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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"narratology"”.
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Grief Narratology In The Digital Age: Writing The Self In Academic Spaces
This paper examines some of the prescriptive writing practices associated with both grief narratives and academic writing and how those constraints work to constrain and contain stories and writing genres that run counter to dominant, heteronormative paradigms. This process of exclusion and …
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“Light shining from a dead star”: Narratology and Perspective in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
<p>While reflecting on a countryside getaway with his fellow classics students, Richard Papen, the narrator of Donna Tartt’s 1992 novel The Secret History, states, “The chronological sorting of memories is an interesting business” (Tartt 79). From the start of the story, Richard orients his reader …
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Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice: The Function of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities
This doctoral dissertation, Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice: the Function of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities, examines the extent to which the success and feasibility of human rights tribunals and truth commissions are dependent upon the ways in which the past …
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Narratological (Re)Visions: Feminist Poetics and Nontraditional Narrative Structure in Contemporary Women’s Writing
… examines 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 …
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Narrativity in Postmodern Music: A Study of Selected Works of Alfred Schnittke
… 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 takes the form of interdisciplinary narratological studies such as …
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"Archetypal dimensions of the narrative je in Andre Langevin's ""Poussiere sur la ville"" and Hubert Aquin's ""Prochain épisode"""
… study joins concerns of Jungian criticism and narratology as applied to the identification and interpretation of archetypes autodiegetic narratives. Two 20th century quebecois novels are analyzed--Andre Langevin's Poussiere sur la ville, a linear readerly narrative, and Hubert Aquin's Prochain …
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My hart kry swaar: reconsidering patriarchy through queer abstraction, phenomenology and the haptic
… theoretical concerns include queer abstraction, narratology, phenomenology, hapticity and kinship, which highlight the need for envisioning alternatives to patriarchal masculinity. The role of tactile engagement with materiality, impermanence and strategies of queer abstraction are foregrounded …
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Towards a Definition of Digital Narratives in Art Museums
… construct the definition, a systematic review of narratology and museum studies literature on narratives was pursued. The review of the literature was key to develop a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon. Moreover, the methodology used in this thesis revised the traditional usage of …
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Comic strips and the making of meaning: emotion, intersubjectivity and narrative drawing.
… been compiled before in English language comics narratology. The model of narrative that I describe is also original, although correlates to the work of other narratologists. Also original are my analysis of the theory of 'mediagenius' and conditions of intersubjectivity and my analysis of comic …
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Modern Reinterpretations of the Cuckold
… This study combines Lacanian psychoanalysis with narratology to analyze the cuckold as a subject and as a compositional resource for modern novelists.
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Students As Historians: The Historical Narrative Inquiry Model's Impact on Historical Thinking and Historical Empathy
… and consideration of the relation between narratology and the creation of written history. Students generated their own historical narratives in order to articulate their perspectives. Eight students having varied reading-level proficiency served as primary participants in the study. Each …
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A Software-based Knowledge Management System Using Narrative Texts
… software application based on the principles of narratology and narrative information exchange. The focus of knowledge is shifted from the reductive approach of data and information to a holistic approach of meaning and the way people make sense of complex events as experiences expressed in …
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Narrative, Marketing, and Persuasion: How Storytelling Contributes to Marketing's Influence Within the Firm
… the problem of marketing's declining influence. Narratology is a humanities-based discipline which explores what stories are, what they do, and how they work. It is well suited for exploring how influence is generated, gained and/or lost, within social and organizational settings. This …
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Reading Romances: The Production and Reception of French Gothic Ivories in the Context of Late Medieval Literary Practices
… in their own right with their own meanings. Narratology and semiotics with a grounding in a knowledge of workshop practices will enable me to define this language. Furthermore, I shall situate the works in their original context, and consider the caskets's social function, audience and …
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Emissaries in the narrative of Herodotus
… This thesis uses methods from linguistics and narratology to demonstrate how Herodotus uses emissaries to support themes and reveal narrative structure throughout his text. An initial typology of vocabulary provides a basic framework for the investigation which follows in four main sections. …
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Transitions-felt: William James, Locative Narrative and the Multi-stable Field of Expanded Narrative
… pragmatists, cognitive neuroscience and narratology, it explores how a radical empiricist perspective can form the basis of a non-foundational experiential framework that questions the status of knowledge and the problems of translation between experience and narrative interpretation. It …
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Ludological Storytelling and Unique Narrative Experiences in Silent Hill Downpour
… much has been written about the conflict between narratology and ludology in video games scholarship, I propose an alternate way of studying games; one that acknowledges the variety of gaming experiences available and recognizes the necessity of tailoring methodological approaches to specific …
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„Form og stíll örðugt viðfangs.“ Frásagnaraðferð í verkum Jakobínu Sigurðardóttur
… með hjálp hugrænnar frásagnarfræði (e. cognitive narratology). Fræðin, sem eru enn fremur lítt þekkt hér á landi, eru kynnt ítarlega í inngangskafla sem og jafnóðum við greiningu á sögunum. Í 2. kafla er fjallað um persónusköpun í smásögunni „Veginum upp á fjallið“ (Vegurinn upp á fjallið 1990) og …
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The Little Weird: Self and Consciousness in Contemporary, Small-press, Speculative Fiction
… Extrapolating from Mieke Bal's seminal theory of narratology; Tzvetan Todorov's theory of the fantastic; Daniel C. Dennett's theories of consciousness; and the works of Darko Suvin, Robert Scholes, Jean Baudrillard, and others, I create a new mode not for classifying categories of speculative …
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New narratologies: an examination of the interplay between life, land, and story
… theoretical consideration in the field of Narratology studies. This thesis illustrates how land and geography play a role in the maintenance of traditional culture and narratives in the rural communities of DeKalb and Neshoba counties in Mississippi. The first chapter argues that memory …
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