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Brearey, Oliver James. "Peripheral subjectivity and English-language Hong Kong literature." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2007. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?1451242.

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Forey, Madeleine. "Language and revelation : English apocalyptic literature 1500-1660." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241302.

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Doubler, Janet M. Fortune Ron. "Literature and composition a problem-solving approach to a thematic literature course /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1987. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p8713214.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1987.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed July 26, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Ronald J. Fortune (chair), Glenn A. Grever, Elizabeth E. McMahan, Patricia A. Chesebro, Janice Neuleib. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 170-177) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Hardman, Frank Christopher. "A-level English language and English literature : contrasts in teaching and learning." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/604.

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This study is an investigation of methods of teaching and learning in the A-level English curriculum consisting both of the traditional A-level English literature and the more recent arrival of A-level English language. It is generally assumed in commentaries on A-level English teaching that language is taught differently from literature because of differences in aims, content and ideology. English language is seen as a deliberate move away from the more 'pure' academic study of literary texts and towards more 'applied' and even partly 'vocational' study in which independent and collaborative

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Jennessen, Vanja. "A Story of English Language Learning – How Can Children’s Literature be Used in Teaching Vocabulary to Young English Language Learners? : - A Literature Review." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Pedagogiskt arbete, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-19870.

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This study aims to find research relating to the use of children’s literature to promote vocabulary development in young children, particularly English language learners in Sweden. The main questions address how (methods) children’s literature can be used and why (reasons) children’s literature is often recommended for the teaching of vocabulary to young learners. The study also aims to explore reasons against the use of children’s literature in vocabulary teaching found in previous research. A systematic literature review was carried out, including results from five empirical studies. The stu

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Mattsson, Kershaw Anneli. "Teaching Academic English to English Learners : A literature Review on Classroom Practice." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-25394.

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The level of fluency in the genre specific language of schooling, also known as Academic English (AE), determines students’ success in school. Government agencies that legislate school policies therefore give teachers the directive to conduct education in ways that promote communicative abilities in academic English across all curricula. While the acquisition of an AE register entails hard work for native English-speaking students it presents an enormous challenge for English language learners (ELLs) who are faced with the triple burden of leaning basic interpersonal communicative skills (BICS

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Pappa, Joseph. "Carnal reading early modern language and bodies /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.

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Roach, William Leonard Brosnahan Irene. "Incorporating American literature into the English as a second language college composition course." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1988. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p8901469.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1988.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed September 19, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Irene Brosnahan (chair), Ron Fortune, Maurice Sharton, Janet Youga, Ray Lewis White. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-126) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Wood, David. "Formulaic language in speech fluency development in English as a second language." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29274.

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This thesis is an investigation of the role of formulaic language in second language (L2) speech fluency development, within a cognitive and information processing framework. Fluency has been studied and defined in terms of temporal variables of speech such as rate of speech, pause frequency and distribution, and the length of fluent runs between pauses. It has been suggested by several researchers that the key to fluency in spontaneous speech is mastery of a repertoire of formulaic language sequences, multiword strings processed mentally as single words (Schmidt, 1991; Towell, Hawkins, and Ba

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Saito, Takaharu. "Exploring nonnative-English-speaking teachers' experiences in teaching English at a United States university." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282909.

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The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how nonnative English teachers' identity constructions develop and influence their pedagogy in U.S. higher education. The research on nonnative teachers of English has not adequately explored their identity constructions. This study relied on a phenomenological case study approach that analyzed the lived experience of nonnative English teachers in relation to wider language ideologies and practices. Data were generated from spring 2003 to fall 2003 through phenomenological in-depth interviews, classroom observations, questionnaires, and autobiogra

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Prillaman, Barbara. "Conversations to help make meaning ELLs and literature circles /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 202 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1500060691&sid=33&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Bellis, Joanna Ruth. "Language, literature, and the Hundred Years War, 1337-1600." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609852.

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Higgins, John Anthony. "Raymond Williams : literature, Marxism and cultural materialism." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23241.

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The guiding principle of this study is that Williams's engagement with English studies cannot be understood in terms purely internal to the discipline of English. As well as writing against the official culture of liberal and conservative literary studies, Williams also wrote in opposition to what he read as the orthodoxies of Marxist thinking on literature, culture and politics. Arguing first against Marxist literary criticism as he knew it from the 1930s, he maintained an ever sceptical and ever critical stance towards the later trends of Althusserian and poststructuralist theory, while at t

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Clower, Shannon Montoya. "Using literature circles to improve literacy skills of English language learners." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2006. http://165.236.235.140/lib/SClower2006.pdf.

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Van, Pletzen Ermina Dorothea. "The language of painting in nineteenth-century English fiction." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21770.

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Bibliography: pages 322-332.<br>This thesis examines the material and aesthetic sustenance which the novel as developing genre drew from the burgeoning popular interest in the visual arts, particularly the pictorial arts, which took place during the course of the nineteenth century in Britain. The first chapter develops the concept of the language of painting which for the purposes of the thesis refers to the linguistic transactions occurring between word and pictorial image when writers on art formulate their impressions in language. This type of discourse is described as governed by conceptu

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Koussouhon, Leonard Assogba. "Enhancing English literacy skills through literature : a linguistics-oriented Francophone African perspective /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1995. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/11791500.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1995.<br>Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Clifford A. Hill. Dissertation Committee: Jo Anne Kleifgen. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 160-169).

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Holoch, Adele Marian. "The serious work of humor in postcolonial literature." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1632.

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This dissertation examines the role of humor in contemporary South Asian and African postcolonial literature, arguing that humor opens new spaces for historically marginalized individuals to be heard. I argue that in addition to its unique capacities to question and rebel against colonial authority, humor helps those who deploy it to resist victimhood and enact a psychological rebellion against the circumstances of colonialism and its legacies, and facilitates a sense of community through laughter among both those who deploy it and those who enjoy it as audience members. I establish a theoreti

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Malton, Sara. "Commanding language, linguistic authority and female autonomy in Thomas Hardy's fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ58482.pdf.

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Thompson, Clarissa. "Pedagogy and prospective teachers in three college English courses /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7826.

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Aguirre, Laura Maria. "Imaginative Ecosystems: Clamoring for Visibility and Opacity in Miami's Climate Justice Movement." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3783.

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Though Miami is one of the places most vulnerable to climate change, climate change threats are not at the forefront of most citizen’s worries. Furthermore, though all Miamians are vulnerable in the face of climate change, they are stratified into communities that will bear the consequences of that threat with different intensities, including frontline communities that struggle to bring visibility to themselves and their concerns. Activist-citizens need to connect the dots between ethical, social, political, economic, and environmental issues and create kinship networks that break through comp

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Knox-Shaw, Peter. "The explorer in English fiction." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22436.

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Although there have been a number of critical works on the novel given over to topics such as adventure, colonization or the politics of the frontier, a comparative study of novels in which an encounter with unknown territory holds central importance has till now been lacking. My aim in this thesis is to analyse and relate a variety of texts which show representatives of a home culture in confrontation with terra incognita or unfamiliar peoples. There is, as it turns out, a strong family resemblance between the novels that fall into this category whether they belong, like Robinson Crusoe, Cora

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Mattar, Karim. "The Middle Eastern novel in English : literary transnationalism after Orientalism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dae20213-59d9-4889-9cc2-e64c66668115.

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This thesis focuses on the production, circulation, and reception of contemporary Middle Eastern literatures in Britain and the United States. I'm particularly interested in the novel form, and in assessing how both translated Middle Eastern novels and anglophone novels by migrant writers engage with dominant Anglo-American discourses of politics, gender, and religion in the region. In negotiation with Edward Said's Orientalism, I develop a materialist postcolonial critical model to analyse how such discourses undergird publishing and marketing strategies towards novels by Ibrahim Nasrallah, H

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Alsarhan, Jawaher. "Gender and Racial Empowerment in Selected Works of Maya Angelou." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2019. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/162.

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This study examines Maya Angelou as a powerful African-American woman in the twentieth century who impacted generations of African Americans. Her biographies and selected works speak strongly and wisely about gender and racial empowerment. This empowerment was sown in her childhood and could be traced throughout her life. It is also a fact that seldom does the realization of one’s race and gender take place at such an early age as with Maya Angelou. She was highly marginalized not only in terms of gender but also in terms of race with acute consciousness.

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Alwazzan, Aminah. "The Strong Voices of Black Women and Men in the Selected Poetry of Langston Hughes." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2019. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/161.

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This thesis discusses Langston Hughes’ poetry and details the African-American experience in a discriminatory society which was an essential theme of the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement which enriched American life. Hughes’ body of work covers the entire range of the human experience, especially the experience of ordinary people. He believed that the role of the artist was to cover and illuminate every aspect of people’s lives. Part of this expansive philosophy towards art included giving a voice to African-American women and men who experienced

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Randolph, Tamara Lee Dietrich. "Culture-mediated literature adult Chinese EFL student response to folktales /." access full-text online access from Digital dissertation consortium, 2000. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9988979.

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Hamilton, Doreen Dashel. "Voice in English studies /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9404.

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Van, Vuuren Kathrine. "A study of indigenous children's literature in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21491.

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Bibliography: pages 151-159.<br>Whilst an accepted area of investigation in most other English speaking countries, indigenous children's literature is a relatively new area of academic study in South Africa. Traditionally, South Africa children's literature has been targeted for a white middle class audience. In addition, most of the fiction for children that was available in South Africa, with the exception of fiction in Afrikaans, tended to be imported children's literature, which meant that there was little by way of indigenous children's literature being produced. However, since the mid-19

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Maciel, Carla Maria Ataíde Hawkins Bruce Wayne Kalter Susan. "Bantu oral narratives in the training of EFL teachers in Mozambique." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1390280981&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1202917314&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2007.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed on February 13, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Bruce Hawkins, Susan Kalter (co-chairs), Kristin Dykstra. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 258-275) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Iida, Eri. "Hedges in Japanese English and American English medical research articles." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99723.

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The present study analysed the use of hedges in English medical research articles written by Japanese and American researchers. The study also examined the relationship between Japanese medical professionals' employment of hedges and their writing process. Sixteen English medical articles: eight written by Japanese and eight by Americans were examined. Four of the Japanese authors discussed their writing process through questionnaires and telephone interviews.<br>The overall ratio of hedges in articles written by the two groups differed only slightly; however, analyses revealed a number of spe

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Berthrong, Andrew. "Hold, Hold, My Heart." DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/764.

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This thesis consists of a traditional introduction followed by a first-person, fictional story told in seven chapters. The story begins with the protagonist in his apartment preparing to write, a brief account of his stalling, and then his beginning to write. Those chapters taking place in the vicinity of the apartment are in the present tense and those relating past adventures are written in third person, one chapter for each adventure: Africa, sailing, and Navajo Mountain. After each adventure, the narration returns to the apartment. This piece is the embodiment of both the vigorous internal

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Sutton-Linderman, Chelsi Joy. "Lessons in Humanity: A Memoir." DigitalCommons@USU, 2008. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/158.

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In the opening pages of his work, Dog Years; A Memoir, Mark Doty explains: Love for a wordless creature, once it takes hold, is an enchantment, and the enchanted speak, famously, in private mutterings, cryptic riddles, or gibberish. This is why I shouldn't be writing anything about the two dogs that have been such presences for sixteen years of my life. How on earth could I stand at the requisite distance to say anything that might matter? (1) In this thesis I argue that Doty, among other respected contemporary writers, is saying something that matters when he writes of his relationship with

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James, Timothy John. "Articulating class : language and conflict in English literature from Gaskell to Tressell." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22494.

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Bibliography: pages 304-318.<br>Concentrating on English literary texts written between the 1830s and 1914 and which have the working class as their central focus, the thesis examines various ways in which class conflict inheres within the textual language, particularly as far as the representation of working-class speech is concerned. The study is made largely within V. N. Voloshinov's understanding of language.

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Silver, Jeremy. "Language, power and identity in the drama of Ben Jonson." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1986. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/afe5e26d-221e-437c-bffd-ead6585af447/1/.

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The thesis explores the relationships between language, power and identity in the drama of Ben Jonson. The approach is primarily through linguistic analyses of the plays, but frequent reference is made to other texts which illuminate the social, and cultural conditions out of which the drama emerges. The first three chapters deal, respectively, with Jonson's Humour plays, Poetaster, and both tragedies. Four subsequent chapters deal individually with Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. Two final chapters deal with Jonson's late plays. The thesis analyses the way in which cha

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Harris, Katherine. "I Know Him Not, and Never Will: Moby Dick, The Human and the Whale." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33711.

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In this thesis, I argue that Herman Melville's Moby Dick depicts the ocean and whales in a way that develops aesthetic theory into a proto-environmentalist message. Melville draws on theories of the mathematical and dynamic sublime as outlined by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant, while also employing Goethe's Theory of Colours in his depictions of the ocean setting. Goethe posits that opposing phenomena require one another to signify and to function, and Melville dramatises this idea throughout a complex and often self-contradictory novel. Moby Dick depicts whale hunting in a paradoxical, unstab

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Vivian, Steven D. Scharton Maurice. "English studies, poststructuralism, and radicalism." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9835920.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1998.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed July 6, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Maurice Scharton (chair), Bruce Hawkins, Janice Neuleib. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 251-260) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Daly, Marlene Y. "A guide for best practices in English 9 essentials: literature strand." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2008. http://165.236.235.140/lib/MDaly2008.pdf.

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Reeve, Daniel James. "Romance and the literature of religious instruction, c.1170-c.1330." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:00ff0d43-6ace-49e2-a80f-cf5b6c9553fc.

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This thesis investigates the relations between romance and texts of religious instruction in England between c.1170–c.1330, taking as its principal textual corpus the exceptionally rich literary traditions of insular French romance and religious writing that subsist during this period. It argues that romance is a mode which engages closely with religious and ethical questions from a very early stage, and demonstrates the discourses of opposition in which both kinds of text participate throughout the period. The thesis offers substantial readings of a number of neglected insular French religiou

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Lalor, Doireann P. "Italian postwar experimentalism in the wake of English-language modernism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:238508c2-eb42-460a-b8c1-a01d58f15630.

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After World War II in Italy the cultural scene was in need of resuscitation. Artists searched for tools with which to revifify their works. Central to this, for many key figures in the fifties and sixties, was an engagement with English-language Modernism. This phenomenon has been widely recognised, but this thesis is its first sustained analysis. I draw together the receptions of three English-language Modernist authors – T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and James Joyce – who, as a triad, were instrumental in the radicalisation of the arts in Italy in the fifties and sixties. I show that their works w

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Howell, Patrick. "Alexander the Great and the English novel." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11948.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>This work focuses on the manner in which Alexander the Great is received and reconfigured within the confines of the contemporary English-language novel. The Macedonian king has held the attention of writers and artists throughout the centuries; this dissertation seeks to investigate how modern authors, working at a remove of centuries, with limited evidence, have contrived to fashion coherent literary narratives from his life, and how this process is influenced by the authors and the society for which they write. The theoretical backbone of this approac

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Mullen, Kristen. "A Cross-Generational Analysis of Spanish-to-English Lexico-Semantic Phenomena in Emerging Miami English." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1801.

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Sociolinguists have documented the substrate influence of various languages on the formation of dialects in numerous ethnic-regional setting throughout the United States. This literature shows that while phonological and grammatical influences from other languages may be instantiated as durable dialect features, lexical phenomena often fade over time as ethnolinguistic communities assimilate with contiguous dialect groups. In preliminary investigations of emerging Miami Latino English, we have observed that lexical forms based on Spanish lexical forms are not only ubiquitous among the speech o

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Currie, Iain. "White writings : colonialism and modernism in South African literature since 1970." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21613.

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This dissertation develops from the contention that a significant body of the literary activity of white South Africans since the 1970s can be characterised as a form of modernism. This characterisation devolves less upon the formal attributes of a body of literary writing than upon the particular position it occupies In the cultural sphere during this period . That position is one of political and cultural marginality. White writing is distanced from both the official culture of the state and an emergent populist culture associated with the urban social collectivities that begin to play an in

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Palfi, Benike. "From demon to god : the evolution of the vampire in literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11162.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>Vampires may be centuries-old mythological creatures, but depictions thereof abound in our modern society in literature, film, and television. The prevalence of the vampire is related to its enormous symbolic power to reflect socio-cultural conditions of society at the time of its creation, which not only determines how the vampire figure has changed within modern literary history, but also makes it possible to pinpoint certain social conditions influencing this change. The aspects of religion and capitalism, and, directly associated with this, consumeri

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Englund, Micaela. "The power of literature : A literature review on the incorporation of children’s literature in the lower-elementary English as a Second- Language classroom." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Pedagogiskt arbete, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-20876.

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The use of children’s literature in the English as a Second language (ESL) classroom is a widely used teaching method. This study aims to find research relating to the incorporation of children’s literature in the lower elementary English as a secondlanguage classroom. The main questions are how children’s literature can be used in the classroom and what potential benefits it has. A systematic literature review was carried out and research from six studies was included. The included studies, analyzed in this thesis, involved children aged 6-9, who are learning a second language. The results re

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Yung, Hiu-yu, and 翁曉羽. "Theorizing the translation of body language: a study of nonverbal behaviors in literature." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44051785.

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Parker, Eleanor Catherine. "Anglo-Scandinavian literature and the post-conquest period." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:18aa9912-85f6-4cba-b4d6-4f8f7453402f.

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This thesis concerns narratives about Anglo-Scandinavian contact and literary traditions of Scandinavian origin which circulated in England in the post-conquest period. The argument of the thesis is that in the eleventh century, particularly during the reign of Cnut and his sons, literature was produced for a mixed Anglo-Danish audience which drew on shared cultural traditions, and that some elements of this largely oral literature can be traced in later English sources. It is further argued that in certain parts of England, especially the East Midlands, an interest in Anglo-Scandinavian hist

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Ali, Soraya. "Transactive reader-response theory and the teaching of literature in a second language." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307903.

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Garcia, Kristina. "Examining the proximity of power structures in dystopian and anti-utopian literature." FIU Digital Commons, 2011. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3866.

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The purpose of this research is to examine power in dystopian and anti-utopian literature as it relates to the proximity of power structures in relation to the populace. This research uses The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood; Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell; and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley to explore the different methods of gaining and maintaining power employed by the ruling parties in these texts. The research demonstrates an arrangement of control as it relates to implementing, solidifying, and perpetuating a hegemonic structure within a civilization. The conclusion of this

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Armenteros, Katrina. "Gender Benders: Shakespeare's Rosalind and Woolf's Orlando." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1622.

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English Renaissance playwright, William Shakespeare and twentieth century modernist author, Virginia Woolf’s works, “As You Like It” (1599) and “Orlando” (1928), respectively posit a vision of gender that transcends the physical sex of the body. The play’s heroine, Rosalind, and the novel’s protagonist, Orlando, each challenge the stability of the binary categories of male and female, demonstrating how gender is not absolute but rather a constantly adapting and evolving construct. This thesis traces the development of Rosalind and Orlando by analyzing and comparing both protagonists’ journeys

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Danielsson, Kajsa. "Second Language Development through OnlineGaming : A Literature Study." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Pedagogiskt arbete, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-25485.

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English is a part of our lives from an early age, and it is important that pupils engage themselves in learning the language. Today many pupils have access to a computer and can play online games in collaboration with others from around the world. This study aims to examine how online gaming can help pupils develop their second language. By studying prior research and analysing the results, it was found that there are several factors which may have an effect on pupils’ second language development. Through online games, motivation increases. Also, the interaction with both native English speake

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Wang, Pan. "Chinese students' English name practices and their identities." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66903.

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This qualitative study explores the relationship between Chinese students' practice of adopting and/or using an English name and their identities. I am concerned with why Chinese students agreed or refused to adopt an English name at the inception, how their attitudes towards their English name(s) have changed over time, what criteria they used when choosing their English names, and what the relationship is between their English name(s) and their identities. I understand participants' practice of adopting an English name as the result of the habits of adopting ming and zi in

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