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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"narrative structures"”.
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Narrative structures in body related crafts objects
… object at PhD level. It conceptualises the narrative methodology necessary to make the creative work and theoretically examines its intention. Because the theoretical work on narrative structures has been largely done outside the crafts/art context, the research adopts and adapts existing …
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From Text to Tech: Theorizing Changing Experimental Narrative Structures
… of the mediums, I analyze how different narratives challenge the boundaries of their form. The texts on which I focus are House of Leaves by Mark Danieleski, the enhanced ebook version of The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Danieleski (with a brief consideration of Tender Claws’ Pry), and Ken …
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The Time Helix: Nonlinear Narrative Structures and the Paradox of Delayed Simultaneity
… narratological analysis. I argue that nonlinear narrative structures (which originate in science fiction novels) challenge the supposed impossibility of simultaneity in the novel, undermine the literary construct of realism, and model new, more optimistic ways of imagining the future(s) beyond …
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Narrative Structures: The Creation of Meaning Through Reference and Collage in Architecture
… or wander aimlessly. This thesis proposes that a narrative intervention can elevate an ordinary transportation route into a stimulating and challenging journey by layering into the architecture different meanings and multifaceted interpretations of the story and storytelling process that can be …
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A Creative Exploration of the Use of Intelligent Agents in Spatial Narrative Structures
… study of authoring tools for creating spatial narrative structures– exposing the relationship between artists, the tools they use, and the experiences they create. It is a research-creation enterprise resulting in the creation of a new authoring tool. A prototype collaborative tool for …
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The narrative structures of Robert Graves' historical fiction: a progression toward a conception of the hero in history
Most commentators on Robert Graves’ writings agree upon the importance of his ideas on mythology to the development of his unique theories on poets and poetry. Few critics have undertaken to apply the same approach toward an understanding of his fiction. This thesis undertakes to fill that gap by …
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Aesthetic representation and political economy in the beat narrative: Structures of feeling in the post-World War II generation
<p>This interdisciplinary project, which primarily uses cultural studies methodologies, explores the role of the literary text in relation to both Karl Marx's "material conception of history," as well as Raymond William's idea of a "structure of feeling." Using the novels published by Jack Kerouac …
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Inhabiting the Memoir: Architecture through Narrative Structure
Narrative structures have the ability to elevate architecture to more meaningful, poetic places. Memoirs in particular enable the reader to dissociate from his or her self to experience multiple ways of seeing and thinking about the world. The act of reading a memoir is a participatory and …
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Expanded Cinema and War; Trauma in Hyper-Documented Age
… with the popular appeal of dramatic films whose narrative structures are driven by the conflict-crisisresolution system. By examining alternatives to conventional narratives surrounding war-torn sites of conflict, this thesis examines a series of experimental animation and kinetic and nonlinear …
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Narratological (Re)Visions: Feminist Poetics and Nontraditional Narrative Structure in Contemporary Women’s Writing
… the intersection of feminist narratology and narrative theory, arguing that narrative structures considered experimental, nontraditional, or unnatural within narratology are instead necessary attempts to articulate the nuanced experiences of diverse subjectivities. Building on Susan Lanser’s …
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Affective Insurgencies: Circular Narratives of Conflict in Contemporary South Asian Novels
… focusing specifically on how the circular narrative structures often undermine literal discourses and popular cultural values which stigmatize Muslim, Arab, and South Asian insurgents and terrorists as monsters or subhuman. Analyzing Mahasweta Devi’s contemporary Bengali novel Mother of …
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Hypermasculine Victim or Psycho-Sexual Perpetrator? The Filmic Representation of Postmodern Masculine Identity-Formation in Taxi Driver and Falling Down
… US-American urban by investigating the films' narrative structures and filmic techniques. Furthermore, both visuals are critically examined as instruments to reflect, debunk, and reinforce dominant ideology, having a direct effect on contemporary culture.
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Screening Difference: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Autism in Contemporary Film
… were collected through close textual analysis of narrative structures, dialogue, and cinematic techniques. Findings reveal persistent reliance on the savant stereotype and several caregiver-centered narratives that privilege neurotypical perspectives. The study illustrates how autism …
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Narrative ethics in postcolonial fiction
… an ethical critique that radically considers the narrative representation of violent oppression within different postcolonial cultures and histories? This question will be addressed via four modes of enquiry: 1) By considering the current role of deconstruction within postcolonial criticism and …
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Building Yoknapatawpha: Reading Space and the Plantation in William Faulkner
… how it is represented and constructed, how it is narratively articulated and experienced as both space and symbol. But as its full title suggests, Building Yoknapatawpha is equally about narrative structures and spaces too: about how Yoknapatawpha textually fits together; about how this spreading …
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Scapegoat: An autoethnography of a care professional who became de-registered following regulatory body fitness-to-practise proceedings.
… for restoration, I explore through first person narrative, the complex issues involved and my emotional life during this transformative period. The impact that the interruption to my career caused as well as perceptions held about the newly acquired ‘bad apple’ status are captured through …
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My soul looks back in wonder, how I got over: black women’s narratives on spirituality, sexuality, and informal learning
… and informal learning. Using the Black Feminine Narrative Inquiry framework informed by womanism, Black feminism, and narrative structures used by Black women novelists, this qualitative study analyzed the vulnerable, empowered, and spirit-driven narratives (VES Narratives) collected from the …
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What Spins Away
… the novel explores the ability of traditional narrative structures to carry postmodern themes. The theme, in this case, is the struggle for a stable identity when there is no stable community against which or in relationship to an identity might be defined.
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Hot Girls Don't Worry About Copyright: Trans/Formative Works and the Femmage Lifestyle
… its freedom from traditional artistic formal and narrative structures. Considering that many trans experiences center around dichotomies, juxtaposition, and self-definition, collage is the best equipped to communicate these experiences in innovative ways. Through interrogations of feminized labor …
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