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Buck, Ron M. "Narrative criticism, authorial intention, and historicity modern literary criticism and the Gospels /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Bates, Marlin C. IV. "A narrative criticism of Christian identity's Who killed Christ?"." Scholarly Commons, 1999. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/519.

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This thesis examines four tracts authored by three Christian Identity rhetors. The study argues that these rhetors employ elements of the narrative paradigm to spread their own brand of hate-based theology. This study employs a method of narrative criticism as outlined by Foss ( 1996) in examining Howard B. Rand's "Who Crucified Jesus?" and "The Verdict of Time"; Wesley A. Swift's "Who Crucified Christ?"; and Sheldon Emry's "Who Killed Christ?" Howard B. Rand was the leader of the Anglo-Saxon Federation of America during the 1930s, an organization which was the forerunner of the contemporary C
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Graves, Barbara. "On literary expertise : the description of a fictional narrative by experts and novices." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59243.

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The objective of this research is to provide an account of literary expertise by examining literary experts and students in English Literature as they describe a fictional narrative. The experimental text is a complex narrative conveyed by means of character dialogue.<br>To investigate expert performance this study developed a model of text description that identified semantic units in the description protocols as a set of possible "discursive patterns." A discursive pattern identifies the text unit being described along with the point of reference of the description, that is, from the point o
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Coleman, Christina. "Chaucer and narrative strategy." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68078.

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Many of the stories found in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer are adapted from other sources, a common practice amongst Medieval authors. But Chaucer often draws attention to his derivations by explicitly naming a source for the stories he uses. This strategy is employed in different ways. In Troilus and Criseyde, a false source is cited, but in the Clerk's Tale, Chaucer names the actual source of the story. In this thesis, identification and close examination of Chaucer's source materials reveal his changes to the derived texts, and an analysis of the role of the narrator in each case demonstrat
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Baker, Joseph Samuel. "Narrative, sin and forgiveness : an assessment of N.T. Wright's narrative criticism through the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2017. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.723457.

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Stroud, Scott R. "Through illusion into transcendence : a narrative criticism of the Bhagavad gita." Scholarly Commons, 2000. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/540.

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This study examines the ancient Indian religious work, the Bhagavad Gita. This work of Hindu religious thought describes a mythic dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna, in which the issue of Arjuna's fighting against his family is discussed. Topics ranging from caste-bound duty to the metaphysical structure of reality are covered in this relatively short text. Whereas previous inquiries have focused solely on the philosophical doctrine of this work, this investigation examines the use and form of narrative elements within this dialogue to determine how they contribute to its potential effectiven
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陳淸貴 and Ching-kooi Chan. "Narrative techniques of Taiwan short stories." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/b30252866.

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Allen, Lydia D. (Lydia Dryden). "Narrative strategiesfeminist perspectives and Marie-Claire Blais." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61107.

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This thesis examines the novels of quebecois writer Marie-Claire Blais from a North American feminist literary critical perspective. It challenges the assumption that francophone women writers should only be studied from a French Feminist perspective by attempting to situate Blais' writing within a North-American "female literary tradition". Issues of Blais' cultural specifity as a quebecois writer are also addressed.
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Ji, Zheng. "Disjunction of narrative space." Virtual Press, 2004. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1305455.

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"Book of architecture, as opposed to books about architecture, develop their own existence and logic, they are not directed at illustrating buildings or cities, but at searching for the ideas that underlie them."Bernard Tschumi (The Manhattan Transcripts)For me, after studying several years, architecture has become religion. The architecture design is no longer a creation but has become a discovery journey. The way to see and think is as important as design. This thesis is not going to show how I design, but how I see, how I think and how I understand the architecture.The aim of this thesis is
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Abel, Hermione. "An analytical study of narrative techniques in Giono's Regain." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002008.

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The dominant theme in Regain is that of death leading to rebirth. This dissertation attempts to explore Giono's narrative techniques within this context. No single chapter will be devoted to a specific technique; instead, the various devices used by the author are discussed as they emerge from the structure of the chapters. Justifying the field of study as defined in the "Introduction", the following three chapters outline the passage of life from death to eventual rebirth. With acknowledgement to Frank Kermode, who writes: "A concord of past, present and future three dreams which, as Augustin
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Stroud, Scott R. "Through illusion into transcendence : a narrative criticism of the Bhagavad gita : a thesis." Scholarly Commons, 2001. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/540.

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This study examines the ancient Indian religious work, the Bhagavad Gita. This work of Hindu religious thought describes a mythic dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna, in which the issue of Arjuna's fighting against his family is discussed. Topics ranging from caste-bound duty to the metaphysical structure of reality are covered in this relatively short text. Whereas previous inquiries have focused solely on the philosophical doctrine of this work, this investigation examines the use and form of narrative elements within this dialogue to determine how they contribute to its potential effectiven
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Talbert, Kevin M. "AN EDUCATIONAL CRITICISM OF THE NARRATIVE CURRICULUM OF AN URBAN TEACHING COHORT PROGRAM." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1342803252.

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Kim, Younghwan. "A narrative preaching of the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683227.

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Hiscock, Donald. "Any Belgian : reading the city : creating a narrative from urban experiences." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2013. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/367343/.

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The critical reflection at the start of this thesis outlines the ideas that have informed the production of my novel Any Belgian. The novel explores how cities offer creative possibilities for a writer, particularly in suggesting locations and for influencing the development of character and plot. The critical reflection also surveys the work of writers and critics who have commented on the nature of cities as palimpsests, and as places that serve as an emotional refuge. It also reflects on the creative processes involved in constructing my novel, detailing the decisions made about its form. T
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Insell, Maria Katherine. "Avant-garde film theory and praxis : an historical analysis of the narrative/anti-narrative debate." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28074.

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This analysis of the narrative/anti-narrative debate in avant-garde film theory and praxis is contextualized in terms of the developments in Modernism in the visual and plastic arts. The problems raised by the aesthetic strategies formal autonomy versus narrative appropriation are explored by examining several discrete historical paradigms rather than following a strict linear historical chronology of the development of Modernism and avant-garde practices. Therefore the late 1930's East/West debates between the four writers associated with the Frankfurt school were discussed because their disc
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Leydon, Rebecca Victoria. "Narrative strategies and Debussy's late style." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=42076.

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Many music scholars share a belief in a deep-seated connection between music and language. This belief underlies the exploration of homologies between musical and linguistic structures that have been an important area of study within our field. In recent years, however, a number of scholars have been considering larger units of musical structure, taking as their model not the syntactic structure of the sentence, but rather the organizational structure of whole narrative texts. One goal of narratology is to investigate the ways that events experienced separately are comprehended as a unified wh
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Gamlin, Gordon S. (Gordon Sebastian). "Michael Ondaatje's representation of history and the oral narrative." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56797.

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This study examines the function of oral narratives in Michael Ondaatje's representation of history. Ondaatje employs a variety of thematic, structural and stylistic oral narrative strategies in this inquiry. In the course of this work he faces the challenge of translating the open oral quality of the "tale" to the page. Ondaatje's longer prose works counter the printed text's tendency towards stasis through oral narrative and paralinguistic devices. Gradually, the aesthetics of public storytelling inform the process of historiographic revision. Within the oral model, ostensibly verifiable his
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Teebken, Tim Lee. "Discourse analysis a solution to the tensions between historical and literary criticism of Hebrew narrative /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Page, Marguerite. "VISUAL NARRATIVES IN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2020: A BATTLE OF BELIEFS, VALUES, & IDEOLOGIES." OpenSIUC, 2021. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1915.

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All human communication is narrative in nature (Fisher, 1987) and should adhere to narrative rationality and value-laden idealistic-moralistic or materialistic Master Analogues to be accepted by audiences (Fisher, 1985). This study examined the persuasive nature of the visual narratives presented by the 2020 presidential candidate’s official Facebook posts as well as examine how the candidates’ rhetorical visions create referential points in constructing the viewers’ own identities as supporters (Messaris, 1997). As Foss, Foss, & Trapp (2002) contend, “a basic function of the media is the cre
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Stenke, Katarina Maria. "Parts and wholes in long non-narrative poems of the eighteenth century." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610756.

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Lundgren, Jodi. "Narrative aesthetics, multicultural politics, and (trans)national subjects : contemporary fictions of Canada /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9523.

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DeAngelis, Angelica Maria. "History and fiction as narrative in the novels of Salman Rushdie." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22394.

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This work examines the fiction of Salman Rushdie--Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame and The Satanic Verses, and its complex narrative structure. Fictional narrative is discussed in terms of structuralist theory using studies by Mieke Bal, Seymour Chatman and Gerald Prince. Historical narrative is analyzed through the writings of the philosophers of history, Hayden White, Louis O. Mink and Paul Ricoeur. These theories are applied to the fiction of Salman Rushdie in order to investigate his use of narrative. It is concluded that he uses a combination of historical and fictional narrative in ord
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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 fr
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Quigley, Jennifer. "Literary criticism as a method of biblical scholarship: narrative space and the Gospel of John." Thesis, Boston University, 2008. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/28582.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>2031-01-02
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Huteson, Gregory Eric. ""My Lords and Gentlemen and Honourable Boards": Narrative and Social Criticism in "Our Mutual Friend"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625603.

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Runge, Steven Edward. "A discourse-functional description of participant reference in Biblical Hebrew narrative." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1212.

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Paine, Jonathan. "Buying the story : transaction and narrative value in Balzac, Dostoevsky and Zola." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:90b4d56d-ee10-463e-96fc-0cf2fe927ea4.

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This thesis explores narrative as a self-reflexive commentary on the conditions of its own production. It argues that the need for narratives to perform economic functions, such as to provide an income for the author or to promote subscription to a host publication, affects how texts are written. It suggests that this approach is particularly suited to nineteenth-century prose fiction. It proposes a methodology for approaching this analysis based on treating the text as an exchange commodity in a transaction between author and reader whose economic function can be investigated and analysed. Th
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Carlean, Kevin John. "The functions of narrative : a study of recent novelistic nonfiction." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001827.

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Since Truman Capote's In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences was published in 1965, there have been many attempts to define and explain the phenomenon of the "non-fiction novel" as a unified narrative genre. Some of these attempts have been highly theoretical and scholarly, but most have been rather loose definitions referring to an extremely wide range of diverse factual narratives. Over the years, so many different works have been called "non-fiction novels" that it now seems as if the notion of such a unified genre is questionable. Surely it is not generical
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Neufeldt, Bradley. "Cultural confusions, oral/literary narrative negotiations in Tracks and Ravensong." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq22548.pdf.

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King, Edward Carlos Richard. "Mapping the control society : science fiction tropes and digital technologies in contemporary Argentine and Brazilian narrative." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610135.

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Shannon, Josephine E. "From discourse to the couch : the obscured self in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century epistolary narrative." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=34533.

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Although the letter purports to represent fact, it cannot avoid having a partly or potentially fictive status, turning as it does on the complex interplay between the real and the imagined. Consequently, the main critical approach of this paper is to consider the interactions between conflicting modes of expression in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century epistolary fiction. The rhetorical and conceptual contrarieties that I examine are broadly characterized by the contradiction between the implied spontaneity of the familiar letter and the inevitable artifice of its form. Working with familiar l
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Scowcroft, Ann. "Escaping the hegemony of the written word : Canadian women writers and the dislocation of narrative." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61803.

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Allendorf, Kalina. "'Fixed fate, free will' : fate, natural law, necessity, providence, and classical epic narrative in Paradise Lost." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c8ac2f44-d77a-466c-b107-2be71916eb93.

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The present thesis considers the allusive and narrative function of fate and its associated concepts of providence, free will, necessity, and natural law in Paradise Lost. It argues that the narrative function of these concepts is shaped by Milton's allusions to classical epic, and assesses their impact on the Christian theology of the poem. It identifies unnoted allusions to well-known epic models (Homer, Vergil, Lucan), and examines how Lucretius' account of natural laws and post-Vergilian representations of epic aftermath influence Milton's own depiction of transgression and its aftermath i
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D'Errico, Jon. "Enormous changes : narrative strategies in Grace Paley's short fiction." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/539790.

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Grace Paley's fiction has suffered from being labeled as (alternately) post-modernist and feminist. There is a critical assumption that post-modernist and feminist works are plotless because they are nontraditional. Plot has been defined in Aristotelian terms, and those terms have colored the thinking of critics who attempt to discuss non-Aristotelian plots. Ironically, even feminist critics who are keenly aware that language is empowerment use the traditional language of literary criticism to describe nontraditional plots.As a result, post-modernist and feminist narrative modes are seen as fr
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com, marc chan05@gmail, and Marc Chan Chim Yuk. "The Relationship between Textual Criticism and the Synoptic Question - A study based on the Passion Narrative." Murdoch University, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20061020.84843.

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Since the eighteenth century, various hypotheses have been proposed by scholars in an attempt to solve the Synoptic Question. Most of these scholars have used more or less the same Greek text, yet they have come up with different conclusions. So, the question arises whether it is possible to find a trend in the manuscripts dating up to the fifth century which sheds additional clues on the relationships among the Synoptic Gospels. To address this, I have taken the text of the 27th edition of Nestle-Aland as the basis for analysis through the use of the colour-coded scheme proposed by the Kar
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Yuk, Marc Chan Chim. "The relationship between textual criticism and the synoptic question : a study based on the passion narrative /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20061020.84843.

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Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund. "Landscape and the semiotics of space in the Íslendingasögur : mapping Norse identity in saga narrative." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609163.

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Chan, Chim Yuk Marc. "The relationship between textual criticism and the synoptic question: a study based on the passion narrative." Thesis, Chan Chim Yuk, Marc (2005) The relationship between textual criticism and the synoptic question: a study based on the passion narrative. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2005. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/513/.

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Since the eighteenth century, various hypotheses have been proposed by scholars in an attempt to solve the Synoptic Question. Most of these scholars have used more or less the same Greek text, yet they have come up with different conclusions. So, the question arises whether it is possible to find a trend in the manuscripts dating up to the fifth century which sheds additional clues on the relationships among the Synoptic Gospels. To address this, I have taken the text of the 27th edition of Nestle-Aland as the basis for analysis through the use of the colour-coded scheme proposed by the Kar
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Chan, Chim Yuk Marc. "The relationship between textual criticism and the synoptic question: a study based on the passion narrative." Chan Chim Yuk, Marc (2005) The relationship between textual criticism and the synoptic question: a study based on the passion narrative. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2005. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/513/.

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Since the eighteenth century, various hypotheses have been proposed by scholars in an attempt to solve the Synoptic Question. Most of these scholars have used more or less the same Greek text, yet they have come up with different conclusions. So, the question arises whether it is possible to find a trend in the manuscripts dating up to the fifth century which sheds additional clues on the relationships among the Synoptic Gospels. To address this, I have taken the text of the 27th edition of Nestle-Aland as the basis for analysis through the use of the colour-coded scheme proposed by the Kar
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Baban, Octavian. "Luke's 'on the road' encounters as narrative mimesis : a contribution to the study of Luke's theology of the Way the narrative anatomy and function of Luke's post-Easter hodos encounters." Thesis, Middlesex University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313179.

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Luo, Jian. "The narrative art of modernist fiction : a corpus stylistic and cognitive narratological approach." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/2979/.

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This thesis explores modernist narrative art embodied in modernist style of constructing narrative space. Within Chatman’s conceptual framework, narrative space can be divided into story-space (settings and characters) and discourse-space (focus of spatial attention). In a corpus-stylistic approach, the structuration of the story-space in The Mill on the Floss, The Good Soldier and To the Lighthouse is examined. The findings show that modernist tendency to deemphasise particularity of place shapes a narrative design of spatial detachment. In consequence, the establishment of settings in early
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Bengston, Katherine A. ""The Blood Jet: The Common History and Narrative Similarities of Plath and Baskin"." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1335324158.

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Rivers, Patricia Ann. "The narrative poetics of William Faulkner : an analysis of form and meaning." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26757.

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Most critical acclaim of William Faulkner has focused on his innovations of narrative technique, and while critics have frequently noted the correlation between form and meaning in his novels, the central focus of these novels--race--has largely been ignored in the criticism. The purpose of this paper is to examine Faulkner's narrative methodology and arrangement of material in order to demonstrate that the structures of his novels, particularly Light in August and Absalom, Absalom!, consistently enhance and dramatize the major subject and themes of the novels. Under careful scrutiny, these st
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Friedman, Sorel Thompson. "'If on a thousand and one nights ...' : ideological transformations in narrative fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=73976.

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Myers, Tony. "Postmodernism and historicity : narrative forms in the contemporary novel." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1809.

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This study proposes that modernity is constitutively based upon a synchronic temporality which perpetuates the present of the ego. Within this matrix, history is subject to the processes of subjectivization and the 'otherness' of the past disappears. Postmodernism, it is argued, designates the attempt to disinter a properly historical thinking, or historicity, from the recursive temporality of the modern. This attempt is predicated upon the retroactive temporality of the future perfect which, whilst also a synchrony, arises from a productive tension between the past, the present and the future
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Danna, Elizabeth. "Which side of the line? : a study of the characterisation of non-Jewish characters in the Gospel of John." Thesis, Durham University, 1997. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4708/.

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The theme of kpiσιϛ which runs through the gospel has been taken account of in studying the characterisation of "the Jews," but never yet of non-Jewish characters. The method set out covers all the important aspects of characterisation, including both anthropological and rhetorical interests. This method is then applied to the gospel's non-Jewish characters. The Samaritan woman's faith is tentative and hesitating at best; she sees Jesus only as a prophet. Her faith is ambiguous, but not ineffective. The ambiguity in her faith is resolved by the townspeople's. The title Saviour of the World ind
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Clark, Andrew Charles. "Parallel lives : the relation of Paul to the apostles in the Lucan perspective." Thesis, London School of Theology, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320124.

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Liboiron, Paul Adrien. "The transformation of plot in the couplet of the Urdu Ghazal : an examination of narrative." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30140.

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This thesis examines a selection of verses taken from the Urdu divan of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib. Ghalib is considered by many to be the preeminent writer of the classical Urdu ghazal (circa 1750-1850). Although the examination is restricted to Ghalib's verse, the problem it investigates is broader in nature and involves questions which some aspects of the ghazal raise with respect to the reader's involvement. An essential feature of the ghazal form is the fact that, although the ghazal poem consists of a set of couplets, each couplet of a ghazal is itself a complete text with respect to it
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Schofield, Dennis, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "The second person: A point of view? The function of the second-persn pronoun in narrative prose fiction." Deakin University, 1998. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051110.150736.

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This thesis looks at the functions and effects of the ‘second-person’ pronoun in narrative prose fiction, with particular focus on the fluidity and ambiguity of the mode that I will call Protean-'you.' It is a mode in which it is unclear whether the ‘you’ is a character, the narrator, a reader/narratee, or no-one in particular—or a combination of these—so that readers find ‘second-person’ utterances at once familiar and deeply strange. I regard the ‘second person’ as a special case of narrative ‘person’ that, at its most fluid, can produce an experience of reading quite unlike that of reading
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Beaver, Nicholas William. "Narrative Aporia: Deconstructing the Epiphanic Moment in Early Modernist Literature." Walsh University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=walshhonors1555508689094604.

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