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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"non-narrative"”.
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Musical form in non-narrative video
"Musical Form in Non- Narrative Video" explores musical structure as a model for visual form over time, specifically in the creation of artistic video. Video is a medium in which sound and image coexist at the source as electronic signals, offering new possibilities of abstract synesthesia. Forms …
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Parts and Wholes in Long Non-narrative Poems of the Eighteenth Century
… shed new light on the structures of three long non-narrative poems of the period, James Thomson’s *The Seasons*, Mark Akenside’s *The Pleasures of Imagination* and Edward Young’s *Night Thoughts*. Readings of these poems demonstrate the sophistication with which British eighteenth-century …
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Different or similar: patterns of lexical cohesion in Chinese non-narrative text and their applications in the study of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language-A corpus-based contrastive study
… of use of lexical cohesive devices by native-and non-native speaker writers of Chinese. The findings derived from the comparison of the analyses of the NCEE texts and the HSK texts show that there are a number of important differences in the use of lexical devices between the two corpora. The …
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Portfolio of compositions: (..) for solo tuba and off stage brass quartet : Raise your sticks and cry; on the Genealogy of Oneirology; In the eye
… and the interaction of sound and images in non-narrative works combining electroacoustic music with video.
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What We Understand to Be Ghosts
… by taking advantage of different approaches to narrative form and content and exploring current trends in literary fiction including fabulism, flash-fiction, and non-narrative fiction. The thesis demonstrates different ways to approach defamiliarization and polyphony in short fiction and shows …
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Dramatization and philosophy of history in Orange Book explication of a site-responsive work and its research
… in relation to contemporary performance: where narrative dramatic forms,whether organic or fragmented, show history as a fait accompli, an aesthetic orientation around open structures and non-narrative performance modes allows for a constructive, ethically directed, philosophical engagement with …
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Indentity-in-motion : the narrative duration of the dis/continous film moment
… motivates the beginning of this journey's narrative. My reading of this moment counters the way that suspended film moments have been discussed in terms of non-narrative in 1970s film theory and in the contemporary psychoanalýlic filin theory of Slavoj Zizek. Using Gilles Deleuze's notion …
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Writing the self: feminist experiment and cultural identity
… experimental women writers construct non/narrative texts whose text-subjects mediate identity and call for increased possibilities for subject-identification in the world. The use of innovative formal strategies and experiment with narrative, combined with the content of identity …
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Narrative advertising copy with hedonic and utilitarian products: when does narrative persuasion attenuate?
… present study aims to test persuasiveness within narrative ads copy. It is suggested that narrative advertisements are better at persuading consumers than non-narrative advertisements because stories transport people into the narrative world, which prevents people from counterarguing and …
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Embodiment and the senses in travelogue filmmaking
… travelogue films and the capacity of non-linear and non-narrative structures to express sensuous, embodied perception. 9 Meditations is the practice component of this thesis. It is an experimental travelogue film. Through its production this research explores the translation of …
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Intermedial Interference in Electroacoustic Audiovisual Composition: An Investigation into Combining, Integrating, and Fusing Sound and the Moving Image. A Portfolio of Audiovisual Compositions
… intersections, and the interference between non-narrative moving images and electroacoustic music in an intermedial creative context. An autoethnographic approach is employed to present, contextualise, and critically discuss the creative process and findings of this practice- based research. …
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Cases remémorées, redessinées. Mémoire de la bande dessinée, détournement et traces graphiques dans 'Au travail' d'Olivier Josso Hamel
… images. As such, it is an intimate act of canonization based on the collective sharing of a personal history of comics. Expanding on Sterckx’s concept, this paper further seeks to show how the détournement of Franco-Belgian comics – as well as other graphic materials – in Au travail compels …
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For Narrativity: How Creating Narratives Structures Experience and Self
… 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 over time that is an inherent mental activity and essential for experience of one’s Self. I make my …
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Radical dialectics in the experimental poetry of Berssenbrugge, Hejinian, Harryman, Weiner, and Scalapino
… with, for example, the forces of coherence, narrative linearity, and transparent referentiality on one side, and the forces of semantic disruption, narrative discontinuity, and linguistic materiality on the other. On each side, critics attempt to bolster the essential value of one term or set …
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What the Earth Remembers: Landscape and Materiality in the work of Sally Mann, Mark Bradford, and Tacita Dean
… works of art are capacious in their temporal and narrative reach, holding multifaceted histories of America, including those of environment, war, oppression, and extraction. A key part of my thesis is that by looking at how these works were made and what they are made of—their materials, places, …
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The human image of global learning: The ethics and aesthetics of an educational idea
… I use Kantian aesthetics to argue that non-narrative examples enable the learner to lay his/her understandings alongside those provided in the example and thus deepen their ability for reflective judgment and further their own re-learning. Evidence from the empirical data is presented in …
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Resisting Narrative: Artistic research, narrativity and the constraints of academia
… of the demands of academia.<br/><br/>Theories of narrative are central to the explorative processes of the artistic<br/>practice.<br/>Is narrative inevitable to all artistic works or can art resist and counter narrative<br/>structures? Does an artist’s working process necessarily involve a …
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Fashion in Cinema: Reframing the Field
… a unique interface between academic fields and non-academic practices, at times collapsing such distinctions altogether. I argue that the particular interdisciplinary junctures I have orchestrated have led me to produce (and stimulate, through collaboration) new theoretical and empirical …
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Moving through the Unsayable: Applying Julia Kristeva's Semiotic and Abject to Choreographic Analysis
… arising from the consideration of certain non-narrative linguistic strategies and applies them to dance analysis. My intent is not only to provide new, functional tools for dance scholars and writers, but also to alter the theoretical terms themselves: by employing literary critical …
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The Beloved: A documentary film on the history and aftermath of Fremantle’s Rajneesh sannyasin community – and – Hidden Realities: Transcendental Structures in Documentary Film: An exegesis
… film form, and what outcomes, specific to a non-fiction mode of representation, result from the application of this structure. A transcendental structure in film has a long history of investigation and interpretation in narrative fiction film theory and practice, but is substantially absent …
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