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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"storyworlds"”.
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An exploration into young children's embodied engagement with storyworlds through curated storyworld play
… young children’s embodied engagement with the storyworlds of picturebooks during a playful activity, called curated storyworld play, within English Reception classrooms. The research draws upon two conventionally opposing theoretical framings, sociocultural and sociomaterial perspectives …
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<i>Pavore Risum</i>: Humor and Horror in Apuleius’ <i>Metamorphoses<i>
… pattern of confusion between magical and mundane storyworlds in each of these episodes, where the protagonist misunderstands the nature of the storyworld which they occupy. This confusion between storyworlds in the early episodes of the text creates horror for these protagonists, but humor for the …
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Exploring young children’s ideas about wearable technology: a case study
… study, which forms a part of the Kids, Creative Storyworlds and Wearables project, explores children’s perspectives on wearable technology through their stories and other creative ideas inspired by wearable technology. Five children between the ages of four and seven were each given a smartwatch …
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Fantasy Multiverse World-Building: Affect and Affinity in Diana Wynne Jones
… orientational experience in fantasy multiverse storyworlds and its potential to disrupt cognitive processes of Otherization. Building from the premises of Deictic Shift Theory, which explain how storyworld engagement involves orientating oneself to the spaces in which the story takes place, I …
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Stories in a Different Perspective: A Study of the Adaptation of 'The Witcher' and 'Metro' into Videogames
… adaptations and how these formulate transmedial storyworlds, which I do by addressing the different structures, interpretations, and characterisations present within differing mediums. The third aim analyses how adaptation analysis could utilise different elements and understanding of the medium, …
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Embodied Responses to Materiality in the Making and Reading of Comics
… the role of embodied trace in establishing storyworlds, and the function of materiality in the structure of visual metaphor. As reproduction technologies continually develop, mimicking the indexes of materials through novel forms, new inter-constitutive relationships between the body and …
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Selling a Feeling: New Approaches Toward Recent Gay Chicano Authors and Their Audience
… of the narrator position, the author constructs storyworlds that first pull the reader in, and then push them out of the narrative in a search for closure. Here, I theorize that he forces the reader to mind read his narrators in order to discern their true intentions. In Espinoza, I explore the …
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Beyond the Monomyth: Jung and the Children's Book in the Adult Imagination
… which embeds the children’s book within adult storyworlds. My meta-level analysis of the children’s book in the adult cultural imagination evidenced a deep relationship between core Jungian concepts and the construction and consumption of the children’s book, which I argue has come to function …