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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"reception theory"”.
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Narrative technique and readerships in postcolonial African fiction : towards reception theory
… employs insights from an eclectic variety of iv Receptionists such as Hans R. Jauss and Stanley E. Fish. Notably, Jauss's notion of "horizon of expectations" and Fish's concept of "interpretative community'' are central to the aims and objectives as well as arguments of this study. It is noted in …
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¡Viva la Raza! : using audience reception theory to identify the American hegemonic influences of early Mechicana/o theatre.
Using audience reception theory, the aim of this work is to determine the factors that manipulated and influenced the experience and success of the musical Zoot Suit. Whilst studying archival records of the production's reviews, this essay will also analyze the influence the media and newspapers …
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Two Annunciations: Examples of interpellation or offers of reception? a comparative analysis of pictures by Roger van der Weyden and René Magritte.
This thesis uses reception theory, as formulated by the late Wolfgang Iser, as well as ideas about interpellation or hailing, to compare and analyze two paintings: The Annunciation (c. 1435) by Roger van der Weyden and Personal Values (1952) by René Magritte. It demonstrates that interpellation and …
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Alexander the Great and the English novel
… backbone of this approach is provided by reception theory, which provides a useful technical vocabulary and outlook by which to approach the phenomena which affect the comprehension of, and subsequent re-appropriation, of cultural artifacts.
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The Reception of the Works of Contemporary Chinese Glam-Writers in Mainland China
This thesis examines the reception of five contemporary Chinese glam-writers and their works in mainland China. It explores three different types of reception by three reading constituencies: literary critics, actual women readers, and participants on the glam-writers’ personal blogs. Drawing in …
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,,Lässt sich aus diesem bilde wohl der charakter der person schliessen?” Ekphrastische strukturen und das frauenbild in Wilhem Meisters Lehrjahre, Die Leiden des Jungen Werther und Emilia Galotti
… aesthetics, as well as twentieth- century reception theory. Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s art historical text Gedancken über die Nachahmung der Griechischen Wercke in der Mahlerey und Bildhauer-Kunst (1755) fundamentally changed the reception of art during the eighteenth and nineteenth …
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Web of words : poetry, fandom and globality
… work relating to new media, middlebrow culture, reception theory, postcolonial studies and globalization.
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Unpacking American Reception of Glocalized Non-English Content in the Netflix Era
… vacuum in our understanding of audience reception as a lived, meaning-making process because previous research has mostly focused on consumption patterns. In order to close that gap, this study examines how American audiences react to depictions of foreign cultures throughout the entire …
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Great expectations : provisional modernism and the reception of J.J.P. Oud
My dissertation analyzes the reception of the work of J.J.P. Oud (1890-1963), the modern Dutch architect, by examining the systems of dissemination and reception of modern European architecture from 1910 to 1953. Reception played an important role in Oud's career since he was internationally famous …
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Lost in the Long Books: Revealing the organisation, operations and uses of the collegiate gardens in the University of Oxford between 1733 and 1837
… and interpreted using thick description and Reception theory. Adopting approaches used in material culture studies made it possible to identify the technologies and skills that had been used in the gardens. The core period of the study (1733-1837) was selected to cover an era during which the …
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The incombatibility of the Free Methodist Church and fundamentalist theology: why Free Methodists are not fundamentalists
… thesis, I have used the literary tool known as reception theory to analyze the way in which leaders and governing bodies within the Free Methodist Church have received and responded to the doctrines and mindset of the fundamentalist movement in America. Chapters in the thesis cover the historic …
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The Reception of Rebekah Within Genesis
… between the character of Rebekah and her reception history. This dissertation aims to understand how she has been received by scholars and artists in comparison with how Rebekah is literarily portrayed in the biblical text. This dissertation utilises two key methodologies, reception …
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Looking with Narcissus: Oscar Wilde’s Reception of the Dying God
… considered a late nineteenth-century version of reception theory, which has sought to challenge conventional critical ideas of influence or tradition in classical studies in recent decades. The Introduction to this thesis relates the classically educated Wilde’s epigram, which supposedly …
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Visual theology in 14th and 15th century Florentine frescoes : a theological approach to historical images, sacred spaces, and the modern viewer
… studies, the approaches of reader criticism, reception theory, and cultural history, the insights of art historical analysis, and a Christian understanding of religious art and sacred place. It demonstrates the effectiveness of this approach through case studies drawn from Florentine fresco …
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Livros de artistas
… the understanding that art gets complete at the reception. That’s why this essay is supported in theoretic ground by thinkers which endeavoured in enlarging the perseption field and the reception theory- Merleau-Ponty and Mikel Dufrenne-, and also two others philosophers phenomenology field …
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Acts of interpretation: An exploration of the role 'played' or 'performed' by the audience in the process of viewing as it affects the production of meaning and interpretation
… work. The thesis synthesises aspects of literary theory with specific reference to deconstruction, reception theory and psychoanalytical study; it applies these theories to visual and live art'performance through examples of contemporary works visited during the research process. In some …
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Lines of Relation: Devotional Verse and Active Reading in Late Medieval English Books
… of lineation in the manuscript and early print reception of fifteenth-century Middle English penitential poems. I investigate three exemplary poems of penitential devotion alongside modern theories of the poetic line, combining approaches from cultural studies, reception theory, and material …
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Thus have I read: the place of reading in the practice of Buddhism
… plays a central role in the transmission, reception, and practice of Buddhism. This dissertation seeks to address a perceived gap in Buddhist studies by suggesting that reading constitutes a valid strategy of practice and a useful phenomenon to analyse Buddhist roles and identities. …
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Media Mimicry - How ‘Mimic Vlogs’ Emulate User-Generated Content in Online Stories
… This multiplicity of responses supports audience reception theory which states that all viewers bring their own understanding to a text. Additionally, some participants view this more banal form of mimicry to be of little to no consequence for them personally. This dismissiveness has ramifications …
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