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Heyne, Eric Fairchild. "Form and truth in literary nonfiction /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487257452615629.
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Prodan, Lori Ann. "Enacting a community's truth, the pragmatics of literary Gossip." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0024/MQ37615.pdf.
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Warmus, Sarah E. "The lost generation: truth and art." Thesis, Boston University, 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27792.
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Salie, Shazia. "The representations of Sojourner Truth in The Narrative of Sojourner Truth." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7311.
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Magister Artium - MAI read representations of Sojourner Truth in her Spiritual Narrative, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth with a focus on the portrayal of her unconventional character, through a close analysis of language, structure, photographs and narrative voice. Truth’s editor Olive Gilbert’s raises questions about whether the daguerreotype offers a more accurate form of representation than text. I explore the similarities and differences between visual and written portraits in representations of Truth as a unique figure. I question critical readings of Sojourner Truth’s dress in photographs as conservative, reading instead for a combination of conservative and subversive elements. I suggest that her interest in aesthetic forms such as dress and décor is symbolic of her yearning for home, her heritage, her agency, and unique taste. Her many references to her family indicate that she was more than just an empowered figure, but also one who still grieved. I read Truth’s description of domestic space as representing ambivalently, both her sense of loss, and her attempts to acquire agency. I consider how Truth attempts to recreate a sense of family and belonging through fragments of memory. In my reading of how she questions and extends conventional notions of family and community, I explore how she adapts and includes song, and quotations from the Bible in her sermons, by drawing on elements of African folktale and music. Most critics focus on Truth’s strong voice as an activist, there is little attention to the significance of spiritual solitude for her reimagining of community. I suggest that Truth offers alternative ideas of community as fluid rather than as fixed in one place. I explore how her ideas challenge the notion of nation as exclusive. I consider the genre of The Narrative by analyzing Olive Gilbert’s role as editor and writer. I propose that her role in The Narrative is a more complex one than suggested by critics, as it challenges conventional concepts of autobiography creating a conversation between two voices and lives.
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Woudstra, Ruth. "Truth, history and representation in Margaret Atwoods' Alias Grace." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7417.
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Bibliography: leaves 53.In the Introduction of this minor dissertation, Margaret Atwood as a post-modern writer and her interest in fictional autobiographies are considered, particularly with regard to memory, the formation of self-identity and amnesia. Parallels are drawn between Surfacing and Cat's Eye as fictional works. and Alias Grace, which is based on the life of a historical person. The novel Alias Grace alternates between first- and third-person accounts, and reflects Atwood's preoccupation with narrative techniques. The definition of post-modernism is regarded, as well as Atwood's own acknowledgements in her ""Author's Afterword"" on how she proceeds to write this fictional autobiography. Her focus on mental illnesses is given perspective in a brief discussion on different sorts of memory loss. These manifestations affect the concept of truth, which is explored in the first section of the dissertation. This section draws on the unreliability of Grace's first-person accounts and the question of whether she is fabricating the truth or has simply forgotten crucial moments of her past. The reader is also constantly made aware that Grace attempts to ensure better conditions for herself in the penitentiary, and she will therefore not disclose any information that might be damaging to her character. That which she discloses partly depends on her relationship in terms of trust with Doctor Jordan. A few episodes where Grace loses consciousness are reviewed, as well as instances where she exposes her literary background and her ability to change words or ideas in texts that she has read. It is concluded at the end of the first section that the truth eludes the reader. With this in mind, it is examined in the second section that the issue of truth is complicated, and even undermined, by the gender and class inequity of the patriarchal society in which Grace, Mary and Nancy are instrumentalised and exploited. The relationship between Grace and Mary is explored in order to demonstrate the happy memories that are relevant in Grace's present, where her past remains illusive. The reader is also drawn into these cheerful experiences, and takes Mary's presence for granted until the neuro-hypnotic seance, during which Grace's double consciousness is revealed. Her 'friend' Mary is exposed as a facet of Grace's own personality. Class oppression is explored further through the characters of Nancy and Mrs Humphrey, who are trapped in a vicious circle that Grace escapes by engaging in the creative activity of quilt-making. In this way she is able to express her solidarity with Mary and Nancy as victims of patriarchal injustice. In the Conclusion an overview of the question of truth is given and it is demonstrated how truth is inseparable from the issues of class and gender relations. The lack of traditional closure in Alias Grace is explored briefly. Grace's camaraderie and solidarity with her two friends, as well as her retelling of the Biblical account of the Garden of Eden through her tapestry work, is shown to be a transgressive agency that marks the greater significance of the novel.
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Taljaard, Frederik. "Imaginative unconcealment Heidegger's philosophy of aletheia and the truth of literary fiction /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03062006-200330.
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Mussi, Francesca. "Literary responses to the South African TRC : renegotiating 'truth', 'trauma' and 'reconciliation'." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/66729/.
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Schuman, Samuel A. "Representation, Narrative, and “Truth”: Literary and Historical Epistemology in 19th-Century France." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1621948796558803.
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Penn, Stephen. "Truth, time and sacred text : responses to medieval nominalism in John Wyclif's Summa de Ente and De Veritate Sacrae Scripturae." Thesis, University of York, 1998. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16328/.
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Nabergoj, Irena Avsenik. "Between Fear, Truth and Fate : literary Accounts of (Post)War Violence in the Time of Slovenian Democracy." Universität Potsdam, 2013. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2014/6953/.
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Wiechmann, Natalia Helena [UNESP]. "Tell all the truth but tell it slant: subtexto e subversão na poesia de Emily Dickinson." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/145002.
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O objetivo desta tese de doutorado consiste em analisar a poesia de Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) sob a perspectiva da crítica literária feminista estadunidense utilizando o conceito de subtexto literário enquanto recurso poético que revele na obra dickinsoniana diversas formas de subversão de normas sociais e literárias do patriarcado. Para isso, nosso corpus de análise se compõe de dezoito poemas e nosso trabalho está estruturado em quatro seções. A primeira discute algumas questões caras à crítica literária feminista estadunidense, como o conceito de autoria feminina e a tradição literária para, então, teorizar sobre o conceito de subtexto literário relacionando-o à ideia de subversão. Também nessa primeira seção analisamos do poema “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant – ”. Já na segunda parte de nossa tese apresentamos o contexto da produção literária estadunidense no século XIX e discutimos o fato de Emily Dickinson ter se recusado veementemente a publicar seus poemas. Os poemas analisados nessa seção são “Publication – is the Auction”, “Fame of Myself, to justify”, “Fame is the tint that Scholars leave”, “Fame is the one that does not stay” e “Fame is a fickle food”. Na sequência, examinamos o ideal de feminilidade do século XIX e as formas como Dickinson subverte esse ideal nos poemas “To own a Susan of my own”, “Her breast is fit for pearls”, “I gave myself to Him – ”, “She rose to His Requirement – dropt”, “Title divine – is mine!” e “I started Early – Took my Dog – ”. Por fim, analisamos poemas em que Dickinson empreende a subversão da imagem de Deus ao apontar as vulnerabilidades da fé e da condição humana e questionar preceitos religiosos: “I never lost as much but twice”, “It’s easy to invent a Life – ”, “A Shade upon the mind there passes”, “God is indeed a jealous God – ” e “God gave a Loaf to every Bird – ”. Como suporte teórico, recorremos a diversos autores que compõem a fortuna crítica de Emily Dickinson bem como a importantes nomes da crítica literária feminista estadunidense, além de outros autores cujos estudos também dialogam com nossa pesquisa. Alguns dos autores utilizados neste trabalho são Virginia Woolf, Sandra Gilbert e Susan Gubar, Elaine Showalter, Betsy Erkkila, Helen Vendler, Maria Rita Kehl, Susan Howe e Carlos Daghlian.
The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the poetry of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) from the perspective of American feminist literary criticism drawing on the concept of literary subtext as a poetic resource that reveals in Dickinson’s work several ways of subverting the social and literary norms of patriarchy. To these ends, I analyze a corpus of eighteen poems, and the text is organized into four sections. The first section discusses some issues that are important to American feminist literary criticism, such as the concept of female authorship and literary tradition; it is then theorized about the concept of literary subtext and I relate it to the idea of subversion. Also, in this first section, I analyze the poem “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant – .” In the second part of this work, the context of American literary production in the nineteenth-century is presented and the fact that Emily Dickinson emphatically refused to have her poems published is considered. The poems analyzed in this section are “Publication – is the Auction”. “Fame of Myself, to justify”, “Fame is the tint that Scholars leave”, “Fame is the one that does not stay” and “Fame is a fickle food”. After the discussion of the poems, in the third section I examine the ideal of womanhood in the nineteenth century and the ways Dickinson subverts this ideal in the poems “To own a Susan of my own”, “Her breast is fit for pearls”, “I gave myself to Him – ”, “She rose to His Requirement – dropt”, “Title divine – is mine!” and “I started Early – Took my Dog – ”. Finally, in the closing section I study some poems in which Dickinson undertakes the subversion of God’s image, points out the vulnerabilities of faith and human condition, and questions religious precepts: “I never lost as much but twice”, “It’s easy to invent a Life – ”, “A Shade upon the mind there passes”, “God is indeed a jealous God – ” and “God gave a Loaf to every Bird – ”. To provide theoretical underpinning, several critics who have written on Dickinson’s work were consulted and significant names in American literary feminist criticism are also discussed, as well as other authors whose studies intersect with our research as well. Included among the writers, critics and researchers mentioned in our work are Virginia Woolf, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Elaine Showalter, Betsy Erkkila, Helen Vendler, Maria Rita Kehl, Susan Howe, and Carlos Daghlian.
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Kavalieris, Galvão André. "Representing Truth Through Narrative : The Use of Historiographical Techniques in Creative Non-Fiction." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-169744.
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This essay is an attempt to show how certain elements, or techniques of history writing, can be used in creative non-fiction. It uses three major sources of theory. First, there is Charlotte Canning and Thomas Postlewait’s view on “the five themes of historiography,” which are indispensable for researching history: time, space, archive, identity, and narrative. The essay primarily focuses on narrative, because it is connected to representations of human lives, and as such contributes to meaning- creation. Second, the essay employs Hayden White’s concept of the historian’s working process and the notions of chronicle, story, mode of emplotment, mode of argument and ideological implications. Third is the method developed by Thomas Andrews and Flannery Burke of the five C’s of historical thinking: change over time, causality, context, complexity and contingency. Although these are separate theories, the essay shows how they can be complementary and help in the development of memoir writing, which is here my creative work, A Family Memoir in Essays, in particular the essays entitled “Trimdiniekis,” “Brasiliana,” and “A Sertaneja”.
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Wolfe, John D. "Blank Page: A Teacher Begins." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2015.
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Comprised of seven essays, this collection of literary nonfiction explores one man's journey into the teaching profession. The author recounts his experiences from just before he heard the call, to his first year teaching as an intern at Punahou School in Honolulu, through his first three years teaching full-time, and the challenges, mostly internal conflicts, he worked through as he taught freshmen and then two junior/senior electives before eventually going on sabbatical to Tanzania for his ninth year.
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Nascimento, Carlos Josué Costa do. "DO CONFLITO DE JESUS COM OS JUDEUS À REVELAÇÃO DA VERDADE QUE LIBERTA EM JOÃO 8,31-59." Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, 2010. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/552.
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Esta tese tem como objetivo demonstrar que o conflito existente na comunidade joanina e presente no texto é uma estratégia literária do autor para construir identidade e fortalecer a fé dos seus leitores. Para isso escolhi uma perícope (Jo 8,31-59) onde verifico e comprovo essa dinâmica. O texto é produto literário, tem lógica: início, fim, coesão. É também produto relacional, responde a uma lógica redacional. O autor é o protagonista do texto e nele revela sua teologia. Busco entender sua vida e tudo dele para saber do seu texto. O texto é reflexo de uma realidade nas formas de expressão que é redigido. Há muitos conflitos no texto. Para entender o conflito devo olhar a partir de sua complexidade literária. Do conflito à revelação da verdade que liberta da incredulidade, do medo, da insegurança, da ideologia que escraviza, do mal que impede acolher Jesus, o Messias e Filho de Deus.(AU)
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Varricchio, Isabella. "Lacrime di frantumaglia : Verità letteraria nell'opera di Elena Ferrante." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-160721.
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This master thesis presents a study of the authorship of the Italian writer Elena Ferrante, focusing on hermain concepts “la frantumaglia” and “la smarginatura” in relation to the question of literary truth. Thepurpose is to examine the fascinating interaction between meta reflection and narration through anintratextual reading of her poetics elaborated in La frantumaglia (2013, 2016) and all novels publishedso far. With references to the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, la frantumaglia and lasmarginatura are interpreted as the unconscious and different mental disorders that characterize the crisisof the female protagonists. The analysis examines literary truth on three literary levels: the verbal,considering the Neapolitan dialect related to the city of Naples as a representation of both maternalorigin and patriarchal oppression, the stylistic, viewing la smarginatura as literary style, and finally, thesymbolic, connected to what Ferrante calls the “symbolic sphere of the authentic”. Furthermore, anintellectual approach to truth is discussed as a contraposition to the others. In applying the methodologyof Michael Riffaterre, the analysis of the stylistic and symbolic truth dimensions shows how theiridiosyncratic traits are extended and transformed throughout the Ferrantian work. The thesis alsosuggests a different interpretation of the intimate relationship between mother and daughter, one of theauthorship’s central themes. Unlike previous studies with a psychoanalytical approach that affirms theexistence of a pre-oedipal phase free from patriarchal intrusion, this analysis demonstrates how Ferranterepeatedly reveals this idea as an infantile fantasy. Instead, the thesis argues that the only real synthesisis found at the level of writing itself, in the merging of the perspectives of the two protagonists in thecycle of L’amica geniale (The Neapolitan novels). This synthesis is further conceived as the authenticidentity of the anonymous author herself.
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Edwards, Gina Nicole. "Rooting for the Truth in Humor: The Onion’s Media and Cultural Satire." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1340053865.
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Allen, Rika. "Media ethics : a postmodern perspective in the search for truth, meaning and reality." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50016.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2004.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: According to recent research done in the field of media ethics, it seems that there is a need to complement studies on systematic normative ethics with more flexible theories such as those proposed by the field of Philosophy and Sociology. This assignment would like to prove that a more holistic model of moral reasoning should be considered based on the point of departure that the media and media practitioners find themselves in a postmodern world. The aim of this assignment is to examine the possibility of a postmodern ethics as a more authentic attempt by which the concept media ethics can be understood and applied. This assignment is a contribution towards the re-examination of media ethics in terms of a postmodern understanding of reality, truth and meaning, as well as an exploration of their practical implications in the context of a postmodern society such as South Africa and its media. According to the postmodern understanding of the concepts truth and meaning in relation to the postmodern understanding of reality, the postulated principles will define responsible journalism (media ethics) as journalistic action that takes into account how people (news consumers and sources of news) form their understanding of reality in a postmodern context. What purports to be reality in the news is inevitably a reconstruction of reality that fits the needs and requirements of journalistic practice. In this light, responsible journalism can be understood as journalistic action that creates a more holistic, authentic understanding of "reality" and how people understand themselves and others in the world they live in. Most people are informed by the media about themes such as the cloning of human beings, the war in Iraq, the attack on the World Trade Centre and genocide in Rwanda and not because of having been there themselves (direct experience). The way in which the media reports about events does influence the way in which media users make sense of the world in which they live.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Na aanleiding van onlangse navorsing gedoen in die gebied van media-etiek, blyk daar 'n behoefte te wees om sistematiese normatiewe etiek met meer omvattende teorieë aan te vul, soos voorgestel in die studie rigtings van Filosofie en Sosiologie. Hierdie werkopdrag wil bewys dat, indien in ag geneem word dat die perswese homself in 'n postmoderne wêreld bevind, 'n meer holistiese modeloorweeg kan word vir diskoerse in media-etiek. Die doel van die werkopdrag is om die moontlikheid van 'n postmoderne etiek te ondersoek as 'n meer outentieke benadering waarvolgens die konsep media-etiek verstaan en aangewend kan word. Die werkopdrag lewer 'n bydrae ten op sigte van 'n herevaluasie van media-etiek in terme van 'n postmodernistiese lees van realiteit, waarheid en betekenis. Die praktiese implikasies van 'n postmoderne media-etiek in die konteks van 'n postmoderne samelewing, soos dié van Suid-Afrika en die Suid-Afrikaanse media, salondersoek word. Na aanleiding van 'n postmoderne interpretasie van die konsepte waarheid, betekenis en realiteit, stel die werkopdrag 'n raamwerk voor waarbinne verantwoordelike joernalistiek op etiese wyse beoefen word en rekening hou met die postmoderne interpretasie van die samelewing. Dit is onvermydelik dat dit wat as werklikheid in die nuus daargestel word, 'n rekonstruksie van die werklikheid is om aan die behoeftes van joernalistieke praktyke te voldoen. In die lig van bogenoemde, kan verantwoordelike joernalistiek gedefinieer word as joernalistieke optrede wat 'n meer holistiese, outentieke interpretasie van die werklikheid en begrip van die leefwêreld oordra.
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Ward, Natalia, and Amber N. Warren. "Review of the Book Does Nonfiction Equate Truth? Rethinking Disciplinary Boundaries Through Critical Literacy, by V. Yenika-Agbaw, L. A. Hudock & R. McKoy Lowery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5940.
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Hudberg, Alexander. "The Ministry of Post-Truth: Using George Orwell’s 1984 to Develop English as a Foreign Language Students’ Critical Thinking Skills." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157083.
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In 2016, “post-truth” was chosen as the word of the year by the Oxford Dictionaries. This is a concept that has come to be associated with a type of political discourse in which objective facts are less important than factual inaccuracies which appeal to emotion to influence people’s attitudes. Due to this recent increase in post-truth politics, critical thinking becomes an important skill to master. Yet, studies have suggested that students often lack the necessary skills for critical thinking. One way of approaching this problem is through the reading of literature. This essay specifically argues that George Orwell’s 1984 provides teachers with an excellent opportunity to develop critical thinking skills among upper secondary English as a foreign language (EFL) students, with the novel as an excellent platform to also promote student reflection on current post-truth politics. In order to work with 1984 to foster critical thinking, this essay utilizes a literature-based, pedagogical model developed by Bobkina and Stefanova that draws inspiration from elements of reader-response theory and critical literacy pedagogy (CLP). To show how 1984 can be used to discuss current post-truth politics, a thematic analysis was performed where central themes and concepts from the novel, such as doublethink, Newspeak and telescreens, were compared to current trends in post-truth politics. The analysis itself was structured around the following themes: the distortion of truth for political gains, the use of language as an instrument of political power and the use of technology to spread misinformation. Following the analysis, a lesson project based on Bobkina and Stefanova’s four-stage model was constructed, focusing on different pre-, while- and post-reading activities aimed at making the students develop their critical thinking skills as well as their awareness of the three themes mentioned above. While this approach is deemed suitable for working with 1984 to discuss post-truth politics, a suggestion for further research would be to use Bobkina and Stefanova’s model together with more contemporary dystopian novels in order to discuss other topics that are more relatable to young adults, e.g. identity issues and social stratification.
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McMurray, Marybeth. "Philip Morris Faces "the truth": A Rhetorical Analysis of the Persuasiveness of Two Teen-Targeted Anti-Smoking Advertising Campaigns." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2003. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/41.
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This thesis examines the persuasiveness of anti-smoking television advertisements aimed at teens and produced by Philip Morris's Youth Smoking Prevention Program and the American Legacy Foundation's truth campaign. The advertisements are analyzed rhetorically using Kenneth Burke's dramatistic approach, supplemented by theory related to persuasive advertising, characteristics of at-risk adolescents, persuasive attack, and persuasive defense (apologia). The analysis indicates that strong central themes present in both the Philip Morris and truth campaigns act as a means of rhetorical persuasion, but are not necessarily rhetoric designed to persuade adolescents not to smoke cigarettes. The truth campaign advertisements contain both strengths and weaknesses. The weakness of the truth ads is related to an over-reliance on allegory-type scenarios meant to communicate anti-smoking sentiments and the theme of manipulation. Truth ads that contain clearer messages conveyed by appealing central characters are a more effective means of communicating not only an anti-smoking ideology, but also the theme of adolescent empowerment. This thesis's analysis more alarmingly indicates that the Philip Morris ads are in no way an effective means of smoking prevention. The Philip Morris campaign acts as a persuasive defense with the intended purpose of image repair and may encourage adolescents to think of Philip Morris and their tobacco products in a positive light. Conclusions suggest that due to the vast impact of media the glorifies smoking and other self-injurious behaviors; infrequent appearance of pro-social media appeals; insidious coercive tactics of the tobacco industry; possible limitations in determining the effectiveness of pro-social media appeals due to adolescent self-perception (or third person effect variables); and lack of attention paid to more vulnerable or at-risk youth, the real need may not be better pro-social media campaigns, but rather media literacy campaigns. In doing so, youth may become empowered, critical thinkers able to make life choices based on personal preference and the desire for self-fulfillment, instead of being coerced into a belief system induced by the bombardment of media.
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Kremling, Julius. "De la production de connaissances de recherche enlittérature. : Étude comparative sur la recherche littéraire en Afriquefrancophone." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Franska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27872.
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Cette présente étude répond aux trois questions de recherche suivantes : Y-a-t-il une épistémologie africaine (francophone) ? Comment la méthodologie de la recherche littéraire se définit-elle ? Quelles sont les méthodes exactes employées par la recherche littéraire dans un contexte africain ? En nous appuyant sur l’oeuvre philosophique de Paulin J. Hountondji nous avons développé un concept de savoir africain. En l’absence des théories africaines sur la recherche littéraire nous recourrons aux théories formulées dans un contexte européen, par des chercheurs tels que Kathrin Busch, Ivan Jablonka et Corina Caduff. Ensuite, quatre oeuvres littéraires africaines, Wala Bok. Une histoire orale du hip hop au Sénégal de Fatou Kandé Senghor, Bribes d’une vie nigériane de Françoise Ugochukwu, La Gloire des imposteurs, lettres sur le Mali et l’Afrique d’Aminata Dramane Traoré et de Boubacar Boris Diop et Bogo. Notes de travail chez des potières à Bamako d’Emmanuelle Samson ont été analysées pour identifier les méthodes exactes employées par la recherche littéraire en Afrique.This study answers the following three research questions : Does an African (francophone) epistemology exist ? How is the methodology of literary research defined ? What are the exact methods used by literary research in Africa ? Building on the philosophical work of Paulin J. Hountondji we develop a concept of African knowledge. In the absence of African theories of literary research we call upon European theories proposed by researchers such as Kathrin Busch, Ivan Jablonka and Corina Caduff. Next, four literary works, Wala Bok. Une histoire orale du hip hop au Sénégal by Fatou Kandé Senghor, Bribes d’une vie nigériane by Françoise Ugochukwu, La Gloire des imposteurs, lettres sur le Mali et l’Afrique by Aminata Dramane Traoré and Boubacar Boris Diop and Bogo. Notes de travail chez des potières à Bamako by Emmanuelle Samson are analyzed to identify the exact literary research methods used in Africa.
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Buis, Martine. "Benjamin et la critique littéraire. La littérature, la vérité et l'expérience historique." Thesis, Paris 3, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA030003.
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Si le travail d’essayiste de Walter Benjamin a fait l'objet d'œuvres importantes dans l'esthétique et la philosophie de l'art, dans la philosophie de l'histoire et la philosophie politique, ses travaux de critique littéraire ont peu été étudiés pour eux-mêmes. L'interférence des principes philosophiques théologiques ou marxistes de Benjamin avec sa méthode critique est la principale objection faite à l'existence d'une authentique critique littéraire qui ne serait pas une philosophie de la littérature projetant sur celle-ci ses idées préconçues au détriment des textes. Or, selon la lettre du 20 janvier 1930 à Gershom Scholem, Benjamin projetait de recréer la critique littéraire en Allemagne contre l'historicisme des genres et des œuvres qui prévalaient à son époque. En prenant à la lettre ce projet de recréation, j'ai émis l'hypothèse qu’il ne pouvait être clarifié pour lui-même qu’en comprenant l'objection épistémologique de l'entrelacement de la philosophie et de la littérature comme le principe de cette recréation. Benjamin tente une dissolution de leur frontière et de leur signification conventionnelle héritées du platonisme. L’origine en devenir du paradigme tragique distribue en un divergent accord leurs réponses respectives au combat inachevé pour un langage qui rendrait justice aux vies profanes effacées sous le régime de justification des ordres historiques, de leurs mythes anciens et nouveaux. En suivant les combats réitérés pour un langage capable de donner à la vie sa vérité propre et son visage sensible, comme de restituer leur expérience historique aux passagers temporaires de l'histoire que nous sommes, Benjamin définit une philosophie non conceptuelle et non discursive dans les formes littéraires dont le but est de re-figurer la vie sans la fonder, en réapprenant à parler par les fictions et les poétiques des zones grises et silencieuses oblitérées par l'Histoire. La célèbre peinture allégorique – mais aussi tragi-comique- de Klee “l’Ange de l'Histoire" trouve ici son contrepoint dans les formes multiples de la littérature. Si celle-ci n’est évidemment pas ce "Messianique Maintenant" qui arrêterait le cours de l'histoire pour achever dans la geste politique ce qu’il y a d’inoubliable dans les inachèvements du passé et qui mérite d’être accompli et sauvé par le présent, elle configure cependant l’espace messianique de la langue qui creuse les routes nouvelles de la subjectivité: le temps d'arrêt et de retenue, qui libère l’espace scénique des jeux de re-théâtralisation des vies multiples et reconfigure dans le langage les noms qui les citent, les multiples ruines et fragments que cet ange allégorique laisse nécessairement sur son bord ou est en train de laisser derrière lui. Benjamin esquisse une épopée de la littérature traversée par les échos lointains des paradigmes tragiques du silence et de la plainte face au cours saturnien de l'histoireWhile Walter Benjamin's work as an essayist has been the subject of important works in the aesthetics and philosophy of art, in the philosophy of history and political philosophy, his work as a literary critic has been little studied for itself. The interference of Benjamin's theological or Marxist philosophical principles with his critical method is the main objection to the existence of an authentic literary critic that would not be a philosophy of literature projecting on it its preconceived ideas at the expense of texts. According to the letter of 20th January 1930 to Gershom Scholem, Benjamin planned to recreate literary criticism in Germany against the historicalism of genres and works that prevailed in his time.In taking this re-creation project to the letter, I hypothesized that it could only be clarified for itself by understanding the epistemological objection of the intertwining of philosophy and literature as the principle of this recreation. Benjamin attempts to dissolve their frontier and their conventional meaning inherited from Platonism. The origins fate of the tragic paradigm distributes in a “diverging agreement” the respective responses to the unfinished struggle for a language that would do justice to the secular lives erased under the justifications system of historical orders, their old and new myths. By following the repeated struggles for a language capable of giving life its own truth and sensitive face, such as returning their historical experience to the temporary passengers of history that we are, Benjamin defines a non-conceptual and non-discursive philosophy in literary forms whose purpose is to re- figure life without founding it, by relearning to speak through fictions and poetics of the grey and silent zones obliterated by history. Klee's famous allegorical - but also tragi-comic - painting "The Angel of History" finds its counterpoint here in the multiple forms of literature. If it is obviously not this "Messianic Now" who would stop the course of history to complete in the political gesture what is unforgettable in the incompletions of the past and which deserves to be accomplished and saved by the present, it nevertheless configures the messianic space of the language that digs the New routes of subjectivity: the time of pause and restraint, which frees the stage space of game of re-theatralization of multiple lives and reconfigures in language the names that quote them, the multiple ruins and fragments that this allegorical angel leaves necessarily and mechanically on his edge or behind him. Benjamin sketches an epic of literature traversed by distant echoes of tragic paradigms of the silence or complaint facing the saturnian course of history
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Vincent, Leah C. ""La división del mundo entre los que se rehúsan a ser comprendidos y los que buscan darse a entender sin que esto les aporte privilegio alguno": Vindication of Land and Reason in Saraguro, Ecuador." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1268859422.
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Ferreirinha, Carlos Augusto dos Santos. "Formas de recriação do mito em contos de Mia Couto." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2017. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20088.
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The aim of this assignment is to reflect on the ways of recreating Afro-Mozambican myths in the narratives “A Lenda de Namarói” (2012), “A infinita fiandeira” (2009) e “Nas águas do tempo” (2012), by Mia Couto. The problematization questions: to what extent do the African Myths imply the process of identify and social institution of the African community and, by extension, of the Mozabican? How does Mia Couto assimilates these mythical aesthetics in his narratives? Two hypotheses were selected: The Myth inscribes an affirmation in the construction and institutionalization of life and in the Regime of Truth of the Afro-Mozambican people; Mia Couto's narrative recovers and recreates the aesthetic and the mythic structures of Mozambican culture in order to keep alive the veracity and the belief in the Myths as a matrix of real and valid thought. As a theoretical basis for approaching the Myth, we highlight the concepts of Anti-Narcissus, Penser autrement (CASTRO,2015), Regime of Truth (FOUCAULT,1999); and Tautegory (SCHELLING, 2007); in relation with the process of mythical aesthetics recreation in the literary composition, we utilize the concept of transcreation, by Haroldo de Campos (1992), as well as semiotic sign propositions of Charles Sanders Peirce (2000) and Octavio Paz (1976). It is observed that Mia Couto retrieves and presentifies mythical aesthetic and structural compositions as a way of institutionalizing and giving voice to orality, to the matix of thought and to the Regime of Truth of the Afro-Mozambican subject as a living and present reality
O objetivo deste trabalho é refletir sobre formas de recriação de Mitos afro-moçambicanos nas narrativas “A Lenda de Namarói” (2012), “A infinita fiandeira” (2009) e “Nas águas do tempo” (2012), de Mia Couto. A problematização interroga: até que ponto os Mitos africanos implicam o processo de instituição identitária e social da comunidade africana e, por extensão, da moçambicana? Como Mia Couto apreende essas estéticas míticas em suas narrativas? Duas hipóteses foram selecionadas: o Mito inscreve uma afirmação na construção e institucionalização da vida e do Regime de Verdade do sujeito afro-moçambicano; a narrativa de Mia Couto recupera e recria estéticas e estruturas míticas da cultura moçambicana, de modo a manter viva a veracidade e a crença nos Mitos como matriz de pensamento real e válida. Como fundamentação teórica para a abordagem do Mito, valemo-nos dos conceitos de Anti-Narciso Outramento (CASTRO, 2015), Regime de Verdade (FOUCAULT 1999) e Tautegoria (SCHELLING, 2007); no que diz respeito ao processo de recriação das estéticas míticas na composição literária, utilizamos o conceito de transcriação, de Haroldo de Campos (1992), assim como proposições sígnicas semióticas de Charles Sanders Peirce (2000) e de Octavio Paz (1976). Observa-se que Mia Couto recupera e presentifica as composições estéticas e estruturais míticas como forma de institucionalizar e dar voz à oralidade, à matriz de pensamento e ao Regime de verdade do sujeito afro-moçambicano enquanto realidade viva e presente
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Kiourti, Ira Georgia. "Real impossible worlds : the bounds of possibility." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/924.
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Lewisian Genuine Realism (GR) about possible worlds is often deemed unable to accommodate impossible worlds and reap the benefits that these bestow to rival theories. This thesis explores two alternative extensions of GR into the terrain of impossible worlds. It is divided in six chapters. Chapter I outlines Lewis’ theory, the motivations for impossible worlds, and the central problem that such worlds present for GR: How can GR even understand the notion of an impossible world, given Lewis’ reductive theoretical framework? Since the desideratum is to incorporate impossible worlds into GR without compromising Lewis’ reductive analysis of modality, Chapter II defends that analysis against (old and new) objections. The rest of the thesis is devoted to incorporating impossible worlds into GR. Chapter III explores GR-friendly impossible worlds in the form of set-theoretic constructions out of genuine possibilia. Then, Chapters IV-VI venture into concrete impossible worlds. Chapter IV addresses Lewis’ objection against such worlds, to the effect that contradictions true at impossible worlds amount to true contradictions tout court. I argue that even if so, the relevant contradictions are only ever about the non-actual, and that Lewis’ argument relies on a premise that cannot be nonquestion- beggingly upheld in the face of genuine impossible worlds in any case. Chapter V proposes that Lewis’ reductive analysis can be preserved, even in the face of genuine impossibilia, if we differentiate the impossible from the possible by means of accessibility relations, understood non-modally in terms of similarity. Finally, Chapter VI counters objections to the effect that there are certain impossibilities, formulated in Lewis’ theoretical language, which genuine impossibilia should, but cannot, represent. I conclude that Genuine Realism is still very much in the running when the discussion turns to impossible worlds.
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Syme, Neil. "Uncanny modalities in post-1970s Scottish fiction : realism, disruption, tradition." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21768.
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This thesis addresses critical conceptions of Scottish literary development in the twentieth-century which inscribe realism as both the authenticating tradition and necessary telos of modern Scottish writing. To this end I identify and explore a Scottish ‘counter-tradition’ of modern uncanny fiction. Drawing critical attention to techniques of modal disruption in the works of a number of post-1970s Scottish writers gives cause to reconsider that realist teleology while positing a range of other continuities and tensions across modern Scottish literary history. The thesis initially defines the critical context for the project, considering how realism has come to be regarded as a medium of national literary representation. I go on to explore techniques of modal disruption and uncanny in texts by five Scottish writers, contesting ways in which habitual recourse to the realist tradition has obscured important aspects of their work. Chapter One investigates Ali Smith’s reimagining of ‘the uncanny guest’. While this trope has been employed by earlier Scottish writers, Smith redesigns it as part of a wider interrogation of the hyperreal twenty-first-century. Chapter Two considers two texts by James Robertson, each of which, I argue, invokes uncanny techniques familiar to readers of James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson in a way intended specifically to suggest concepts of national continuity and literary inheritance. Chapter Three argues that James Kelman’s political stance necessitates modal disruption as a means of relating intimate individual experience. Re-envisaging Kelman as a writer of the uncanny makes his central assimilation into the teleology of Scottish realism untenable, complicating the way his work has been positioned in the Scottish canon. Chapter Four analyses A.L. Kennedy’s So I Am Glad, delineating a similarity in the processes of repetition which result in both uncanny effects and the phenomenon of tradition, leading to Kennedy’s identification of an uncanny dimension in the concept of national tradition itself. Chapter Five considers the work of Alan Warner, in which the uncanny appears as an unsettling sense of significance embedded within the banal everyday, reflecting an existentialism which reaches beyond the national. In this way, I argue that habitual recourse to an inscribed realist tradition tends to obscure the range, complexity and instability of the realist techniques employed by the writers at issue, demonstrating how national continuities can be productively accommodated within wider, pluralistic analytical approaches.
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Briney, Carol E. "My Journey with Prisoners: Perceptions, Observations and Opinions." Kent State University Liberal Studies Essays / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1373151648.
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Repp, Charles. "Truth, Justification, and Literary Merit." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/35937.
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This thesis develops and defends a new version of an old view known as literary cognitivism, which holds that the merit of a literary work as such sometimes depends on its cognitive merit. The newness of my view lies in the way it recommends we think about the cognitive merits of a literary work as they relate to its literary merits. Whereas some cognitivists identify the cognitive merit of a literary work with the truth of its themes and others with its capacity to provide certain non-propositional forms of knowledge, I propose that the cognitive dimension most relevant to literary value is the extent to which it provides certain forms of justification for its themes. In particular, I emphasize two ways in which a literary work can justify its themes: one, by providing evidence that its themes are the products of an intellectually virtuous mind and, two, by expressing its themes within a richly coherent framework of beliefs. I argue that the literary-evaluative significance of these two forms of justification is implicit, in the first case, in literary critical judgments that refer to a work’s didacticism, and, in the second case, in judgments that refer to a work’s thematic coherence. Insofar as it bears on these sources of justification, I contend, the truth or falsity of some non-thematic propositions can be relevant to literary value, though truth is generally not relevant at the thematic level.
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Гнатуша, Альона Олегівна. "Рецепція образу О. Довженка в художніх біографіях." Магістерська робота, 2020. https://dspace.znu.edu.ua/jspui/handle/12345/1624.
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Гнатуша А. О. Рецепція образу О. Довженка в художніх біографіях : кваліфікаційна робота магістра спеціальності 035 «Філологія» / наук. керівник О. А. Проценко. Запоріжжя : ЗНУ, 2020. 70 с.UA : Кваліфікаційна робота магістра «Рецепція образу О. Довженка в художніх біографіях» містить 70 сторінок. Для виконання роботи опрацьовано 73 джерела. Мета дослідження: дослідити та порівняти відображення рецепції образу О. Довженка в художніх біографіях С. Плачинди «Олександр Довженко», К. Тур-Коновалова, Д. Замрія «Режисер». У ході написання роботи виконано такі завдання: – розкрито сутність теоретичних та історичних проблем розвитку художньої біографії; – досліджено жанрову специфіку та основні риси художньої біографії; – показано роль використання документів та межі домислу і вимислу в художніх творах; – розкрито сутність теоретичних основ рецептивної естетики, історію її виникнення; – зʼясовано специфіку моделювання рецепції образу О. Довженка в художніх біографіях С. Плачинди «Олександр Довженко», К. Тур-Коновалова, Д. Замрія «Режисер»; – узагальнено суть дослідження. Обʼєкт дослідження: романи С. Плачинди «Олександр Довженко», К. Тур-Коновалова, Д. Замрія «Режисер». Предмет дослідження: рецепція образу О. Довженка в романах С. Плачинди «Олександр Довженко», К. Тур-Коновалова, Д. Замрія «Режисер». Методи дослідження: У роботі реалізовано поєднання історико-літературного й порівняльно-типологічного методів, застосовано аналітично-описовий метод, який полягає в підборі, описі та аналізі матеріалу. Цілісний підхід до аналізу проблеми здійснено за допомогою таких методів, як біографічний, психоаналітичний, психологічний. Наукова новизна роботи полягає у спробі ґрунтовного дослідження рецепції образу О. Довженка, вимислу та домислу в романах С. Плачинди «Олександр Довженко», К. Тур-Коновалова, Д. Замрія «Режисер». Робота доповнить уявлення про світоглядно-естетичні позиції, творчі манери письменників, твори яких досліджуються; розширить коло розвідок про художню біографію українських творців. Сфера застосування роботи полягає в тому, що матеріали одержаних результатів можуть бути використані в подальшій розробці літературознавчих проблем із обраної теми, при читанні спецкурсів і спецсемінарів із історії української літератури, при написанні курсових робіт, а також на факультативних курсах із історії української літератури в школах.
EN : The Master’s thesis «Reception of O. Dovzhenko’s image in literary biographies» consists of 70 pages. 73 sources were worked out for caring out the research. The aim of the research is to study and combine the reflection of the reception of the O. Dovzhenko’s image in the literary biographies by S. Plachinsa «Oleksander Dovzhenko» and K. Tur-Konovalova, D. Zamriya «The Producer». Such tasks are accomplished in the process of writing the thesis: – the essence of the theoretical and historical problems of the development of the literary biography is revealed; – the specifics of genre and the main peculiarities of the literary biography are studied; – the role of the documents’ usage and the border between conjecture and fiction in the literary works are shown; – the essence of the theoretical basis of the receptive aesthetics and the history of its origin are represented; – the specificity of the modeling of O. Dovzhenko’s image reception in the literary biographies S. Plachinsa «Oleksander Dovzhenko», K. Tur-Konovalova, D. Zamriya «The Producer» is defined; – the substance of the theses is generalized. The object of the research are the novels by S. Plachinsa «Oleksander Dovzhenko», K. Tur-Konovalova, D. Zamriya «The Producer». The subject of the research: is the resection of the O. Dovzhenko’s image in the novels by S. Plachinsa «Oleksander Dovzhenko», K. Tur-Konovalova, D. Zamriya «The Producer». The methods of the research: The combination of the historical-literary and comparative methods is realized in the thesis, analytical-descriptive method is used, which is based on the selection, description and analyzing of the material. The generalized approach to the analyzing of the problem is made using such methods as biographical, psychoanalytical, psychological ones. The novelty of the thesis is represented by the attempt of the substantial study of the reception of O. Dovzhenko’s image, conjecture and fiction in the novels by S. Plachinsa «Oleksander Dovzhenko», K. Tur-Konovalova, D. Zamriya «The Producer». The thesis will accomplish the understanding of the aesthetic positions, creative manner of the writers, whose novels are under analysis; to broaden the circle of the works about the literary biography of the Ukrainian authors. The sphere of using of the thesis is represented by the fact, that the received results of the study can be used in the further development of the literary problem on the specific topic; while reading special courses and special practical classes in the history of the Ukrainian literature on the specific topic; while creating the course thesis and, also, during the optional courses in the history of the Ukrainian literature at school.
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Тоцька, Софія Ігорівна. "Художня інтерпретація подій Майдану та війни у творах М. Матіос "Приватний щоденник. Майдан. Війна" та А. Цаплієнка "Книга змін"." Магістерська робота, 2020. https://dspace.znu.edu.ua/jspui/handle/12345/4385.
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Тоцька С. І. Художня інтерпретація подій Майдану та війни у творах М. Матіос "Приватний щоденник. Майдан. Війна" та А. Цаплієнка "Книга змін" : кваліфікаційна робота магістра спеціальності 035 «Філологія» / наук. керівник Л. О. Костецька. Запоріжжя : ЗНУ, 2020. 75 с.UA : Кваліфікаційна робота магістра "Художня інтерпретація подій Майдану та війни у творах М. Матіос "Приватний щоденник. Майдан. Війна" та А. Цаплієнка "Книга змін" містить 75 сторінок. Для виконання роботи опрацьовано 65 джерел. Мета роботи: художня інтерпретація подій Майдану та війни на Сході України у творах М. Матіос «Приватний щоденник. Майдан. Війна» та А Цаплієнка «Книга змін». У ході написання роботи виконано такі завдання: – дослідити мистецтво інтерпретації в сучасному літературознавстві; – висвітлити події Революції Гідності та АТО з позицій письменниці та журналіста; – проінтерпретувати події Революції Гідності та війни на Сході України у творі М. Матіос «Приватний щоденник. Майдан. Війна»; – проаналізувати події Революції Гідності та АТО у творі А. Цаплієнка «Книга змін». Об’єкт дослідження: «Приватний щоденник. Майдан. Війна» М. Матіос та «Книга змін» А. Цаплієнка. Предмет дослідження: художня інтерпретація та розкриття головної думки творів М. Матіос «Приватний щоденник. Майдан. Війна» та А. Цаплієнка «Книга змін». Методи дослідження: робота спирається на принципи системності та історизму, які реалізуються за допомогою загальнонаукових, загальноісторичних, загальнолітературних методів. Їх органічне поєднання зумовлене темою, джерельною базою та концептуальною стратегією комплексного дослідження художньої інтерпретації подій Майдану і війни у творах М. Матіос «Приватний щоденник. Майдан. Війна» та А. Цаплієнка «Книга змін». Використано проблемно-хронологічний, порівняльно-історичний, системно-структурний, теоретично-критичний, структурно-семіотичний, історико-генетичний, типологічний, історико-порівняльний методи наукового вивчення явищ художньої літератури. Наукова новизна: вперше зроблено спробу комплексного дослідження художньої інтерпретації подій Майдану і війни у творах М. Матіос «Приватний щоденник. Майдан. Війна» та А. Цаплієнка «Книга змін». Сфера застосування роботи: дослідження певною мірою доповнить історію Революції Гідності та АТО у сфері культурологічного дискурсу. Окреслить коло специфічних питань сучасної воєнної тематики в українській літературі. Матеріали можуть бути використані для вивчення спецкурсів із проблем сучасної масової літератури, спецсемінарів, конференцій на історичних та філологічних факультетах університетів.
EN : Master’s qualification work "Artistic interpretation of the events of the Maidan and the war in the works of M. Mathios" Private diary. Maidan. War "and A. Tsaplienko's" Book of Changes " contains 75 pages. To perform the work 65 scientific sources were treated. The aim of the work: artistic interpretation of the events of the Maidan and the war in eastern Ukraine in the works of M. Mathios "Private Diary. Maidan. War "and A. Tsaplienko" Book of Changes ". To perform this work the following tasks were done: - to explore the art of interpretation in modern literary criticism; - to cover the events of the Revolution of Dignity and the ATO from the standpoint of a writer and journalist; - to interpret the events of the Revolution of Dignity and the war in Eastern Ukraine in the work of M. Mathios "Private Diary. Maidan. War"; - to analyze the events of the Revolution of Dignity and ATO in the work of A. Tsaplienko "Book of Changes". The object of study: "Private diary. Maidan. War "by M. Matios and" Book of Changes "by A. Tsaplienko. The subject of study: artistic interpretation and disclosure of the main idea of the works of M. Matios "Private diary. Maidan. War "and A. Tsaplienko" Book of Changes ". Research methods. the work is based on the principles of systematics and historicism, which are implemented using general scientific, general historical, general literary methods. Their organic combination is due to the theme, source base and conceptual strategy of a comprehensive study of the artistic interpretation of the events of the Maidan and the war in the works of M. Mathios "Private Diary. Maidan. War "and A. Tsaplienko" Book of Changes ". Problem-chronological, comparative-historical, system-structural, theoretical-critical, structural-semiotic, historical-genetic, typological, historical-comparative methods of scientific study of the phenomena of fiction are used. The scientific novelty: for the first time an attempt was made to comprehensively study the artistic interpretation of the events of the Maidan and the war in the works of M. Mathios "Private Diary. Maidan. War "and A. Tsaplienko" Book of Changes ". Scope of work: the study will to some extent complement the history of the Revolution of Dignity and the ATO in the field of cultural discourse. Outline the range of specific issues of modern military issues in Ukrainian literature. The materials can be used to study special courses on the problems of modern mass literature, special seminars, conferences at the historical and philological faculties of universities.
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Farzaneh, Arash. "The literal truth : enquiry into novels and reality." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14483.
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In this study I shall discuss the "dangers" inherent in the misinterpretation of reading and
the consequences of treating life as novelistic creation. B y examining two famous readers
in literary history, Don Quixote and Emma B ovary, I shall demonstrate in what ways they
apply fictitious ideas and beliefs to a mundane and everyday world that appears to be
hostile and not conducive to such ideals.
In order to show the emergence and importance of "realistic" novels, I w i l l briefly
outline the history of the novel in its historical and social context. We will see differences
in thought and philosophy in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the so-called modern,
scientific age of ours. By underlining the significance of the philosophy of the times, the
Zeitgeist, we shall gain insight into the processes of reading and writing.
Furthermore, I shall attempt to explain the ambiguity and vagueness of language
itself, as both a means of communication and of conveying ideas. Here I will use
examples of post-structuralist thought, which attempts to undermine the importance of
language in the scientific age and reveal its problems and difficulties.
The reading process and its psychological ramifications are then singled out
through the use of concrete examples of the two novels under study, Don Quixote and
Madame Bovary. The characters of these two novels embody different perspectives on
and paradigms of the world, which have been coined as quixotic and bovarystic,
respectively. This entails the assumption that books contain truth and reflect reality as it
is. However, since books give us a biased and distorted account of reality and stand in
contrast to everyday reality, books can be deceiving and misleading. Emma and Don
Quixote are misled by the lure of fiction and search for literal truths. This acts as a source
of conflict and constant disillusion in their lives. We will see what such literal truths
entail and in what ways the two readers may have been mistaken about the world.
This discussion w i l l hopefully give us a better understanding of literature, of both
reading and writing and show the relevance and importance that literature plays in the
texture of our lives.
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Goncalves, Zan Meyer. "Speaking our truths: Literacy, sexuality and social change." 2000. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9978500.
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This is a study about how lesbian, gay and bisexual undergraduate students from both minority and dominant cultural/racial/ethnic groups use language for social action. It is an ethnographic study of the Speaker's Bureau (an educational outreach program of a gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender resource center) and includes two case studies of student speakers from the Bureau. The aim of this study is to explore the literacy practices that may help student speakers to interrupt heterosexist discourse inside and outside the classroom. The ethnographer uses critical discourse analysis to examine two phenomena: First, the ways student speakers use Speaker's Bureau literacy practices to attempt to change heterosexist attitudes on campus; and second, the ways individual student speakers use individual literacy practices to address their private need to construct a viable self and their public aim to help create a more just community for that self. This study illustrates the ways in which the telling of personal stories on Bureau panel presentations serve to build bridges of understanding between the speakers and the audience by humanizing gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their struggles. The dialogues that follow the personal stories show how the genre of the panel presentation positions speakers as educators and experts on sexuality, identity, and social justice. This study also details the various speaking and writing opportunities that assist speakers in developing a positive sense of a “gay” self and how they use these opportunities to create a safe place for that self to exist.
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Krueger, Anton Robert. "Science as narrative : Alan Sokal's critique of postmodernism." Diss., 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17133.
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Alan Sokal has questioned the postmodern assertion that 'science is ... a "myth'', a "narration" ... a "social construction'" (1998: x). This dissertation examines his reasons for rejecting this allegedly postmodern declaration. Firstly, it suggests that the basis for Sol'1ll's contention that a 'true' world exists beyond one's awareness of it extends to an attack on modem philosophy, and is not limited to its postmodern component. Then, it describes defences of the 'linguistic construction' of science as thinly veiled attempts at emulating scientific discourses. In a more speculative vein, the dissertation goes on to evaluate claims made against science in terms of its connection to warfare; its insensitivity to mythology, and its generally misdirected values. It is in terms of value that the dissertation detects an analogous relationship between the discourses of mythology and science. Finally, a playful 'postmodern' reading is attempted of Sol'1ll's use of fiction in establishing the truth of his assertions.English Studies
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Mathews, Ned Lee 1934. "Toward reestablishing a Christian worldview in a postmodern age." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18165.
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This work is comprised of an Introduction and two Parts. Part One treats, by way of
historical review and evaluation, the disestablishment of the Christian worldview in a postmodern
age. Part Two proposes the means by whichthe Christian worldview might be reestablished. The
reestablishment includes the use of some of the benefits of postmodernism by Christians as well as
a return to the responsible reading of texts, especially the biblical text.
Part One, The Disestablishment of the Christian Worldview, is composed ofthree chapters.
Chapter 1chronicles the change that has occurred in Western culture because of the ascendency of
postmodernism. It isbest described as a change in authorityfrom the logocentric metanarrative which
has characterized Christianity to the deconstructionist rejection of worldviews by postmodern
literary critics. Chapter 2 reviews the paradigm shifts that have occurred in belief
systemsthat have occurred in the West as a result of this change,and Chapter 3 shows the effects of
all this in the culture's principal institutions.
Part Two, The Reestablishment of the Christian Worldview, is also composed of three chapters.
Chapter 4 shows the impact that postmodernity has had on the efforts now being made on behalf of
reestablishing the Christian worldview as a viable intellectual position in Western culture.
Chapter 5 is occupied with the negative and positive responses of certain Christian
scholars to the challenge of postmodernism, and Chapter 6 closes the study with an extended
treatment of the factors that must be in play for a reestablishment of the Christian worldview to
occur in Western civilization.Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology
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Zimnoch, Mateusz. "Współczesny reportaż – między racjonalizmem a doświadczeniem." Doctoral thesis, 2014.
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Cel i zakres pracyCelem rozprawy jest analiza sytuacji reportażu w realiach komunikacyjnych dwudziestego pierwszego wieku z perspektywy nauk o mediach przy uwzględnieniu wątków filozoficznych i kulturoznawczych. Wychodząc od opisu problemów kluczowych dla szeroko pojmowanej komunikacji medialnej, na czele z kompresją czasu i przestrzeni, dokonuje się osadzenia reportażu wobec tych problemów. Wywód teoretyczny podąża śladem kolejnych pojęć będących pochodną problematyki wyjściowej: czasu, prawdy, faktu i fikcji, narracji oraz doświadczenia. Wnioski z części teoretycznej aplikuje się następnie do wybranych tekstów współczesnych polskich autorów (Mariusza Szczygła, Jacka Hugo-Badera, Wojciecha Tochmana, Maxa Cegielskiego, Adama Elbanowskiego), przedstawiając w części drugiej pracy kilka propozycji interpretacyjnych prowadzonych w duchu teoretycznych ustaleń.TezaGłówna teza pracy zakłada, iż we współczesnym reportażu zaobserwować można stopniowe przechodzenie od perspektywy realistycznej, racjonalistycznej i hermeneutycznej w stronę ujęć nominalistycznych, empirystycznych i konstruktywistycznych. Innymi słowy, przekonanie reportażystów o realnej obecności istot przedmiotów zewnętrznych, sile ich rozumowego odkrywania gwarantującego obiektywność praktyk poznawczych oraz występowania nieosiągalnego wprawdzie, lecz ostatecznego sensu w rzeczywistości, jest wypierana przez całkiem odmienne przekonania. Takie mianowicie, iż rzekoma istota rzeczywistości jest co najwyżej zredukowana do takich a nie innych pojęć w ludzkim umyśle, których iluzoryczność każe koncentrować się na konkrecie i jednostkowości w miejsce poszukiwania powtarzalnych schematów i reguł, iż rozumowe objaśnianie świata jest z natury rzeczy ułomne stąd warto zastąpić je mniej autorytatywnym doświadczaniem tego świata oraz że sens, jaki miałby istnieć w zewnętrznych zjawiskach, jest przede wszystkim ludzką konstrukcją, nie zaś wyobrażeniem czegoś, co istnieje realnie i niezależnie od podmiotu. W pewnym stopniu uzasadnione byłoby stwierdzenie, iż dawne nastawienie wobec prawdy komunikowanej przez reportaż było dogmatyczne, nowe zaś jest w dużej mierze sceptyczne. Fakt ten pozwala uruchomić nowe narzędzia analityczne w badaniach nad reportażem, które otworzą nieprzetarte dotychczas szlaki w refleksji nad współczesną komunikacją medialną.Dissertation objectives and research areaThe aim of the dissertation is to describe literary journalism’s situation among the contemporary comunication system in terms of media studies with elements of philosophy and cultural studies. Description of the most important aspects of media communication, especially compression of time and space, discovers some crucial ideas in terms of which the literary journalism should be considered. Hence, the theoretical study follows the problem of time, truth, fact and fiction, narrative and experience. Conclusion of the theoretical part becomes then a starting point for further analysis of selected literary reportages by contemporary Polish journalists (Mariusz Szczygieł, Jacek Hugo-Bader, Wojciech Tochman, Max Cegielski, Adam Elbanowski). The second part of dissertation consist of literary journalism interpretations following the previous theoretical arrangements. ThesisThe main thesis of the dissertation is that among the contemporary literary journalism one can observe a visible turn from realism, rationalism and hermeneutics to nominalism, empiricism and constructivism. In other words, the literary journalists’ conviction of the real presence of the external objects’ essences as well as of the ultimate sense of reality which can be rationally discovered ensuring the human cognition to be objectively true is replaced with completely different convictions. According to them, the supposed essence of the reality should be reduced only to a certain ideas in the human mind. Because of their illusionary character one should focus on the singularity and concrete rather than on searching for universal and repeatable schemes and rules. Rational explanation of the world is obviously deformed so it should be replaces with its’ naive experiencing whereas the presumptive essences of the external objects is mostly a human construction rather than representation of anything independent from ones epistemic competence. It may be said that the previous convictions about the truth among the literary journalism was dogmatic whilst the contemporary one is mostly sceptical. This fact enables some new tools for literary journalism studies which may open a new perspectives among the contemporary human communication research.
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Ristic, Danya. "These shining themes : the use and effects of figurative language in the poetry and prose of Anne Michaels." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28950.
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This study explores the manner in which Anne Michaels uses figurative language, particularly metaphor, in her poetry and prose. In her first novel, Fugitive Pieces, and in certain of her poems, Michaels demonstrates the powers of language to destroy and to recuperate. For her, metaphor is not simply a literary device; it is an essential mechanism in the creation of an authentic story or poem. Moreover, in contrast to other figurative language such as euphemism, which she feels can be used to conceal the truth and make moral that which is immoral, metaphor in her view can be used to gain access to the truth and is therefore moral. Thus, as this study demonstrates, Michaels proposes as well as utilises the moral power of language. The ideas of four language theorists provide the basis of this study, and prove highly useful in application to Michaels’s work. With the aid of Certeau and Bourdieu, we examine Michaels’s participation in and literary presentation of the relationship of domination and subordination in which people seem to interact and which takes place partly through language. In the light of Ricoeur’s explication of the precise functions of metaphor, we discuss Fugitive Pieces as a novel whose engagement with the topic of the Holocaust in intensely emotive and figurative language makes it controversial in terms of what may or may not constitute the appropriate manner of Holocaust literary representation. Klemperer’s meticulous, first-hand study of the Nazis’ use of the German language during the period of the Third Reich proves illuminating in our exploration of the works of Michaels that feature themes of oppression and dispossession. In certain of her poems, Michaels stands in for real people and speaks in their voices. This is also a form of metaphor, this study suggests, as for the duration of each poem Michaels requires us to imagine that she is the real-life person who expresses him- or herself in the first person singular, which she patently is not. We could see this as appropriation and misrepresentation of those people’s lives and thoughts; however, with the aid of the notion of empathic identification we learn that Michaels’s approach is always empathic – she imaginatively places herself in various situations and people’s positions without ever losing her sense of individuality and separate identity, and her portrayal of their stories is always respectful and carefully considered.Thesis (DLitt)--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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Handman, Sheppard Emma Claire. "Telling Our Truths: Exploring Issues of Immigration, Identity, and Literacy with Adult Language Learners." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/43991.
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This thesis explores the issues of immigration and identity that inform the experiences of adult English language learners and which can be addressed within a classroom context. Using practitioner research and an explicitly critical approach to literacy and learning, I conducted a six week workshop at a community English language school in New York City, working with eleven adult learners to discuss their lives in their native countries, decisions to move to the United States, and experiences living in a new country and learning English in an attempt to understand how those factors shape their learning and could be incorporated into the curriculum. This workshop used poetry as a means for students’ self-expression and demonstrated the importance of inviting adult immigrant students into collaborative, co-constructive learning environments where their lived experiences are at the core of their language learning process in order to allow for an inclusive negotiation of identity.
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Picková, Kateřina. "Blízká pravda vzdálených metafor: Jak metafory tvoří svět." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-389134.
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The thesis deals with a metaphor and its place in philosophy. It engages in a concept of metaphor as a transference with a help of Aristotle, Nietzsche, Ricoeur, and others, and explores consequences which follow from such a concept in the perspective of truth conditions. Firstly, it focuses on an exploration of a nature of the metaphor with a relation to an earlier philosophical tradition. Secondly, it examines categories of similarity, reference and imagination as fundamental constituents of metaphorical utterances. Furthermore, it also re-evaluates the distinction between literal and figurative meaning and living and dead metaphors to uncover the metaphor as a creative principle of language, which is characteristic by its actualizing and approaching power.
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Neves, Ana Cristina Trindade. "A Holistic Approach to the Ontario Curriculum: Moving to a More Coherent Curriculum." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/18107.
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This study is an interpretive form of qualitative research that is founded in educational connoisseurship and criticism, which uses the author’s personal experiences as a holistic educator in a public school to connect theory and practice. Key research questions include: How do I, as a teacher, work with the Ontario curriculum to make it more holistic? What strategies have I developed in order to teach a more holistic curriculum? What kinds of difficulties interfere with my practice as I attempt to implement my holistic philosophy of education? This dissertation seeks to articulate a methodology for developing holistic curriculum that is in conformity with Ontario Ministry guidelines and is also responsive to the multifaceted needs of the whole student. The research findings will serve to inform teachers who wish to engage in holistic education in public schools and adopt a curriculum that is transformative while still being adaptable within mainstream education.