Academic literature on the topic 'Ghostwrite'

This narrative articulates the advantages of long-term autoethnographic logotherapy. I explore how the practice of long-term autoethnographic logotherapy led me to the point where I was prepared for my father’s death, and how that allowed me to let him go before he actually died. I propose that long-term personal narrative and autoethnographic writing are not merely a form of therapy and healing. Rather, it is a practice aligned with existential psychologist Victor Frankl’s conception of logotherapy, literally “healing through meaning.” Using vignettes, I interrogate canonical narratives about father–son relationships, especially focusing on troubled relationships, and examine standard notions of bereavement.

<p>”En studie i dekadens” är en studie av ghostwritern Neil Strauss och syftar till att med utgångspunkt från de självbiografier han spökskrivit åt celebriteterna Marilyn Manson, Mötley Crüe, Jenna Jameson och Dave Navarro undersöka en ny typ av populärkulturellt och samtida författarskap. Studien belyser hur Strauss på ett framgångsrikt sätt förflyttat författarens position och tagit på sig ett ställföreträdarskap för dem han skildrar och den dekadenta värld de verkar inom.</p>

This study uses the Tibetan mandala, a Buddhist meditation aid and sacred artform, as a secular critical model by which to analyse the complete fictions of author David Mitchell. Discussing his novels, short stories and libretti, this study maps the author's fictions as an interconnected world-system whose re-evaluation of secular belief in galvanising compassionate ethical action is revealed by a critical comparison with the mandala's methods of world-building. Using the mandala as an interpretive tool to critique the author's Buddhist influences, this thesis reads the mandala as a metaphysical map, a fitting medium for mapping the author's ethical worldview. The introduction evaluates critical structures already suggested to describe the author's worlds, and introduces the mandala as an alternative which more fully addresses Mitchell's fictional terrain. Chapter I investigates the mandala's cartographic properties, mapping Mitchell's short stories as integral islandic narratives within his fictional world which, combined, re-evaluate the role of secular belief in galvanising positive ethical action. Chapter II discusses the Tibetan sand mandala in diaspora as a form of performance when created for unfamiliar audiences, reading its cross-cultural deployment in parallel with the regenerative approaches to tragedy in the author's libretti Wake and Sunken Garden. Chapter III identifies Mitchell's use of reincarnation as a form of non-linear temporality that advocates future-facing ethical action in the face of humanitarian crises, reading the reincarnated Marinus as a form of secular bodhisattva. Chapter IV deconstructs the mandala to address its theoretical limitations, identifying the panopticon as its sinister counterpart, and analysing its effects in number9dream. Chapter V shifts this study's use of the mandala from interpretive tool to emerging category, identifying the transferrable traits that form the emerging category of mandalic literature within other post-secular contemporary fictions, discussing works by Michael Ondaatje, Ali Smith, Yann Martel, Will Self, and Margaret Atwood.

碩士<br>靜宜大學<br>管理碩士在職專班<br>101<br>According to Peter Drucker, father of modern management, the purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. Network globalization has prompted more and more enterprises to begin implementing online word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing in hopes of creating maximum value for the enterprises. Notwithstanding, the appearance of network ghostwriters has shaken consumer trust in online WOM. In this research, the case of “Samsung network-ghostwriters” was taken as the example to develop an in-depth understanding of the ins and outs of this case. Focus group interview was used in this study and analysis to probe into the age group 20~30 in hopes of finding how enterprises can have consumers within their reach and offering feasible suggestion for further research. Research findings indicate: 1.The lower degrees of consumers’ professional competence, the higher the product prices and the higher the probability of online search and evaluation. 2.Online WOM has less influence on consumers who have higher degrees of individual ideas or brand advocate. 3.As the source of online WOM, FB is most influence and has higher degrees of trust. 4.WOM information delivered by professional websites and professionals has more influence on general consumers, but less influence and even no influence on consumers who have higher degrees of individual ideas or brand loyalty. 5.The success of a brand, rather than its level, lies in how to create customers with higher degrees of brand loyalty and carry out the good image management exactly. 6.Country of origin and place of origin for a product brand will interfere with consumers’ purchasing decision. 7.Consumers who show expectation gap will have negative WOM delivery. 8.In comparison with network evaluation, consumers place more importance on personal experience. 9.Consumers hope that manufacturers can actively deal with negative WOM with a sincere, responsible attitude.

博士<br>國立臺灣藝術大學<br>書畫藝術學系<br>105<br>This thesis is composed of three sections. The first section refers to Chapter One, the “Introduction," in which the research questions, research motivation, research subjects, purpose and methodologies are each described. The second section encompasses the main research content, including Chapter Two, titled "Study of the Substitute Works of Wu Changshuo's Seal Engraving: A Case Study of Xu Xingzhou,” Chapter Three, titled "The Substitute Poems Presented in Wu Changshuo's Letters to Shen Shiyou," and Chapter Four, the "Conclusion." The third section refers to the appendix of research materials. The main research focus of this section is the life of Xu Xingzhou. Through the study of his biography and biographical sketches, the denomination and changes of his courtesy names, art names, and the names of his studio as well as the reasons for these changes are explored. Although it is known that Xu Xingzhou was born nine years later than Wu Changshuo, the specific time at which he became the disciple of Wu Changshuo yet remains unclear. In Chapter Two, 329 of Xu Xingzhou’s seal impressions, including those imprinted from his personally engraved seals and those by his substitute writer, are collected; each impression is cut along the periphery of the side inscription, pasted, marked with the year of publication, and incorporated into the “Seal List of Xu Xingzhou.” The list is furthermore utilized to analyze his works from the disciple period and those from later in his career when he had established an independent studio. Xu Xingzhou's and Wu Changshuo's seal styles are largely similar. For instance, seal No. 5 "Zhu Dong Jiu Men Mei” on the Xu Xingzhou seal list is a seal used by Min Yongyi (otherwise known as Zhu Mei, Korean) with a side inscription that reads “Fou Shi Fa” (literally translated as “imitation of a master's style”). This IX particular seal has even been misidentified as Wu Changshuo's work in certain publications due to their highly identical styles. Another example is No. 47 “Qing Yuan Xian Fang,” a seal used by Kusakabe Meikaku (Japanese). In Chinese Seal Engraving Series, Vol. 33 -- Wu Changshuo (II) published by Nigensha, this seal is identified to be of Wu Changshuo's creation; the side inscription, however, is engraved with the characters "Xing Zhou Zuo” (literally translated as "by Xingzhou"). These two examples of seals with side inscriptions illustrate the substantial difficulty in differentiating Wu Changshuo's creations from that of Xu Xingzhou's substitute works. In consideration of the difficulty in differentiating authorship only by means of seal face style, a comparative analysis of Wu Changshuo's and Xu Xingzhou's side inscriptions is further conducted to facilitate the identification of substitute works. The appended "Comparative Chart of the Side Inscriptions of Xu Xingzhou's Seals" is formulated by through cutting and pasting each character from the side inscriptions collected in the “Seal List of Xu Xingzhou." The findings identified through comparative analysis are recorded next to each character. These tasks facilitate the identification of substitute seals. In Chapter Three, Wu Changshuo's letters to Shen Shiyou are collected to analyze the features of his substitution requests and to identify the substitute works created by Shen Shiyou. Zheng Yimei (1895-1992) wrote a few articles on the issue of Shen Shiyou's substitute work; Zou Tao (1962-) also spoke of the substitute works of Shen Shiyou that are credited to Wu Changshuo. Among them, Records of Xiling Seal Engraver's Society has been identified as a substitute work of Shen Shiyou. According to the more than 200 letters that contain substitution requests to Shen Shiyou collected by the author, it is clear that Records of Xiling Seal Engraver's Society is only one of many cases. However, aside from Records of Xiling X Seal Engraver's Society , it has not been extensively nor clearly stated in previous literature which specific works have been identified as Shen Shiyou's substitute works. One of the sources from which the letters were compiled is Collection of Wu Changshuo's Letters , edited and published by Kurihara Rosui. With a collection of 188 letters from Wu Changshuo to Shen Shiyou, the book is considered the most comprehensive collection among similar publications. However, since the letters collected in the aforementioned book are not presented in chronological sequence, an excel table is used to document the letters in chronological order by means of analyzing their contents. Another source for the letters referenced in this research is Collection of Wu Changshuo's Postcards , published by Aoyama Keiji, and which contains 30 postcards sent from Wu Changshuo to Shen Shiyou. Together with the letters housed in museum collections, a total of more than 200 letters have been compiled. Based on these materials, the substitute poems, prefaces, and postscripts written by Shen Shiyou upon the request of Wu Changshuo are explored in this study. Furthermore, the letters are analyzed to investigate the issue of Shen Shiyou's substitute works credited to Wu Changshuo. Keywords: Wu Changshuo, substitute works, Xu Xingzhou, Shen Shiyou

The diploma thesis deals with seven novels by the contemporary British novelist David Mitchell. Using textual analysis, it traces the ways in which the novels are connected, most visibly expressed through reappering characters and realities, and provides an overview of Mitchell's biblioverse. The work also notes the differences between the fictional and the real, which Mitchell's novels examine, and leads to a broader reflection on the meaning of storytelling or the meaning of a cultural encyclopedia.