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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"narrativity"”.
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Hume and the Self: Pride, Narrativity and Social Media
In this thesis, I aim to explore the development of Hume’s theory of the self through time. I begin with his scepticism concerning the self in book 1 of the Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), expressing his idea that we are simply a bundle of experiences and there is no such thing as the self that …
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For Narrativity: How Creating Narratives Structures Experience and Self
<p>This dissertation responds to the challenge to narrativity posed by Galen Strawson in “Against Narrativity,” where he claims that not everyone is Narrative by nature and that there is no reason to be. I make my claim “For Narrativity” as a mental process of form finding and coherence seeking …
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Resisting Narrative: Artistic research, narrativity and the constraints of academia
This practice-led research consists of film and photographic-based work that is<br/>responsive to the personal journey of undertaking a PhD. The artistic practice<br/>reflects the pathways and journeys undertaken as both a researcher and<br/>teacher and the struggle with the structural constraints …
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Narrativity in Postmodern Music: A Study of Selected Works of Alfred Schnittke
The validity of music narratives has engendered much debate and research. This dissertation traces the development of narratology from its pre-structuralist phase to the post-structuralist phase where the discipline went through a narrative turn and blossomed into a broad-spectrum expansion that …
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The Forms of Friendship How women’s friendships shape and challenge narrativity in contemporary German and Anglophone literature
Since the narrative form of women’s stories is historically entangled with heteronormative romance, what happens to narrative form when women’s stories are told in relation to their friends? This thesis explores the narrative innovation that accompanies portrayals of women’s friendships in …
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The possibility conditions of narrative identity.
… like a story. The imputed advantage of narrativity identity is that it enables great coherence and guidance to our complex lives composed of multiple and often conflicting inner impulses and social demands. The manner in which this is accomplished is that narrativity functions …
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Cinematographer as storyteller : how cinematography conveys the narration and the field of narrativity into a film by employing the cinematographic techniques.
… to elaborate the narration and the field of narrativity for the audience in order to evoke the audience's emotions and deliver the necessary information via imagery. Overall this research shows the necessity for cinematographers to take an active role in the nuances of cinematic storytelling …
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Design for Narrative Experience in Product Interactions
… from film. The concepts of tellability and narrativity are used to explore the way people interpret interactions with objects and to develop methods for product designers to integrate narrativity into the product experience of mundane objects, things we use every day, objects which are often …
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Empathic Narratives: a Case Study of Immigrati/e in Milan Perceiving the ‘Migration Crisis’
… of the ways in which the ‘immigrati’s’ sense of narrativity is constructed and enacted within these local areas of Milan, and how participants of the observation are able to both shape and parse their own narratives within their communities. This thesis is therefore interested in the role played …
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The multiple reality: A critical study on Alfred Schutz’s sociology of the finite provinces of meaning
… well as the way they relate to the questions of narrativity, experience, space, time, and identity.
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NATØ: Exploring architecture as a narrative medium in postmodern London
… insight into the territory of architectural narrativity. The thesis contextualises this moment of narrative architecture with the evolution of narratology over the same period – a discipline whose changing consideration of narrative in the 1980s expanded from a literary basis to take in a …
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The German Jewish Post-Holocaust Novel: Narrative and a Literary Language for Loss
… German Jewish fiction are above all problems of narrativity.
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Exploring the ‘New Sound’ in Ensembles for Zheng and Western Instruments
… this phrase, including New Sounds, New Stories: Narrativity in Contemporary Music by Meelberg Vincent and Paul Griffiths’ book New Sounds, New Personalities: British Composers of the 1980s in Conversation with Paul Griffiths, as well as John Heiss’ journal article ‘The Flute: New Sounds’. …
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Cuando Las Mujeres Leen: Teorizando El Sujeto Y La Narrativa en La Novelistica Femenina Hispanoamericana De Los 80
… for examining the functions of narrative and narrativity. The study stresses a necessary connection between the text and the female reader in order to generate a political dynamic geared to produce the cultural conditions of representability for a new female social subject: one who is a …
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Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness: An Experimental Short Film
… this paper. I turn to concepts of film form and narrativity to answer such questions, to situate my film under a theoretical microscope, and to put to the test my own understanding of the research I have undertaken. Lastly, I look at renowned works of queer cinema to examine possible parallels …
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The role of place narratives in planning : a study of the evolution of planning and regeneration policies for the Lower Lea Valley in east London
… are not structured in a storied form, the narrativity of aspects of those policy documents plays an active role in the shifting place narratives for the Lea Valley over time, as I observe in the stories told by the policy makers involved.
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A Community of the Lonely: Using Paul Ricoeur's Theory of Narrative to Cultivate Community in America
… have a community. But, from the standpoint of narrativity, this is not a simple reiteration of the fact that Americans experience loneliness. The notion of narrative highlights our present loneliness and draws our attention to our current predicament. As we will see, authentic narratives are …
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Archiving the trauma diaspora: Affective artifacts in the higher education arts classroom
… pedagogy and looks specifically at trauma narrativity as public discourse. This work serves as evidence of both affective artifacts and an affective archive, as it is written with narrative and descriptive texts integrated into the larger body of academic analysis of the materials …
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An analysis and critique of the conceptual relationship between selfhood and narrative in philosophy
Narrativity is a popular concept with which to explain the concept of selfhood and the identity of the self in philosophy and other academic fields. It is a natural and easily accessible vehicle for selfhood in philosophy as fictional stories, and indeed the stories we tell about our lives, are …
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