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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"poststructural"”.
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Kinds of spaces : poststructural concepts and metafictional appropriations
"Kinds of Spaces: Poststructural Concepts and Metafictional Appropriations" emerges from studies in structural linguistics, contemporary critical theory, and metafiction and thus moves into the realms of poststructuralism and deconstruction while developing a theory of space in writing. Its central …
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A Poststructural Discourse Analysis of a Preservice Teacher’s Linguistic Ideological Becoming
… is a single-case study and employs a poststructural approach to discourse analysis to investigate how language ideologies of a world language (WL) preservice teacher develop. Prominent discourses about language teaching and learning in U.S. K-12 schools support monolingual ideologies …
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an end to the 'other' in landscape architecture: poststructural theory and universal design
… a broader social and cultural context. The poststructural project is posited as such a theoretical framework, and a means for evaluating the principles of Universal Design along with the social and cultural beliefs upon which the accessibility issue rests. Poststructuralism is used to …
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Deleuze, Femininity and the Specter of Poststructural Politics: Variations on the Materiality of Rhetoric
… materiality of rhetoric in a minor key. I review poststructural and psychoanalytic endeavors to position rhetoric from within the postmodern and poststructural critique of the subject. I move beyond the logic of influence (dependent on a flawed conception of object) and hermeneutics (the …
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Poststructural Explorations into Relations among Self, Language, Reader Response Theories: (Im)possibilities of Autobiographical Inquiry
This dissertation explores relations between self and language in the light of Derrida's critique of the traditionally and historically constructed idea of writing and speaking as communication. Further, this dissertation inquires into relations between self and language among reader-response …
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After-Effects: A Feminist Poststructural Exploration of the Young Adult Series “After” and Discourses of Romanticized Abuse
This thesis is a feminist poststuctural discourse analysis of the young adult (YA) romance series After by Anna Todd. The After trilogy follows a romanticized abusive relationship between two heterosexual characters that relies on stereotypical and binarized performances of masculinity and …
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Sexualisation of the feminine in perfume advertisements on Vogue and her magazines from December 2017-December 2018: A semiotic and poststructural feminist approach
… examines, through the theoretical lenses of Poststructural Feminism and Semiotic Theories, how women are projected sexually in mass media advertisements, specifically, pictorial perfume advertisements in Her and Vogue magazines. It examines how such ‘sexualised’ images and (re)presentations …
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Reading against the grain : a metadisciplinary framework for poststructural and counterideological textual analysis with specific application to the problem of subject and structure
… which counterideological discourse analysis and poststructural multiple interpretations can be systematically and reflexively applied to texts. The interest in developing a poststructural interpretive framework is based on prior work done on this subject by J.B. Thompson (1984 ;1990). Thompson's …
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Ingeborg Bachmann: Wer spricht? Eine Analyse der Sprache und des Subjekts in dem Erzählband Das dreißigste Jahr (1961)
… in light of the theories brought forward by the poststructural movement. The traditional outlook on the subject is one that regards it as being autonomous. This autonomy is challenged by the narrative cycle: the analysis shows, how subjects are constructed by a web of interconnecting discourses. …
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The Composition of Postsecondary Institutions: An Ecological Approach to Pedagogy
… is to suggest the benefits of adapting a poststructural understanding of ecology that consequently calls our attention back to the material and conceptual (and otherwise institutional) conditions of possibility for the teaching of writing. After examining how composition scholars have …
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The sound of meaning: theories of voice in twentieth-century thought and performance
… the problem of the denigration of the voice in poststructural theory and contemporary performance criticism. The problem has antecedents in twentieth-century language philosophy. Saussure defines language as a compendium of arbitrary words recognized according to the degrees of phonetic …
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Shifting Our Focus: Teacher Transformation Through Anti-Oppressive Education
… education (Inclusive, Critical and Poststructural dimensions) guided the analysis within a transformative learning theoretical framework that examined whether participants’ perspectives had changed and whether they had committed themselves to engaged activism. The results of the case …
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Van siters en skalmeie
… it is argued that against the backdrop of the poststructural zeitgeist, the relationship between poetry and philosophy should be understood as a deconstructive one.
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Producing the new mother : surveillance, normalisation and maternal learning
… days of mothering during a series of interviews. Poststructural and feminist approaches have been used to inform this research study. These approaches have resulted in an analysis that troubles several of the dominant maternal discourses that are frequently used in two complementary ways: first, …
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Academic Literacies as Documenting Becoming Through Mixed Genre Texts
The research for this study began with certain poststructural and postmodern readings and philosophical inflections that suggested, in various ways, that subjectivities are fluid, multiple, and complex. I arrived at the idea that one way of capturing the complexities of subjectivities is …
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Imagining and improvising with theory and practice : a narrative inquiry with first grade students during reading workshop
… illuminates the possibilities of thinking with poststructural theory when storying an emerging process of engaging in research with young children. The purpose of this paper is to describe processes, tensions, and imaginings while infusing poststructural theories into conversations with data …
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Producing (White) Teachers: A Geneaology of Secondary Teacher Education in Regina
… by the Foucaultian methodology of genealogy and poststructural theories of subjectivity. Through genealogy, this work presents a cogent history of secondary teacher education in Regina, Saskatchewan, that is both critical and effective; critical, because it undermines the continuity forced onto …
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Vagabond: Returning To Autoethnography As A Doctoral Nomad
… is set for an interpretative performance in poststructural fashion. Positioning and contrasting interviews, poems, and essays written during the coursework as a doctoral student begins to capture the intersecting positions of walking as a mother, teacher, and woman. These narratives are …
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A polyphony of the mind: intertextuality in the music of Salvatore Sciarrino
… problematize such analysis, concluding that a poststructural alternative that is both semiotically-inflected and intertextual, is necessary. The second chapter explores how such an analysis might be constructed. It examines definitions of structuralism (both Sciarrino's, and the more generally- …
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Emerging identities: New subjects within gay adoption
… beyond the current state of queer theory and poststructural discourse on identity.
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