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Showing 1 to 20 of 219 for “"non-fiction"”.
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On the other side of shame : a non-fiction account
Lynette Langman's telephone rang on a Sunday night in 2001, heralding the call that would unravel her life. For forty long years, she had waited to hear news about the son she gave up for adoption when she was virtually a child herself. His birth had remained a closely guarded secret, hidden even …
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Evocative and evidentiary : interpreting the city through non-fiction filmmaking
This thesis interrogates the relationship between non-fiction film and urban discourse. It outlines intellectual and visual strategies at play in a selection of non-fiction films that actively assign meaning to the mutual influence of urban form and social processes. In so doing, I identify two …
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Barbed Wire Fever: On Seeking and Providing Refuge (Creative Non-Fiction)
… and Providing Refuge is a work of creative nonfiction that explores my father’s memories of his years as a Holocaust survivor and refugee during the Second World War, my memory of how my father tried to articulate those memories, and how non-refugees responded to and shaped my father’s …
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The Dirt Road: A Collection of Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction
A collection of fiction and creative non-fiction works.
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Ethnography and experimental non-fiction storytelling: relating the experiences of Maltese Fishermen
… inherent to ethnographic research, I produced non-linear multimodal documentary works as environments with the capacity to engender tangible, immersive and tacit knowledge about situated identities. Using my seven-year engagement with a family of fishermen from Marsaxlokk, a small fishing port …
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Fear and (non) fiction: Agrarian anxiety in “The Colour Out of Space”
<p>This literary and sociological study examines H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” alongside New England agricultural societies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as their members faced socio-political change. Anxieties expressed in the short story reflect fears of …
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The use of narrative devices in the fiction and non-fiction of Joan Didion
… to examine the use of narrative devices in the fiction and collected non-fiction of Joan Didion in order to evaluate her abilities as a novelist and as a New journalist. The works considered include the novels Run River, Play It As It Lays, and The Book of Common Prayer; the non-fiction works …
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Up From Poverty: A Narrative Non-Fiction Study of Three Female Superintendents from Poverty
<p>This narrative non-fiction study was designed to investigate the lived experiences of three female superintendents in the state of Texas who have lived in poverty during their youth and early life. The participating female superintendents were contacted by this researcher through email. The …
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Extending literacy : pupils' interactions with texts, with particular emphasis on the use of non-fiction texts
… Most of the work is based around pupil's use of non-fiction texts and provides case study examples of what happens when children engage in tasks which require their use. I argue that we can elaborate a model to describe the processes involved in such encounters. This proposed model is described …
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NARRATIVE NON-FICTION STORIES OF MEXICAN AMERICAN FEMALE PRINCIPALS OF PREDOMINATELY HISPANIC ELEMENTARY PUBLIC CAMPUSES IN TEXAS
… community. The purpose of this narrative non-fiction study was to enable four Mexican-American female principals in predominantly Hispanic elementary campuses to reveal their stories of their career paths, barriers experiences throughout their career, factors contributing to their success, …
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Arab-American Lives In New York City: the Value Of Creative Non-Fiction Journalism To The Social Sciences
… post-9/11 Arab-American experience via creative non-fiction storytelling. The three portraits of different generation Arab Americans each touch upon major themes covered in the post-9/11 social science research on this population, themes that are discussed in the literature review of this thesis. …
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Realist Collage: Non-fiction Film Practice Addressing the History and Identity of 'Welsh Wales' through Critical Realism, Found Footage and Animation
… factual material, realist collage addresses the non-physical levels of reality that are not directly visible in the archive film. This is done through using temporal and spatial juxtaposition as a method of realist inference to represent the causally generative domain that determines actual …
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La fiction et la non-fiction dans la littérature de génocide : le cas rwandais d'après Gil Courtemanche et Jean Hatzfeld
… ces événements tragiques, prenant des formes de fiction et de non-fiction. Cette thèse a pour but l'analyse comparée de la représentation fictionnelle du génocide rwandais, dans Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali (2000) de Gil Courtemanche, et de la présentation factuelle du génocide rwandais à …
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Straddling the Line
… research project focuses on the tension between fiction and creative non-fiction as they are defined and understood as separate styles of writing. The introductory section examines the scholarly discussion of “truth” and imagination and the blending of fact and fiction in this re-imagined genre …
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“Reality" in the Adirondacks
… employer and employee. Crafted in a creative non-fiction style the author discusses outdoor literature, location as influential in character development, and segmenting as a means to focus essay content. The opening section discusses the project development as the author researched, …
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A Thousand Miles Out of My Mind
The dissertation is a collection of creative and non-fiction work, including a novel with critical introduction, four short stories, and three essays. The novel is a modern day Grail quest that takes place primarily in the Southwestern United States. The short stories are mostly set in the …
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El narcotráfico como realidad y representación en la narrativa de Germán Castro Caycedo
… has produced some of Colombia's most widely read non-fiction works during the last five decades. Among other intellectuals, his work represents a post-1970s Colombian society conditioned by the complex issue of drugs and drug trafficking, which were the by-products of a socio-historical process …
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Collection development of non-Christian religious holiday books in elementary school libraries
… more difficult to find and evaluate books about non-Christian holidays. Elementary library collections may under-represent non-Christian religious books because of a lack of school library media specialists' personal knowledge about non-Christian holidays. This study surveyed school library media …
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One Last Chance
Non-fiction essays
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