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Mullen, Anne W. "Historical and fictional narratives in Sciascia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297880.
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Holliday, Penelope Ann. "Alternative Brisbane masculinities : fictional representations within recent Brisbane narratives." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16754/1/Penelope_Holliday_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis considers and critically analyses literary representations of what I have called “alternative masculinities” within a selection of texts by male writers from the turn of the millennium. The novels chosen for this analysis are Last Drinks by Andrew McGahan (2000), World of Chickens (2001) by Nick Earls and Sushi Central by Alasdair Duncan (2003). The work of R.W. Connell, Doreen Massey and Bruce Bennett will inform a framework blending theories of masculinities, spatiality theories and critical regionalism, providing the tools to conduct a reading of the spaces fictional representations of alternative masculinities engage with. Applying Connell’s hierarchy of masculinities (1995) I examine the emerging textual constructions of alternative masculinities that correspond with the changing cityscape of Brisbane. Within the above texts I argue there is a strong emphasis on the connections between identity and place. This is expressed through references to Brisbane’s social and historical identity and the gendered alignment of Brisbane spaces with particular masculinities.
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Holliday, Penelope Ann. "Alternative Brisbane masculinities : fictional representations within recent Brisbane narratives." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16754/.
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This thesis considers and critically analyses literary representations of what I have called “alternative masculinities” within a selection of texts by male writers from the turn of the millennium. The novels chosen for this analysis are Last Drinks by Andrew McGahan (2000), World of Chickens (2001) by Nick Earls and Sushi Central by Alasdair Duncan (2003). The work of R.W. Connell, Doreen Massey and Bruce Bennett will inform a framework blending theories of masculinities, spatiality theories and critical regionalism, providing the tools to conduct a reading of the spaces fictional representations of alternative masculinities engage with. Applying Connell’s hierarchy of masculinities (1995) I examine the emerging textual constructions of alternative masculinities that correspond with the changing cityscape of Brisbane. Within the above texts I argue there is a strong emphasis on the connections between identity and place. This is expressed through references to Brisbane’s social and historical identity and the gendered alignment of Brisbane spaces with particular masculinities.
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Linder, Kathryn E. "Narratives of Violence, Myths of Youth: American Youth Identity in Fictional Narratives of School Shootings." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1298851564.
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Weed, Amanda J. "Don't Be a Zombie: Bringing Persuasion to Life through Fictional Narratives." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1385993180.
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Ho, Ka-ying Kathy. "Children's use of evaluative devices in telling fictional and personal narratives." Click to view the E-thesis via HKU Scholars Hub, 2007. http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B42004901.
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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2007."A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, June 30, 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 28-30). Also available in print.
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Davis, Ian. "Teaching Men: Masculinity, Narrative and Pedagogy." Thesis, Griffith University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367340.
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The Teaching Men project investigates masculinity, narrative and teaching by considering one central question; (How) are male teachers influenced by fictional narratives in the construction of masculinities within education? The exploration of this question is executed using three distinct yet corresponding research activities. Firstly by developing a methodological system of narrative analysis that is able to account for the influence of a fictional text alongside a reading of interview data. Secondly by focusing on a specific cohort of male teachers in order to measure the influence of a fictional text, illustrating possibilities of how masculinity can be enacted within education. Finally by assessing how the narrative nature of critical reflective practice enables the integration of fictional texts, and the literary tropes they contain, both widening and restricting perceptions of teachers and teaching. The work of the project demonstrates how fictional narratives and their encompassing ideologies can become a powerful force in the shaping of our professional identities, in this case as male teachers.
The Teaching Men project has two parallel research streams. The first stream focuses on a collection of 22 fictional narratives drawn from the teacher text genre. Each text describes the world of teachers and teaching from differing perspectives, in differing forms including, literary texts; dramatic works such as plays or musicals; feature films; and television and radio series. The teacher text genre is both popular and prolific; therefore three key criteria have been established to determine inclusion within the project.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Beauchamp, Alexandra L. "The Fantasy Self: Relationships between Self-Guides and Experience-Taking in Fictional Narratives." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1471875575.
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Kelly, Rita Olivia. "Constructed meanings and contesting voices : the Opium War in archival, historical and fictional Anglophone narratives." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206694.
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This thesis explores the ways in which the Opium War has been represented in both non-fictional and fictional Anglophone narratives. It looks at the construction of various 19th century discourses surrounding this historical event and the different meanings it has been endowed with through such discourses. It then examines the ways in which some of those meanings have been challenged in more recent accounts. The purpose of this thesis is to show how and why certain ideas are constructed and propagated, and how these in turn can be questioned, challenged and reinterpreted, giving us a wider perspective, and thus better understanding, of the said event.
The study is divided into two parts: non-fiction and fiction. The non-fiction section includes two chapters on the discourses of the Opium War, one on translation and one on historical texts while the second section focuses on two contemporary fictional narratives of the Opium War. Chapters one and two are based on a selection of 19th century archival documents and constitute a discussion of the discourses that have been formed around the Opium War in five specific fields: political, economic, religious, medical and legal. An analysis of these discourses will show them to be part of a larger sinophobic discourse that constructed China as Britain’s cultural inferior around the time of the conflict.
To view the Opium War in terms of cultural encounter requires a discussion of translation. Chapter three investigates the role and importance of translation and translators in creating and/ or sustaining the meanings created by these various discourses. Chapter four is an analysis of two more recent historical narratives: one a history of opium, the other a history of the Opium War. These texts contribute to an expanded understanding of the 19th century conflict as they offer different and more contemporary meanings with regard to the war that partly challenge earlier ones. Because of that, they also mark a transition towards my discussion of fictional narratives where the focus is on introducing new speaking positions that contest those ideas, images and ‘truths’ propagated by narratives such as those that are part of the Opium War discourses.
Chapter five investigates how Timothy Mo’s An Insular Possession goes against an important aspect of such discourses, that of hierarchy, by emphasizing cultural incommensurability and cross-cultural miscommunication between the British and the Chinese while refusing to stratify the two into cultural and civilizational hierarchies. Chapter six examines the ways in which Amitav Ghosh invents a new narrative of the Opium War in the first two parts of an intended trilogy: Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke. This last chapter looks at how, by focusing on the silenced Indian aspect of the Opium War and the unexplored Sino-Indian side of the conflict, Ghosh transforms the war from an exclusively Sino-British to a more global event.published_or_final_version
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Pak, Christopher. "Ecopolitical transformations and the development of environmental philosophical awareness in science fictional narratives of terraforming." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2012. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/9193/.
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This thesis examines the motif of terraforming from Wells’ War of the Worlds (1898) to James Cameron’s film Avatar (2009) in order to assess the dialogical development of ecological themes and its imbrication with politics in science fictional narratives of terraforming. It tracks the growth of the theme in four distinct phases that are contextualised by a short history of terraforming in the introductory first chapter. Chapter two examines the appearance of proto-terraforming and proto-Gaian themes in British scientific romance and American pulp sf prior to Jack Williamson’s coining of the term “terraform” in 1942. Environmental philosophical concepts of nature’s otherness, Lee’s Asymmetry, Autonomy and No-Teleology Theses and notions of identification with nature are examined in this connection to illustrate the character of these texts’ engagement with environmental philosophy and ecopolitics. Chapter three examines the development of the terraforming theme in primarily American 1950s terraforming stories and explores how the use of elements of the American Pastoral are deployed within the discourse of sf to consider the various ways in which the political import of terraforming is imagined. Chapter four explores the impact of the environmental movement of the 1960s in terraforming stories of the 1960s-1970s. Beginning with a consideration of the use of Gaian images in characterisations of alien ecologies, this chapter then progresses to consider a parallel strand of terraforming stories that transform the themes of the 1950s texts in the light of the impact of the 1960s environmental movement. Chapter five concludes this analysis by considering two major trilogies of terraforming written in the 1980s-1990s, Pamela Sargent’s Venus and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogies. These works inherit the discourse of terraforming established by earlier works and re-configure them in ways that address contemporary environmental and geopolitical concerns.
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Berman, Mona. "Elie Wiesel's fictional universe : the paradox of the mute narrator." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001829.
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The approach I have chosen for my study is to analyse the narrative techniques in Wiesel's fiction, with particular emphasis on the role of the narrator and listener in the narratives. This will not only highlight aspects of his authorial strategy involving the reader's response to various dimensions of the Holocaust, but will allow an appraisal of the literary merit of Wiesel's novels. The hushed reverence that tends to accompany allusions to Auschwitz and its literature has impeded certain theoretical investigations, with the result that most critical studies undertaken on Wiesel's works have dealt predominantly with themes and content rather than with form. A narrative approach, however, while it accounts for themes, does so within the narrative process of the work. Form and content are examined as interwoven entities in the particular context of an individual work. My decision to adopt this pursuit is based on the conviction that Wiesel's fiction is a significant contribution to the literature of testimony, not only because of its subject matter, but also because of the way in which his narrators unfold their stories with words suspended by silence in the text. The paradox of the mute narrator, the title of my study, is intended to convey the paradoxical quality of Wiesel's fiction and to show how silence, which is manifested in the themes of his work, is concretized by his strategy of entrusting the transmission of the tale to narrators, who, for various reasons have been silenced. A mute by definition cannot emit an articulate sound. A narrator, on the other hand, is a storyteller who is reliant on verbal articulation for communication. This contradiction in terms is dramatized in the novels and is symptomatic of the dilemma of Wiesel's narrators who are compelled to bear testimony through their silence. In my study of Wiesel's fiction, I will follow the chronological sequence in which the novels were written, although I will not be using a developmental approach, except to point out that the trilogy which marks the beginning of his exploration into narrative strategies, and The Testament, the last book I will be dealing with, are a culmination of his previous fictional techniques. While a developmental analysis of his fiction, particularly from a thematic point of view, enables the reader to gain insight into his background, which is important in a comprehensive study of his works, I feel that this avenue of investigation has been competently dealt with by other critics. Ellen Fine's Legacy of Night, one of the first book-length studies of Wiesel, puts forward a convincing argument for examining his fiction in chronological sequence as a kind of serialized journey from being a witness in l'univers concentrationnaire to bearing - witness in a post-Holocaust world. Furthermore, it is possible to trace the direction Wiesel's fiction follows, as in each book the seeds are sown for new ideas which are expanded upon in subsequent books. My discussion, however, will deal with the narrative process of each novel as an individual work in its own particular context. Apart from the trilogy which is examined in one chapter, and The Testament which serves as a conclusion to the study, I have not used cross references to Wiesel's other fiction when analysing specific books. Moreover, I have deliberately avoided including Wiesel's comments on his works and references to them in his essays, interviews and non-fiction writing. The reason for this approach is that I consider each novel to be a separate narrative work which merits an interpretative response that is independent of the comparative criteria that has up to now influenced the assessment of his fiction. (Introduction, p. 12-14)
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Thode, Rick D. (Rick Davis). "Sex-Guilt and the Effects of a Subliminal Sex-Related Stimulus on the Libidinal Content of Fictional Narratives." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501267/.
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Fictional narratives of 68 female undergraduates classified as either high or low on sex-guilt were rated for libidinal content following subliminal exposure to either a sex-related or a neutral stimulus. Separate dependent measures were obtained for libidinal derivatives bearing either a transparently "close" or a symbolically "distant" relationship to the sex-related stimulus. Subjects in the sex-related stimulus condition expressed significantly fewer close libidinal derivatives than subjects in the neutral condition. High sex-guilt subjects' distant derivative production revealed a near-significant trend toward repression in the neutral condition, but the greatest amount of expression in the sex-related condition. Type of defenses employed are discussed as a function of subliminally perceived stimulus threat.
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Kazemiyan, Azam. "A Thousand Splendid Suns; Rhetorical Vision of Afghan Women." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/22680.
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Following the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Afghan women suddenly gained high visibility all over the world. Since then, representations of Afghan women in the Western media and notably in the U.S. news media provide a critical concern to scholars. Much of the relevant literature on this topic speaks to the fact that the dominant portrayal of Afghan women in the Western media has shown them as passive victims of war and violence, to be liberated only by the Western military intervention. However, the question remains as to how the popular fictional narratives, as another vivid source of information, represent Afghan women to the Western readers. To address this question, A Thousand Splendid Suns, as a popular novel authored by Khalid Hosseini, an Afghan novelist, was selected. Bormannian fantasy theme analysis of this novel conveys the passivity of women in the context of Afghanistan. The findings reveal that the portrayals of Afghan women in the novel correspond with the images of Afghan women in the Western media. Moreover, an examination of a sample of book reviews of the novel unveils the important contribution of Khalid Hosseini to the Orientalist discourse.
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Robison, Troy A. "The Impact of Fictional Television Portrayals of Psychotherapy on Viewers' Expectations of Therapy, Attitudes Toward Seeking Treatment, and Induction into Dramatic Narratives." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1375780084.
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Newberry, Rachael Louise. "'Hunger is nothing' : the politics of food and famine in the 1840's : mid-nineteenth century fictional narratives of consumption, abnegation and desire." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.423020.
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SCHWAGER, AMY M. "CORRELATIONAL ANALYSIS OF LITERARY FEATURES IN GENERATIVE FICTIONAL NARRATIVES AND READING SCORES OF SECOND GRADERS WITH LANGUAGE DELAYS AND THEIR TYPICALLY DEVELOPING PEERS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1148067944.
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Shedlosky, Randi. "The Experience of Psychological Transportation: The Role of Cognitive Energy Exertion and Focus during Exposure to Narratives." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1287349750.
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Dahlström, Britt. "Att läsa eller inte läsa - det är frågan : En studie om elevers tankar kring läsning av skönlitteratur." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-27921.
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The aim of this study is to describe how pupils in fourth grade talk about their attitude of reading fictional narratives in school and on their spare time, their motives to read and how the school promotes fictional experiences. The study is based on interviews with 18 pupils from the same class, divided in four groups. The interviews were analyzed from a literature reception theory. The result shows that some pupils are very engaged in reading fictional narratives, while others more or less, are forced in to reading, because their teacher wants them to. All the interviewed pupils would like to read exciting, interesting books, but they feel that they don’t get the right support neither from their teacher, parents nor their friends. They describes that they don’t discuss the meaning of reading or things that the reader can read between the lines. One important conclusion that shows is that it’s important to choose literature that has a point of contact with the pupil and that the text is on the right level.Studiens syfte är att beskriva hur elever ur årskurs fyra berättar om läsupplevelser i skolan och på fritiden, vad som motiverar dem att läsa samt hur skolan bidrar till att ge eleverna skönlitterära upplevelser. Studien bygger på fyra kvalitativa gruppintervjuer med totalt 18 elever, ur samma klass. De svar som jag har fått har analyserats utifrån ett receptionsteoretiskt perspektiv. Resultatet visar att en del elever är väldigt engagerade och älskar att läsa, medan andra mer eller mindre känner sig tvingade att läsa för att läraren säger att de ska läsa. Alla intervjuade elever skulle vilja läsa spännande, intressanta böcker, många känner dock att de inte får någon hjälp eller inspiration från varken sina lärare, föräldrar eller kamrater. De elever som jag har intervjuat beskriver att de aldrig diskuterar böckernas budskap med varandra, vad som sägs mellan raderna och inte heller begrepp de inte förstår. En viktig slutsats visar på att det är viktigt att välja litteratur som knyter an till eleverna och att den befinner sig på rätt textnivå för dem.
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Anthérieu-Yagbasan, Caroline. "Le personnage dans l'oeuvre de Stefan Zweig : enjeux esthétiques et narratifs." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM3022.
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La plupart des problématiques évoquées en esthétique au XXIe siècle tournent autour de la question du personnage de fiction. Dans ce cadre, cette étude essaie d'examiner comment les stratégies esthétiques et la poétique de la réception sont liées, à travers l'œuvre d'un auteur autrichien, Stefan Zweig, qui écrivit non seulement un grand nombre de récits fictionnels (essentiellement des nouvelles et romans), mais également des essais historiques et géographiques. Sa poétique du récit construit des situations de communication, comme le récit enchâssé, dans lesquelles le lecteur est invité à s'impliquer, face à un personnage dont les propres mots forment la seule version des faits racontés dans la fiction. Dans le même ordre d'idée, les personnages, qu'il soient héros de fiction ou de biographie, sont souvent placés dans une situation de crise, qui à la fois révèle une destinée intérieure et se présente comme une conséquence inéluctable de leurs actes. Tous les éléments de leur vie et de leur personnalité convergent donc, et s'expliquent les uns les autres, comme si les personnages de Zweig devenaient des êtres totalement cohérents. En conclusion, il semblerait que les personnages de biographie s'inscrivent dans les problématiques touchant également la fiction, et même qu'ils appartiennent à la catégorie des personnages de fiction ; il sera donc productif de leur appliquer les outils de la critique narrative, par exemple en ce qui concerne la perspective du lecteur et les mécanismes affectifs de projectionMost of the aesthetics questions of the XXIst century are focalised on the issue of fictional character. In this frame, this study try to examine how aesthetical strategies and poetics of reception are connected through the case of an austrian author, Stefan Zweig, who wrote not only a lot of fictional narratives (essentially short stories and novels), but also historical and geographical essays.His narrative poetic draw situations of communication, like framed narrative, in which the reader is invited to implicate himself, face to a character whose words are the only one version of fictional facts. In the same order of ideas, characters, in fiction or in biographies, are often placed in a critical situation, that reveals in the same time an inner destiny and unaffordable consequence of the way they act. So all elements of life and personnality are convergent, and can explain each other, as if Zweig's characters were totally coherent beings. To conclude, it appears that biographical characters have fictional problematics, and more, they belong to the category of fictional characters ; consequently, it is productive to apply to it the tools of narrative critic, for instance in the perspective of reader and affectives mecanisms of projection
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Ramey, Margaret E. "The quest for the fictional Jesus : Gospel rewrites, Gospel (re)interpretation, and Christological portraits within Jesus novels." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1861.
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Jesus' story has been retold in various forms and fashions for centuries. Jesus novels, a subset of the historical fiction genre, are one of the latest means of not only re-imagining the man from Galilee but also of rewriting the canonical Gospels. This thesis explores the Christological portraits constructed in four of those novels while also using the novels to examine the intertextual play of these Gospel rewrites with their Gospel progenitors. Chapter 1 offers a prolegomenon to the act of fictionalizing Jesus that discusses the relationship between the person and his portraits and the hermeneutical circle created by these texts as they both rewrite the Gospels and stimulate a rereading of them. It also establishes the "preposterous" methodology that will be used when reexamining the Gospels "post" reading the novels. Chapters 2 to 5 offer four case studies of "complementing" and "competing" novels and the techniques they use to achieve these aims: Anne Rice's Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt; Neil Boyd's The Hidden Years; Nino Ricci's Testament; and José Saramago's The Gospel according to Jesus Christ. Chapter 6 begins an examination of a specific interpretive circle based upon Jesus' temptation in the wilderness. Beginning with the synoptic accounts of that event, the chapter then turns to how Jesus' testing has been reinterpreted and presented in two of the novels. Returning to the Gospel of Matthew's version of the Temptation, chapter 7 offers a "preposterous" examination of that pericope, which asks novel questions of the text and its role with Matthew's narrative context based on issues raised by the Gospel rewrites. The thesis concludes by suggesting that Jesus novels, already important examples of the reception history of the Gospels, can also play a helpful role in re-interpreting the Gospels themselves.
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Jones, Lisa. "Knowing fiction : a philosophical exploration of the cognitive influence of fictional narrative art." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.402404.
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Thomas, Stefanie. "Sekai-kei as Existentialist Narrative: Positioning Xenosaga within the Genre Framework." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397573383.
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Poletto, Claudia Wanessa Rocha. "Brasil de sári : indianidades nos fluxos turísticos entre Brasil e Índia." Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, 2012. http://ri.ufmt.br/handle/1/562.
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As relações entre o Brasil e a Índia são conhecidas há séculos ao mencionarmos as rotas mercantis entre Europa, Américas e Ásia em tempos coloniais. Este trabalho busca analisar indianidades nos fluxos turísticos entre Brasil e Índia na contemporaneidade.Os fluxos provocam mobilidades e circulação de pessoas, artefatos, ideias e informações. Esboçamos nesta pesquisa, a noção de indianidades que pode ser compreendida como uma gama de repertórios que tenta fixar e disseminar predicativos inerentes à Índia apropriada pela indústria do turismo. Ressaltamos que indianidades também está associada a uma abordagem política de movimentos identitários dentro e fora da Índia. Este trabalho explora a pertinência temática por meio de quatro dimensões: 1) propagandas de pacotes turísticos comercializados por agências de viagens brasileiras; 2) relatos de viagens à Índia por turistas viajantes brasileiros; 3) narrativas ficcionais que abordam incidentes de viagens à Índia e aos Estados Unidos, país que acolhe uma expressiva diáspora indiana; 4) objetos de viagens trazidos como souvenirs ou mercadorias. Sinalizamos que a yoga atravessa toda a dissertação de forma fluida, tanto como um repositório de informações sobre a Índia, como uma prática que vem sendo transnacionalizada, impulsionando turistas de todo o mundo em busca do berço da yoga.
The relationship between Brazil and India is known for centuries when mentioned as mercantile rote among Europe, Americas and Asia in the colonial times.This resource seeks to analyse indianess in touristic capabilities between Brazil and India. The flow provoke motion and circulation of people, craft creation, ideas and information. We may added to this source the consistency of indianess which can be comprehended as one gram of repertoires that try to fix up as well as exterminate some values ineherent in India through the tourism industry.It’s important to say that indianness also is associated into a politic discussion related to an indentity circulation movements inside and outside of India. This resource explore the relevance thematic through four dimenssion point of view: 1) advertising of comercial turistic packages by brazilian travel agencies; 2) reports by brazilian tourists people who travel to India; 3) Fiction narrative related to incidents that happen in India and United States, which country embrace a significant Indian population; 4) Travel objects brought as souvinirs or markets. It’s blatant that yoga cross this statement in some way smoothly, as a reserve of information about India, as well as a kind of pratice that has becoming a transnationalized attracting a large number of tourists from all over the world those who are looking for the headquarters of the yoga.
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Hendrickson, Ruth Ann. "Narrative strategies of erotic fictional autobiography /." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487592050228985.
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Nascimento, Ed?nio Alves do. "A esfera como met?fora: representa??es do futebol no campo da literatura (leituras do tema no conto de fic??o)." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2011. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/16386.
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Football, understood as a phenomenon of sports practice and nearly universal coverage, can also be seen as a game whose operation circumvents the cultural universe of people who practice it. Much more than just a sport, so this game is a cultural phenomenon par excellence, bearing a communicational and aesthetic dimension whose occurrence has been spotted in various fields of scientific and cultural. Therefore, it is as game and as a phenomenon of culture, we intend to focus on football here as an object of study. Our aim is to investigate the sport in Brazil taking the Literature and Journalism as privileged instances of their representation in the media. Thus, the central idea of this research is to show when and how football has become a recurrent theme in Brazilian literature, starting with its journalistic approach until we get an overview of the aesthetic representation of the game, Literature as the main focus of attention and taking the genre of fiction story as material fact of their representation. With this approach, we intend to develop an overall view, overview of the literature about football in our country and at the same time, particularize this vision in some representative authors of it, like the writer-journalist Mario Filho (the historian, essayist on the modernization of chronic specific theme), Jos? Lins do Rego (writer passionate about the game), Nelson Rodrigues (the esthetician that elevated the sport to the status of art by chronic), Lima Barreto (who along with Antonio de Alcantara Machado pioneered the formalized within the fiction) and the storytellers of the topic itself. In the end, we intend to infer the results of evaluations and reviews of books and authors listed, we have examined a wide sense, but also vertical (and which were focused on a socio-historical perspective and critical-aesthetic) within the assumption that seems be a homology between the way football practice amongst us will historically winning characteristics as to form a Brazilian school of football, and how our writers, journalists will be addressing the topic, which also would focus on creating a "Brazilian way" of telling literary football. The proof of this hypothesis operational work together with the development of historiography and the necessity arising from it, creating a "Guide to Reading football theme in fictional tale of Brazil" shut the focal perspective of this study
O futebol, entendido como um fen?meno esportivo de pr?tica e abrang?ncia quase universais, pode tamb?m ser visto como um jogo cujo funcionamento contorna o universo cultural dos povos que o praticam. Muito mais do que um simples esporte, portanto, esse jogo ? um fen?meno cultural por excel?ncia, portador de uma dimens?o comunicacional e est?tica cuja ocorr?ncia j? foi flagrada por v?rios campos do saber cient?fico e cultural. Sendo assim, ? enquanto jogo e enquanto fen?meno de cultura, que pretendemos enfocar o futebol aqui como objeto de estudo. O nosso intuito ? investigar esse esporte no Brasil tomando a Literatura e o Jornalismo como inst?ncias privilegiadas de sua representa??o no ?mbito da Comunica??o Social. Sendo assim, a id?ia central desta pesquisa ? mostrar quando e como o futebol tornouse tema recorrente na literatura brasileira, partindo inicialmente da sua abordagem jornal?stica at? chegarmos a uma vis?o geral da representa??o est?tica do jogo tendo a Literatura como foco principal de aten??o e tomando o g?nero do conto de fic??o como fato material de sua representa??o. Com essa abordagem, pretendemos elaborar uma vis?o de conjunto, panor?mica, da produ??o liter?ria sobre futebol no nosso Pa?s e, ao mesmo tempo, particularizar essa vis?o em alguns autores representativos dela, a exemplo dos escritoresjornalistas M?rio Filho (o historiador, o ensa?sta, o modernizador da cr?nica espec?fica do tema); Jos? Lins do Rego (o literato apaixonado pelo jogo); Nelson Rodrigues (o esteta que elevou esse esporte ? condi??o de arte atrav?s da cr?nica); Lima Barreto (quem ao lado de Antonio de Alc?ntara Machado pioneiramente o formalizou no ?mbito da fic??o) e os contistas do tema propriamente ditos. Ao final, pretendemos inferir os resultados das avalia??es e an?lises cr?ticas das obras e autores elencados, que examinamos num sentido panor?mico, mas, tamb?m verticalizado (e que foram enfocados sob um prisma s?ciohist?rico e cr?tico-est?tico) dentro da suposi??o de que parece haver uma homologia entre a maneira como a pr?tica do futebol entre n?s vai historicamente ganhando caracter?sticas pr?prias, a ponto de formarmos uma escola brasileira de jogar futebol, e a maneira como os nossos escritores-jornalistas v?o tratando o tema, o que incidiria tamb?m na cria??o de uma maneira brasileira de narrar literariamente o futebol. A comprova??o dessa hip?tese operacional de trabalho junto com a elabora??o e a necessidade historiogr?fica, decorrente dela, da cria??o de um Guia de leitura do tema do futebol no conto ficcional brasileiro encerram a perspectiva focal do presente estudo
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Maslen, Robert W. "Elizabethan fictions : espionage, counter-espionage, and the duplicity of fiction in early Elizabethan prose narratives /." Oxford [GB] : Clarendon press, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36968775r.
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Chathmhaoil, Aifric Ni. "The semantics of murder : fictions on the couch: stories that kill : the relationship between the narratives of fiction and the narratives of psychotherapy." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436479.
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Santos, Renata Carolina Vicentini. "Influências da modernidade e ecos da contemporaneidade na ficção de Milton Hatoum." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2009. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1041.
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Esta dissertação configura-se por uma abordagem teórico-crítica das obras Dois Irmãos e Órfãos do Eldorado, de Milton Hatoum. Concentrando-se no exame das estratégias ficcionais utilizadas por nosso escritor contemporâneo, o trabalho evidencia as novas formas de conjugação dos elementos que contribuem para que se repense o debate acerca da formação da identidade nacional. Além disso, a dissertação busca mostrar como as transformações ocorridas desde a Modernidade vêm influenciando a composição dos sujeitos ficcionais e das narrativasThis thesis provides a theoretical and critical approach of Dois Irmãos and Órfãos do Eldorado. Concentrating on the implications of contemporaneity in the writing of Milton Hatoum, this thesis highlights new forms of conjugating the elements which contribute to the construction of national identity. This dissertation also seeks to demonstrate how the transformations that are taking place since the inauguration of Modernity have influenced the building of the fictional subject and his narrative
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Laird, Andrew. "Modes of reporting speech in Latin fictional narrative." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cf04560a-fda0-4f0b-a53f-2e11c64b7a96.
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The thesis reviews the techniques employed by Latin authors up to the second century A.D. to report the spoken words and articulated thoughts of their characters. The study is principally devoted to continuous narratives of a fictitious kind: epic, 'epyllia' and prose fiction, although some consideration has been given to narratives in other genres for comparative purposes. Several means are at the disposal of a narrator for presenting the discourse of his or her characters. What is supposed to have been said or thought may be conveyed by quotation in direct speech, some form of indirect or free indirect discourse, or by the simple mention that a speech act has occurred. The Introduction sets out the terminology used in this enquiry and surveys the modes of reporting speech in Latin. Some attention is given to the views of ancient literary critics and theorists on speech presentation. The first chapter on martial epic examines the reporting of speech in Virgil and Lucan in particular. The second chapter on poetry reviews epyllion and Ovidian narrative, and compares the practices of authors working in different genres. Divergences in style between authors working in the same genre are also considered: the techniques of four poets who report speech in scenes involving the dictation and delivery of messages are compared. The final chapter treats the prose fiction of Petronius and Apuleius. For all the texts taken into account, it will be shown that concentration on speech presentation can broaden our insight into some fundamental features of Latin narrative.
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Yen, Yu-Hua. "Narrating selves : the narrative integrity of fictional autobiographies." Thesis, University of York, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22001/.
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The thesis examines the way writers use fiction as a rhetorical vehicle to thematise and to theorise the project of autobiography — a transformation of life into narrative that involves a negotiation between aesthetics and ethics. It analyses four fictional autobiographies, published since 1988, by Paul Auster, Julian Barnes, Lydia Davis, and Philip Roth. Each text presents an autodiegetic narrator narrating crucial moments in her/his life; they are ordered progressively according to the way each engages with the issue of narrative artifice on the narratorial and/or authorial level. I explore what makes the character narrator’s life-story work, that is, the way s/he negotiates the possible tension between form and ethics, the resolution of which is what I call narrative integrity. The double meaning of the word “integrity”, as a formal and an ethical quality, encapsulates the dual demands of formal coherence and ethical commitment inherent in the challenges of autobiography. This thesis discusses four forms of narrative integrity — contingency, consistency, coherence, and counterpoint — and suggests ways in which they are interpreted differently on the representational and the rhetorical level of the text. Adopting a rhetorical approach to fiction, I address the way the particular representation of autobiography in each text is used rhetorically, not autobiographically, by the author to theorise certain aspects of self-representation in general. I argue that integrity as a critical concept helps elucidate the complications involved in life writing by foregrounding the issue of form, which is necessary, if also potentially problematic, for the articulation of personal truths. This project situates itself within the broad field of ethical criticism in literary studies and explores the relationships between fiction, narrative ethics, and life writing.
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Willeker, Ana Abelin. "Dialogue in fictional narrative : a source of conflict." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1987. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/157523.
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Esta dissertação discute basicamente algumas maneiras através das quais o conflito é apresentado no diálogo de ficção. O propósito deste trabalho é provar que o diálogo é uma grande fonte de conflito na narrativa. Este trabalho está dividido em quatro capítulos. O primeiro capítulo examina os relacionamentos das personagens e seus problemas pela aplicação da teoria do Princípio Cooperativo de Grice e suas máximas para esse princípio. O segundo capítulo trata das rupturas na estrutura, desenvolvida por Coulthard e Brazil para uma "troca" em conversação. Nesse capítulo, ainda é considerada a não-observância das regras de Sacks, Jefferson e Shegloff para o Sistema de Turnos em Conversação. O terceiro capítulo analisa alguns elementos da glosa ou interpretação do narrador e ilustra como esses elementos podem indicar para o leitor a presença de conflito. No quarto capítulo, é apresentada uma pesquisa sobre a reação do leitor à ausência da glosa ou TE, numa tentativa de provar que os leitores são usualmente capazes de criar entre-textos para preencher as lacunas deixadas pelo narrador. A pesquisa também mostra que, quando o conflito está claro no próprio diálogo, os leitores também o assinalam nos seus próprios entre-textos. Como conclusão, as linha teóricas utilizadas para análise são relacionadas, e a sua utilidade para o objetivo proposto é discutida.
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Hendersen, Deborah J. O. "Understanding narratives as fiction or nonfiction /." May be available electronically:, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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Mowat, Ryan Douglas Ronald. "Narrative ethics in postcolonial fiction." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2003. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21205.
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When considering the ethico-political task of postcolonial criticism Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak claims that "ethics is the experience of the impossible, " and that "deconstruction cannot form a political program of any kind. " Both these ideas motivate the central question of this thesis: if ethics is an experience of the impossible and deconstruction cannot form a political program, can we produce an ethical critique that radically considers the narrative representation of violent oppression within different postcolonial cultures and histories? This question will be addressed via four modes of enquiry: 1) By considering the current role of deconstruction within postcolonial criticism and asking whether deconstruction is a concept of writing that can be incorporated into reading strategies which intend to identify an ethics within writing; 2) by examining recent critical investigations into the idea that literary-linguistic structures themselves have ethical characteristics, and asking whether it is possible to identify an ethics within the structure of certain postcolonial fictions; 3) by investigating the representation of violence and physical oppression intrinsic to these fictions, and asking how the inscription of that violence affects their narrative structures; and, 4) by arguing that the representation of the postcolonial body in pain not only affects the structures of the narratives considered, but also plays a vital role in the radical ethics of that fiction. This last concern is initiated by Elaine Scarry's claim that pain itself remains utterly resistant to language. These enquiries will be made alongside critical examinations of twelve international postcolonial novels and their narrative structures. In doing so this thesis will ask whether it is possible to identify a radical ethics of fiction that is common to various postcolonial cultures, rather than a discursively informed ethics that is culturally or historically specific.
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O'Rawe, Catherine Geraldine. "Fictions of theory and theories of fiction : umorismo, metaphor and epiphany in the narrative of Luigi Pirandello." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621235.
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Hadley, Louisa A. "Rewriting historical narratives in neo-Victorian fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24661.
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This thesis explores the contemporary form of neo-Victorian fiction in relation to both contemporary and Victorian literature. I argue that neo-Victorian fiction needs to be considered in relation to but as distinct from postmodern literary practices. Although neo-Victorian texts are often considered postmodern, I argue that they should be differentiated from the categories of postmodernism. Whilst interrogating history, often considered a postmodern characteristic, neo-Victorian fiction retains a commitment to the historical specificity of the Victorian era. The interrogation of history undertaken in these texts is intimately connected to Victorian forms of historical narratives. Chapter 1 examines theoretical frameworks of postmodernism, revealing the limitations of such models for neo-Victorian fiction .The subsequent chapters explore the treatment of different historical narratives in these texts. Chapter 2 discusses The French Lieutenant’s Woman and ‘Morpho Eugenia’ and examines the role of meta-narratives in both Victorian and contemporary society, particularly Darwinism and Marxism. This chapter also addresses the grand narrative of literary history in its consideration of the double relationship between Victorian and neo-Victorian literature, illustrated through a detailed examination of endings in both Victorian and neo-Victorian fiction. Chapter 3 explores the issues surrounding genealogical narratives in The Quincunx as well as its engagement with the late Victorian genre of detective fiction. Chapter 4 considers The Biographer’s Tale and The Dark Clue in relation to Victorian forms of biography and developments in photography. This discussion leads on to an examination of the problematic relationship between historical and fictional figures within these texts and the implications it has for their status as historical novels. The final two chapters explore approaches to resurrecting the past within neo-Victorian fiction. Chapter 5 addresses the continued presence of the past, through both spiritualism and literature, in Possession and ‘The Conjugial Angel’. The final chapter discusses the process of ventriloquism, focusing on the incorporation of Victorian and pseudo-Victorian texts in Possession and ‘The Conjugial Angel’. This is extended to address the intertextual relationship of Victorian and neo-Victorian fiction.
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Llewellyn, Sheila Anne. "Recreating the past : from historical fact to historical fictional narrative." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707816.
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A creative writing component and a related critical component combine as a single thesis on the research and integration of historical sources into fictional narrative. The creative writing section is presented first. The Thousand Yard Memory, a novel, is set in post-war Britain in 1947. David Reece, a twenty three year old veteran of the Second World War Burma Campaign, arrives at Northfield Military Psychiatric Hospital in 1947. He is treated there by Daniel Carter, a Psychiatrist who has worked at the hospital throughout the war, specialising in psychotherapy. David and Daniel interact with each other as patient and psychiatrist, but they are also on parallel tracks, having both reached a crisis point in their lives. David has failed in his attempt to fit back into civilian life. Daniel is facing an uncertain professional future in post war military psychiatry. Both patient and psychiatrist are forced to confront their past experiences, and slowly begin to realise the possibility of change. The critical component, Recreating the Past, examines the challenges of researching and integrating historical sources into fictional narrative, and the implications which arise from the process. Pat Barker's novel Regeneration (1991), exemplifies the key aspects under consideration in this thesis, and is used as the main reference text. The section is divided into three parts. Part One presents an interdisciplinary element, exploring the similarities and differences between the way a novelist and a historian work with historical sources. Part Two posits that there are ethical dimensions involved in the creative choices a novelist makes when using sources. Part Three offers an overview of the process involved in researching and integrating sources for The Thousand Yard Memory, and the insights this process provided into the issues identified in Parts One and Two.
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Habel, Chad Sean, and chad habel@gmail com. "Ancestral Narratives in History and Fiction: Transforming Identities." Flinders University. Humanities, 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20071108.133216.
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This thesis is an exploration of ancestral narratives in the fiction of Thomas Keneally and Christopher Koch. Initially, ancestry in literature creates an historical relationship which articulates the link between the past and the present. In this sense ancestry functions as a type of cultural memory where various issues of inheritance can be negotiated. However, the real value of ancestral narratives lies in their power to aid in the construction of both personal and communal identities. They have the potential to transform these identities, to transgress natural boundaries and to reshape conventional identities in the light of historical experience.
For Keneally, ancestral narratives depict national forbears who narrate the nation into being. His earlier fictions present ancestors of the nation within a mythic and symbolic framework to outline Australian national identity. This identity is static, oppositional, and characterized by the delineation of boundaries which set nations apart from one another. However, Keneallys more recent work transforms this conventional construction of national identity. It depicts an Irish-Australian diasporic identity which is hyphenated and transgressive: it transcends the conventional notion of nations as separate entities pitted against one another. In this way Keneallys ancestral narratives enact the potential for transforming identity through ancestral narrative.
On the other hand, Kochs work is primarily concerned with the intergenerational trauma causes by losing or forgetting ones ancestral narrative. His novels are concerned with male gender identity and the fragmentation which characterizes a self-destructive idea of maleness. While Keneallys characters recover their lost ancestries in an effort to reshape their idea of what it is to be Australian, Kochs main protagonist lives in ignorance of his ancestors life. He is thus unable to take the opportunity to transform his masculinity due to the pervasive cultural amnesia surrounding his family history and its role in Tasmanias past.
While Keneally and Koch depict different outcomes in their fictional ancestral narratives they are both deeply concerned with the potential to transform national and gender identities through ancestry.
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Powell, Sally. "Cadaverous narratives : the displaced corpse in Victorian fiction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368656.
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Schmersahl, Carmen Brosius. "History or fiction? : a study of Caxton's narratives /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487259580264263.
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Maloney, Edward J. "Footnotes in fiction a rhetorical approach /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1125378621.
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Rozhon, Jon Wesley. "Fictional and historical narrative strategies in the writings of R.M. Koster." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/MQ33445.pdf.
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Wood, David. "Style and theme in the fictional narrative of Alfredo Bryce Echenique." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260708.
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Silva, Heloisa Marina da. "Narrativas pessoais: possibilidades de confrontos com o real na cena." Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 2012. http://tede.udesc.br/handle/handle/1256.
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This research seeks to reflect on the exploitation of personal narratives in the contemporary theatre scene as a possibility to generate confrontation between reality and fiction in the context of staging. The paper has been divided into two parts. The first part was structured from theoretical formulations which ponder on the concept of reality in the context of postmodern society and aims to reflect about the strategies and motivations that gave birth to different forms of exploitation of the real in the contemporary theatre scene and how personal narratives interact in this process. It ponder also on the possible developments that the use of autobiographies on the stage generate in order to cause tension between reality and fiction at the time of the performance event. The second part will present the work of the Argentinian puppeteer Sergio Mercurio, the Colombian group Mapa Teatro and a spectacle born of a partnership between the actress Janaina Leite, the musician Fepa, and the theatre director Luiz Fernando Marques, all Brazilians. The aim of the second part is to the works of these artistes taking into account the assumptions indicated in the first part. I am seeking to understand how these works, which explore the use of autobiographies, generate tension between reality and fiction and what performing strategies they use in their attempts to portray the private field of the personal narratives of the artistes, with questions that also concern the social field
A presente pesquisa busca refletir sobre a exploração de narrativas pessoais na cena teatral contemporânea como possibilidade de gerar confronto entre realidade e ficção no âmbito na encenação. O trabalho está organizado em duas partes: a primeira parte foi estruturada a partir de formulações teóricas que ponderam acerca da concepção do real no contexto da sociedade pós-moderna e visa refletir sobre as estratégias e motivações que fizeram com que despontassem diferentes formas de exploração do real na cena teatral contemporânea e como as narrativas pessoais interagem nesse processo. Pondera, ainda, acerca dos possíveis desdobramentos que o uso de autobiografias em cena geram no intuito de provocar tensão entre realidade e ficção no instante do acontecimento cênico. Na segunda parte serão apresentadas análises de trabalhos do bonequeiro argentino Sergio Mercurio; do grupo colombiano Mapa Teatro e de um espetáculo nascido da parceria entre a atriz Janaina Leite, o músico Fepa e o diretor teatral Luiz Fernando Marques, três brasileiros. O foco da segunda parte é realizar uma análise que leva em consideração os pressupostos assinalados na primeira parte. Busco compreender em que medida estes trabalhos, que exploram o uso de autobiografias, geram tensão entre realidade e ficção e quais estratégias cênicas utilizam no intento de articular o campo privado, pessoal dos artistas, com indagações que concernem ao campo social
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Lopes, Lucas Garofalo. "Desfocando as linhas: ARG - a estrutura imperceptível do jogo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27153/tde-10112010-115614/.
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Este projeto tem como objetivo analisar o gênero emergente de jogos conhecido como ARG. Utilizando a teoria nos campos do videogame e jogos em geral, se espera estabelecer características intrínsecas aos ARGs, assim como suas relações com os jogadores, com o mercado, a imprensa e o público em geral. Com isso se pode observar que os ARGs possuem características únicas, que os diferenciam dos videogames e outros jogos. Essas mesmas características os tornam promissores e ao mesmo tempo polêmicos por misturar a ficção e o jogo com a realidade. Por isso é necessário um maior rigor no desenvolvimento deste gênero de jogos para que estabeleça padrões reconhecíveis e alcance novos mercados.This project aims to examine the emerging genre of games known as ARG. Using the theory in the fields of videogames and games in general, is expected to set up specific features of ARGs, as well as its relations with the players, the business market, the press and the general public. Through this, its possible to see that the ARGs have unique characteristics, which are different from videogames and other games. These characteristics make them promising while controversial for mixing fiction and the game with reality. Therefore it is necessary more accuracy in the development of this genre of games to establish recognizable patterns and reach new markets.
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Dion, Laetitia. "Histoires de mariage- Une contribution à l’histoire des formes narratives à la Renaissance : le mariage dans la fiction narrative française (1515-1559)." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO20066.
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Les études consacrées à la représentation du mariage dans les textes narratifs au XVIe siècle cherchent le plus souvent à mettre en rapport l’image du lien conjugal construite par les récits avec les débats de l’époque. Nous avons voulu combiner cette approche, relevant davantage de l’histoire des idées, à une analyse des formes littéraires en nous interrogeant sur le rôle joué par le thème du mariage dans les évolutions du genre narratif à la Renaissance.Nous menons notre enquête sur un ensemble de douze fictions narratives en prose, de composition française, écrites entre 1515 et 1559. Durant cette période, le mariage se trouve au cœur de nombreuses controverses théologico-politiques et les regards portés sur la vie conjugale se modifient. En nous appuyant sur un travail de contextualisation historique, nous croisons une approche thématique avec une réflexion sur la poétique narrative pour étudier la structuration des intrigues, la construction des personnages et les dispositifs didactiques et herméneutiques des textes. La comparaison de nos récits à d’autres œuvres – contemporaines ou antérieures, françaises ou étrangères – fait apparaître, au cours de notre période, un renouvellement de la matière narrative autour du mariage. L’accent mis sur certaines situations matrimoniales et les enjeux spécifiques qui leur sont associés à l’époque se révèlent être un ferment favorable à l’apparition de structures narratives innovantes. Le mariage joue en particulier un rôle déterminant dans l’orientation des récits brefs vers le genre de l’histoire tragique et dans l’apparition de formes romanesques originales à travers lesquelles on voit s’élaborer le genre du roman sentimentalIn most cases, studies devoted to the representation of marriage in narrative texts of the 16th century aim to link the image of the marriage bond as elaborated in the narratives to the controversies of the time. In order to show how the theme of marriage has played a part in the development of the narrative genre in the French Renaissance, we have decided to combine such an approach, which is rather based on the history of ideas, with an analysis of literary styles.We have conducted our survey on a set of twelve prose narrative fictions written in French between 1515 and 1559. Marriage was then at the heart of many theological-political controversies and married life started to be seen in a new light. Basing our work on historical contextualization, we have intertwined a thematic approach with a reflection on narrative poetics so as to study the plot structure and characterization as well as the didactic and hermeneutic systems of the texts. Comparing these narratives with other literary works – contemporary or prior, French or foreign – has enabled us to highlight a renewal of the narrative matter related to marriage themes during that period. The emphasis put on certain matrimonial situations and the related specific challenges in those days created favourable grounds for the advent of innovative narrative structures. Marriage stories have particularly contributed to orienting short stories towards the style of tragic stories and to giving birth to original novelistic forms in which the early stirrings of the style of the sentimental novel can be seen
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Barter, Catherine. "Narrative and identity in Sherman Alexie's fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539354.
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Veel, Kristin Eva Albrechtsen. "Narrative negotiations : information structures in literary fiction." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611907.
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Leung, Ching-man, and 梁靜雯. "Autism: narrative and representation in postmodern fiction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48334686.
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This dissertation investigates autism as a form of disability in the literary and filmic worlds. It closely examines the narrative and representation of autism in two popular fictions, Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I propose to employ a postmodern framework in reading Haddon’s and Foer’s works, and argue the texts manifest the influence of postmodernism in contemporary writings through exhibiting inter-disciplinary knowledge and transcending the boundary between textual and visual narrative. This dissertation demonstrates how the two novels, by constructing the imagined autistic narrators, and giving them the narrative voice, offer neurotypical readers new perspectives to perceive an alienated world in autistic lens, such that the autistic narrative contributes to a distinct reading experience.
The two chosen novels are significant texts in constructing the popular perception about autism in view of their worldwide popularities. This dissertation investigates how the autistic subject is being constantly imagined, represented, misrepresented and fantasized as otherness in the two fictions, by drawing comparisons with the Hollywood cinema. I find that the characterization and plot formulation in the two novels largely conform to and further reinforce the conventional, stereotypical and monolithic representations of autism in the popular culture, in which people with autism are either victimized as tragic characters, or in contrast, spectacularized and romanticized as extraordinary savants.
Through a critical review of autism in a broad cultural discourse, this dissertation further illustrates how autism emerges as a “transient disability” of the twenty-first century and functions as a cultural metaphor. People with autism are consistently portrayed as lonely aliens or emotionless computer cyborgs. Autism thus serves as a metaphorical and self-referential device to express the fear, anxiety and confusion towards the growing influence of computer technology and consumerism in postmodernity.published_or_final_version
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Veel, Kristin. "Narrative negotiations information structures in literary fiction." Göttingen Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008. http://d-nb.info/991470753/04.
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Miller, Christian. "Nature's Influence on Narrative in Chekhov's Fiction." Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10929797.
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The recent boom in ecological criticism invites reconsideration of the role nature plays in the works of Anton Chekhov. Drawing on existing accounts of nature in Chekhov’s fiction as well as in Russian literature and culture more broadly, this thesis reveals a crucial and previously unrecognized affinity between five of Chekhov’s most celebrated stories: “The Kiss” ([speical characters omitted], 1887), “Fortune” ([speical characters omitted], 1887), “Gusev” ([speical characters omitted], 1890), “The Man in the Case” ([speical characters omitted], 1898), and “The Lady with the Little Dog” ([speical characters omitted], 1898). In each of these otherwise unrelated stories, nature complicates the characters and the stories they tell themselves and one another. In some cases, nature gives the characters new insights and helps them to evolve. In others it gives readers a new understanding that the characters themselves do not share. In all cases nature in Chekhov’s works opens a broader perspective, dwarfing the characters and their existential anxieties by the immensity of land, water, or cosmos. Ultimately, Chekhov presents myriad ways in which nature frames and exceeds human experience, incites and resists narrativization.