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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"narrative strategy"”.
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Narrative Strategy in the Major Prose and Poetry of Oliver Goldsmith
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Sacrifice as a Narrative Strategy: The Construction and Destruction of the Self in May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D.
… thesis investigates sacrifice in experimental narratives of the early twentieth century by May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D. (Hilda Doolittle). I argue that sacrifice is used as a narrative strategy for negotiating the relationship between self and other, not only on a thematic level, but …
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Pressing the Seed: Thoreau's Rhetorical Strategies
… on whether he emphasizes the story (a dramatic strategy), the storyteller (a narrative strategy), the setting or symbolic import of the story (a poetic strategy), or the moral of the story (an expository strategy).
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INNOCENCE, SUFFERING, AND SENSIBILITY: THE NARRATIVE FUNCTION OF THE PATHETIC IN CHAUCER'S TALES OF THE CLERK, PRIORESS, AND PHYSICIAN (ENGLAND)
… love truth, pathos frequently participated in a narrative strategy and a larger philosophical vision which attribute to motive and will as much importance as to specific acts. In particular, the emotions aroused by the details of innocent suffering had become part of the communal understanding of …
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On equal terms : a novel
… are discussed in contemporary Australia. The narrative strategy of the novel is a limited first person point of view, with occasional ‘breaks’ and forays into the minds of other characters. Written in prose, within a postcolonial framework, my novel and essay are attempts to deal with the …
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Social Links
… as result. "A Day at the Dairy” employs the narrative strategy of metafiction in order to parody the way the mass media depicts the relationship of childhood friends. "I Do Not Want to Talk About My Dead Sister” examines a relationship that has long since ended, but is nonetheless stunting …
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Narrative strategies in the gospel according to Luke : a Bakhtinian exploration
… Bakhtin, this thesis has set out to explore narrative strategy in the Gospel of Luke, the aim being to consider how this would affect a generic reading, and what implications this would have in assessing the discourse of this text. Bakhtin classifies early Christian writings as part of the …
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The Motif of Lovesickness in the Acts of Paul and Thecla and the Acts of Andrew
… authors intentionally used lovesickness as a narrative strategy to eroticize the relationship between the follower and the apostle. I note that the symptoms of lovesickness are experienced only by the follower, and not by the apostle, making the relationship uni-directional. Therefore, this …
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Marionettes and metaphor : political satire in the photographs of Tina Modotti
… marionette photographs are positioned as a new narrative strategy and are analyzed in terms of content and technique.
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Refuge and Ecofeminism: The Possibility of a Strategic Essentialism
… representation of ecofeminist politics as the narrative contains essentialist passages, whereby women are naturalized and nature is feminized, while maintaining an overall constructivist bent, identifying culture and not essence as the source of the women/nature parallel. I argue, then, that as …
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Undocumented Hispanic students and the postsecondary transition: a narrative perspective
… of not being in the United States legally. A narrative strategy of inquiry was used to collect, analyze, and interpret data from extensive participant interviews and a research journal; the interviews focused on each participant's life history, lived experience, and the meaning of their …
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Commerce or Significance: Commercial Interventions on Cultural Interpretation at Two Philadelphia Historic Sites
… institutional context, management structure, and narrative strategy. Through comparative case studies of the Betsy Ross House, operated by a nonprofit organization, and Independence Hall, managed within a public governmental framework, the thesis analyzes how different commercial conditions …
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Educational Encounters: (Re)Writing Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil and the U.S.
… that these authors employ education as a narrative strategy, revealing the ways in which identities are imposed, negotiated, resisted, and redefined. I propose two interpretive frameworks—“educational encounters” and “horizons of expectations”—to demonstrate how educational scenes …
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The ‘Marae on Paper’: The Meeting House in the Anglophone Fiction of the Maori Renaissance
… it also shapes each author’s approach to narrative strategy. Drawing on Jacques Rancière’s account of the relationships between aesthetic regimes and sensory perception, I emphasise the importance of perspective and the relationship of perception to the sensible world in the fiction. I …
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The edges of the Unsaid: Transgressive practices in the Fiction of Kathy Acker
… alongside her fragmented, non-linear, digressive narratives, are read as a form of social critique. Her use and abuse of the white, male, Euro-centric canon is examined in light of the construction of female sexuality, and Acker's focus on phallocentric language as a source of subjugation is also …
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"Ideological Complicity in Vietnam War Narratives From ""the Quiet American"" To ""miss Saigon"""
… reversal and its retention of a gendered narrative structure as a model of the ideological appropriation of stereotypical gender traits. Special attention is given to representations of high-tech weaponry and of prostitution and rape in Vietnam War narratives such as Dispatches, Hearts and …
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George Eliot's Use of Irony
… or world vision and in the rhetorical sense as a narrative strategy, this thesis traces the movement of irony in George Eliot's fiction (with brief references to the essays) from a largely verbal, corrective device in the early works to a more complex, thematic irony in the later ones. The pattern …
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"""Who speaks for me, with and to me?"" Subalternity and representation in the works of Mahasweta Devi, Bessie Head, and Assia Djebar"
… violence. I read Mahasweta’s use of pain as a narrative strategy to regard the female subject-in-pain as a dynamic being and not a passive victim. Bessie Head’s representations of subaltern agency relate subalternity to social and political conditions of living in exile. I contend that it is …
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Private Reader, Public Redactor: Narrative Strategies of the Nineteenth-Century Female Revisionist
… to the text that she creates, for the final narrative product is not only a public revision but also a series of private, gendered negotiations that define the woman writer and determine her contribution to female authorship. </p><p> With a specific focus on Geraldine Jewsbury, Elizabeth …
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