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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"narrative techniques"”.
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Narrative techniques in the novels of Iris Murdoch
… to explore the relationship between her narrative techniques and the conventions of realism. In doing so, I use the narrative theory of Dorrit Cohn, who proposes that novelists concerned to render a sense of "reality" are also those who construct the most elaborate and artificial fictive …
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Awakening a World With Words: How J.R.R. Tolkien Uses Linguistic Narrative Techniques to Take His Readers to Faery in His Short Story Smith of Wootton Major.
J.R.R. Tolkien uses specific linguistic narrative techniques in Smith of Wootton Major to make the world of Wootton Major and the nearby land of Faery come to life for his readers. In this thesis, I examine how Tolkien accomplishes this feat by presenting a linguistic analysis of some parts of the …
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Subversive narrative techniques and self-reflexivity in Vladimir Nabokov's the real life of Sebastian Knight, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire and Ada, or Ardor: A family Chronicle
… through the radicalisation of the critique of narrative, subject and meaning into a postmodern aesthetics of deconstruction. The interpretation of the novels then serves thirdly to pose the question of the value of the theory of deconstruction for the task of interpretation, or more generally. …
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Howells' Dialogic Realism
This study traces the changes in Howells' narrative techniques as he confronted the paradox that novels create their own narrative logic and unity independent of (and often contrary to) the vision of reality depicted in the work. Howells' novels are characterized by competing or contradictory …
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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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The rhetoric of African fiction
… of the story-tellers and the significant narrative techniques they employ in their art. Having discussed the outstanding techniques of the folktales, this investigation then considers a few of the early written pieces of documentary fiction, namely Onuora Nzekwu's <i>Wand of Noble Wood</i> …
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Language and narrative empathy : an empirical stylistic approach to readers' engagement with characters
Narrative empathy, broadly understood as the sharing of characters’ perspective and emotional experiences, is thought to be often involved in readers’ engagement with characters. A number of claims have been made in the literature about the potential effects of particular narrative techniques on …
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Social Disruption in the Gothic Novels of Horace Walpole, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Jane Austen.
… of prescribed sex roles and uses various narrative techniques to produce a social commentary on gender politics and to illustrate the consequences of a destroyed social structure. Through the examination of the construct of the Gothic narrative and its fragmentary style, the novels of …
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Images de la femme dans l'oeuvre litteraire de Sembene Ousmane
… the number of male and female characters and the narrative techniques which he utilizes to characterize the latter.
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Houses That Break: Representations of Trauma in The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
… of representation as well as the role of trauma narratives in eliciting compassion and forming connections between communities. My analysis has led to the following conclusions: narrative techniques can be used to influence readers’ emotions and this can be seen in Lefteri’s work with the use of …
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Crafting Lives: The Evolution of Identity in the Works of Zhu Tianxin and Kapka Kassabova
… It further reveals how the complexity of narrative techniques deployed in each case, including polyvocality, intertextuality and blurring of genres, reflects the complexity of each writer's conceptualisation of identity. In addition, through an original delineation of specific phases in …
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Empathy, Ethics, and Justice in Children's War Literature
… divided up into two chapters dedicated to the narrative techniques most relevant to the concept analysed, in a top-down approach, starting with narrators and ending with scripts. A different novel is analysed for each technique, both to demonstrate the argument using the most appropriate …
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Time, Space and Agency: A Dynamical Approach to Narrative in New-Media Artwork
This thesis proposes a dynamical approach to narrative creation as found in the so-called new-media art field. It focuses on catastrophic models in order to conceptualise, analyse, and create narrative forms with multiple media and diverse formats. It deals with the transmedial nature of story and …
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Navigating Heroines Between Scylla and Charybdis: Austen's Narrators
… mercenary sentiment in her novels, and through narrative techniques she preserves her heroines from imprudent marriages. Austen's heroines do not fall madly in love at first sight, but rather they acquiesce to marriage through reason and discernment. She endows her heroines with qualities that …
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Collected Stories
… chapter of a novella and while the topics and narrative techniques vary widely, certain themes emerge throughout the collection. In each story, the protagonist is faced with an unexpected event that forces some kind of action - an abusive husband whose behavior is passed on to his son, a latent …
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Sexual Difference as Narrative Technique: Cross-Dressing, Redressing, and Undressing Female Protagonists
… thesis is that the issue of gender in the modern narrative is also much less stable than critics might assume or wish, that it is indeed continually negotiated in relationship to larger social and narrative arenas. I used detailed, extended analysis of Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography, a …
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The Early Novels of Konstantin Fedin
… artistic method in an endeavour to establish the narrative techniques and literary devices characteristic of the author's work. The problem of characterization is also discussed in detail and the personalities of the principal figures are analyzed in the case of each novel. The question of …
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Social Links
… content and supporting narratological theory and techniques. "The Brilliant Green” looks at a long-running relationship that finally gains the potential to change. "Three Dates Until You Die” is about the establishment of a new relationship, with all the benefits and dangers that can arise as …
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Some structural and contextual aspects of W.M.B. Mkhize's short stories
… style where we look at his titles, language and narrative techniques. In chapter six we are dealing with the contextual aspects of short stories. The contextual aspects go with the textual aspects. Under the contextual aspects we have themes. We feel convinced that MJchize's short stories deserve …
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"Undone by Murmurs of Love": Traumatic Legacies and the Struggle for Personal and Communal Identity Formation in Toni Morrison's Trilogy
… process are readers who are forced by Morrison’s narrative techniques to experience fragmentation and displacement. Multiple endings, perspectives, and voices allow readers to share control of the narrative as they engage in understanding and interpreting the text. Readers find themselves forming …
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