Dissertations / Theses: 'Best books in fiction'

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Clouse, Kimberly. "Best Laid Plans and Other Betrayals." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1523.

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PAZ, ELIANE HATHERLY. "THIS AND THAT: THOUGHTS ON BEST-SELLER BOOKS IN BRAZIL." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2003. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=4367@1.

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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
A pesquisa Retrato da Leitura no Brasil, realizada pela Câmara Brasileira do Livro e o Sindicato Nacional dos Editores Livreiros em 2001, revelou a predominância de um público leitor para quem a ligação sentimental com o texto independe de critérios estéticos e o ato de ler satisfaz primordialmente a necessidades várias do cotidiano. Esta dissertação propõe uma mudança de paradigmas críticos em função desse fenômeno ao defender o consumo da literatura dita de entretenimento como um primeiro passo em direção à literatura de proposta. Sendo assim, teço considerações sobre uma postura ainda existente em um segmento da crítica literária - a de repúdio a qualquer reflexão sobre o tema - na tentativa de contribuir para a flexibilização desse modo de pensar. A partir de dados quantitativos sobre o mercado editorial brasileiro busco fornecer uma visão panorâmica de sua recente produção. Finalizo com uma discussão sobre a leitura e leitores, destacando as bem- sucedidas experiências de Luzia De Maria e Daniel Pennac na aproximação entre seus alunos e a literatura canônica, através da literatura de entretenimento, como opção para a crise da leitura.
Based on the results of a research realized by CBL and SNEL in the year 2001 - A Picture of Reading in Brazil - this work suggests a different critical look at best-seller books reading phenomenon by defending its consume as a first step towards reading crisis solution.
La recherche Portrait de la Lecture au Brésil, réalisée par la Chambre Brésilienne du Livre et pour le Syndicat National des Éditeurs Libraires dans 2001, a révélé la prédominance dun public lecteur pour lequel la liaison sentimentale avec le texte independe de critères esthétiques et lacte de delire satisfait primordialement à des nécessités plusieurs du quotidien. Cette dissertation propose un changement de paradigmes critiques en fonction de ce phénomène à défense la consommation de la littérature dite de divertissement comme une première étape vers la littérature de proposition. En étant ainsi, je tisse des considérations sur une position encore existante dans un segment de la critique littéraire - ce de reniement à quelconque réflexion sur le sujet - dans la tentative de contribuer à lassouplissement de cette manière de penser. À partir de données quantitatives sur le marché éditorial brésilien je cherche fournir une vision panoramique de sa récente production. Je finis avec une discussion sur la lecture et lecteurs, détachant les expériences victoires de Luzia de Maria et Daniel Pennac dans lapproche entrent leurs élèves et la littérature canonique, à travers la littérature de divertissement, comme option pour la crise de la lecture.

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Kanerick, Caroline. "Riding the tosh horse : re-evaluating best-seller popular fiction 1895 - 1920." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444313.

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Sammāq, Fayṣal. "al-Riwāyah al-Sūrīyah nashʼatuhā wa-taṭawwuruhā, madhāhibuhā /." Dimashq : [s.n.], 1985. http://books.google.com/books?id=3rUsAAAAMAAJ.

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Lechler, Ron. "The Best Medicine." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801938/.

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The Best Medicine is an animated documentary that explores the true stories behind the live performances of stand-up comedians. The film juxtaposes live stand-up performances with candid interview footage combined with animation and illustration. Three subjects– Michael Burd, Casey Stoddard, and Jacob Kubon– discuss alcoholism, childhood abuse, and sexual anxiety, respectively. Their candid, intimate interviews reveal personal information, creating a new context with which to understand live stand-up comedy performance. This illustrates themes of finding humor in dark or painful circumstances and the cathartic nature writing and performance.

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Sill, Oliver. "Zerbrochene Spiegel Studien zur Theorie und Praxis modernen autobiographischen Erzählens /." Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, 1991. http://books.google.com/books?id=_5VZAAAAMAAJ.

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Wallis, Judith M. "Children's favorite novels an analysis of books that have won multiple state popularity awards /." [Houston, Tex.] : University of Houston, 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/41264379.html.

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Bell, Alice R. "Science as pantomime : explorations in contemporary children's non-fiction books." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/11844.

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This project explores a case study in children's science culture: Horrible Science, a UK based series aimed at 7-11 year olds. Children, I believe, are one of science communication's most interesting audiences. They are both potential members and potential outsiders of the scientific community, and Horrible Science produces a liminar identity to meet these two markets. I apply a metaphor of pantomime to help describe Horrible Science, partly because of the series' approach to using fiction and its style of audience participation. It is also panto-science because it is presented as a carnivalesque show, exciting and fun, laughing at authority. Horrible Science invites us to snigger at science's heroes and explore the hidden underside of both nature and of scientific work. However, I believe that this, at least in part, is largely a matter of excusing a type of earnest reverence, delight and excitement for science that had become unfashionable by the end of the 20th century. I investigate Horrible Science as an interesting phenomenon in its own right, but also because I hope to develop ideas about the popularisation of science. Since the early 1990s, theories on popular science have tended to describe popular science as sitting (obstructively) between scientists and the rest of the world. Its public audience are defined as receivers; the scientists, the providers. However, recent work from historians of 19th century science have critiqued this view, instead positioning popular science within a 'marketplace', full of empowered consumers choosing not only what cultural products to partake of, but who to trust and how far. I accept this emphasis on the marketplace, but with a less utopian view of consumer power which retains some of the scepticism of the 1990s analytical approaches. I suggest that Horrible Science aims to appeal to its readers by implying they can use a 'horrible' version of scientific knowledge to take up a position between the great and the good of the scientific community and an assumed, unenlightened othered public. Drawing on Bourdieu's ideas on symbolic 'capitals' of culture, I conclude with a reading of popular science as a product through which interaction between and across cultural fields allows a range of actors to, at once, share social power, declare their own cultural status, and fall prey to the hierarchies of science in society.

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Reinaudo, Alice. "Hierarchical text classification of fiction books : With Thema subject categories." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Interaktiva och kognitiva system, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-154469.

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Categorizing books and literature of any genre and subject area is a vital task for publishers which seek to distribute their books to the appropriate audiences. It is common that different countries use different subject categorization schemes, which makes international book trading more difficult due to the need to categorize books from scratch once they reach another country. A solution to this problem has been proposed in the form of an international standard called Thema, which encompasses thousands of hierarchical subject categories. However, because this scheme is quite recent, many books published before its creation are yet to be assigned subject categories. It also is often the case that even recent books are not categorized. In this work, methods for automatic categorization of books are investigated, based on multinomial Naive Bayes and Facebook's classifier fastText. The results show some amount of promise for both classifiers, but overall, due to data imbalance and a very long training time that made it difficult to use more data, it is not possible to determine with certainty which classifier actually is best.

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Fields, Lauren Ann. "Out of the Best Books: Mormon Assimilation and Exceptionalism Through Secular Reading." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5973.

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This thesis seeks to explore the relationship between Mormon assimilation, exceptionalism, and their endeavors in secular reading by analyzing Out of the Best Books (OOBB), a 1964–71 five-volume reading guide and reading program on secular reading established by the Mormon Church for its women’s organization, the Relief Society. Examining the approaches to secular literature in the OOBB program suggests that Mormons can respond to their competing desires to separate and assimilate by making efforts that fulfill both aspirations simultaneously rather than moving exclusively in one direction. Yet OOBB’s efforts to achieve both objectives did not amount to an entirely seamless navigation of this paradox. The program’s attempts to incorporate texts that might challenge Mormon notions of morality as well as their efforts to introduce world literature and fully address their female audience raised additional tensions particularly relevant to contemporary Mormonism, suggesting the complexity of Mormons navigating this identity paradox both within the context of the OOBB program and today. Furthermore, this examination of OOBB offers a venture at fleshing out the history of Mormon reading, confirming Mormons’ relationship to literature as central to their conception and expression of identity and situating Mormon reading endeavors in the broader context of American reading practices.

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Houssais, Yvon. "Histoire et fiction dans les Chroniques italiennes de Stendhal." Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 1999. http://books.google.com/books?id=oo1cAAAAMAAJ.

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McDonald, Elizabeth Frances 1957. "Circulation differences between fiction books with subject headings and those without." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278569.

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Subject headings for works of fiction are one way to increase access to these books. Increased access should result in greater use for these books. Using a multi-branch, metropolitan public library, fiction books with subject headings were compared against fiction books without subject headings for overall use and circulations (use adjusted for time available to circulate). These same two categories were then compared to determine the affect of subject headings with respect to: fiction collection size, genre, and publication date for overall use and circulations.

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Margaret, Scanlon. "Popular histories : a study of historical non-fiction books for children." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020570/.

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Ho, Melanie. "Useful fiction why universities need middlebrow literature /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1619436971&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Youngs, Suzette. "Literary, visual, and historical understandings intermediate readers respond to historical fiction picture books /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3355609.

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Douvier, Gromer Bernadette. "Nature et élaboration de la fiction dans l'oeuvre de Raymond Roussel." Villeneuve-d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du septentrion, 2002. http://books.google.com/books?id=0_VcAAAAMAAJ.

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Lawson-Ananissoh, Laté E. "Le roman nouveau en Afrique francophone Henri Lopes, Sony Labou Tansi : Eléments d'une poétique /." Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 1999. http://books.google.com/books?id=wltcAAAAMAAJ.

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Chan, Amiria Ai-Mee School of English UNSW. "Mother knows best: mothers as moral educators in the fiction of Anne Bront?? and Elizabeth Gaskell." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/23469.

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This thesis concentrates on identifying and examining ambivalence and contradictions in the discourse of moral education within mid-nineteenth-century British literature. Through an analysis of contemporary women???s advice literature and the fiction of two authors I locate the discourse within the larger ideologies of femininity (which defined women as different from men based on their gender) and domesticity (which assigned women to the domestic sphere because of gender) and analyse its fundamental features. The mother was a representation of the ideal woman and thus the measure for standards of behaviour within the discourse of moral education, and, indeed, within the ideologies of femininity and domesticity for all women. I focus on the inconsistencies that the discourse of moral education attempts to mask in its representations of women. Part I (Chapters One, Two and Three) examines the social standards of behaviour for mothers established in women???s advice literature and the literature???s simultaneous resistance to these standards. Chapters Four and Five are dedicated to Anne Bront?????s two novels, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; in particular, Chapter Five examines how Helen Huntingdon???s attempts to be the perfect moral mother are constantly open to conflicting ideological interpretation exposing ambivalence within the discourse of moral education and in the novel???s approach to the discourse. Chapters Six, Seven and Eight focus on many of Gaskell???s short stories as well as her novel Ruth. The inherent conflict within the discourse of moral education results in three separate images of motherhood for Gaskell???s fiction: traditional mothers who gain their moral influence through an association with death, the ideologically contradictory moral mother, and women who use maternal traits to live in communities of women without men. I conclude that none of the texts are categorically resistant to or complicit with the ideals within the discourse of moral education but are internally contradictory. In particular, the fiction simultaneously promotes conventional ideals of womanhood and moral mothers as self-sacrificing and nurturing and offers a vision of women either in unhappy compliance with or otherwise defying these ideals, for example, by living in unconventional relationships without men.

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Arnold, Jonathan W. "The doctrines of sin and human freedom in best-selling evangelical non-fiction from 1994-2004." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Zadworna-Fjellestad, Danuta. "Alice's adventures in wonderland and Gravity's rainbow a study in duplex fiction /." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm, Sweden : Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1986. http://books.google.com/books?id=Q5laAAAAMAAJ.

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Chan, Kenneth, and n/a. "Chinese history books and other stories." University of Canberra. Creative Communication, 2005. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061020.144139.

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My thesis is a creative writing doctorate which focuses on one Chinese family's adaptation to living in Australia in the mid-twentieth century. The thesis is in two parts. Part I is an examination of Chineseness and identity within the context of the short stories that make up Part I1 of the thesis. In Part I, I have looked at the place of the Chinese within the larger, dominant cultures of America and Australia. In particular, I have discussed the way in which the discourses of the dominant culture have framed Chineseness; and also what it might mean to describe authentic and essential qualities in Chineseness. The question I ask is whether the concept of Chineseness shifts according to time, location, history, and intercultural encounters. This leads me to try to "place" my family and myself. I provide some background on my family and on specific incidents that have served as springboards for the fiction. Part I also discusses some aspects of narrative theory in relation to the stories and considers the stories within the context of other Chinese- Australian fiction and performance. Ln Part 11, I have written a collection of nine short stories about the lives of a fictitious family called the Tangs. The stories can be described as a cycle that is unified and linked by characters who are protagonists in one story but appear in a minor or supporting role in other stories. Composing a linked cycle of stories has given me the opportunity to extend the short story form, especially by giving me scope to expand the lives of the characters beyond a single story. The lives of the characters can take on greater complexity since they confront challenges at different stages of their lives from different perspectives.

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Marty, Anne. "Le personnage féminin dans les romans haïtiens et québécois de 1938 à 1980 (traitement et signification) /." Villeneuve d'Ascq, France : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2000. http://books.google.com/books?id=wFxcAAAAMAAJ.

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Oxoby, Marc C. "American literary fiction in a televisual age /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2005. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/dissertations/fullcit/3209131.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2005.
"August, 2005." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 217-227). Online version available on the World Wide Web. Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2005]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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Cole, Jessica S. "Effect of the internet on reading fiction books for enjoyment and potential interest in the integration of the two media /." Online version of thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11187.

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Pettersson, Bo. "The world according to Kurt Vonnegut moral paradox and narrative form /." Åbo [Finland] : Åbo Akademi University Press, 1994. http://books.google.com/books?id=lXlbAAAAMAAJ.

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Lau, Cheung-cheung. "A study of Manga and adolescent popular fiction in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20354010.

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Ali-Khodja, Jamel. "L'enfant, prétexte littéraire dans le roman maghrébin des années 1950 aux années 1980." Villeneuve-d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2001. http://books.google.com/books?id=llJcAAAAMAAJ.

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Bevans, Rebecca L. "Who knows baby best? investigating connotative gender information, gender processing,and gender identification by adults /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3339094.

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Rakas, Kari Jennifer. "Series Books: An Exploration of Middle School Students’ and Teachers’ Perceptions." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1242331679.

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Renner, Jasmine R. "Kidogo Kidogo Inajaza Pot." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. http://amzn.com/1500428434.

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"Kidogo Kidogo Inajaza Pot" ni hadithi moyo-joto kuhusu usugu na uamuzi wa kijana mdogo ambaye seti nje kujaza sufuria na maji na kuingiza kupitia tabia mbaya ya kupata kazi kufanyika. Yeye unaweka kukamilisha kile kinachoonekana kuwa kazi haiwezekani kwa kujaza sufuria kwa maji kidogo kidogo na kuwapa maji kwa watoto ambao walihitaji zaidi. Na changamoto nyingi juu ya njia yake na msaada wa Wasamaria wengi nzuri, thamani masomo juu ya ujasiri usugu, na uvumilivu ni alionyesha kwamba thrill, kuburudisha na kuimarisha mtoto wako au watoto. Kuja na sisi kama sisi kuanza safari hii thrilling ya kujaza sufuria kidogo kidogo na kufanya ndoto ya ajabu kweli kwa ajili ya watoto wengi. "Little by Little fills the Pot" is a heart-warming story about the persistence and determination of a boy who set out to fill a pot with water and to maneuver through odds to get the jobs done. He sets out to accomplish what appeared to be an impossible task by filling the pot with water little by little and giving the water to children who needed it the most. With many challenges and the assistance of so many good Samaritans, valuable lessons on patience, perseverance and persistence are demonstrated that will thrill, entertain and enrich your child.
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Mohamed, Hana. "Student centred intercultural interactive processing model of reading EFL fiction in the Libyan context." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=232406.

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Using literary texts in the EFL classroom has been widely practised in the field of EFL teaching and learning. Many scholars ascertain that English literary texts provide language learners with a kind of authentic language used by native speakers in real contexts. Research studies in the EFL field illustrate that EFL learners' problems in reading English literary texts are due to two main reasons. Firstly, the complex structure of literary texts. Secondly, lack of familiarity with the cultural content of English literary texts. However, the present study sets out to suggest that collaborative work in the classroom can bridge learners' difficulties in constructing the meaning of literary texts. In Libyan universities, learners in the Department of English Language and Linguistics study literature for a considerable period of their university program. The present research suggests a new model to improve the teaching of literary short fiction in one of the English departments in Libyan universities. The new model emphasizes three main tenets: 1. The role of background knowledge in processing literary short fiction. The background knowledge includes not only knowledge of English language but also familiarity with cultural content of the literary text as well as the formal organization of the literary texts. 2. Since language and culture are intertwined, the approach focuses on developing Libyan learners' cultural and intercultural awareness. 3. The approach suggests the use of Learning Conversations as a scaffolding procedure that allows more interaction and negotiation for co-constructing the meaning of the text. The study adopts a qualitative research approach. The investigation is carried out across three phases. Phase 1 focuses on the assessment of the Libyan EFL participant problems in reading literary texts by interviewing the ten participants and using a diagnostic test. The second phase is interventional. It seeks to investigate learners' development in constructing the meaning of literary text through the suggested scaffolding procedure (i.e. Learning Conversations). The third phase of the investigation explores learners' reflections on the effectiveness of interactive work in reading literature. The study aims at providing evidence of Libyan EFL learners' perspective of the new model and the development of their understanding.

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Merenciano, Levi Henrique [UNESP]. "Abordagem semiótica dos textos de auto-ajuda." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93943.

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A procura do leitor brasileiro pelo discurso de auto-ajuda tem sido um fato inegável contemporaneamente. Por isso, este trabalho visa descrever a organização e o funcionamento dos textos de auto-ajuda mais vendidos de 1991 a 2006, a partir dos rankings “auto-ajuda e esoterismo”, listados semanalmente pela revista Veja. A partir de um corpus organizado por meio do levantamento dessas listas de livros, o objetivo central consiste em sugerir uma tipologia lingüística para os discursos de auto-ajuda mais vendidos atualmente. A abordagem semiótica de orientação greimasiana possui critérios adequados de descrição do plano de conteúdo, com vistas a oferecer uma definição tipológica mais refinada dos discursos. Os níveis fundamental, narrativo e discursivo, na sua dimensão sintagmática e paradigmática, do percurso gerativo de sentido, podem oferecer um quadro suficiente de elementos descritivos, segundo a maior ou menor incidência dos seus componentes na organização dos discursos, tais como: o investimento axiológico das categorias fundamentais (euforia e disforia); os percursos dos actantes funcionais (destinador-manipulador, destinatário-sujeito e do destinador-julgador); as fases da narrativa (manipulação, competência, perfórmance e sanção); a natureza do objeto-valor (cognitivo ou pragmático, modal ou descritivo); a projeção do sujeito da enunciação (as marcas do enunciador e do enunciatário); e a constituição discursiva (textos predominantemente figurativos, predominantemente temáticos ou equivalentemente temático-figurativos). A auto-ajuda, à maneira dos discursos técnicos (manuais de montagem, receitas de cozinha, por exemplo), tende a privilegiar a fase da competência. Nesta, o percurso do destinador-manipulador contribui para que o seu enunciatário (a projeção do leitor) saiba e possa construir o valor subjetivo que procura. Nesse caso...
The Brazilian reader’s search for self-help discourses has been a fact nowadays. For this reason, this work proposes to study the linguistic and discursive processes related to bestselling books of self-help literature in the period 1991-2006, by means of the lists of bestsellers in the Self-Help genre organized and listed weekly by Veja, a Brazilian news magazine. Starting from a corpus collected from these book lists, the aim is to suggest a linguistic typology for the current best-selling self-help books. The methodological perspective of Greimasian semiotics has appropriate criteria for the description of the level of contents, aiming at suggesting more elaborate typological definitions of discourses. The deep, narrative and discursive levels, in its syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions of the generative process of meaning, can offer enough descriptive elements, according to the large or small incidence – focus – of its semiotic components in the organization of discourses, such as: the axiological investment of thymic deep components (euphoria and dysphoria); the path of functional actants (sender-manipulator, receiver-subject and sender-judge); the narrative phases (manipulation, competence, perfórmance and sanction); the characteristics of the object of value (cognitive, pragmatic, modal or descriptive); the projection of the subject of enunciation (how sender and receiver can be linguistically manifest); and the discursive level components (texts which are predominantly thematic, predominantly figurative or thematic and figurative in equal measure). Self-help books, similarly to technical discourses (culinary recipes, instruction manuals), tend to focus on the phase of competence. In it, the sender-manipulator makes its receiver-subject (the reader’s discursive projection) “knowing-how-to-do” and “be able-to-do” so he or she elaborate the subjective object wanted...(Complete abstract click electronic access below)

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Valentine, Valerie D. "An investigation of authenticity and accuracy in children's realistic fiction picture books set in Appalachia." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1202328969.

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Valentine, Valerie D. "An Investigation of Authenticity and Accuracy in Children’s Realistic Fiction Picture Books Set in Appalachia." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1202328969.

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Strong, Alissa Eugenia. "An Empirical Study on the Effects of Music and Sound Effects in Fiction E-Books." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3912.

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Research indicates that music has a unique and powerful ability to affect how listeners react to a story (Schaefer, 1998). Publishing houses are increasingly incorporating music and other multimedia effects into their products, with companies such as Booktrack now including novel-length soundtracks with e-books. The present study aimed to empirically investigate the relationship between music and text by examining whether readers' enjoyment of and distraction from a fiction e-book is affected by the inclusion of music or sound effects. One hundred and twenty undergraduate students at Brigham Young University completed an e-book reading task (either accompanied by sound effects, music, or nothing at all) and completed a post-task survey that measured their enjoyment of and distraction from the task. It was found that multimedia-enhanced e-books were significantly more enjoyable (M = 4.555) than e-books alone (M = 4.035). Both sound effects and music (Ms = 4.512 and 4.594, respectively) led to higher levels of enjoyment than the control condition (M = 4.035), although later analyses indicated this effect was primarily found in females. Only the multimedia e-books incorporating sound effects significantly lowered distraction levels compared with the control (Ms = 1.698 and 3.621, respectively). The amount of time a participant spent engaged in multimedia behaviors (e.g., watching television, playing video games) did not consistently affect the relationships investigated. It was concluded that music and sound effects may be an enjoyable and interesting feature of e-books without detracting from the story. In some cases, the addition of multimedia made e-books as enjoyable for those who typically did not enjoy fiction as it was for those who enjoy fiction. It is recommended that publishers continue investigating this relationship, as multimedia e-books may open access to a new marketable audience for publishers.

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Hirao, Akiko. "Binding a Universe: The Formation and Transmutations of the Best Japanese SF (Nenkan Nihon SF Kessakusen) Anthology Series." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20723.

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The annual science fiction anthology series The Best Japanese SF started publication in 2009 and showcases domestic writers old and new and from a wide range of publishing backgrounds. Although representative of the second golden era of Japanese science fiction in print in its diversity and with an emphasis on that year in science fiction, as the volumes progress the editors’ unspoken agenda has become more pronounced, which is to create a set of expectations for the genre and to uphold writers Project Itoh and EnJoe Toh as exemplary of this current golden era. This thesis analyzes the context of the anthology series’ publication, how the anthology is constructed, and these two writers’ contributions to the genre as integral to the anthologies and important to the younger generation of writers in the genre.

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Bradley, Darin Colbert Ross John Robert. "The little weird self and consciousness in contemporary, small-press, speculative fiction /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3703.

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Matbout, Fadèla. "L'univers romanesque de Tchicaya u Tam'si et de Tahar Ben Jelloun étude de deux imaginaires contrastés et complementaires : thèse de doctorat nouveau régime /." Villeneuve d'Ascq : Thèses/Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2001. http://books.google.com/books?id=FKhcAAAAMAAJ.

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Bindslev, Anne M. "Mrs. Humphry Ward a study in late-Victorian feminine consciousness and creative expression /." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm, Sweden : Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1985. http://books.google.com/books?id=l3ZbAAAAMAAJ.

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Westerman, Jennifer H. "Landscapes of labor : nature, work, and environmental justice in Depression-era fiction /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3342624.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2008.
"May, 2009." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 195-212). Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2009]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Online version available on the World Wide Web.

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Nephew, Irene J. "An ethnographic content analysis of children’s fiction picture books reflecting African American culture published 2001-2005." Diss., Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/2067.

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Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Secondary Education
Jacqueline D. Spears
BeEtta L. Stoney
An ethnographic content analysis was conducted to explore the African American cultural content contained in the text of picture books portraying African Americans published 2001 through 2005. The picture books were limited to beginning readers, stories in rhyme and poetry, historical fiction, fictional biography, and contemporary fiction portraying African Americans and set in the U.S. The books were categorized based on the genre to which they belong and classified as generic books or books with African American cultural content. The African American cultural content in the books in the study was compared to the cultural content contained in picture books in a survey conducted by Rudine Sims Bishop in 1982. Differences between the work of African Americans and non African Americans are discussed. A data collection instrument was constructed and used by several additional raters to test the reliability of the instrument. Each additional rater was given an operational definition for generic books and books with cultural content. The raters were each given one book to evaluate. The research revealed (1) that more than half of the picture books published during the period of this study were classified as generic, (2) in most cases, only the books written by African Americans contained cultural content and (3) more than half of the picture books with cultural content are classified as historical fiction. (4) Although it is possible for a non African American to write an authentic picture book with cultural content, such books are usually the result of in depth research. (5) During the period of this study, not all generic picture books were written by non African Americans; some African American authors choose to write generic books portraying African Americans with minimal content specific to African American culture.

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Nephew, Irene J. "An ethnographic content analysis of children's fiction picture books reflecting African American culture published 2001-2005." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1802.

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Ayala, Zapata Fernando C. "Arquitectura, ciencia-ficción y comic-books : vanguardias, evolución y lenguaje." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669551.

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Esta tesis propone como elemento de investigación al trinomio formado por la Arquitectura, la Ciencia-ficción y los Comic-books. La intención es multidisciplinar; investigando las relaciones existentes y evidenciado las potenciales dentro del conjunto hipotético, como un método de interpretar las actuales fluctuaciones en los márgenes prácticos del proyecto de arquitectura. Al mismo tiempo, se quiso postular conocimientos transversales dirigidos hacia los otros componentes del trinomio, ofreciendo conceptos útiles desde la arquitectura tanto hacia la ciencia-ficción como hacia los comic-books. Las relaciones son dinámicas dentro del trinomio y generalmente se agrupan en dos tipologías, definidas como "plásticas" o "elásticas", en analogía -metafórica en tanto que metodológica- a los dos tipos de colisiones de la física. Las acciones "elásticas" agrupan manifestaciones individuales, desarrolladas internamente desde las disciplinas, sin mayor repercusión en las contrapartes utilizadas como referencia. Estos casos, con una marcada utilidad teórica y pedagógica, fueron frecuentemente encontrados en la investigación, y estudiados como antecedentes de potenciales interdisciplinarios. Las acciones "plásticas" se refieren a las manifestaciones que contienen intenciones de fusión. Son escasas, sobretodo las que provienen desde la arquitectura y que van hacia cualquiera de los otros dos componentes del trinomio. El caso opuesto es más frecuente, pues a lo largo de la historia, tanto directores de películas de ciencia-ficción, como artistas de cómics, han utilizado edificios, espacios arquitectónicos (o una visión fragmentada de sus conceptos) como un elemento protagonista de sus obras. Como metodología de investigación sobre estas relaciones, se desarrollaron nueve casos de estudio, divididos en dos clases: los que desarrollan conocimientos disciplinares específicos (sobre la ciencia-ficción o los comic-books), y casos en los que existe al menos una relación binomial (arquitectura-ciencia-ficción, o arquitectura-comic-books, o comic-books-ciencia-ficción). La primera tipología hace referencia a las investigaciones de los comics o de la ciencia-ficción como disciplinas, estudiando su forma artística, filosofía, estilos, técnicas y herramientas, que han sido fundamentales en el desarrollo de los demás casos, sobretodo para hallar vinculaciones alternativas con el proyecto de arquitectura. La segunda tipología de casos se han investigado para generar un discurso analítico y documental, en base a las manifestaciones híbridas entre el trinomio, pero entendiendo ahora sí, los potenciales de las relaciones -binomiales o trinomiales establecidas, enfocados con perspectivas más amplias (multidisciplinarias) desde la arquitectura. Las conclusiones de este discurso reafirman la hipótesis principal de la investigación; la mayoría de las manifestaciones encontradas desde la arquitectura hacia los comic-books y/o la ciencia-ficción, generalmente proceden de autores, grupos o movimientos que más que intentar desarrollar un elemento construible, utilizan el proyecto como medio, para transmitir teorías, conceptos, críticas o simplemente comunicar “mensajes arquitectónicos", utilizando para ello lenguajes híbridos, derivados de los aspectos multidisciplinarios del trinomio. El potencial principal que arroja esta tesis hace referencia al concepto de innovación y creatividad derivado de cualquier "fusión" entre disciplinas, que objetivado hacia la arquitectura es mesurable y aplicable, tanto a nivel de los procesos que involucran el pensamiento, como al nivel práctico de la ejecución del proyecto. Estas acciones alcanzarían su máxima expresión aplicados en "cajas de herramientas" alternativas para comunicación de nuevos lenguajes arquitectónicos.
This thesis proposes as topic of research the hypothetic triad formed by Architecture, Science-fiction and the Comic-books. The intention is multidisciplinary, researching inner relationships and demonstrating the potential within the whole trinomial scenario, as a method of understands the current fluctuations in the architectural practice. At the same time, the study was focused to develop and apply transversal skills directed towards the others components of the triad, providing i.e., useful concepts from architecture to science fiction and/or to comic-books. All the relationships founded are dynamic within the triad, and can be grouped into two types, defined in this thesis as "elastic" or "plastic" ones, in a metaphoric but methodological analogy of the two types of collision in physics. “Elastic” actions grouped individual manifestations, developed as internal problem from each disciplines of the triad, with little -or zero- impact on counterparties used as a reference. These cases, with theoretical and pedagogical utilities, were the most frequently examples found in this research, and presented as potential interdisciplinary backgrounds of experimentation. “Plastic” actions grouped binomial and/or trinomial manifestations that containing fusion intentions. Those examples are few, especially when looking from architecture and then focus to the other(s) component(s) of the triad. The opposite case often happens; i.e., throughout history, directors of science fiction films -and also many comics artist- have used buildings, architectural spaces or a fragmented architectural concepts as an important component of his works. The methodologies was developed along nine study cases, divided into two classes: those that develop specific disciplinary knowledge (about specifically science fiction or comic books, out of architectural traditional background), and those in which at least a binomial relationship between concepts exists (architecture vs. science fiction, or architecture vs. comic books, or even comic books vs. science fiction). The first type of relationships refers researches about comics and science fiction as disciplines, focused on its artistic form, philosophy, styles, techniques and tools. These researches were indispensable for the development of the rest of cases, especially those leads to find new links with the architectural project. The second type of relationships have been investigated to generate a complete discourse, both analytical and documentary, based on hybrid between the components of the triad, but understanding the potential of the relationships -binomial or trinomialestablished, and focused with broader perspectives (multidisciplinary ones) from the architectural field. The conclusions reinforce the principal hypothesis; most of the hybrid manifestations found from architectural discipline and related to comic-books and/or science-fiction, generally come from professionals, sectors, groups or movements that rather than trying to build something “real”, use the projection tools as a means to convey theories and concepts, or simply communicate their own "architectural messages", using hybrid languages that derived from the multidisciplinary characteristics of the trinomial. The huge potential in this thesis refers to the alternative visions about concept of innovation and creativity resulting from any “merging condition” between artistic disciplines, potential which been objectified from architecture is measurable and feasible, with processes that involve thinking and the practical level of future implementation. These actions would achieve its best benefits working as "toolboxes", new alternatives for communicating architectural languages

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Palmer, Marcus S. "History, humor, and introspection experiencing "Argentinidad" /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2007. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1442853.

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Newcomer, Jane E. (Jane Elisabeth). "Toward the Identification of a Body of Classic or Seminal Works in Adult Education: a Citation Analysis." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330844/.

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This bibliometric study examined 19,385 citations in the bibliographies, book reviews, and reading lists of 70 volumes of Adult Education Quarterly, Adult Education, Adult Education Bulletin, Adult Education Journal, and Journal of Adult Education, and 13 volumes of the Handbook of Adult Education in the United States to identify books published before 1960 which have been frequently cited before and after 1960. Through citation analysis, an initial list of 434 titles was reduced to a core list of 64 books cited five times or more during the years between 1934 and 1988. For the purposes of this study, numbers of citations were taken to mean importance of works by indicating usefulness to subsequent authors. Of the 64 books, 55 had received at least one citation before 1960 and 57 had received at least one citation after 1960. While not all 64 of the core works constitute what might be called "classic works," it is suggested that classic works are likely to be found within the listed works.

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Bohnet, Christine. "Der metafiktionale Roman Untersuchungen zur Prosa Konstantin Vaginovs /." München : O. Sagner, 1998. http://books.google.com/books?id=6FRgAAAAMAAJ.

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Blais, Marie-Josée. "Les voies de l'amour dans les best-sellers québécois contemporains, proposition méthodologique d'un modèle du fonctionnement du code amoureux." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ57926.pdf.

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Barwick, Laura. "The Opinions of Literature Faculty and Students on Back-of-the-Book Indexes in Fiction." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/292.

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Back-of-the-book indexes are usually only printed in non-fiction books. This research investigated the opinions of literature faculty and students on including indexes in fiction books. Publishers may claim that an index for a fiction book is not worth the cost. However, no empirical studies have been conducted which try to assess demand. In order to begin to fill this gap in the literature, a survey was distributed to literature faculty and students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in order to assess their opinions towards the usefulness and value of fiction book indexes. The results suggest that there is a demand for indexes in fiction but some concerns may need to be addressed first. The results of this study may serve as a starting point for gauging market interest in buying fictional works printed with indexes that could potentially lead to a new field in indexing.

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Merenciano, Levi Henrique. "Abordagem semiótica dos textos de auto-ajuda /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93943.

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Orientador: Arnaldo Cortina
Banca: Renata Maria F. C. Marchezan
Banca: Antonio Vicente S. Pietroforte
Resumo: A procura do leitor brasileiro pelo discurso de auto-ajuda tem sido um fato inegável contemporaneamente. Por isso, este trabalho visa descrever a organização e o funcionamento dos textos de auto-ajuda mais vendidos de 1991 a 2006, a partir dos rankings "auto-ajuda e esoterismo", listados semanalmente pela revista Veja. A partir de um corpus organizado por meio do levantamento dessas listas de livros, o objetivo central consiste em sugerir uma tipologia lingüística para os discursos de auto-ajuda mais vendidos atualmente. A abordagem semiótica de orientação greimasiana possui critérios adequados de descrição do plano de conteúdo, com vistas a oferecer uma definição tipológica mais refinada dos discursos. Os níveis fundamental, narrativo e discursivo, na sua dimensão sintagmática e paradigmática, do percurso gerativo de sentido, podem oferecer um quadro suficiente de elementos descritivos, segundo a maior ou menor incidência dos seus componentes na organização dos discursos, tais como: o investimento axiológico das categorias fundamentais (euforia e disforia); os percursos dos actantes funcionais (destinador-manipulador, destinatário-sujeito e do destinador-julgador); as fases da narrativa (manipulação, competência, perfórmance e sanção); a natureza do objeto-valor (cognitivo ou pragmático, modal ou descritivo); a projeção do sujeito da enunciação (as marcas do enunciador e do enunciatário); e a constituição discursiva (textos predominantemente figurativos, predominantemente temáticos ou equivalentemente temático-figurativos). A auto-ajuda, à maneira dos discursos técnicos (manuais de montagem, receitas de cozinha, por exemplo), tende a privilegiar a fase da competência. Nesta, o percurso do destinador-manipulador contribui para que o seu enunciatário (a projeção do leitor) saiba e possa construir o valor subjetivo que procura. Nesse caso... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: The Brazilian reader's search for self-help discourses has been a fact nowadays. For this reason, this work proposes to study the linguistic and discursive processes related to bestselling books of self-help literature in the period 1991-2006, by means of the lists of bestsellers in the Self-Help genre organized and listed weekly by Veja, a Brazilian news magazine. Starting from a corpus collected from these book lists, the aim is to suggest a linguistic typology for the current best-selling self-help books. The methodological perspective of Greimasian semiotics has appropriate criteria for the description of the level of contents, aiming at suggesting more elaborate typological definitions of discourses. The deep, narrative and discursive levels, in its syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions of the generative process of meaning, can offer enough descriptive elements, according to the large or small incidence - focus - of its semiotic components in the organization of discourses, such as: the axiological investment of thymic deep components (euphoria and dysphoria); the path of functional actants (sender-manipulator, receiver-subject and sender-judge); the narrative phases (manipulation, competence, perfórmance and sanction); the characteristics of the object of value (cognitive, pragmatic, modal or descriptive); the projection of the subject of enunciation (how sender and receiver can be linguistically manifest); and the discursive level components (texts which are predominantly thematic, predominantly figurative or thematic and figurative in equal measure). Self-help books, similarly to technical discourses (culinary recipes, instruction manuals), tend to focus on the phase of competence. In it, the sender-manipulator makes its receiver-subject (the reader's discursive projection) "knowing-how-to-do" and "be able-to-do" so he or she elaborate the subjective object wanted...(Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Edholm, Roger. "The written and the unwritten world of Philip Roth : fiction, nonfiction, and borderline aesthetics in the Roth books." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-25014.

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This thesis examines five books by the American author Philip Roth commonly referred to as the “Roth Books,” which are The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography(1988), Deception (1990), Patrimony: A True Story (1991), Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993), and The Plot Against America (2004). These books, held together by the author’s proper name, are often viewed as texts that conflate fiction and nonfiction or demonstrate the “fictionality” of all factual narrative accounts in compliance with well-known postmodernist and poststructuralist theories. Contrary to this view, I argue that a valid understanding of the Roth Books demands that we acknowledge that these works represent a series of quite different ways for the author to transform his own life into written form, a creative act which is manifested in both fictional and nonfictional writing. In the attempt to argue this view, I turn to a field of study where the question about criteria for distinguishing fictional from nonfictional narrative literature has occupied a prominent place: narrative theory. However, my theoretical and methodological point of departure does not align itself with the “standard” paradigm in narrative theory with its origin in classical, structuralist narratology. Rather, the thesis promotes a pragmatic and rhetorical perspective which is argued to better account for how we read and make sense of different narrative texts. In opposition to standard narrative theory, where all narratives are considered to adhere to the same model of communication, I argue in favour of a view where narrative fiction and narrative nonfiction are conceived as distinct communicative practices. I open the thesis by showing that Roth’s books contribute to the discussion on how to distinguish fictional from nonfictional narrative texts (Chapter 1). I then continue by approaching the distinction between fiction and nonfiction in general theoretical terms (Chapter 2). And in what follows (Chapters 3-5), I present a reading where the Roth Books are juxtaposed against each other. This reading demonstrates how these texts, although in some sense related, because of their divergent qualities and differing intentions still communicate differently with their readers, inviting a readerly attention that is dissimilar from one work to the other.

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