos. 96-102 Avenue du Président-Wilson, and their demographic make-up, far from being mere micro-structural conditions, appear …
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Estrangement and the Thinking Subject in Psychological Prose Novels by Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Andrei Bitov
… prose novels, seeing it as a useful narrative device to reflect on the author’s historical moment. The three novels indeed trace the development of the thinking subject in response to specific historical conditions and the various challenges of modernity. I also look into the interior …
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Locating the Destitute: Place in Postcolonial Fiction (V.S. Naipaul, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Octavia Butler)
… and Octavia Butler's Kindred. Using space as a narrative device and an analytical category, I question the tendency of mainstream postcolonial criticism to exchange the forceful binarism of the anti-colonial struggle for a largely discursive "interstitial" analysis. I focus, instead, on the …
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Problematised History Pedagogy as Narrative Research: Self-Fashioning, Dismantled Voices and Reimaginings in History Education
… of history curriculum and pedagogy. The PHP as narrative research was situated in my history curriculum programme in a postgraduate year of secondary teacher education. The research aimed to engage my history class (research participants as preservice teachers) in pedagogy that involved critique …