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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 to find a way to rethink architecture by examining the communication between observers, architecture and architect. By introducing the hypothesis of a communicative model, a structure that consists of the object and subject which involve in the interactive relationship needs to be addressed. For this purpose, structuralism linguistics is introduced to implement the analysis of the architecture. The structuralism linguistics directly deals with the interaction between object and subject. By the study, an ideological conclusion is presented, which I call projection.The second part is Guandong Museum Competition, which is completed when I worked in Eisenman Architects. As an example, this project not only shows the design, but also shows the relationships between several intertwined systems.The third part of this thesis is The Highline competition project which is my first attempt to implement the projection idea in the design. By applying the meaning layer structure derived from linguistics, the design offers a new architectural perception which is based on the understanding of the interactions between objects and subjects.Department of Architecture
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Cudnohufsky, Joel. "Fragmentation in narrative space." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2005. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Lu, Andong. "Narrative space : a theory of narrative environment and its architecture." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611784.
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Bratoeva, Chaya, and chayab@tpg com au. "Liminal Sites/ Designing Marginal Space in Broadmeadows." RMIT University. Architecture and Design, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090525.112334.
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Liminal sites are those on the verge of change, between boundaries and in a temporary state of ambiguity. Throughout my practice as an architect I was aware of the existence of such spaces. I was also aware that they were rarely the product of my intentional design effort. Because of that to me these spaces were precious. They represent moments in space of ambiguous function and questionable beauty but also moments I sought out everyday. This masters research is my way of refocusing my practice to engage with these types of spaces. The sense that this search will take me outside of my understanding of architecture lead me to chose to undertake it as a masters in landscape architecture. My main research question is: How can a designer construct a liminal site? The research concentrates on four central themes - development of a definition of the term
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Watkins, Lelania Ottoboni. "Writing Space, Righting Place: Language as a Heterotopic Space in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/143.
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Olaudah Equiano or Gustavas Vassa may have had abolitionist motivations when writing The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself, but the function of the text is much different and self-serving. Specifically, in looking closely at the wording of the text, with its language of we versus they, in group versus out group, ours versus theirs, Equiano clearly feels he at no time belongs fully to any specific group or place; rather, he only partially belongs anywhere, and thus, creates this work of autobiography and appropriation of fiction and oral tradition to negotiate and cultivate his own liminal, or even heterotopic, space. In other words, I suggest he may have used the writing of this text to define his sense of self, creating a space in which he was both in control and fully belonged.
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DeCarion, Deirdre. "A narrative inquiry into home, a space called anywhere." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0024/NQ41138.pdf.
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Baasch, Rachel Mary. "The eyes of the wall : space, narrative and perspective." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001578.
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The Eyes of the Wall and Other Short Stories is concerned with dialectics of seeing and perceiving as they pertain directly to a corporal understanding of interiority and exteriority, architectural framing and notions of dislocation in relation to place. This practical submission is a site-specific installation that engages in a reciprocal dialogue with its environment. The individual sculptural works which demarcate the parameters of the installation are hybrids of domestic architectural forms, (namely the wall, the window and the door) and internal furnishings such as the curtain and the bed. These hybridised metal and resin constructions frame the interior of a site, a tennis court located within my immediate Grahamstown environment. The placement of familiar objects generally associated with the home and notions of security and privacy, within the open, exposed and permeable enclosure of the tennis court evoke a sense of displacement within the viewer. This supporting document, The Eyes of the Wall: Space, Narrative and Perspective, considers the key conceptual concerns informing my installation. In this mini-thesis I address the relationship between domestic architecture and the body, examining the notion of framing as fundamental to the individual comprehension of space. I position my work in relation to that of Mona Hatoum drawing on the similarities that exist between her practice and my own. In the first chapter of this paper: My House/Your House: Walls, Windows, Doors and Skins I address the relationship between domestic architecture, framing and the body, and ‘contamination’. Within Chapter Two: Narratives of Division I engage with the idea of multiple ‘short stories’—personal and collective narratives—and their connection to issues of division and dislocation. Chapter Three: Seeing Blindness discusses the possibility that perspective, or at least one potential approach to perspective is concerned with that which one cannot see, an acknowledgment of the implicit relationship between seeing and not-seeing. Each of the three core concerns expressed in the title of this mini-thesis, The Eyes of The Wall: Space, Narrative and Perspective intersect within the site of The Eyes of The Wall and Other Short Stories. It is at this intersection that the shadows of stories within stories within stories insert themselves, like phantom limbs into the gaps and tensions framed by the forms of the installation.
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Rönn, Ellen. "Narrative Space : Exploring Death in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-45224.
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To broaden the knowledge of narrator/character Death in Markus Zusak's novel The Book Thief, this research explores how Death uses his narrative space to alleviate the story's tragedy. This paper examines narration in the context of focalization, time, and unusual narration. In addition, the space of Death is analysed in the framework of how death—both as a concept and as a powerful being—is portrayed in literature. To conduct the research, the essay uses different theorists' perspectives of narration and Death. For instance, Rimmon-Kenan, Cohn, Phelan, Saghafi, and Brennan. This paper uses discourse analysis to study academic journals written about narrative theories and the space of Death in literature. As a result, it provides broader perspectives and helps analyse Death's role in The Book Thief.
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Kellams, Timothy Rossiter. "The mind, the narrative, and the city: how narratives of space make place in cognitive maps." Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35517.
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Master of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community Planning
Brent Chamberlain
Narratives of urban experiences influence understanding of space and urban form. Narratives give meaning to space, creating memories of places and helping to define an individual’s cognitive map. The representation of narratives within cognitive maps impacts day to day activities, as well as, emotional, cultural, and social characteristics of one’s self. Planners and designers play an important role in crafting narratives through the implementation of designs and policies that together shape urban form. This research investigates the relationship between spatial cognitive schemas and narratives within cognitive maps. Specifically, how college students develop and use narratives within their cognitive map to help with living in a new and initially unfamiliar place of residence. Through mixed method analysis of drawn individual cognitive maps, an online survey, and a group discussion, results show that different types of experiences within narratives influence the likelihood of it appearing within the spatial cognitive schema. The findings suggest that narratives created by peak emotional experiences contain a longer and clearer representation within cognitive maps because of their personal value. By better understanding the role of these emotional responses and their connection with urban form, design professionals can aim to frame projects toward influencing individual’s lives. Understanding how individuals develop narratives of their new city may influence planning and design with the goal of creating urban projects that provide social and cultural significance through meaning of place.
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Picolo, Natália Chaves [UNESP]. "(Des)construção dos espaços narrativos na obra dois irmãos, de Milton Hatoum." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/139544.
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A presente dissertação tem como objetivo o estudo do romance Dois Irmãos, do escritor amazonense Milton Hatoum, centrando-se na configuração dos espaços da narrativa. O estudo teve o intuito de analisar o espaço narrativo como um importante elemento para o aprofundamento da obra. Para tanto, demos enfoque para a casa, que é palco do conflito entre os irmãos, Omar e Yaqub; e para a cidade de Manaus que está em constante transformação, no início do século XX. Deste modo, buscamos demonstrar que os espaços refletem a degradação da família. Como referencial teórico, nos apoiamos em autores que versam sobre a teoria do espaço na literatura como: Gaston Bachelard, Antonio Dimas, Osman Lins, Ozíris Borges Filho, entre outros que corroboram a construção de um estudo conciso e objetivo do corpus proposto.
This paper aims to study the novel Dois Irmãos, by the Amazonian writer Milton Hatoum, focusing on the configuration of narrative spaces. The study aimed to analyze the narrative space as an important element in the deepening of the literary work. For this purpose, the focus was on the house, which is the stage for the conflict between the brothers, Omar and Yaqub, and on the city of Manaus, which is constantly changing in the early 20th century. Thus, the purpose was to demonstrate that the spaces reflect the family breakdown. For the theoretical framework, this work is based on authors who deal with the theory of space in literature, such as: Antonio Dimas, Osman Lins, Oziris Borges Filho, Gaston Bachelard, and others that corroborate the construction of a concise objective study of the proposed corpus.
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Andrews, Lew. "Story and space in Renaissance art : the rebirth of continuous narrative /." Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37484033m.
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Burton, Ruth Emma. "Single women, space, and narrative in interwar fiction by women." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13381/.
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In this thesis I examine single women in the interwar fiction of five women writers. Jean Rhys, Rosamond Lehmann, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Virginia Woolf were all writing during a period of intense speculation about unmarried women and all gave major roles to them in their fiction. During the period following the First World War the single woman was repeatedly dismissed as ‘surplus’ or ‘superfluous’, with the suggestion that there was no place for her in Britain. Anxieties circulated about her financial status, her moral standing, and her sexual and psychological stability. I propose that single women offered distinct textual challenges and revolutionary opportunities to women writers, and I consider the effects of these women on the narratives of writers who chose to offer them a place in their texts.
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Boyd, Jane Jennifer Jones. "Frank Norris spatial form and narrative time /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1990. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/9035645.
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Pirro, Luca. "Resistance Through Space : A Comparative Study of Narrative and Space in Naked Lunch and On the Road." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-138262.
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This essay compares two influential novels from the Beat era, William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, and how they use the spatial dimension of writing as a tool for resistance. The spatiality of Kerouac’s travel narrative is compared to the spatiality of Burroughs cut-up narrative, and the spaces of cities and the road are analyzed. I argue that On the Road is an attempt at a spiritual escape from Western dogmatism—dramatized through the means of a spatial journey—whilst Naked Lunch is attempting an escape from “control”, mediated through the means of a spatial destabilization in the narrative. In trying to define the term “control” used by Burroughs, I look at Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, as well as other sources, in order to determine which mechanisms of society that are being reacted against in these novels. The historical context of these two Beat writers as situated in the American postwar era is also considered – a context which is examined in relation to the concept of normality.
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Andrews, Eleanor Valerie Whitcombe. "Place, setting, perspective : narrative space in the films of Nanni Moretti." Thesis, University of Reading, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.553164.
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Nanni Moretti has been an important filmmaker in Italy for the last four decades, and many studies of his films have been carried out which have concerned either the analysis of individual films or a thematic exploration of his work, dealing specifically with autobiography, humour, family and politics. However, there has been little investigation of the aesthetics, structure or formal film language of his oeuvre up to this point. The study of space is currently a significant and growing trend in many aspects of the < humanities, including Film Studies. Nonetheless, very few studies involving space have been undertaken in Italian film thus far. This thesis aims to cover new ground in research on Italian cinema by investigating the use of narrative space in Moretti's work. This study begins with an examination of the notion of narrative space as defined in the works of Stephen Heath and others and then offers a definition of the term based on the three aspects of Place, Setting and Perspective. Place relates to the geographical aspect of narrative space and specifically concerns cityscape, landscape, to include interior and exterior position in the real world of the diegesis. Setting concerns the cinematic characteristics of narrative space, notably its use in genre, encompassing fantasy and gender based notions. Perspective involves both the point of view taken optically by the camera and the attitudinal standpoint of the personal philosophy expressed by the filmmaker through the narrative. This thesis is based on close textual analysis of Moretti's ten major feature films to date, using the formal film language of mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing and sound. The aim is to show how Moretti selects; organises, constructs, assembles and manipulates narrative space, through the elements of Place, Setting and Perspective, into an entire work of art, which gives meanings and pleasures to the spectator.
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O'Riley, Tim. "Representing illusions : space, narrative and the spectator in fine art practice." Thesis, Open University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264401.
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Yeh, Te-Han. "Textual and narrative space in professional dramas in early modern England." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4081/.
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This thesis aims to examine the varied notions of space in early modern play-texts as well as to challenge the assumed text-space relationship that has been the foundation of various scholarly approaches towards early modern theatrical practice, including a Shakespeare-centred historiography and theatre reconstruction carried out by scholars such as Andrew Gurr and Richard Hosley and contemporary editorial practices that appear to reconstruct early modern performances scenographically through annotations and editorial interventions. In order to depart from such Shakespeare-centred and London-biased architectural determinism, the thesis will adopt a repertory approach to the Queen’s Men, a methodology that emphasises the materiality of the play books and an author-function approach to the plays associated with Robert Greene in order to explore the alternatives to a conventional architectural and scenographic theatre reconstruction based primarily on the literary analysis of play-texts. In addition to challenging the assumption of an interchangeable relationship between play-texts, performance and space, this thesis aim to demonstrate how the concept of space within a play-text will be ultimately an issue of dramaturgy, determined and defined by the diverse dramatic forces in this period and the idiosyncratic styles of their narrative.
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Grayson, Hannah. "Nomads' land : space and narrative in the work of Tierno Monénembo." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/81193/.
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This thesis explores the published work of Tierno Monénembo, Guinean author born in 1947. The main themes are space and narrative, and precisely how subjects creatively employ both. The thesis argues that Monénembo presents a reconfiguration of African subjecthood by centralising nomad subjects: characters who are wily débrouillards, ever on the move and ready to (re)invent both space and self. In a series of postcolonial rewritings, Monénembo reframes subjects beyond notions of race or victimhood. Their practices of invention are grounded in contexts rendered precarious and unstable by chains of violence and multiple losses, and the author represents these spaces in innovative language in several genres. Mobility, or its absence, determines the themes, characterisation, and language in each of Monénembo’s texts. It is addressed here via a number of contexts which position him within ongoing debates around historicisation, identity, and power in the postcolonial world. Chapter One looks at imperialism and the re-writing of history via Le Roi de Kahel and Peuls. In Chapter Two I explore dictatorship and the conflicting discourses which vie for space around it: the texts under examination are Les Crapauds-brousse and Les Écailles du ciel. In Chapter Three I discuss writing after genocide and other trauma. In comparing L’Aîné des orphelins to Cinéma and La Tribu des gonzesses I find common trends of performative storytelling which mark out Monénembo’s protagonists as self-inventing survivors. The final main chapter groups together four exile texts to assess the effects of rupture and loss on language and space. Reading Un Rêve utile, Un Attiéké pour Elgass, Pelourinho and Le Terroriste noir reveals the creative agency at work in Monénembo’s dislocated nomad subjects. A number of theoretical anchor points help to frame these studies and for these I draw on the work of Michel de Certeau, Achille Mbembe, and Patrice Nganang, among others. The thesis is concluded with a look at Monénembo in his own words as I draw together my predominant observations alongside his autobiographical comments.
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Nathansohn, Nof. "Digital nomads : space + narrative computing for the village of Al Araqib." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127875.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, May, 2020Cataloged from the official PDF of thesis. "May 2020."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 82-83).
For political reasons, the officially unrecognized Bedouin village of Al Araqib in Israeli's Negev desert is prevented from building permanent structures. While the state of Israel does not issue demolition warrants for new illegal houses, it instead demolishes these houses without a warrant, under the auspices of a law that allows the police to destroy new illegal structures within 30 days of construction. This situation has encouraged the people of Al Araqib to become familiar with different technologies. They use solar energy to provide electricity to the village, and smartphones to document and report demolitions. As an act of resistance as much as a practical measure, they repeatedly rebuild their houses, appropriating architecture as a political tool. This creates a situation where the Bedouin with their strong nomadic history, uses physical structures--the language and logic used by their oppressors--in the fight for their ancestral land.
Beyond supporting and recognizing the Bedouin people's fight for justice, this design thesis asks to harness the conflux of physical architecture and digital technologies in an effort to create innovative modes of communication that speak to the experiences of unrecognized populations, struggling for cultural survival. Specifically, through collaborative work by the people of Al Araqib, this thesis initiates a laboratory of tools and techniques that harness the spatial characteristics of the land and the social narrative of its people. Aiming to strengthen their ability to communicate more widely and more productively, the thesis proposes a platform that includes a set of digital and physical tools, such as digital design and fabrication, hackable devices, internet of things, architectural drawings, videos, sensors, GPS, automatization and GIS. Lastly, this thesis catalogues these diverse tools as part of a content management system and as a 'cookbook'.
It is composed of spatial information, automated and visualized to create a more persuasive narrative, and of journalistic strategies that introduce knowledge sharing and evidence of the reality of demolition and its impact on human lives.
by Nof Nathansohn.
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S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
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Soster, Vitor. "A equivocidade do foco narrativo em O som ao redor: um exercício de crítica cultural." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-02052018-180234/.
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O exercício de crítica cultural aqui empreendido busca refletir sobre a contemporaneidade a partir da análise e interpretação do longa-metragem O som ao redor (2012) de Kleber Mendonça Filho. A fim de chegar a uma compreensão do que sua forma diz sobre o momento presente, realizamos uma investigação sobre o filme a partir das contribuições de diferentes disciplinas e também de abordagens analíticas da imprensa e da academia. A começar pelo estudo da forma narrativa, propomos definições para noções como autor, autor implícito, narrador, ponto de vista e foco narrativo. Essas noções se mostram úteis no desenvolvimento da análise com relação ao que entendemos como sendo o foco narrativo, uma relação de significação entre as instâncias da emissão e da recepção de uma narrativa. A focalização, assim compreendida, permitiu a identificação da produção de quatro espacialidades na trama da narrativa fílmica: (a) o espaço doméstico contemporâneo e as práticas de consumo, marcados pelo desejo e pelo medo; (b) o espaço de poder do homem cordial contemporâneo; (c) o espaço da propriedade e da auto-atribuição ambígua de um espaço de representação; e, por fim, (d) o espaço da subalternidade. Esses espaços, por sua vez, são articulados por meio de uma prática temporal contraditória, estabelecida entre passado e futuro, que mantém o presente em estado de suspensão crônica. Observa-se, nos termos de Jameson (2002 [1981]), o inconsciente político dessa narrativa: o reconhecimento do papel da classe média na manutenção de relações de mando arcaicas, lugar que o próprio narrador simula assumir e ao qual, por vezes, corre o risco de assimilar-se. Desse modo, a miragem da classe média quanto ao autocontrole econômico e simbólico e seu horror à expropriação e aos despossuídos continuam a contribuir para manter as desigualdades e injustiças sociais do país. Como forma de conclusão, indica-se, na leitura do filme, a possibilidade de entendimento do passado como uma simples permanência caso se veja o tempo (e a história) apenas como continuidade. Inversamente, se a dimensão temporal for compreendida como sujeita a simultaneidades, aberta, portanto, à equivocidade, possibilidades de futuro podem emergir, configurando-se uma outra leitura. Nesse sentido, práticas do passado no presente, sujeitas à continuidade e à transformação, dão a dimensão da importância das práticas presentes, já que, estas, antecipam, desde já, práticas futuras.The exercise of cultural criticism undertaken here aims to reflect on contemporary temporality through an analysis and interpretation of the feature film Neighbouring Sounds (2012), directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho. To understand what its form says about the current moment, I investigate the structure of the film considering contributions from different disciplines and also analytical approaches, offered by the press and scholars. Starting with the study of the narrative form, I propose definitions for notions like author, implicit author, narrator and point of view. These notions have proved themselves useful in the development of an analysis of what is understood as the narrative focus. However, the Anglophone criticism does not use that term as often as point of view. Thus understanding point of view as a relationship of signification between the addresser and the addressee of a narrative, I observe the production of four spatialities in the plot of the film: (a) the contemporary domestic space and consumerist practices, marked by desire and fear; (b) the space of the power of the contemporary cordial man; (c) the space of property and of the ambiguous selfattribution of a representational space; and, finally, (d) the space of subalternity. These spaces, then, are articulated by a contradictory time practice, established between the past and the future, which keeps the present in a chronic suspension state. I observe, following Jamesons (2002 [1981]) expression, the political unconscious of that narrative: the recognition of the role of the middle class in the maintenance of the archaic power relations. The narrator, in simulating these power relations, runs the risk of reproducing them. Thus the middle-class mirage of economic and symbolic self-control, compounded by a middle-class horror of expropriation and of the destitute, perpetuate the inequalities and social injustices in Brazil. To conclude, I indicate, in this reading of the film, the possibility of understanding the past as simply permanence if time and history are only regarded as continuity. Conversely, if the temporal dimension is grasped as subject to simultaneities, therefore, open to the equivoque, a different possible future may emerge, creating another reading. In this new sense, practices of the past in the present, subject to continuity and to transformation, give importance to the present practices, since these ones anticipate future practices.
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Roggenkamp, Chrystal R. "Spatial Promenades: Sequential Experiences in Space and Time." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306499060.
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Ling, Rebecca. "Department heads and School leadership : a narrative study of professional life space /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17489.pdf.
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Divine, Susan Marie. "Utopias of Thought, Dystopias of Space: Science Fiction in Contemporary Peninsular Narrative." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195666.
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This study serves as an introduction to three recent narratives in Spanish Science Fiction. While this literary genre has long been read in Spain in translation, it is only recently that Sci-Fi has been successful as a popular literature produced by native authors. Álex de la Iglesia, Gabriela Bustelo and Rafael Reig have worked in realist and genre fiction through their careers but chose to use Science Fiction to speak of the rapidly changing space of Madrid. Their criticism is centered on the changes to the physical, social, economic and political landscape of Madrid post-1992. My analysis is based on the works of the geographer David Harvey, among others, which helps to underline the importance of the urbanization of capital and consciousness that the three narratives disentangle. While being three very different texts - one film and two novels -, they all manipulate concerns of time and space to come to a similar conclusion. Their narratives serve as a warning about how the good intentions of humanist theories like feminism or scientific advancement can easily turn into a nightmare by instead serving the needs of capitalism rather than those of social justice.
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Carruthers, Anne. "The uterus as a narrative space in contemporary cinema from the Americas." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3773.
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This thesis examines the uterus as a narrative space in contemporary cinema from the Americas. The thesis offers a timely change in focus for film studies in relation to pregnancy and the female reproductive body as it investigates the overlooked space of the uterus, and speaks to the increasing importance of the critical medical humanities. Through close textual analysis, framed phenomenologically, I argue that the uterus is a distinct narrative space by bringing into dialogue film theory and scholarship on the foetal ultrasound to create an analytical framework, which includes biotourism, collaborative coding, and the notion of ultrasound bonding. The thesis is divided into three main chapters. In Chapter One I establish the uterus as a narrative space in Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007, USA); Maria Full of Grace/María, llena eres de gracia (Joshua Marston, 2004, Colombia/USA/Ecuador); Gestation/Gestación (Esteban Ramírez, 2009, Costa Rica), and Stephanie Daley (Hilary Brougher, 2009, USA) by bringing together Vivian Sobchack’s notion of the screen as premises for perception (1992) and Julie Roberts’ notion of collaborative coding (2012a; 2012b). Chapter Two argues for the existence of a biotourist narrative in The Milk of Sorrow/ La teta asustada (Claudia Llosa, 2009, Peru/Spain); Quinceañera/ Echo Park (Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer, 2006, USA); Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (David Lowery, 2013, USA), and Apio verde (Francesc Morales, 2013, Chile). Chapter Three highlights the transformation of the foetus in Up (Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, 2009, USA); The Bad Intentions/Las malas intenciones (Rosario García-Montero, 2011, Peru/Argentina/Germany); Pan’s Labyrinth/El laberinto del fauno (Guillermo del Toro, 2006, Spain/Mexico/USA); and Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2009, USA/UK/Germany/France) by bringing Janelle Taylor’s (2008) notion of bonding into dialogue with the Marksian recollection-object. The thesis focuses attention on narrative spaces in the body in relation to film form, rather than representations of the pregnant body or the figure of the mother and, thus, differs significantly from other scholarship to offer a bold analytical shift on the subject of pregnancy.
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Goble, Ryan A. "Narrative Accounts of Third-Generation Mexican-Americans: Bilingualism in a Third Space." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/40.
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While language shift is common in immigrant families by the third generation, maintenance of the heritage language is not impossible, depending on geography and other language socializing contexts such as parental communication and interactions with monolingual relatives of the minority language that provide the third generation with opportunities to use the language. The scholarship on the language shift to monolingual-English and the maintenance of Spanish in Latino immigrant families in the United States typically only considers how earlier generations socialize later generations to use one language over the other, without much attention to third-generation individuals themselves. Therefore, the purpose of the present thesis is to examine the narrative accounts of third-generation Mexican-American adults—the generation that typically loses the heritage language—in order to understand how they construct the experience of being socialized to use English and Spanish throughout their lives.
Data consist of ten, hour-long, transcribed audio-recorded interviews with ten third-generation Mexican-American individuals. The interview questions were quite open-ended about their use of Spanish. I conducted discourse analysis with the purpose of identifying narrative accounts that conveyed these third-generation individuals’ constructed realities regarding their own Spanish use and their interactions with various Spanish-speaking family members.
The findings indicate that the participants construct themselves as linguistically insecure with regard to their Spanish use. They explain their lack of ideologically “pure” Spanish in relation to socialization as they have interacted with various Spanish-speaking relatives throughout their lives. Moreover, they justify their lack of “pure” Spanish by constructing a third space for their Spanish use. They claim to use a new, localized variety of Spanish, which they consider to be illegitimate, thus self-defining as monolingual English speakers. However, I argue that their narrative accounts actually de-dichotomize bilingualism by opening the possibility of Third Space Spanish. Implications include the need for further research on the relationship between socialization, linguistic insecurity, and contested third space Spanish.
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Armellino, Pablo. "Ob-scene spaces in Australian narrative an account of the socio-topographic construction of space in Australian literature." Stuttgart Ibidem-Verl, 2009. http://d-nb.info/994959613/04.
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Taylor, Barbara Elizabeth. "Loitering in a liminal space : enactments of differing realities of hallucinations in dementia." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9829.
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This thesis uses a narrative approach to explore how hallucinations are understood by people with dementia, their carers and community mental health nurses. The study aims to make visible the multiple enactments of realities of hallucinations as they are practiced within a community mental health setting. While existing research shows a growing body of research about experiences of dementia, the experience of hallucinations has been unexplored. Research about hallucinations has predominantly focused on epidemiology or pharmaceutical interventions. The research was conducted in one area of Scotland, using three triadic case studies comprising a person with dementia living at home, their carer and community nurse. Data were collected through conversational interviews. In this study realities are conceptualised as enacted and multiple. The study was informed by an ethic of care approach which critiques the view of people as isolated individuals. People are understood to live in relationships within which they co-construct narratives. It provided an ethical framework to research relationships and data analysis. Data were analysed using voice centred relational analysis, which uses four separate ‘listenings’ for each interview. This method identifies the multiple voices speaking and allows a high degree of reflexivity. I-poems were produced for each of the interviews and some visual illustrations were used in different ways to illustrate the analysis and allow an alternative interpretive perspective on the data. The analysis reveals that people with dementia and their carers contextualise their understanding of hallucinations into their narrative identity. They strive for continuity but also experience them as potential threats. Ambiguity and uncertainty are characteristic of the experience of hallucinations of people with dementia and carers and I suggest that liminality is a useful concept to understand this. Community nurses have multiple, and fluid understandings of hallucinations; they negotiate these different hallucinations within a situated practice enactment. Their decision to act on hallucinations does not depend on whether they relate to consensus reality, but whether they cause distress. The findings of this study highlight the complexities and ambiguities of hallucinations within dementia and shows how they are managed in practice. The theoretical perspectives of enacted realities and ethic of care, alongside creative methods enhances understanding of the ephemeral nature of hallucinations. This study adds to literature challenging the exclusion of the people with dementia from research by demonstrating that they are able to talk about their experiences of hallucinations. The study contributes to the story of hallucinations in dementia by disrupting the fixed boundaries of the dominant discourse that views hallucinations as a clear cut break with reality.
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Sleeman, Matthew. "Geography and the Ascension narrative in Acts /." Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9780521509626.
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Ghessi, Naiara Speretta [UNESP]. "Trânsito e identidade em dois romances de Milton Hatoum." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/154386.
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Este trabalho tem como intuito elaborar uma análise comparativa de Relato de um certo Oriente (1989) e Cinzas do Norte (2005), ambos publicados por Milton Hatoum, de modo a relacionar a fragmentação da voz narrativa que se faz presente nos dois romances com a articulação entre trânsito e imobilidade que delineia a trajetória de seus principais personagens. O ponto de partida deste trabalho consiste em refletir sobre as questões de trânsito e identidade presentes nas duas narrativas, tendo em vista que seus principais personagens são migrantes, errantes e expatriados e buscam fundar, por meio da escrita, um sentido para as suas existências. A reflexão aqui proposta faz-se importante na medida em que se multiplicam, na narrativa brasileira contemporânea, personagens à procura de si mesmos e de um sentido para suas vidas. O que se coloca em questão, nesse caso, é justamente o significado do trânsito e a dimensão relacional que se cria, de um lado, entre o modo como a representação do sujeito se dá a partir da construção do espaço e, de outro, entre a representação do espaço e a dimensão subjetiva que o constitui. Desse modo, a hipótese defendida por este trabalho é a de que a busca pela (re)construção da identidade motiva, nesses dois romances, a mobilidade de seus personagens por diferentes espaços.
This work aims to elaborate a comparative analysis of Relato de um certo Oriente (1989) and Cinzas do Norte (2005), both published by Milton Hatoum, in order to relate the fragmentation of the narrative voice, present in both novels, with the articulation between traffic and immobility which outlines the trajectory of the main characters. The starting point of this work consists of reflecting on matters of traffic and identity, present in both novels; bearing in mind that the books’ main characters are migrants, wanderers and expatriates; seeking to establish, through writing, a meaning for their existence. The importance of such reflection grows, as the search for oneself and the meaning of life is multiplied in the contemporary Brazilian narrative. The question that is raised, in this case, is the meaning of this traffic and the relational dimension that it creates, on one hand, between the way the subject is represented by the construction of space; and, on the other hand, between the representation of space and the subjective dimension that constitutes it. Therefore, the hypothesis defended by this work is that the search for the (re)construction of identity motivates, in these two novels, the mobility of their characters in different spaces
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Staskievicz, Jurata. "Aesthetic and ideological functions of time and space shifts in the postmodernist narrative." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20080924_174222-28427.
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The purpose of this study was to analyze aesthetic and ideological functions of time and space shifts in the postmodernist narrative. The paper investigates the problems of time and space relationships in literary discourse and is based on the material of famous postmodern novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Slaughterhouse – Five Or The Children’s Crusade A Duty – Dance With Death. The textual features expressed by space and time relations have not received enough attention in English critical literature. However, provides a continual response to the importance of time and space notions which are often included as part of the themes in the genre of novels. The method chosen for the study was descriptive. The paper consists of two basic parts and their subdivisions. The first part examines the differerences between traditional and postmodernist narrative discourse. The second focuses on the aesthetic and ideological functions of time and space shifts in the above mentioned novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. In the introduction some general characteristics of the narrative structure are outlined. A narrative structure is usually defined as a story which develops in time and space. But the simpliest way of conceiving a narrative is presenting it as a series of events in specific order with a beginning, a middle and an end. The structuralist theoretician Genette distinguishes such features of a narrative: discourse, story and narration.
The theoreticians ( Paul Ricoeur, Mikhail... [to full text]Laiko kaita naratyve yra neatsiejama nuo erdvės, nes laiko poslinkiai visada sukelia erdvės pasikeitimą. Šiame darbe siekiama atskleisti laiko ir erdvės kaitos estetines ir ideologines funkcijas postmodernistiniame Kurto Vonneguto, Jr. romane Skerdykla Nr.5 arba Vaikų Kryžiaus Žygis Privalomasis Šokis su Mirtimi. Laiko ir erdvės kaita romane apsprendžia jo struktūrines, semantines ir stilistines savybes. Pagrindinis metodas naudojamas šiame darbe yra aprašomasis. Darbas susideda iš dviejų dalių bei jų poskyrių. Pirmoje dalyje nagrinėjami skirtumai tarp tradicinio bei postmodernistinio literatūrinio diskurso. Pristatomos bendros žinios apie narratyvą bei tradiciniai ir postmodernistiniai požiūriai į literatūrinį diskursą. Tradiciniai naratologai kreipia dėmesį į romano struktūrą, laiką, įvykių seką, siužeto liniją, pasokotojo funkcijas. Postmodernistai yra priešingi tradiciniams požiūriams į naratyvo struktūrą. Jie neigia ne tik naratyvo linijiškumą bet ir pačio naratyvo ir jo elementų esmę. Postmodernistai pačiuose savo veikaluose nagrinėja kūrinio diskursą. Antroje darbo dalyje analizuojamos estetinės bei ideologinės laiko ir erdvės kaitos funkcijos Kurto Vonneguto, Jr. romane Skerdykla Nr.5 arba Vaikų Kryžiaus Žygis Privalomasis Šokis su Mirtimi. Romanas Skerdykla Nr.5 – pati ryškiausia antikarinė rašytojo knyga, kurią Vonnegutas komponuoja pasakojimo pasakojime principu, fragmentiškai pateikia sukurtą Bilio Pilgrimo istoriją ir į ją įaudžia dokumentinį... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Bullock, Kurt E. "Narrative space and time : the rhetoric of disruption in the short-story form." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1213154.
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This study traces spatial and temporal disturbances in the modem short story structure. Edgar Allan Poe's "indefinitiveness" and Kenneth Burke's "actualization" serve as historical foundations for this investigation, which leads to contemporary frameworks proposed by such theorists as Gerard Genette, Umberto Eco, Wolfgang Iser, Paul Ricoeur, Peter Brooks, James Phelan, and Susan Sniader Lanser. In particular, I explore how effect operates as a predominant concern of short fiction. Short fiction is a rhetorical interaction encumbered by spatial and temporal constraints, and its narrative teleology is necessarily disrupted by rhetorical techniques. Narrative's boundaries are purposefully violated, its tempo twisted and contorted, exposing a purposeful tension in the rhetorical engagement of author, text and reader. Instabilities crafted within the text disrupt time-space expectations of readers.Importantly, effect is perceived as a rhetorical device within short fiction, and so in this study the text serves as a site of transference privileging equally writer and reader. Conditions of possibility and understanding are invested in the text by the author through techniques of spatial disruption and temporal discontinuity, and then reinvested in the reader by the narrative through the text's generation of uncertainty. Short fiction serves as an invitation by the author for the reader to construct explanations; devices work to disrupt the time-space constraints of the genre, establishing as they do a narrative contract between author and reader that is resolved in and from the text.Burke considers this to be shaping prose fiction to the author's purposes, an act which "involves desires and their appeasements" - and one which purposefully aims for a particular effect. But what are the limits of purposefulness in short fiction? I examine both textual effect and reader affect, relying particularly on Iser and Eco, and turn to Brooks in conclusion to summarize the role of desire in and from the text, and to Phelan to critique the place of rhetoric in establishing and maintaining that desire. My analysis discloses that time-space disruption, employed as a rhetorical strategy by short story writers, serves to heighten rather than threaten the mediated engagement of writer/text/reader in short fiction, producing a measured effect.Department of English
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Shanks, Rhonda. "Reconciling narrative spaces : conceptual blending in Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince and Calvino's Invisible Cities." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/897.
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Narratologists define narrative as a chronological series of events, and thus focus on temporality in their definitions of narrative form, neglecting the crucial role that space and spatiality may play in some narratives. In this project, I use cognitive linguists Fauconnier and Turner's theory of conceptual blending to analyze two very different pieces of literature, Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, the former a children's story and the latter a postmodern experimental work of fiction. While many narratologists and literary theorists focus on the destabilizing aspects of postmodern fiction and claim that it is "anti-narrative" because it resists assumptions about temporal linearity, conceptual blending analysis reveals that some such texts may be dependent for a feeling of coherence or "storiness" on the very cognitive frames and spatial structures that they deconstruct. The affinity between Saint-Exupèry's and Calvino's works suggests that there may be a particular corpus of texts, which I term "spatialized narratives," that maintain in the mind of the reader their own kind of coherence despite their ostensible non-referentiality or fragmentation — a kind of coherence that lies more in spatiality than in temporality.
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Tseng, Ching-Pin. "Redrawing Taiwanese spatial identities after martial law : text, space and hybridity in the post-colonial condition." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7765.
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Colonial powers exert dominance over their subject countries in multiple registers, for example, education and spatial constructions, which foster the colonised other‘s identification with the colonial power centre. Racial and local cultures of subject nations are thus systematically distorted and the transmission of memory through material culture is obscured. Focusing on contemporary Taiwan, this research examines how architectural and ideological strategies were employed by the dominant authorities to consolidate the power centre and explores possible means for shaping Taiwanese spatial subjectivity in the historical aftermath of such situations. The research examines the Formosans‘ ambiguous identification with local cultures and marginal spatial propositions, as well as discussing the inculcation of the 'great Chinese ideology‘ by analysing the teaching materials used in modern Taiwanese primary education. Reviewing aspects of contemporary post-colonial theory, the research explores the spatial implications of Taiwanese post-colonial textual narratives and argues for them as a potential source for the construction of contemporary spatial conditions, as these novels are shaped by an awareness of the importance of local cultures and the voices of marginalised people. The thesis thus suggests that a re-thinking of Taiwan‘s public spaces can be stimulated by spatial metaphors in textual narratives that associate peoples‘ memories of political and local events with spatial images that were previously suppressed. To explore the potential for the generation of space through reference to literary works, this research studies the ‗narrative architecture‘ experiments of the 1970s and 80s and goes on to propose a series of representational media for the construction of spatial narrations in Taiwan. Multiple spatial propositions concerning the island‘s post-colonial condition can be suggested by the visualisation of spatial metaphors that are embedded in Taiwanese textual narratives. At the end of the thesis, two proposals for post-colonial spatial narration are put forward, which transform the spatial propositions latent in the devices developed through a new juxtaposition with existing urban contexts. The intention of the research is to indicate a new urban spatial strategy for Taiwan, one that can allow its people to grasp the multiple layers of their conflicted spatial history while at the same time responding to the ongoing spatial confrontation between the power centre and the voices in the margins.
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Beattie, Ashlee E. "Performing Historical Narrative at the Canadian War Museum: Space, Objects and Bodies as Performers." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20345.
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This thesis explores the symmetry between theatres and museums, and investigates how a museum experience is similar to a theatrical event. Particularly, this project examines how the Canadian War Museum performs historical narrative through its use of three performative elements of a theatre production: space, objects and actor’s body.
Firstly, this thesis analyses how creating a historical narrative is similar to fiction writing and play writing. It follows the argument of Hayden White and Michel de Certeau who recognize a historical narrative as a performative act. Accordingly, this thesis examines the First World War exhibit at the Canadian War Museum as a space of performance. I apply Lubomír Doležel’s literary theory on possible worlds, illustrating how a museum space can create unique characteristics of a possible world of fiction and of history. Secondly, this thesis employs Marie-Laure Ryan’s theory of narrativity to discuss how museum objects construct and perform their stories. I argue that the objects in museums are presented to the public in a state of museality similar to the condition of theatricality in a theatre performance. Lastly, this thesis investigates the performance of people by applying various theories of performance, such as Michael Kirby’s non-acting/acting continuum, Jiří Veltruský’s concept of the stage figure, and Freddie Rokem’s theories of actors as “hyper-historians.” In this way, this thesis explores concrete case studies of employee/visitor interactions and expands on how these communications transform the people within the walls of the museum into performers of historical narrative.
Moreover, according to Antoine Prost, the museum as an institution is an educational and cultural authority. As a result, in all of these performative situations, the Canadian War Museum presents a historical narrative to its visitors with which it can help shape a sense of national identity, the events Canadians choose to commemorate and their personal and/or collective memories. In its interdisciplinary scope, this thesis calls upon theories from a variety of academic fields, such as performance studies, history and cultural studies, museology, and literary studies. Most importantly, however, this project offers a new perspective on the performative potentials of a national history museum.
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McDonald, Julie Ann. "Moving in a narrative space : dental practitioners developing professionally in and out of ICT." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3632/.
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This narrative inquiry grew from my concerns that the voices of dental practitioners were going unheard in movements to reform professional development, in particular through information and communication technology (ICT). Recently, professional development policy has been driven by calls for a greater use of ICT for education, healthcare and professional development. However, from casual conversations in my own practice and with colleagues, I noted tensions that raised questions on the rationale underpinning many of the changes taking place. I began to ask what we might understand by professional development, and how we might seek it through ICT. In turning to literature on professional development, dentistry was a relatively unexplored area. In addition, little was known about the actual experiences of those seeking professional development. My concerns and questions, combined with this lack of research in the field of dental professional development and the use of ICT, suggested the need to explore the experiences of dental practitioners undertaking professional development and to consider their views on ICT. My assumption is that experiences are embedded in everyday conversations and exchanges as the stories we tell each other. To be able to understand those experiences, I felt a need to access those conversations and exchanges. This meant going further than collecting data from tick boxes at the end of course evaluation sheets. Taking a narrative approach and using qualitative interviews, I collected the stories of nine dental professionals. In the conversations that took place, the participants and I explored and reflected on our own practice, professional development and ICT. Using a performative analysis (Riessman 2008), I reconstructed the stories through Davies and Harré’s (1999) metaphor of an ‘unfolding narrative’ (p.42), taking stories as an emergent process through interaction with different social and cultural representations. While the focus at the start of this study was on ICT, it rapidly became clear that the participants did not regard ICT as a central part of being a practitioner and indeed a professional. Accordingly, the study became one of exploring being a practitioner and a professional, and the influences of recent organisational and institutional changes and ICT moved from a central to a peripheral focus. From the resultant stories, I found three performances dominated in which practitioners developed ways of “being”, “instincts”, as I named them which emerged in response to a negotiation with policy, practice and paths of development. I identified those instincts emerging from a “professional self” constructed from policy through fixed predetermined paths. This contrasted with a “practitioner self” which drew from intuition, craft-like practices, and paths of development which were largely undetermined. I identified shifting positions and subjectivities as practitioners reflected on their values for practice and professional development. From those reflections, there was a questioning of the professional role, the way the dental professional might be represented, the way the practitioner self might develop and the way they might position themselves, in particular in expanded spaces for professional development through ICT. In order to interpret the resultant performances within both global and micro-contexts, I viewed them through a critical lens, interrogating the sociocultural and political environment. I found that representations of the professional role suggested a challenge for education, self-determination and development. As a result, I saw those participants sitting in a “liminal space”; a junction of sociocultural influences framed by policy, professional life, practice and ICT. This liminal space yielded a multitude of challenges, negotiations and possibilities as the ‘inevitable consequences of certain economic, social and political processes’ (Brookfield 1995, p.36). In conclusion, in the face of those framings and education, I propose a need for a “professional literacy” and a new professional narrative that considers the capabilities and possibilities for dialogue and, in the light of our practice and advancing technology, would take account of expanded and undetermined paths of professional development.
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Cheung, Karen Chau Lam. "People mountain people sea : and between orientalism and occidentalism : language, identity and narrative space." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426861.
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Ben-Nasr, Leila. "The Narrative Space of Childhood in 21st Century Anglophone Arab Literature in the Diaspora." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1546475958114273.
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Woolham, Simon Anthony. "In search of the shortcuts : walking and narrative in physical, virtual and psychological space." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2016. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/612166/.
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In Search Of The Shortcuts is a practice-led research project carried out from the perspective of an artist. By engaging in a practical and theoretical analysis of how walking and narrative interact in physical, virtual and psychological realms, it asserts that this interaction is vital for defining space. A self-initiated artistic residency is both central to the methodology of the project and enriched by the knowledge gained through the research. In Search Of The Shortcuts situates the past in the present, a shared affective experience around the suburban spaces of the artist’s childhood in Wythenshawe, which lies on the outer fringes of South Manchester. The artist also addresses the relationship between expanded drawing methods and narrative representation, in order to explore how the influence of Wythenshawe and the socio-political context of the 1980s have impacted on his practice. The thesis draws upon the artist’s own past residency experiences, as well as current definitions of the artistic residency. Alongside this, the research explores relevant arts projects and spatial, poetic and non-linear literature that engages with a past to emphasise a present. This draws on Freud’s theories relating to autobiographical and procedural memory, specifically, Freud’s texts Remembering, Repeating and Working Through (1914) and Screen Memories (1899) that analyse an engagement with specific forms of childhood memory and deliberate why we return to fragments of them later in life. Retrieving and activating narrative through the practical methodology of walking is employed through a series of narrative guided walks – both physical and virtual – that are referred to as the Wythy Walks. The virtual, online process, which continually reveals collective and personal narrative, is examined as an artistic/curatorial tool for an exhibition called Unstable Ground. The thesis utilises a parallel ‘conversational’ text whereby one side presents a direct ‘live’ transcript from the Wythy Walks dialogue and the other side supports and highlights this narrative with further social, historical and anecdotal details. The relationships between the recorded walks and the drawn-out narrative and spaces are presented through an online artwork, also called In Search Of The Shortcuts, which incorporates a live outline version of Google Maps. The website maps out and activates the multi-sensory practice, methodology and theory, designed to be experienced in a way that is relevant to the research. Through practical analysis, narrative related to a past is generated. Whilst simultaneously interpreting, connecting with and within a present through the process of the Wythy Walks, the project supports engagement with shared outside, suburban spaces. The environments walked through become, simultaneously, vistas of history; that are interpreted and spoken through them. The Wythy Walks define and emphasise space and time as neither static nor linear. The thesis promotes the definition of spaces as an articulation of a past within a present, through physical and virtual arenas, a valuable collaborative methodology, communicated and presented through the website model.
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Tanner, Jessica Leigh. "Mapping Prostitution: Sex, Space, Taxonomy in the Fin-de-Siècle French Novel." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11008.
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This dissertation examines representations of prostitution in male-authored French novels
from the later nineteenth century. It proposes that prostitution has a map, and that realist and naturalist authors appropriate this cartography in the Second Empire and early Third Republic to make sense of a shifting and overhauled Paris perceived to resist mimetic literary inscription. Though always significant in realist and naturalist narrative, space is uniquely complicit in the novel of prostitution due to the contemporary policy of reglementarism, whose primary instrument was the mise en carte: an official registration that subjected prostitutes to moral and hygienic surveillance, but also “put them on the map,” classifying them according to their space of practice (such as the brothel or the boulevard). It is this spatial and conceptual taxonomy, I contend, that makes the
prostitute a fulcrum for authorial mapping – for the assertion of mastery over both the prostitute and the city. The first chapter reads the inscription of the tolerated brothel in novels by Huysmans and Goncourt as the mark of a nostalgic longing for old Paris and a desire for stability in a resistant urban present. Analyzing the representation of the brasserie à femmes in lesser-known works by Tabarant and Barrès, Chapter Two posits that the brasserie prostitute fuels the desires of a generation of aspirational Rastignacs by selling stories alongside beer and sex, adopting a writerly role and troubling authorial mastery of the prostitute and the city. The mobilization of prostitutional metaphors in the Rougon-Macquart is the subject of the third chapter, which argues that Zola deploys
the prostitute’s entropic force to dismantle the Paris of his predecessors, Balzac and Haussmann, and clear the ground for the construction of a proper city. The final chapter demonstrates that fin-de-siècle novelist Charles-Louis Philippe makes use of the clandestinity of street prostitution in order to locate a breed of urban mapping that is not contingent on mastery. By remapping the prostitute, the dissertation proposes a new model for understanding both the nineteenth-century novel of prostitution and the lived and represented experience of a Paris that Zola termed “le mauvais lieu de l’Europe.”Romance Languages and Literatures
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Yes, Melissa R. "Space Program." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1494286481799127.
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Cameron, Hannah M. "Contesting the Commemorative Narrative: Planning for Richmond’s Cultural Landscape." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5480.
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Abstract: New Orleans, Baltimore, and Charlottesville are reevaluating the presence of Confederate statues in their built environment. Known as the Capital of the Confederacy, Richmond’s cultural landscape is visible through the connection of two historical spaces, Monument Avenue and Shockoe Bottom. Both serve as a powerful case study for how the commemorative narrative of these spaces is contested today and how barriers that exist influence urban planning processes and outcomes.
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Mičiūnaitė, Viktorija. "Shift of time and space in the modernist narrative of Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20110627_125456-66016.
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The purpose of the present paper was to explore a new approach to the notions of time, temporality, and space within modernist literature, the distinction of the natural, conceptual, and fictional time as well as the alterations of time due to the deictic centre. The investigation of the above-mentioned issues was based on the modernist novel To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. The main method chosen for the study was content analysis. The research of time and space shift in the given novel is grounded on several overlapping critical theories: Practical Criticism, which comprises Formalist and New Critical ideas, Psychoanalysis, and the Theory of Narratology. The research demonstrated that Virginia Woolf attempted to structure her novel outside the conventional clock of time treatment because it was too inflexible to be suitable for a writer who believed that time represented in fiction should reflect the way time influences and is influenced by human lives. The given novel is a conspicuous example of an innovative concept of time and space presented by the author who gave preference to the abstract inner time rather than to that of the outer world and who come closer than any other writer to expressing time as it actually is experienced in human mind. The present study extended the existing knowledge of the psychological background, the transitivity and variability of time issues, and of the specific features the modern narrative in the novel. Further studies of the... [to full text]Šio darbo tikslas buvo ištirti visiškai naują požiūrį į laiko, laikinumo ir erdvės sampratą modernistinėje literatūroje bei analizuoti gamtinio, konceptualiojo, ir literatūrinio laiko kaitą dėl deiktinio centro ypatybių. Analizei buvo pasirinktas Virdžinijos Vulf moderinistinis romanas „Į švyturį“, kuriame atsispindi modernistinis požiūris į žmogų ir jį supančią tikrovę. Kurdama savo veikėjų paveikslus, rašytoja įtaigiai atskleidė ir parodė, kad žmogaus gyvenimą pirmiausia lemia ne išorinė aplinka, bet mintyse, pasąmonėje vykstantys virsmai, kutrių fizinę išraišką parodo konkretūs veiksmai ir poelgiai. Modernizmo žmogus parodomas kaip praradęs tradicines pasaulio suvokimo atramas, likęs akistatoje su savo intymiausias patyrimais, išgyvenantis savo būtį kaip izoliuotą, atskirtą nuo viso pasaulio, pasimetusią tarp fantazijos ir realybės. Savo tyrimu siekiau įrodyti, kad Virdžinijos Vulf veikėjai analizuojamame romane save iškelia kaip esminį būties centrą ir didžiausią vertybę, nepavaldžią laiko ir erdvės matmenims, bet tuo pačiu metu susiduria su savo sudėtingu ribotu vidiniu pasauliu – suskilusiu, nuolat kintančiu, klaidinančiu, susidedančiu iš subjektyvių greit kintančių patirties fragmentų. Romane autorė atskleidė ir modernistinio naratyvo ypatumus - jos rašymo stilių galima laiktyi savita kalbine revoliucija, kuri padėjo atskleisti giliausius veikėjų sąmonės klodus pritaikant sąmonės srauto techniką bei vidinius monologus. Šiame kūrinyje nebėra nuoseklaus... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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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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Whissel, Kristen Mary. "Space, nation, race : the visual and narrative politics of the silent American cinema's transitional phase /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/9932501.
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Flanders, Haley Lauren. "Audience Participation in Blue Man Group: Success Through Authentic Character, Adaptable Narrative, and Accessible Space." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5680.
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The relationship between performer and spectator is a constant topic in theatre since audiences are essential to any performance. Some contemporary performances strive to blur the line between the two by allowing audiences to participate during the show. Often, audience participation is despised and therefore avoided by spectators and theatre practitioners. However, Blue Man Group thrives on it due to their authentic character, adaptable narrative, and accessible space. Through my examination of the show as an audience member, I theorize that these three elements control the audience's willingness to participate in the production and in turn make the entire experience more rewarding and memorable as performer and spectator share roles in order to create this performance. Chris Wink, Matt Goldman, and Phil Stanton co-founded Blue Man Group in 1987, and received their first official venue in 1991. Blue Man Group is a ninety-minute variety show that utilizes rock music, theatrical vignettes, and experiments with science, art, and modern technology to explore the ways in which humans express and communicate. This unprecedented show performs in multiple locations daily throughout the United States, Germany, and has also captivated audiences of all ages around the world. The most popular and recognizable element to the show is the humanoid Blue Man character. He does not speak or make large facial expressions. Instead, he mainly observes intently and follows commands, much like a spectator. His original physical attributes, honest behavior and communication, and authoritative presence through three performers grant him authenticity. His unique personality draws in an audience's interest and investment in the character and the entire production. The co-founders identify the Blue Man Group adaptable narrative as “Neo-Vaudeville”, mixing many forms of science and art together. The cast, crew, and audience take part in the show through tribal training, developing communitas as they watch and learn, call and respond, to the show's commands. The pieces that contain audience participation utilize various types of invitation, coaxing audiences into participation in effective ways. Through an exploration of visual and aural perception, spatial fluidity, and technology, Blue Man Group's use of space connects its audiences to the performance and helps them consider more deeply their connections with others. Thus people often participate during the show and enjoy doing so. This level of investment and excitement is necessary for successful audience participation. Thus Blue Man Group is a blue print for how live theatre can form a powerful relationship with audiences.
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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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Amaral, Lasaro José. "Espaço, memória e identidade na obra Vila dos Confins." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2016. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6514.
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The space category received more attention in the literary studies in the late decades. It is observed that this category has much importance in the literary text as any other element. thus far prioritized as, for example, the time. The dissertation is based mainly on the Topoanalisys theory by Borges Filho and, through his methodology; a study was done regarding the spatiality in the work Vila dos Confins (1974) by Mario Palmério. To do so, we used Bachelard (2008) theoretical work and Brandão (2013). We could verify that some parts of Brazil depicted in the book were still barely known: rivers, forests and dirt roads are always described in the narrative route. The house also presents itself as an essential element in the text and contributes to the understanding in order to establish positive-affective and negativeaffective relationships with the characters, which Borges Filho (2007) calls topopatia. Corroborating the analysis of this literary corpus, this dissertation examines also the dialogue established between space, memory and identity in the light of the theories of Candau (2014), Silva (2008), among others. These issues are analyzed in the context of the book, therefore, in a way, state and picture a society rooted in a particular location. In this sense, our study aims to better understand the work of a regionalist nature written by a politician-writer analyzing the spaces. It is important to note that the relationship of the characters with the space they inhabit or go through has a great influence in the plot in order to lead and contribute to the end of the novel. The narrator presents intriguing facts that permeate the text in order to transform the space of the newly emancipated county into a political battleground, as the electoral dispute is present throughout the whole narrative.
A categoria espaço recebeu atenção maior nos estudos literários das últimas décadas. Nota-se que tal categoria tem tanta importância na obra literária quanto qualquer outro elemento até então priorizado como, por exemplo, o tempo. A dissertação se fundamenta principalmente pela teoria da Topoanálise de Borges Filho e, através de sua metodologia, foi feito um estudo da espacialidade na obra Vila dos Confins (1974) de Mário Palmério. Para tanto, foi utilizado também o aporte teórico de Bachelard (2008), Brandão (2013). Pudemos constatar que espaços de um Brasil ainda quase não desbravado são comuns na obra: rios, matas, estradas de terra batida são sempre descritas no percurso da narrativa. A casa também se apresenta como um elemento essencial no texto e contribui com o entendimento do mesmo ao imprimir relações afetivo-positivas e afetivo-negativas com as personagens, o que Borges Filho (2007) chama de topopatia. Corroborando com a análise desse corpus literário, esta dissertação examina, ainda, o diálogo estabelecido entre espaço, memória e identidade, à luz das teorias de Candau (2014), Silva (2008), dentre outros. Esses temas são analisados no contexto da obra, pois, de certa forma, afirmam e enraízam a sociedade em um determinado local. Nesse sentido, o nosso estudo tem por finalidade entender melhor uma obra de cunho regionalista escrita por um escritor-político através da análise dos espaços que esta apresenta. É importante salientar que, as relações das personagens com o espaço que o habitam ou percorrem têm uma influência muito grande dentro da trama de forma a implicar e contribuir com o desfecho do romance. O narrador apresenta fatos intrigantes que permeiam o texto de forma a transformar o espaço do recém-emancipado município em um campo de batalhas político, uma vez que a disputa eleitoral está presente durante toda a narrativa.
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Ali, Yahia. "The politics of shaping space : a socio-political approach to the narrative of space production in Slemani, Iraqi Kurdistan, between 2003 and 2013." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22090/.
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This PhD offers an insight into the powers that governed processes of space production in the city of Slemani, the Kurdistan region of Iraq. It concentrates on the decade proceeding the US-led war which consequently overthrew Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003. In addition to exploring the role of power, the thesis proposes an alternative strategy for political space making; a strategy which grew out of both the literature review and the subsequent analysis of the forces of productivity which exist in the city. The research studies the built environment within the Kurdish context, choosing to take an atypical socio-political approach which is developed in relation to western literature. An original conceptual framework is largely constructed through the use of ‘elite’ theory as well as Henri Lefebvre’s readings of space. Both of these scholarly concepts help to set the scene for an empirical investigation. The methodology is designed from a qualitative perspective, which in turn curates an approach centred on case studies. These studies highlight three spatial categories which differ in scale and feature the following: investment-driven projects, government-sponsored construction and privately-sponsored housing. The objective behind splitting the cases into three categories ranging from macro to micro scales was to reveal how social forces interact on different levels. These cases were chosen according to the power of their producers, as well as their physical properties (cost, location and scale). Data was collected through the methods of ‘mapping controversies’ and questionnaires. It was then analysed from a thematic lens with the support of three techniques: story configuration, mapping and descriptive analysis. The thesis concludes that certain intellectual, business and political decision makers exerted significant influence over processes of shaping the built environment, leaving extremely narrow opportunity for the rest of the inhabitants of the city to involve. This mode of spatial production has prompted unprecedented urban segregation because it resulted in the creation of ‘abstract spaces’, which are detached from their social, natural and historical contexts. Interestingly, power relations among social groups changed according to the scale of space: the city inhabitants did not challenge the authority of decision makers who had repurposed and commodified urban lands. However, important to note, is that these same inhabitants reacted and opposed decision makers when it came to the negotiation of their private spaces. This, generally speaking, indicates that the inhabitants paid more attention and were perhaps more invested in the nature of their private interests rather than public concerns. The politics of shaping space in Slemani, and other Kurdish cities, has been heavily criticised by numerous voices including academics and some urban officials, who have appealed for comprehensive alternatives. Therefore, this PhD proposes two sets of reforms: one is tangible and targets formal and informal governing structures, and the second is intangible. The latter has an ideological nature and aims to improve social consciousness in regard to space making. Similarly, it also encourages the local community to question the multiplicity of power structures which are commonly taken for granted. In a broad sense, the thesis contributes to theoretical, methodological and pragmatic arguments. Each of them is derived from one of the main components of this research. The theoretical contribution is related to the literature chapter and the pragmatic to the empirical study. Moreover, the methodological input is focused on creating a novel empirical approach based on the complex philosophical works of Lefebvre, who has been criticised by his scholars for not introducing a well-defined methodology. The thesis also customises the method of ‘mapping controversies’ in order to suit the scope of the research. The pragmatic contribution is divided into two levels: the actual and the alternate. The first is related to the role of identifying the underlying nature of the politics of spatial configuration in the context of Slemani, and the second is connected to the propositions that have been made as alternatives to the specific political approach found in the city or beyond it. In other words, Slemani is viewed here as a typical symbol of the urban transformations which have occurred in other cities within Iraqi Kurdistan, namely Erbil and Dohuk. Thus, the outcomes of this work can be mobilised elsewhere in the region, or even potentially outside this geographical territory.
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Roux, Alwyn Petrus. "Artis bene moriendi, voorskrifte & tekeninge vir 'n goeie dood : Memorandum : 'n verhaal met skilderye / Alwyn Petrus Roux." Thesis, North-West University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2555.
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This dissertation attempts to research the construction of meaning through the analysis and interpretation of the multi-textual novel Memorandum: 'n verhaal met skilderve by Marlene van Niekerk and Adriaan van Zyl. Memorandum is an exceptionally multifaceted text in which various patterns overlap. Any adequate analysis and interpretation of the novel must pay due attention to the comprehensive and variegated processes of meaning generation that are simultaneously active in this very dense text. Given the fact that all themes and motives are kept relevant all the way through, there is a danger that the researcher might get lost and that the argument (s)he produces might become too vague. Therefore this study focuses on only four aspects, which will then also determine the structure of the dissertation: (1) the unusual and complex narrative structure of the text; (2) the wide variety of forms, spheres or dimensions of the representation of spaces; (3) the disseminating intertextual game; and (4) the textual manifestations of liminality, which include liminal persons, situations, processes and the innovative approach and style of the text with regard to the relation between text and paintings. The dissertation attempts to participate in and add to the ongoing conversation between word, image, structure and theory through utilising not only narrative theory and narrative methods (which include the basic theory for studying spaces in literary texts), but also intertextual and liminal theory, in order to add to accepted notions of textual boundaries.Thesis (M.A. (Afrikaans and Dutch))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009.
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Cuadrado, Gutierrez Agustin. "Las Practicas Cotidianas Castellanas: Hacia El Imaginario Cartografico De Miguel Delibes." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195578.
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"Las practicas cotidianas castellanas: hacia el imaginario cartografico de Miguel Delibes" offers a reevaluation of the image of Castilla that informs much of Miguel Delibes's novelistic work. Numerous scholars have examined the fundamental role the author's native region has in developing the thematics of his extensive narrative corpus. What has been missing in these studies is a broadly interdisciplinary optic through which to study the formation and evolution of Delibes's cartographic imaginary--to borrow a term from David Harvey. Applying the ground-breaking work of critical geographers including Harvey, Henry Lefevbre, Michel de Certeau and Sallie Marston to an analysis of the Spanish novelist's production allows for a calibration of his novelistic evolution against the mediating factors of the extensive and fundamental real spatial transformations that Castilla undergoes from the time Delibes started to write in the 1940s to the present. The key element in making this connection is a study of how the practices of everyday life take form in his imaginary. Employing de Certeau's explanation of the ways in which these practices coalesce into tactics and strategies is especially useful in charting the evolution of the author's cartographic imaginary and how it documents, confronts and resists fundamental alterations in the nature of Castillian spaces, both rural and urban.Chapter one of my study lays out the methodology for defining the cartographic imaginary, especially its portrayal of the practices of everyday life, and considers how to connect the study of real spaces and their conceptual articulation by cultural creators. Chapters two and three discuss, in turn, the portrayal of urban and rural spaces in Delibes's fiction, most importantly in Mi idolatrado hijo Sisi, Cinco horas con Mario, Diario de un jubilado, El camino, Las ratas, and Viejas historias de Castilla la Vieja. My final chapter (four) examines those texts in which Delibes plays rural against urban space--Diario de un cazador, El disputado voto del senor Cayo and Los santos inocentes. My investigation leads me to conclude that while deeply rooted in his own region of Spain, Delibes's work transcends local concerns.