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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"narrative voice"”.
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Aunthood and Narrative Voice: Virginia Woolf’s Materteral Form
… develops a new way to read Woolf’s innovation in narrative form. It develops a theory of the materteral which takes into account the aunt’s specific historical position at the time, and Woolf’s personal conception of aunthood as expressed in her private writing as well as her fiction. Using this …
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Music, narrative, voice and presence: revealing a composed feature methodology.
… are brought to the fore. Thirdly, therefore my voice within the work is a pluralistic entity, encompassing the composer voice, authorial voice and physical voice. By situating the composed features and myself as the practitioner within a practice lineage, I have also asserted the uniqueness of …
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Evaluating the Borderline Personality: A Study of Identity and Narrative Voice
Analyzing the relationship between reality and narrative descriptions of it reveals the premium placed on individuals' ability to produce coherent autobiographical narratives. Those lacking this ability, or those producing narratives that defy cultural norms often become labeled as pathological. …
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Whose line is it anyway: Exploring how to utilize narrative voice in nonfiction
The craft paper explores the functionality of narrative voice in nonfiction and examines how to utilize voice to master sculpting storytelling to resonate with readers. The paper seeks to view narrative voice in terms of a vessel for the reader to explore, to drive the scene, and to guide the …
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Narrative voice and focalization in the narration of generational conflicts in selected Kiswahili novels
This study explores the deployment of narrative voice and focalization in the narration of the theme of generational conflict. The focus is on four Kiswahili novels: Vuta n’kuvute, (Shafi, 1999) Kufa Kuzikana, (Walibora, 2003) Kipimo cha Mizani (Burhani, 2004) and Tumaini (2006). The study is …
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‘Over the Kite Path’: A novel and dissertation on the development of narrator and narrative voice.
… field of Creative Writing, much is written about narrative form and narrative voice. Narrator and narrative voice have always been important to me, and they were essential to the creation of my own novel, Over the Kite Path. It is my intention that this thesis (incorporating the novel itself, and …
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Women Writing Trauma: How Female Writers Use Narrative Voice in Fiction to Represent the Effects of Trauma
… study is to examine how female writers use narrative voice in fiction to represent the effects of trauma. I will discuss how an understanding of different points of view have informed my own writing of a traumatic event. The introduction presents the early trauma theories formed during the …
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Shadow and babble : a study of imagery and narrative voice in the prose fiction of Samuel Beckett, from Murphy to The unnamable
… apprehension of their poetic texture and their narrative form, and insists that a thematic study of their imagery cannot be fruitfully conducted independently of a careful examination of their dramatic and rhythmical structure.
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Diction and narration in I. Compton-Burnett's novels (1925-1939)
… dialogue and a consequent lack of description, narrative, and exposition. This thesis will analyse the many devices of Compton-Burnett’s diction which, subtly but powerfully, succeed in conveying to the reader that which more conventional novelists achieve by means of their lengthier passages of …
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Reading Ruth : towards a postmodernist, literary and womanist analysis
… Chapter 2 demonstrates that the significance of narrative time for any literary analysis lies in the fact that the amount of time allowed for the retelling of the events rarely corresponds to the time it took for the events to happen. Since Ruth is a short story, the choice of what to tell, what …
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Hear (no) evil, see (no) evil, speak (no) evil: artistic representations of Argentina's "Dirty War"
… calls “trauma fiction,” texts in which the narrative voice displays the repetition and fragmentation of memory caused by trauma; I also include the paintings of two artists, whose works have not previously been analyzed, but which fall into this category. I examine two photographic exhibits, …
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Domino Effect and Other Stories
… all of which focus on strong characters and narrative voice. The stories also involve different narrative perspectives. They include a variety of writing styles, such as oral, minimalist, and fancy. All of these stories involve the themes of employment, desperation, domino effect, and moral …
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Narrative immediacy and first-person voice in contemporary American novels
… immediacy. I employ the term immediacy to define narrative situations in which little durational gap exists between experience and narration and in which little ideological and emotional distance is communicated between the narrating persona and the subject self. The following chapters provide a …
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Oasis Deluxe
… story around an unobtrusive but directive narrative voice that privileges multiple perspectives while uniting them into a coherent whole, and I hope the spirit of that goal is recognizable in the final product; While this work is not cumulative in terns of content, it does represent a …
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Intertextual abolitionists: Frederick Douglass, Lord Byron, and the print, politics, and language of slavery
… Douglass was able to access and use a separate narrative voice from that which he had demonstrated in all his other works. Through the integration of this new voice, Douglass channeled a series of communicative environments that had far reaching effects within the United States and helped shape …
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The Echoes of Fitna: Developing Historiographical Interpretations of the Battle of Siffin
… Of particular focus is the development of a narrative voice that seeks to use the story to rehabilitate early Syrian figures by later Syrian historians.
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The Problem Of Human Rhetoric In C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy
… of Lewis' use of language in both the narrative voice and the voices of the characters, this thesis seeks to uncover one of the more subtle but important messages Lewis was presenting within the trilogy, namely his concern with the problems and limitations of "human rhetoric."
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Crawlspace
… to understand and illustrate the function of the narrative voice and perspective in literature, and how these tools are effective in creating a sense of identity found in literary works. The critical introduction of this piece makes use of primary sources, involving Rick Bass, Ron Carlson, …
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Middlemarch: Eliot's Spencerian Sociological Study of Provincial Life
… novel, but a handful of his ideals shape the narrative voice of her novel. Variations of Spencer's theories are seen in Eliot's "authorial narrator's" comments and observations of the Middlemarch couples. With her narrator, Eliot applies Spencer's theories on "belief" and on the correlation of …
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The evolving narrator in the Spanish novel (1884-1958) : La de Bringas, Niebla, and Entre visillos.
… in Spanish literature is evolving, but the narrative voice continues to play a crucial role in communicating the message of the work, whether forcefully, playfully, or subtly. La de Bringas (1884), by Benito Pérez Galdós, exemplifies the Realist movement with its monolithic, intrusive …
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