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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"suspense"”.
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A domain-independent model of suspense in narrative
… goals and plans, where the goal of creating suspenseful stories is baked into the structure of each system. There is no portable, independently motivated idea of what makes a suspenseful story. Our approach is instead to take the phenomenon of suspense as the starting point. We extend an …
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Creating suspense and surprise in short literary fiction: a stylistic and narratological approach
Suspense and surprise, as common and crucial elements of interest realised in literary fiction, are analysed closely in a sample of short stories, so as to develop a detailed explanation of how these forms of interest are created in literary texts, and to propose models for them. Creating suspense …
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Affective Disposition Theory in Suspense: Elucidating the Roles of Morality and Character Liking in Creating Suspenseful Affect
… of the outcomes they encounter. Research on suspense has demonstrated that liking characters leads to greater suspense, and that morally just outcomes are associated with greater enjoyment of the narrative. However, additional factors may be relevant in this context. More specifically, …
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Materiality in suspense : exploring radical interfaces capable of representing multiple physical property transformations to enable computational, physical material perception
Years after the inception of the Radical Atoms vision, significant advances in technology have seen to dynamic tangible interfaces that bridge the biological and micromechanical to enable radical physical interaction with computation. With an increasing multi-modal complexity in such interfaces, …
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Literature and existentialism : the case of Dostoyevsky
… Roman a These, and the increase of Passion by Suspense, is also discussed. This study shows how Dostoyevsky provides us with a grounding of experience which is necessary for a true account of existence, which other Existential authors cannot present. This study concentrates itself on …
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The Enlightening Supernatural: Ghost Stories in the Late Eighteenth-Century Germany
… the ghostly encounter produces an “Enlightening” suspense, disrupting the normal conditions of one’s understanding and creating a demand for resolution that propels one towards the future. Some recognized a dangerous manipulative potential in such suspense, and they used ghost stories to critique …
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Eden Creek
… elements endemic to the horror genre, such as suspense, are also used to establish tone and mood.
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Social Disruption in the Gothic Novels of Horace Walpole, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Jane Austen.
… In addition to creating bizarre atmospheres of suspense and mystery, the authors artfully weave the fantastic elements of the Gothic into real responses to the changing culture and sexual anxiety of eighteenth-century England.</p>
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Daytona sands
<p>Layered with elements of tension, high-risk suspense, and an unlikely romance, “Daytona Sand” is a work of long-form fiction that introduces readers to August Peterson, an adolescent girl growing up in the throws of the ever-growing opioid epidemic on the coast of Daytona Beach, Florida. After …
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High School Students' Perceptions fo the Treatment of the Mexican-American War in Textbooks: Results froma Private Bilingual Bicultural School in Mexico
… Lowen (1995) “Textbooks exclude conflict or real suspense. They leave out anything that might reflect badly upon our national character” (Lowen, 1995, p. 13). The examination of Mexican and United States historical textbooks is a quantitative study. It focuses on high school students and their …
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Harrow : a collection of fiction
… theme, but is written in a style closer to suspense/horror. Once the first chaper closes, each successive chapter presents the reader with a different viewpoint character who wakes from frightful nightmares, which seem to have a primary antagonist: a murderer with eerie, unearthly power.
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The Ballades of Frederic Chopin
… quality. The Ballades contain the drama and suspense of the literary ballad without the presence of an actual story.</p> <p>Several writers have suggested a direct association of the Chopin Ballades with the literary ballads of Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz. Due to the fact that there is no …
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Proof: A Collection
… of the repressed." "The Lombard" explores suspense, the sentience of non-living things, particularly an old building, perversity, the return of the repressed, the creation of an overall mood, and an overall questioning of reason. "Proof' explores a more dialogue-driven narrative, and while …
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Shadow of Death: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of the Floyd Collins Tragedy
… of the same story—a story filled with drama, suspense, and heroics. Because of these characteristics, the rhetoric of the Floyd Collins ordeal lent itself to examination using Bormann's (1972) fantasy theme method. By using a fantasy theme analysis to explore the saga, I advanced beyond the …
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Public crime, private justice : the tale of how one of South Africa’s top private investigators gets impressive results and what lessons the men and women of the public police force and the SAPS as an institution might learn from this
… South African society. This lends drama and suspense to a non-fiction narrative and also involves the reader in such a way that they respond to and engage with the subject matter on a personal level, thereby evoking their own thoughts and feelings on the spectre of crime in South Africa and …
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Featherstream
Featherstream is a romantic suspense novel set at the southernmost tip of Africa during the Second World War. Returning to her father's farm at Cape Agulhas for the university holidays, Anna van der Vliet stumbles on a clandestine operation to provision enemy U-boats. Her dilemma of whether to …
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Split Ends
… I won’t know till the film is developed. This suspense fills me with optimism and anxiety.
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Portrait of the Calvinist as a young killer : confessions, fanaticism, and satanic horror in Hogg's Justified Sinner
… to darkly humorous ends, and crafts a tale of suspense and terror that refuses to give readers closure of any tangible kinds. By manipulating what the novel should do with what it can do, Hogg asks uneasy questions about faith, spirituality, fanaticism, sin, guilt, confessing, the supernatural, …
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