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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"textual studies"”.
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Discerning Witnesses: First and Second Century Textual Studies in Christian Authority
… period of the early Christian church. Combining textual analysis and historical reconstruction, this study draws upon both the extant works of these early writers and the modern treatments of authority in early Christianity, finding that these authors navigated multiple forms of textual and …
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In the Margins: Thresholds of Text and Identity in U.S.-Mexico Border Literature
… on marginalized identity with the growing textual studies interest in the marginal, often-invisible processes which aid the production and shape the reception of books. The dissertation not only calls attention to textual instability, or the places where the differing and even opposing …
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Diplomatic Solutions: Land Use in Anglo-Saxon Worcestershire
… political history, geography, archaeology, and textual studies. Charters written, copied, and archived by the religious community of Worcester linked all levels of Anglo-Saxons from the bishops and kings mentioned by name in the documents to the ordinary clerics, monks, and layfolk who managed …
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The Visual Novel: Fictional Space and Print After 1900
… a critical term used by narratologists and textual studies scholars, visual writing emerges as a hybridized mode of creative composition where we can see most vividly the relationship between author, text, and reader. Characterized by the use of eccentric typography, nonstandard design, and …
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Scottish television comedy audiences
… The second half of the thesis marks a shift from textual studies toward audience research, and in particular develops a discussion about the problematics of researching comedy and audiences qualitatively. The first part of the second half is a literature survey of selected examples of audience …
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Historiography in modern poetry: text, imagination and authority in the work of David Jones, Geoffrey Hill and Ian Duhig; and King Harold: a long poem in three parts
… connecting contemporary poetry criticism with textual studies. The creative component of this thesis makes a parallel treatment of these critical issues in King Harold, a long poem on the multiple literary lives of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king. My poem dramatises the tensions …
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A production and textual analysis of the reporting of EU news in the UK national press
… of EU news in the UK press, about which previous textual studies have only been able to speculate. Finally, this thesis offers a new means of classifying EU press coverage. It will argue that existing means are inadequate, and develop an alternative which better accounts for the complexities and …
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The piano music of Sterndale Bennett in the context of nineteenth-century pianism: a practice-based interpretive study with critical commentary
… and hence to make a strong connection between contextual and textual studies. An examination of his piano music and contemporary accounts of his piano playing reveal a conservative approach compared to other performers. The picture is amplified by an account of practices described in …
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Unread: The (Un)published Texts of Romanticism
… bracketing signals an unstable suspension of textual instability that is at once prior to and yet persistently remains a part of the writing of the published text. I argue that non-publication also arises from the author’s relation to the act of writing itself, which reached its own point of …
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Through the Scholastic Looking Glass: The Pedagogical Potential of Textual Deformation for Poetic Studies
… usefulness of the antithetical reading model of textual deformation for the study of poetic works. No formal pedagogical plan exists for the education of students in poetic studies through textual deformance. This thesis does not go as far as structuring one in its entirety. Rather, it surveys …
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Battered women in Muslim communities in the Western Cape : religious constructions of gender, marriage, sexuality and violence
… and contemporary Muslim society. At the level of textual studies, I applied a feminist hermeneutic to medieval and contemporary Qur'anic exegetical literature. The examination of medieval period focused on the exegesis of Abu Jafar Muhumammad b. Jarir al-Tabari (839-922), Abu al-Qasim Mahmud b. …
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Linguistic variation in Egyptian Judaeo-Arabic folk tales and letters from the Ottoman period
… how it manifests itself. Within Judaeo-Arabic textual studies, the dominant trend is to examine a single genre of this written form of Arabic from one or more chronological period in isolation. As such, we know much about the linguistic features of business letters (Khan 1992, 2006, 2013; …
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Modernism En Vogue: Popular Periodicals and Their Engagement with Modernist Culture
<p>My project investigates commercial magazines from the 1920s, including, The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Vogue, and Vanity Fair to reveal the frequency with which modernist writers contributed to these periodicals and the extent to which editors of these magazines found modernist …
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The Catherine Byron Letters
… edited the transcribed letters using the TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative) markup language, adding optional punctuation where necessary to clarify the sense as well as headnotes and additional annotations for personal names, places, and technical terms where they require elucidation. The …
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The Invention of Rhythm
… values have been continuously brought to bear on studies of their respective versification, in fact producing, and perpetuating the mythological narrative, with negligable study of the linguistic and rhythmical patterns of their poems themselves.</p><p> It reconsiders their writing, in context of …
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The Editor, the Preface, and the Eighteenth-Century Edition: A Critical Bibliographic Study
… statements by editors about editorial method, textual transmission, and historical context appear consistently in prefaces to these editions. Considering such paratextual statements further clarifies how editors emended texts and framed texts for an eighteenth-century readership who may have …
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Dickens and the Making of His Readings
… sustained engagement with the complex and lively textual processes which produced the performances. In doing so, this thesis has three major contentions. Firstly, I contend that examining the reading texts and Dickens’s process of adapting them for performance enables us to encounter Dickens as a …
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Forms of dissent in the work of James Simmons and Padraic Fiacc: poetry, politics, and publishing in Northern Ireland, 1960-1980
This thesis examines forms of dissent in the work of James Simmons and Padraic Fiacc. It situates the two poets as important figures in the Northern Irish poetry scene of the 1960s and 1970s, and considers how their work deviates aesthetically from that of some of their better-known poetic …