Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Narrator (voice)'

Throughout history women have been subject to oppression by patriarchal society.

However, there have always been those who have tried to rise against it. This study will shed light upon one example: a female artist who personally defies the patriarchal norms at the same time as her music encourages others to do the same. The musician in question is Christina Aguilera, and the album studied is Stripped.

What this study shows is that Stripped can be read as a feminist statement. The lyrics deal with two main themes: patriarchal society’s objectification and oppression of women, and the struggles of love and relationships. What these two themes have in common is that they both encourage women to stand their ground and believe in themselves.

However, the lyrics on the album also suggest that Aguilera is aware of the fact that her message will not suit everyone. She knows that she works within an industry whose goal is to make money out of its artists, and therefore she has to keep repeating like a mantra to herself and to others that she, and her music, is not just a product of this industry. The message her music brings actually matters.

To come to this conclusion I have examined Aguilera’s lyrics in terms of what messages they bring and who their narratees might be, all in accordance with feminist narratology. Secondary sources from the fields of popular music studies, media studies and gender studies as well as interviews with and about Aguilera and biographies have been consulted.

This is a study of the influence of the familiarity of students with the narrator of video tutorials, in a blended learning situation, on both the perceived and actual effectiveness of the learning materials, in terms of students’ learning efficiency – where a course is traditional in format and online learning is carried out with the help of Narrated Video Screen Captures (NVSCs). The study also focused on the interaction of student-narrator gender similarity and students’ individual differences (conscientiousness and test-anxiety) with voice familiarity. Thus, the study sought to fill a gap in knowledge regarding the influence of familiarity with the narrator in multimedia learning material on the efficiency of learning within a blended learning context. The research paradigm was deductive, employing a mixed methods and a case study research and using quasi-experiments. In order to compare the relational efficiency of the different instructional conditions, a calculative approach was used that combined measurement of mental effort with task performance. In addition to the mental effort questionnaires and task performance, students completed an assessment questionnaire for the NVSCs. In addition, semi-structured interviews and a follow-up questionnaire were used for collection of corroborative data, in order to shed more light on this matter. Findings showed significant influence of voice familiarity on most of the learning efficiency indices and on perceived effectiveness of NVSCs. Gender similarity was significant only with unfamiliar voice and there was no significant interaction between conscientiousness and test anxiety and voice familiarity. Thus, it was concluded that when students have a personal relationship with the class teacher, exposure to multimedia learning materials with an unfamiliar narrator has an adverse influence on their learning efficiency. These findings add to the established voice related principles of Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning and Social Agency Theory. Contribution to knowledge was made by filling the gap in knowledge in the area of multimedia instructional design.

In the field of Creative Writing, much is written about narrative form and narrative voice. Narrator and narrative voice have always been important to me, and they were essential to the creation of my own novel, Over the Kite Path. It is my intention that this thesis (incorporating the novel itself, and the supporting dissertation) captures the creative process in a way that will be useful to other practitioners and writing scholars, by articulating complex and often abstract concepts in an accurate and unique way. The success of my novel was largely dependent on the success of my handling of its narrator and narrative voice, and my ability to create the illusion that my narrator was real. But how could this be measured, and – ultimately – how did extensive research and close analysis of my working practice contribute to this? While writing my novel, I researched many topics (including historical research, research on other practitioners in the field, and also the consideration of some of the philosophical and psychological aspects of my creativity), with a particular focus on the development of narrator and narrative voice. Within this context, I considered the novel’s place within the fields of literature and creative writing and compared my work – and my working practice – with other authors, in order to help me understand and analyse how my narrative voice had developed. As a result of this analysis and research, my novel has an original and convincing narrator. Whilst I am aware that the narrator can never be ‘real’, I am also comfortable with creating and maintaining the illusion of the narrator’s ‘reality’ for the reader. In addition, I have demonstrated the importance of this illusion to the writer during the creative process. Via a deeply analytical account my own experience while writing this novel, I have documented how my own creative work was enhanced by my research, and I believe I have provided new approaches and theories on the creative – and often existential - qualities of the writing process. It is my hope that these new approaches and theories make an original contribution to the field of Creative Writing, and will enhance the way in which the craft of writing is considered in the future by practitioners, critical theorists, and literary scholars alike.

This thesis traces the career of the prolific eighteenth-century author Eliza Haywood through narratological analysis of some of her key works. It contributes to the new wave of Haywood criticism that is moving away from the thematic, gender based focus that has dominated discussion of her oeuvre since her critical rediscovery in the 1980s. My narratological method demonstrates how understanding at a formal and thematic level is enhanced by the employment of theoretical narrative paradigms. Narratology is interested in the relationship between the events of a narrative (story) and how these events are presented (text). I utilize the narratological terminology of Gérard Genette because it is narrative discourse, rather than the mere events of a story, that provides the basis for a meaningful discussion concerning matters of presentation. Making the topic of narrative discourse central to the study requires analysis of voice, point of view, speech, and temporality, as it covers the ways in which the story is told. Throughout her career, Haywood manipulates these narrative features so as to create inventive texts that adapt to the changing trends of the literary marketplace. Key topics of discussion include Haywood s continuous but developing use both of the embedded narrative and anachronies; the differing levels of intrusion created by her narrators employment of metanarrative commentary; and her progressive use of metalepsis: from her inclusion of simple scene changes in her earlier work, to her emphatic use of explicit diegetic interruptions in her later work that mirror those utilised by Henry Fielding. The thesis follows a chronological structure and is historically and bibliographically informed. This approach enables the thesis to provide extended comparison of Haywood s narrative choices with those of her main forebears and contemporaries, especially Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, and Henry Fielding.

This dissertation attempts to investigate the relationship between certain narrative strategies and meaning(s), and presents a narratological analysis of Golding&rsquo
s three novels. It primarily refers to the terminology offered by Genette and Rimmon-Kenan and, considering the mode of narration (voice) and the mode of focalization (mood), it tries to unearth narrative elements in narrative fiction. This dissertation argues that the implied author employs narrative agents and strategies of perspectivisation in order to affect, manipulate, determine or change the meaning(s), and that storytelling authority can be violated or balanced by monitority of perceiving. In The Inheritors, the implied author plays with shifting perspective to portray the other from within
in Pincher Martin, s/he explores temporality and timelessness to reveal post-mortem individual consciousness / unconsciousness, and in Free Fall, s/he produces a first-person retrospective narration where the protagonist deals with the act of story-telling and attempts to reconstruct his identity through manipulating subnarratives and perspectives.

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Knowing human behavior and the societies through the literary text, without losing its artistic character, it becomes a research as possible when considering that each novel brings various social voices that reveal the thought or ideology of an age, according to Mikhail Bakhtin.. It will be analyzed in this study how the 19th century and contemporary societies react in front of women who live a double life. Machado de Assis introduces us, in Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (2012), Virgília that through dissimulation maintains a double life. Marçal Aquino, in Eu receberia as piores notícias dos seus lindos lábios, features a protagonist Lavínia, which by means of psycho-emotional instability also maintains a double life.
Conhecer o comportamento humano e as sociedades por meio do texto literário, sem perder seu caráter artístico, torna-se uma pesquisa possível ao considerar que cada romance traz várias vozes sociais que revelam o pensamento ou a ideologia de uma época, de acordo com Mikhail Bakhtin. Será analisado no presente trabalho de que modo as sociedades oitocentista e contemporânea reagem diante de mulheres que vivem uma vida dupla. Machado de Assis nos apresenta, em Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (2012), Virgília que por meio da dissimulação mantém uma vida dupla; Marçal Aquino, em Eu receberia as piores notícias dos seus lindos lábios (2011), apresenta uma protagonista Lavínia que por meio de sua instabilidade emocional e psicológica mantém uma vida dupla.

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This thesis probes three texts to explore pathways between narration and refugee voices. In Dave Eggers’ text What is the What (2008), the words ‘novel’ and ‘autobiography’ on the title page set a framework for an exploration of the displacement of both genres. As Achak Deng, the Sudanese refugee-exile claims to have “gone out in search of a writer,” so this thesis has sought textual manifestations of the voices of those labeled “refugees”. In Eggers’text a temporarily-gagged narrator presents the question as to how the writer-refugee collaboration allows the voice of a refugee to be heard. In Little Liberia: an African Odyssey in New York (2011), Jonny Steinberg’s placement of himself inside the text demonstrates a different narrative approach to this question as he opts to share subject-space with refugee-exiles, Rufus Arkoi and Jacob Massaquoi. Unsettling the idea of ‘protagonist’, the text challenges borders between story and history, telling and writing. Through a narrative relationship Steinberg probes acts of recounting, listening, reviewing in the routes he takes to the text eventually written. By contrast, Luxurious Hearses, a novella by Uwem Akpan, places the extreme fate of the refugee-protagonist in the hands of a third-person narrator to wrestle with the distinctions between voice, mediation and representation. Through Jubril and his co-commuters, the text investigates forms of “rupture” (Bakhtin, 2000) that occur when identities are opportunistically exposed to social labeling. Writer, reader and displaced person emerge as subjects of an economic framework which positions them within the powerful confines of terms such as citizen, refugee, exile. Said’s affirming insight thus presents a challenge to all on this continuum to “cross borders, (to) break barriers of thought and experience” (Said, 2000:185). Reading the text then becomes associated with interpreting events through the collaborative work of relating, and through reviewing the frames of reference. This thesis examines narrative approaches to refugee voices with the question ‘How do voice and narration inflect the transitions in these texts involving refugees?" Rather than the easy transference this may seem to involve, acts of entrusting the timbre of such stories to texts require political vigilance and a sensibility cognizant that a globalized environment implicates all in the crises creating refugees.

Since Jasmine's Secret contains elements of cantata and follows a dramatic story or program, the work may be classified as a narrative or dramatic story or program, the work may be classified as a narrative or dramatic cantata employing five solo voices, narrator and orchestra. This work attempts a revival of these two genres as a combined entity due to the decreased popularity of both cantata and programmatic music in the 20th century.

There has been relatively little scholarship to date on Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder. The writings about this song cycle that do exist primarily focus on the disparate nature of the poems and justify Kindertotenlieder as a cycle by highlighting various musical connections between the songs, such as keys and motivic continuity. Mahler, however, has unified the cycle in a much more complex and sophisticated way. His familiarity with Wagner’s music and methods, and his mastery of the human voice and orchestral voices allowed him to weave a dramatic grief-laden narrative.

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In this thesis, I present questions, reflections, and learnings from narratives, either mine and form other people which whom I met during the trajectories in the search for the self-voice and that led me to the creation of the “Voice Atelier”, a project built in the borderline of different fields of knowledge which hold the voice as its interest. The textual structure I propose for this thesis shows the creation and sustaining of a space where I could name, in first person, the processes I lived during my own history with the voice. I narrate moments of impoverishment of the experience, passing through the silencing of my own voice, submitted to what others had to say, or about what the renowned scientific fields had to say about the voice, as well as the experience of collapse lived through the contact wit the voices of the working songs of the Destaladeiras de Fumo (Workers who manually struke tobacco leafs) from Arapiraca, when I suspended all the truths I knew by then about the voice. At last, I narrate how the “Voice Atelier” happens, an opens space for invention of a voice-experience, a voice that can listen and be listened, can narrate its own history, inhabits its own body and, exposes, looks after and is aware of itself. Through this pathway of the voice-experience we reach the self-voice: A voice capable of self-enunciating and self-inventing.

Denna uppsats redogör för och undersöker berättarperspektiv och maktrelationer i Emily Brontës roman Wuthering Heights. På vilket sätt läsaren tar del av romanens komplexa berättande, om det är samma berättare genom hela romanen eller om det skiftar, vilka maktrelationer som existerar mellan romangestalterna och förhållanden mellan makt och berättarperspektiv undersöks genom analys av verket.

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Zora Neale Hurston is a significant figure in American fiction and is strongly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, the period noted for the emergence of literature by people of African-American descent. Hurston worked as a writer of fiction and of anthropological research and this mini-thesis will discuss aspects of her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937. While the novel traces the psychological development of the central female character, Janie Mae Crawford and, thus, demonstrates several features of a conventional Bildungsroman, the novel also contains some intriguing innovations in respect of narration and voice. These innovations imply that the novel can be read in terms of the qualities commonly associated with the Modernist novel. This contention becomes significant when it is understood that a considerable degree of critical responses to the novel have discounted these connections. The novel is widely accepted to be a story about a woman’s journey to self-actualisation through the relationships she has with the men in her life. Much of the criticism related to the novel is based on this aspect of it, with many stating that Janie’s voice is often silenced by the third-person narrator at crucial moments in the text and that, as a consequence, she does not achieve complete self-actualisation by the end of the novel. This thesis will examine the significance of the shifts between first-person and thirdperson narration and the manifestations of other voices or means of articulation, which give the novel a multi-vocal quality. The importance of this innovation will also be considered, particularly when it is taken into account that Hurston sought to incorporate some elements associated with the oral tradition into her work as a writer of fiction.

This study evaluates perception differences of male and female narrators in video game tutorials. Video games have long been considered a masculine pursuit, and because of this, women have endured unpleasant surroundings and interactions in gaming and related communities. With the proliferation of technologies like Twitch and YouTube gaming, gaming is more communicative than ever, increasing potential for problematic interactions. Recent booms in these technologies emphasize the importance of understanding how varying demographics are perceived, as these perceptions influence interactions, potentially limiting the likelihood of women and others' involvement and interest. Involvement in technology during youth is associated with interests in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers--all fields with disparities in women's employment. Measures included confidence, credibility, performance, trustworthiness, and leadership ability to better understand how the integration of communicative technologies into gaming influences perceptions based on cues--in this case, specifically voice. Male narrators were hypothesized to be evaluated as more confident and credible than female narrators overall, while performance, trustworthiness, and leadership evaluations were hypothesized to be moderated by one's own gender identity. No significant differences emerged, which suggests a positive change in climate for female gamers and leaders in the industry.

It is evident in Antjie Krog's oeuvre that autobiographical aspects and themes play an important role in her work, and that such aspects are in fact characteristic of all her work. In this study the relation between the autobiographical material in 'n Ander Tongval (2003) and in some of her volumes of poetry is researched. It is clear from the theoretical works that were consulted that the relation between the text and "reality" can be extremely complex, because all autobiographical texts always contain both autobiographical and fictional aspects. In the autobiographical text the writer must constantly negotiate between the public and the private; in other words what the writer chooses to remember and reveal, and what is concealed. There are significant similarities between the autobiographical memories in 'n Ander Tongva/ and a number of Antjie Krog's poems from the volumes Dogter van Jefta, Otters in bronslaai, Jerusa/emgangers, Lady Anne, Gedigte 1989 - 1995 and Kleur kom nooit aileen nie. It is evident, however, that the same information is presented very differently in the poetic and narrative texts. Krog uses her memory very selectively and she manipulates her memories in the representation of the poems. A reason for this may be that she regards her poetry as personal, while the autobiographical text was written for a bigger audience. The same argument applies to her use of different voices ("I" as well as other voices) which is used in both texts.
Thesis (M.A. (Afrikaans and Dutch))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009.

Truman Capote, autor, roteirista e dramaturgo Americano, foi um dos principais escritores americanos de ficção do período pós-guerra, conhecido por receber ampla notoriedade pelo seu romance best-seller In Cold Blood, de 1965, por um estilo de escrita que misturava literatura e jornalismo. No entanto, o trabalho de Capote se estende além do romance antes mencionado. O autor, que se tornaria famoso por sua personalidade também, revelou grande talento como escritor desde muito jovem, trabalhando com temas muito relacionados à sua vida pessoal. Durante minhas leituras de seus trabalhos, eu pude perceber que o narrador que Capote criava trazia o leitor muito mais próximo à história. O propósito da minha dissertação é fazer uma análise do narrador de Capote para poder discutir suas técnicas específicas. Para tal, escolhi trabalhar com a teoria da narratologia, que não apenas é o estudo da narrativa e da estrutura de um texto, mas também sobre como ele afeta nossas percepções como leitores. Através de uma análise de aspectos como focalização e discurso do narrador, minha intenção foi traçar uma relação entre o narrador de Capote com seu autor implícito para poder entender como isso afeta nossa experiência de leitura e seu relacionamento com o leitor. Para essa análise, eu escolhi o primeiro romance publicado de Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948), porque acredito que conta uma história que pareceu surgir de emoções altamente reprimidas do autor sobre sua infância e crescimento. Além disso, tentarei identificar onde elementos biográficos podem ter inspirado alguns dos eventos presentes na história, na tentativa de estabelecer uma conexão com os eventos de sua vida real e o quanto elas interferiam em sua ficção. teoria que em destaque nesse trabalho são os trabalhos da autora Mieke Bal (2009) e de Herman & Vervaeck (2005), para poder trazer os termos que ajudam a continuar com a discussão. Ao fim desta análise, espero mostrar o que há por baixo de um narrador cuidadosamente construído, e que o leitor seja capaz de perceber Truman Capote por mais do que sua famosa personalidade, mas também como um escritor cuidadoso e focado que era apaixonado por sua arte.
American novelist, screenwriter and playwright Truman Capote was one of the leading American authors of fiction of the post-war period, known for receiving wide notoriety for his 1965 best seller In Cold Blood, for a style of writing that mixed literature and journalism. However, Capote’s works extend beyond the aforementioned novel. The author, who would eventually become famous for his personality as well, revealed great talent as a writer since a very young age, working with themes closely related to his personal life. During my readings of his works, I was able to perceive that the narrator Capote creates brings the reader much closer to the story. The purpose of this thesis is to carry out an analysis of Capote’s narrator in order to discuss his particular techniques. In order to do that, I chose to work with the theory of narratology, which is not only the study of narrative and the narrative structure of a text, but also of how it affects our perceptions as readers. Through an analysis of aspects such as focalization and the narrator’s discourse, my intention was to trace a relation between the narrator with Capote’s implied author in order to understand how this affects the reading experience and the relationship with the reader. For this analysis, I chose Capote’s first published novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948), because I believe that it tells a story that seem to come from the highly suppressed emotions of the author about his childhood and growing up. I will also attempt to identify where biographical elements might have inspired some of the events that appear in the story, attempting to establish connection to the events of his real life and how much it interfered in his fiction. As to the theory that underlines this work, I chose the works of Mieke Bal (2009) and Herman & Vervaeck (2005), in order to bring light to terms that help further the discussion. By the end of this analysis, I hope to show what lies beneath a carefully constructed narrator, and that the reader will be able to perceive Truman Capote for more than his famous personality, but also as a careful and focused writer that was passionate about his craft.

Este estudo apresenta a escritora chilena María Luisa Bombal ao cenário da crítica literária brasileira, destacando brevemente suas obras, porém detendo-se em A amortalhada, escrita em 1938. Assim, buscar-se-á mostrar alguns recursos recorrentes nesta obra da autora, sobretudo no que tange à(s) voz(es) apresentada(s) no desenvolver-se da narrativa, ou seja, analisar como se dá o discurso. Em particular, na pesquisa, tratar-se-á de ritmo, rima e sinestesias, recursos que contribuem para que a obra seja de uma simbologia, rara e precisa.
We intend to introduce this study about Chilean writer María Luisa Bombal´s life and work to the scenery of Brazilian literary criticism, trying to analize more closely La amortajada (The shrouded woman) (1938) considered extremely important in Chilean and international literary milien. We will emplacize certain narrative devices like the use of differet voices in the discourse, all along the plot, rhythm, rhyme and synesthesy which contribute to the creation of a typical symbology, rare and need.

Volume One, the adult literary novel, Dissection, is a portrayal of the inner world of Anna McBride, a female GP who has been sued for medical negligence. The novel spans the three-month period prior to Anna's mediation meeting with a young male patient, now the plaintiff, and his mother. Central to the writing of Dissection is the rendering of the consciousness of a woman who, in the wake of what she perceives to be a grave error of judgement, unflinchingly questions her worth and her relationships with others. Volume Two, the exegesis, examines various literary techniques (autonomous monologue, narrated monologue and communal narration) used in the representation of the consciousness of female characters in Marie Darrieussecq's 'A brief stay with the living' and Jacinta Halloran's 'Dissection'. With reference to the work of narratologists, Susan Lanser and Dorrit Cohn, these literary techniques are analysed in the context of two contemporary novels that seek to represent women's inner lives.

Este trabalho apresenta uma reflexão sobre a produção literária de João Guimarães Rosa publicada em jornais e revistas no período de 1947 a 1954, momento localizado entre seu primeiro livro publicado, Sagarana (1946), e os dois livros de 1956, Corpo de baile e Grande sertão: veredas. Procurando desvelar a constituição de uma voz narrativa em primeira pessoa em seu tenso enlace entre impessoalidade e aproximação, mediado pela consciência dos impasses, o foco analítico privilegia uma carta na qual o escritor delineia uma poética precisa que se faz em resposta ao presente histórico, e três narrativas, O mau humor de Wotan (1948), Com o vaqueiro Mariano (1947-8) e Pé-duro, chapéu-de-couro (1952), lidas como textos de circunstância que partilham de um alinhamento ético no qual a busca pela forma implica uma atitude política de resistência.
This work presents an approach to João Guimarães Rosas literary production published in periodicals between 1947 and 1954, a moment located between his first published book, Sagarana (1946), and the works of 1956, Corpo de baile and Grande sertão: veredas. Seeking to unveil the constitution of a first person narrative voice in its tense bond between impersonality and approximation, mediated by the consciousness of its impasses, the analytical focus is directed towards a letter in which the writer delineates a precise poetics in response to the historical present, and three narratives, O mau humor de Wotan (1948), Com o vaqueiro Mariano (1947-8) e Pé-duro, chapéu-de-couro (1952), perceived as texts of circumstance that share an ethical alignment in which the search for form implies a political act of resistance.

Les épopées d’Homère et de Virgile, la Chanson de Roland sont marquées par une alternance qui peut paraître capricieuse. En fait, on la saisit beaucoup mieux dès lors qu’on prend en compte la présence des corps : ceux du jongleur, de l’aède, du récitant ; le corps du public. Postures, gestuelle, mouvements, regard, souffle, musique s’articulent à cette alternance pour en faire une véritable danse. Cette thèse étudie d’abord comment dansent chacun des temps principaux du récit dans ces épopées, en accordant la priorité à Homère et au Roland ; puis elle étudie comment cette danse des temps prend corps dans chacune des petites pièces dont nous décelons que sont composées les épopées anciennes comme le Roland : les laisses
The Homeric and Virgilian epics, as well as the Chanson de Roland are full of tenseswitching, the use of which might seem capricious to the modern reader. It is in fact much better understood when bodies’ presence is taken into account — these bodies being the bard’s one as well as the audience’s. Postures, gestures, moves, eyes, breath, music are joint partners to tenseswitching, so that tenses really dance in epics. This study is firstly about how each one of the main narrative tenses dances in Homer and the Roland, and also in the Æneid. Then it studies the way tenses dance in each of the small pieces we find in the classical epics as well as in the Roland : the laisses

Cette thèse est une analyse de la trilogie de ʼAḥlām Mustaġānimī, une des premières auteures algériennes en arabe avec l’analyse formelle et les travaux de Genette. L’introduction aborde la méthodologie et la problématique. Comment les romans sont-ils tissés en une trilogie et pourquoi ont-ils eu un tel succès auprès du lectorat arabophone ? Ce qui en amène un autre : comment l'histoire algérienne est-elle incluse dans la trilogie. La première partie montre que ces romans sont le reflet de la vie de Mustaġānimī et de son engagement, à travers les dédicaces et la langue arabe dont des générations ont été privées. La deuxième partie reprend les outils de l'approche formelle pour déterminer le mécanisme du suspense par le démontage du texte narratif en les éléments constitutifs du récit principal, l’histoire d’amour, et ses interruptions. Elle montre la grande sensibilité de ʼAḥlām Mustaġānimī à la place de la femme et à la politique algérienne avant et après l’indépendance. La dernière partie, avec les intertextualités et les styles linguistiques, analyse le texte, et la poésie de son écriture. Cette maitrise de la langue arabe par Mustaġānimī est une des causes de son succès dans le lectorat arabophone. Cette thèse montre l’intérêt de ces méthodes d’analyse, expliquant et objectivant les ressentis du lecteur. Enfin, Mustaġānimī se retrouve dans le protagoniste implicite de la trilogie qui est donc une « intrusion » dans la vie de l'écrivaine
This thesis is an analysis of the trilogy of ʼAḥlām Mustaġānimī, one of the first Algerian authors in Arabic with formal analysis and the works of Genette.The introduction discusses the methodology and the issue. How are the novels woven into a trilogy and why have they been so popular with the Arabic-speaking readership? Which leads to another: how Algerian history is included in the trilogy. The first part shows that these novels are a reflection of Mustaġānimī's life and his commitment, through the dedications and the Arabic language of which generations have been deprived. The second part uses the tools of the formal approach to determine the mechanism of suspense by disassembling the narrative text into the constituent elements of the main story, the love story, and its interruptions. It shows ʼAḥlām Mustaġānimī's great sensitivity to the place of women and to Algerian politics before and after independence. The last part, with intertextualities and linguistic styles, analyzes the text, and the poetry of its writing. This mastery of the Arabic language by Mustaġānimī is one of the causes of his success in the Arabic-speaking readership. This thesis shows the interest of these methods of analysis, explaining and objectifying the feelings of the reader. Finally, Mustaġānimī finds himself in the implicit protagonist of the trilogy, which is therefore an “intrusion” into the life of the writer

This study draws on poststructuralist narratology in order to examine a trilogy of novels by the Italian-Canadian author Nino Ricci, in the context of diaspora and multilingualism in general, and Italian-Canadian writing more specifically. The novels by Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints (1990), In a Glass House (1993) and Where She Has Gone (1997), which were translated from English into Italian by Gabriella Iacobucci in 2004, narrate the personal experience of an Italian family before and after they emigrate to Canada and are characterised by the use of codeswitching (the passage from English to Standard Italian dialect and vice versa).

Det här kandidatarbetet syftar till att synliggöra länken mellan kroppen och narrativet, och i utförandet belysa och problematisera befintliga maktstrukturer som reproduceras i medietekniska gestaltningar. Genom begreppen situerad kunskap och embodiment reflekterar jag över ifall berättelser, likt kunskap, kan berikas genom akten av begränsning och vad som sker när berättelser färdas från sin originella kontext till en annan. Jag undersöker stereotyp representation av minoriteter så som funktionsförändrade i film, och reflekterar därefter kring mina egna försök att gestalta narrativ utanför min egen situerade kontext. Jag vill uppnå en position i mitt eget gestaltande där jag kan tala om de konstruerade verkligheter jag producerar, acceptera mitt hantverk som en makt-teknologi, och ta steg till att skapa normkritiska gestaltningar med hjälp av metoderna designfiktion och diffraktion. Genom att använda webbteknologier för att förflytta fiktiva narrativ mellan de kroppar jag har gestaltat, hoppas jag kunna reflektera över vad som gör ett narrativ universellt och när de bör ses som situerade.
This Bachelor's thesis aims to shed light on the connection between the body and the narrative, and in the execution illuminate and problematize existing power structures that are being replicated in media technical designs. Together with the terms situated knowledges and embodiment I reflect upon if stories, like knowledge, can be enriched through the act of limitation and what happens as stories are transported from their original context to another. I examine stereotypical representation of minorities in film, such as the differently abled, and thereafter reflect upon my own attempts to illustrate narratives beyond my own situated context. I aim to reach a position within my own designing where I can talk about the constructed realities that I replicate, accept my craft as a technology of power, and take steps towards creating designs that are critical of the norm, using the methods design fiction and diffraction as tools. By using web technologies to transport my fictional narratives between bodies, I hope to reflect upon what makes a narrative universal and when they are to be considered situated.

Children are among those most directly affected by food insecurity, a condition in which households lack access to adequate food because of money or other resources (Gundersen & Ziliak, 2015). According to the latest United States Department of Agriculture (2016) reporting, 1 in 5 children experiences hunger on a daily basis. That ratio increases for African American and Latino children whom experience 1 in 3 ratios. While many programs exist to address this growing problem among youth and impoverished families, the efficacy of those programs is yet to be determined and the problem of hunger in America persists. This qualitative research study utilized an innovative methodological approach to explore youth food justice narratives from two cross-town middle schools in Kentucky. Through the use of photos, students identified several factors that influence their ability to meet their food needs and areas of inequity within their community. Strategies were provided for policymakers and educators to address these issues.

'In Two Minds' is a novel of false beliefs. Set in contemporary Sydney, it deals with the relationship between two sisters in their late thirties, Kara and Linda Hille. Told in the second person singular from the point of view of the elder sister, Linda, it is based around the neurological delusion of the younger sibling, Kara. Kara wrongly believes that their mother, Stella, has been replaced by an impostor, 'Mrs. Whitegloves'. For the greater part, the narrative 'you' relates events in the sisters' lives and deals with issues such as the consequences of condoned child abuse, the dilemma of human cloning and the future of 'the brand' in the light of contemporary global marketing. Linda, an advertising executive, struggles with a formidable work-project, an account that is lost to a competitor, and the mistaken belief that she is responsible for her sister's plight. Shocking graffiti about herself, which appears at the same time as she wins an advertising award, proves to be the catalyst that brings beneficial change to her life. Through the tragedy of confronting her sister's devastation and her own challenges, Linda leaves her job, believing this will allow her to start again - differently. In the final chapter, the difference is registered in a shift from the second person to the consolidated first person method of narration. ABSTRACT EXEGESIS The dissertation 'A Singular Voice' documents aspects of authorial, psychoanalytical and literary significance in the creation of a fiction which draws on personal material confrontational to the writer. It also discusses some wider (non-fictional and other) uses of the narrative 'you' in order to establish the literary tradition in which the novel 'In Two Minds' may be situated. This disseration examines the use of the second-person singular pronoun 'you' as narrator, mainly in contemporary fiction. It concentrates on the ways in which the narrative 'you' was employed to achieve a 'cover', mask or persona for the 'I' behind the text in the novel 'In Two Minds', and explains why it was necessary to seek such subterfuge. It describes how certain grammatical and rhetorical resources were used to build and maintain 'cover', while at the same time allowing the narrative 'you' to express a particular aspect of the fictional protagonist, address the reader, and sustain the story of which it is the intradiegetic narratee. Related narrative elements include construction of the characters through the use of the narrative 'you', for example the narcissistic mother, Stella; the phantom double, 'Mrs. Whitegloves'; the sufferer of Capgras' delusion, Kara; and the ultimate bearer of the singular 'you' voice, the protagonist Linda.

Durant segles, la interpretació oral de contes i històries ha sigut una tradició mundial lligada a l’entreteniment, la educació, i la perpetuació de la cultura. En les últimes dècades, alguns treballs s’han centrat en analitzar aquest estil de parla ric en matisos expressius caracteritzats per determinats patrons acústics. En relació a això, també hi ha hagut un interès creixent en desenvolupar aplicacions de contar contes, com ara les de contacontes interactius. Aquesta tesi està orientada a millorar aspectes claus d’aquest tipus d’aplicacions: millorar la naturalitat de la parla sintètica expressiva a partir d’analitzar la parla de contacontes en detall, a més a més de proporcionar un millor llenguatge no verbal a un avatar parlant mitjançant la sincronització de la parla i els gestos. Per aconseguir aquests objectius és necessari comprendre les característiques acústiques d’aquest estil de parla i la interacció de la parla i els gestos. Pel que fa a característiques acústiques de la parla de contacontes, la literatura relacionada ha treballat en termes de prosòdia, mentre que només ha estat suggerit que la qualitat de la veu pot jugar un paper important per modelar les subtileses d’aquest estil. En aquesta tesi, el paper tant de la prosòdia com de la qualitat de la veu en l’estil indirecte de la parla de contacontes en diferents idiomes és analitzat per identificar les principal categories expressives que la composen i els paràmetres acústics que les caracteritzen. Per fer-ho, es proposa una metodologia d’anotació per aquest estil de parla a nivell de oració basada en modes de discurs dels contes (mode narratiu, descriptiu, i diàleg), introduint a més sub-modes narratius. Considerant aquesta metodologia d’anotació, l’estil indirecte d’una història orientada a una audiència jove (cobrint versions en castellà, anglès, francès, i alemany) és analitzat en termes de prosòdia i qualitat de la veu mitjançant anàlisis estadístics i discriminants, després de classificar els àudios de les oracions de la història en les seves categories expressives. Els resultats confirmen l’existència de les categories de contes amb diferències expressives subtils en tots els idiomes més enllà dels estils personals dels narradors. En aquest sentit, es presenten evidències que suggereixen que les categories expressives dels contes es transmeten amb matisos expressius més subtils que en les emocions bàsiques, després de comparar els resultats obtinguts amb aquells de parla emocional. Els anàlisis també mostren que la prosòdia i la qualitat de la veu contribueixen pràcticament de la mateixa manera a l’hora de discriminar entre les categories expressives dels contes, les quals son expressades amb patrons acústics similars en tots els idiomes analitzats. Cal destacar també la gran relació observada en la selecció de categoria per cada oració que han fet servir els diferents narradors encara quan, que sapiguem, no se’ls hi va donar cap indicació. Per poder traslladar totes aquestes categories a un sistema de text a parla basat en corpus, caldria enregistrar un corpus per cada categoria. No obstant, crear diferents corpus ad-hoc esdevé un tasca molt laboriosa. En la tesi, s’introdueix una alternativa basada en una metodologia d’anàlisi orientada a síntesi dissenyada per derivar models de regles des de un petit però representatiu conjunt d’oracions, que poden poder ser utilitzats per generar parla amb estil de contacontes a partir de parla neutra. Els experiments sobre suspens creixent com a prova de concepte mostren la viabilitat de la proposta en termes de naturalitat i similitud respecte un narrador de contes real. Finalment, pel que fa a interacció entre parla i gestos, es realitza un anàlisi de sincronia i èmfasi orientat a controlar un avatar de contacontes en 3D. Al tal efecte, es defineixen indicadors de força tant per els gestos com per la parla. Després de validar-los amb tests perceptius, una regla d’intensitat s’obté de la seva correlació. A més a més, una regla de sincronia es deriva per determinar correspondències temporals entre els gestos i la parla. Aquests anàlisis s’han dut a terme sobre interpretacions neutres i agressives per part d’un actor per cobrir un gran rang de nivells d’èmfasi, com a primer pas per avaluar la integració d’un avatar parlant després del sistema de text a parla.
Durante siglos, la interpretación oral de cuentos e historias ha sido una tradición mundial ligada al entretenimiento, la educación, y la perpetuación de la cultura. En las últimas décadas, algunos trabajos se han centrado en analizar este estilo de habla rico en matices expresivos caracterizados por determinados patrones acústicos. En relación a esto, también ha habido un interés creciente en desarrollar aplicaciones de contar cuentos, como las de cuentacuentos interactivos. Esta tesis está orientada a mejorar aspectos claves de este tipo de aplicaciones: mejorar la naturalidad del habla sintética expresiva a partir de analizar el habla de cuentacuentos en detalle, además de proporcionar un mejor lenguaje no verbal a un avatar parlante mediante la sincronización del habla y los gestos. Para conseguir estos objetivos es necesario comprender las características acústicas de este estilo de habla y la interacción del habla y los gestos. En cuanto a características acústicas del habla de narradores de cuentos, la literatura relacionada ha trabajado en términos de prosodia, mientras que sólo ha sido sugerido que la calidad de la voz puede jugar un papel importante para modelar las sutilezas de este estilo. En esta tesis, el papel tanto de la prosodia como de la calidad de la voz en el estilo indirecto del habla de cuentacuentos en diferentes idiomas es analizado para identificar las principales categorías expresivas que componen este estilo de habla y los parámetros acústicos que las caracterizan. Para ello, se propone una metodología de anotación a nivel de oración basada en modos de discurso de los cuentos (modo narrativo, descriptivo, y diálogo), introduciendo además sub-modos narrativos. Considerando esta metodología de anotación, el estilo indirecto de una historia orientada a una audiencia joven (cubriendo versiones en castellano, inglés, francés, y alemán) es analizado en términos de prosodia y calidad de la voz mediante análisis estadísticos y discriminantes, después de clasificar los audios de las oraciones de la historia en sus categorías expresivas. Los resultados confirman la existencia de las categorías de cuentos con diferencias expresivas sutiles en todos los idiomas más allá de los estilos personales de los narradores. En este sentido, se presentan evidencias que sugieren que las categorías expresivas de los cuentos se transmiten con matices expresivos más sutiles que en las emociones básicas, tras comparar los resultados obtenidos con aquellos de habla emocional. Los análisis también muestran que la prosodia y la calidad de la voz contribuyen prácticamente de la misma manera a la hora de discriminar entre las categorías expresivas de los cuentos, las cuales son expresadas con patrones acústicos similares en todos los idiomas analizados. Cabe destacar también la gran relación observada en la selección de categoría para cada oración que han utilizado los diferentes narradores aun cuando, que sepamos, no se les dio ninguna indicación. Para poder trasladar todas estas categorías a un sistema de texto a habla basado en corpus, habría que grabar un corpus para cada categoría. Sin embargo, crear diferentes corpus ad-hoc es una tarea muy laboriosa. En la tesis, se introduce una alternativa basada en una metodología de análisis orientada a síntesis diseñada para derivar modelos de reglas desde un pequeño pero representativo conjunto de oraciones, que pueden ser utilizados para generar habla de cuentacuentos a partir de neutra. Los experimentos sobre suspense creciente como prueba de concepto muestran la viabilidad de la propuesta en términos de naturalidad y similitud respecto a un narrador de cuentos real. Finalmente, en cuanto a interacción entre habla y gestos, se realiza un análisis de sincronía y énfasis orientado a controlar un avatar cuentacuentos en 3D. Al tal efecto, se definen indicadores de fuerza tanto para gestos como para habla. Después de validarlos con tests perceptivos, una regla de intensidad se obtiene de su correlación. Además, una regla de sincronía se deriva para determinar correspondencias temporales entre los gestos y el habla. Estos análisis se han llevado a cabo sobre interpretaciones neutras y agresivas por parte de un actor para cubrir un gran rango de niveles de énfasis, como primer paso para evaluar la integración de un avatar parlante después del sistema de texto a habla.
For ages, the oral interpretation of tales and stories has been a worldwide tradition tied to entertainment, education, and perpetuation of culture. During the last decades, some works have focused on the analysis of this particular speaking style rich in subtle expressive nuances represented by specific acoustic cues. In line with this fact, there has also been a growing interest in the development of storytelling applications, such as those related to interactive storytelling. This thesis deals with one of the key aspects of audiovisual storytellers: improving the naturalness of the expressive synthetic speech by analysing the storytelling speech in detail, together with providing better non-verbal language to a speaking avatar by synchronizing that speech with its gestures. To that effect, it is necessary to understand in detail the acoustic characteristics of this particular speaking style and the interaction between speech and gestures. Regarding the acoustic characteristics of storytelling speech, the related literature has dealt with the acoustic analysis of storytelling speech in terms of prosody, being only suggested that voice quality may play an important role for the modelling of its subtleties. In this thesis, the role of both prosody and voice quality in indirect storytelling speech is analysed across languages to identify the main expressive categories it is composed of together with the acoustic parameters that characterize them. To do so, an analysis methodology is proposed to annotate this particular speaking style at the sentence level based on storytelling discourse modes (narrative, descriptive, and dialogue), besides introducing narrative sub-modes. Considering this annotation methodology, the indirect speech of a story oriented to a young audience (covering the Spanish, English, French, and German versions) is analysed in terms of prosody and voice quality through statistical and discriminant analyses, after classifying the sentence-level utterances of the story in their corresponding expressive categories. The results confirm the existence of storytelling categories containing subtle expressive nuances across the considered languages beyond narrators' personal styles. In this sense, evidences are presented suggesting that such storytelling expressive categories are conveyed with subtler speech nuances than basic emotions by comparing their acoustic patterns to the ones obtained from emotional speech data. The analyses also show that both prosody and voice quality contribute almost equally to the discrimination among storytelling expressive categories, being conveyed with similar acoustic patterns across languages. It is also worth noting the strong relationship observed in the selection of the expressive category per utterance across the narrators even when, up to our knowledge, no previous indications were given to them. In order to translate all these expressive categories to a corpus-based Text-To-Speech system, the recording of a speech corpus for each category would be required. However, building ad-hoc speech corpora for each and every specific expressive style becomes a very daunting task. In this work, we introduce an alternative based on an analysis-oriented-to-synthesis methodology designed to derive rule-based models from a small but representative set of utterances, which can be used to generate storytelling speech from neutral speech. The experiments conducted on increasing suspense as a proof of concept show the viability of the proposal in terms of naturalness and storytelling resemblance. Finally, in what concerns the interaction between speech and gestures, an analysis is performed in terms of time and emphasis oriented to drive a 3D storytelling avatar. To that effect, strength indicators are defined for speech and gestures. After validating them through perceptual tests, an intensity rule is obtained from their correlation. Moreover, a synchrony rule is derived to determine temporal correspondences between speech and gestures. These analyses have been conducted on aggressive and neutral performances to cover a broad range of emphatic levels as a first step to evaluate the integration of a speaking avatar after the expressive Text-To-Speech system.

This literary study examines the formulation of masculinity in Syrian novels authored by women. The thesis covers the period between 1959 and 2000, corresponding to both the development of the female-authored novel in Syria and the creation of the modern Syrian state. This research engages with studies of masculinity in general and literary masculinity studies in particular. Drawing on the seminal work of Raewyn Connell as well as engaging with studies on masculinity and feminine narratology in Swedish, English and Arabic, the thesis analyses the formulation of literary masculinity through the fictional societies’ ideal masculinity on the one hand, and the female characters’ views and reactions to masculinity on the other. From a general survey of the field, 34 novels undertaking the formulation of gendered relations were identified and chosen for this study. From this selection, five themes emerged, forming the foundation of this thesis’ main chapters. The five themes explore, in turn, how stereotypes are utilised to critique gender roles, ways in which male and female characters collaborate to formulate gender norms, how female characters capitalise on patriarchy in order to enhance their lives, male characters as symbols for social and political change and finally, the difficulties included in the performance of masculinity. Each theme is exemplified through one novel, which is analysed in detail. Throughout the five chapters, the main novel chosen for analysis is put into conversation with other novels with similar themes but from different decades. This allows for an examination of changing ideals of masculinity in addition to the theme itself. The first theme, how stereotypes are utilised to critique gender roles, is studied through a close reading of al-Ẓahr al-‘ārī (The Naked back) by Hanrīyit ‘Abbūdī. The analysis illustrates how the expected normative behaviour of men and women is utilised in order to comment on the formulation of gender roles. The chapter further demonstrates ways in which what is seen as gender specific behaviour can be appropriated by the opposite gender. This is further developed through the examination of female writers taking over the male voice through a first person male narrator. The second theme, ways in which male and female characters collaborate to formulate gender norms, is discussed through a close reading of the novel Khaṭawāt fī al-ḍabāb (Steps in the fog) by Malāḥa al-Khānī. This chapter illustrates the similar expectations that both male and female characters have on their sons and fellow male characters. This includes taking on the role of provider and protector, even in the cases where the female characters are able to look after themselves. The third theme, how female characters capitalise on patriarchy in order to enhance their lives, is elaborated through a close reading of Ayyām ma‘ahu (Days with him) by Kūlīt Khūrī. This theme demonstrates how the female character constructs herself and her world around the idea of a perfect male, whom she thinks will save her. The analysis examines what is seen as ideal traits in a man. It further discusses the change of the female character and how her initial utilisation of patriarchal structure transforms into a critique of the same structure. The fourth theme, male characters as symbols for social and political change, is seen through a close reading of Dimashq yā basmat al-ḥuzn (Damascus, o smile of sadness) by Ulfat al-Idlibī. The chapter connects between changing social ideals and ideal masculinity. Through Bayrūt 75 (Beirut 75) by Ghāda al-Sammān, the fifth theme, the difficulties included in the performance of masculinity, is studied. The problematic masculinity presented is then put in contrast with what appears to be a suggestion that a performance of femininity could be an alternative to unsuccessful masculinity. Whereas the novels differ in their presentation of masculinity and the utilisation of ideal masculinity, they agree on a set of core traits summarised in a hegemonic ideal of masculinity as an ability to provide and protect. The ways in which this should be performed is however closely connected to the female characters’ ideas of emancipation and women’s rights. The female writers’ formulation of masculinity can hence be said to mirror the development of the female characters and their awareness of women’s rights. The thesis hopes that its original contribution to knowledge is the identification and examination of constructed masculinities in Syrian female-authored fiction. Moreover, this thesis studies a body of Syrian fiction previously largely unstudied in Western academia, and in a framework of Swedish, English and Arabic secondary sources.

The provision of special education for disabled students has seemingly improved in African countries during the past decade (UNESCO, 1997) and more options for studies are being offered. Although a number of disabled students enrol in universities, there seems to be a lack of appropriate action in providing equal opportunities for them. In general, higher educational institutions are not well prepared to accommodate disabled students, although there are exceptions. Many universities around the world, are already accommodating disabled students, and are progressively embracing principles of inclusion, as the diverse student body has increasingly begun to challenge the previously assumed approaches to meeting their service provisions and support. The adoption of the UNESCO, Salamanca Framework and the Dakar Framework for Action at the two World Conferences in 1994 and 2000 respectively, affirmed the notion of Inclusive Education as one fundamental key strategy to address issues of support, provisions marginalization and exclusion in education. The Frameworks brought challenges on higher education, in particular, in terms of strategic planning to ensure compliance, as well as redefining how provisions may be organised to better meet the needs of students. Within this context, concerns about the student experience have also become more prominent, with questions about support and service provision for disabled students being raised. In recent years, emphasis has been placed on exploring how students can contribute to their own learning and the development of educational practice. However, less emphasis has been given on how disabled students can contribute to policy reform in educational settings. This thesis explored aspects of contributions of disabled students in a higher education institution in Zimbabwe regarding issues of provision and support for inclusion. This is an area that deserves investigation not only at the micro level, but at the meso (national) levels of nation states, because it provides a potential platform to think more strategically about inclusive policies and practices. Notably, very little is known in Zimbabwe, about disabled students’ experiences of inclusion in higher education. It has been observed that describing experiences of disabled students without consulting the students themselves is not an easy task (UNESCO, 1997). The implication of this therefore, is that disabled students’ voices need to be sought. It was therefore, through such a case study that disabled students’ voices were engaged in order to get to know a bit about these students’ experiences in a higher educational institute. The findings of this study therefore, seemed to indicate that attempts at inclusion in higher education in Zimbabwe are not supported by appropriate attitudes, motivation and adequacy of services and provisions which policy and legislation should undergird.

"Dead voices", oeuvre de Gerald Vizenor, écrivain et poète d'origine ojibwé, est un récit polyphonique qui oscille entre écriture et oralité, une alternance déployée par la présence du trickster Bagese, personnage principal. La structure de l'oeuvre s'articule autour du jeu de wanaki qui impose la métamorphose comme règle nécessaire à son déroulement et pose la question de l'identité et de sa représentation par le langage. "
"Dead voices" is a trickster novel by Gerald Vizenor, a native American Indian writer. The narratives combine oral and written language thanks to the presence of the trickster Bagese, the main character. The structure of the novel revolves around the Wanaki game which adresses the question of identities and language representations

I dagens samhälle blir underhållningen mer digital, det blir allt mer vanligt att lyssna på en ljudbok istället för att läsa själv. Eftersom spelindustrin är en av de populäraste formerna av underhållning idag ville vi undersöka hur man kan använda sig av audionarrotologi inom spel. Audionarratologi är läran och studien om ljudets funktion inom ett narrativ. Termen är ett paraplybegrepp från narratologi vilket är läran och studien om narrativ. Vi har använt oss audionarratologi för att se hur ljudet kan samverka med ett textbaserat solo-äventyrsspel, eftersom ljudeffekter vanligtvis inte är ett fokus i spel av denna genre. Vi har utvecklat ett textbaserat spel utan en visuell bild med fokus på text och ljud för att kunna utföra vår undersökning om ljudets roll i ett textbaserat spel. Vi har utfört en kvalitativ studie för att ta reda på vad som är det mest optimala sättet att använda sig av ljud för att förstärka narrativet i ett spel. Programmet som användes för utvecklandet av spelet var Twine. I vårt spel får spelare göra olika val för att kunna fortsätta berättelsen, undersökningen utfördes genom att respondenterna fick fylla i ett frågeformulär och svara på vad de tyckte om ljudet i spelet och hur det påverkade narrativet. Med hjälp av svaren har vi sedan dragit slutsatsen att en bra ljudmix och jämna mellanrum mellan ljud och röster stärker narrativet
In today's society where entertainment is becoming more digital, and it is becoming more common to listen to an audiobook instead of reading one yourself. The game media is one of the most popular forms of entertainment in today's society, we want to see how to make use of audionarrotolgy in video games. Audionarratology is the doctrine and study of the function of sound within a story and a narrative, the term is an umbrella concept from narratology which is the doctrine and study of narration. We've used audionarrotolgy to see how the sound can cooperate with a text-based solo adventure story game, because sound effects are usually not a focus in games of this genre. We have developed a text-based game without visual imagery and with a focus on text and sound, in order to perform research on the role of sound in a text-based game. We conducted a qualitative study to find out what the most optimal way to use sound to reinforce the story in a game. The program that was used to develop the game was Twine. The survey was conducted by respondents filling out a questionnaire and answering what they liked about the sound of the game and how it affected the story. With the help of the answers we have then made our own conclusions for how the sound can interact with the story. We came to the conclusion that having a good sound mix and even intervals for sounds and voices, would make the sound reinforce the narrative.

Within the last three decades, contemporary North America came to reinvent a socially focused genre of literary personal narratives. These new editorial and writing projects, published in the form of collections of personal narratives, emerged as a tool for the socially voiceless to secure some measure of agency in their contemporary social and cultural situation. Projects such as the Freedom Writers’ Diary or volumes of the Voice of Witness book series fit in the process that is currently labeled social empowerment. Witnesses express a deep urge to share their story in the hope to denounce their experience of an enduring social injustice. The written word, primary a means for self-disclosure, serves to exorcise the suffering associated to this specific predicament. The narrators engage in a powerful self-investigative gesture oriented towards resilience and renewed enfranchisement in regaining control over their life and environment. At the moment of publication, however, these testimonies come to be validated as authentic examples of the injustices they disclose. These examples serve an educational purpose: raising the audience’s awareness and opening deliberative fora for these issues to be discussed and for solutions to be hammered out and eventually implemented.

The purpose of this dissertation is to propose a theoretical model for the subgenre of testimonials of social empowerment. With the concept of empowerment as groundwork, the model develops a textual approach framed in a psychosocial structure. I argue that testimonials may be described as examples of Jürgen Habermas’s communicative action. As speech acts aimed at reaching understanding, testimonials capitalize both on the binding and bonding aspects of illocutionary force in the hope to secure with their audience an ongoing dialogue over issues of social justice. The volumes, as unofficial public spheres, mobilize the normative and practical dynamics at work in social movements. These dynamics express as two narrative guiding threads: an aesthetic based on impact, and an ethics based on responsibility. The texts’ aesthetic develops a form of perlocutionary realism instantiating a sense of authenticity and sincerity embodied in the narrators’ voices. The resulting impact is coupled to moral concerns based on a polysemic understanding of social responsibility, on which narrators seek to build their narratives’ ethical potential. A series of case studies allowed to demonstrate that both narrative threads are realized as an appropriation of four paradigmatic forms of rhetorical ethos, each based on a specific realm of the social world: intimacy, justice, spirituality and activism.

Doctorat en Langues et lettres
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The project Language of the Book Volume I-III explores the conceptual and the bodily experience of reading and making books. The essay presents the development of Volume I: Narracube consisting of three storytelling prototypes. With Narracube a format was developed that can invite stories to be told beyond single voices, linear time and fixed points of views. Narracube highlights the active role of a medium in transmission of a message. A book is never a neutral container for ink but an active space of communication in its mere contruction despite its content.
Projektet Bokens språk Volume I-III utforskar den konceptuella och kroppsliga upplevelsen av att läsa och göra böcker. Uppsatsen presenterar utvecklingen av Volume I: Narrakub som består av tre prototyper för berättande. Narrakub är ett format som utvecklats för att undersöka hur konstruktionen av boken kan bjuda in berättelser bortom enstaka röster, linjär tid och låsta perspektiv. Narrakub belyser den aktiva rollen som ett medium har då det sänder ett meddelande. En bok är aldrig en neutral behållare för bläck utan bär på ett aktivt kommunikationsutrymme i sin konstruktion oavsett innehåll.

Dès les premières pages, le Narrateur de la Recherche évoque la voix de sa mère lisant François le champi, pour le plus grand plaisir de l’enfant qu’il a été. Les traces d’une voix douce et enveloppante déposées par cette lecture liminaire, et maintes fois ravivées par la suite, mènent à s’interroger sur l’effet d’un texte soutenu par une voix et sur les liens possibles qu’elle entretient avec la voix narrative. En outre, les rapports riches et complexes que le héros nostalgique entretient avec les voix des autres personnages entrent dans de nombreux passages du récit, souvent abondamment commentés par le Narrateur. Cette étude porte donc sur l’objet tant thématique que poétique constitué par la voix dans la Recherche. On s’est déjà intéressé aux formes d’insatisfaction que suscitent les voix émanant d’un univers où toute chose échappe à qui veut la saisir. Mais on a aussi considéré les dispositifs permettant au héros d’atteindre à une certaine plénitude dans l’écoute vocale, jusqu’à la synesthésie et l’accueil d’un au-delà de la voix à traduire, source d’inspiration littéraire. On s’est en outre penché sur les modalités de l’expérience qu’a de la voix un héros-Narrateur marqué par l’hyperesthésie auditive : s’il fait résonner en lui les voix aimées qui le ravissent, celles qui l’enjoignent brutalement à se conformer le persécutent, en menaçant son génie personnel. On a ainsi été mené à considérer l’écriture de la Recherche comme un geste qui, rendant compte de l’échange oral, le réduit au silence, la voix n’apparaissant dans le roman qu’à travers la sonorisation du texte
From its very first pages, the narrator of Remembrance of Things Past evokes the voice of his mother as she reads François le Champi, to the great pleasure of the child still within. The vestiges of the enveloping, soft voice left by this initial reading, which will reappear at many points in the text, lead us to question the effect of a text carried by such a voice as well as its connection with that of the narration. The rich and complex relationship that the nostalgic hero maintains with other characters' voices also comes into play, frequently commented on by the Narrator. This study therefore looks at the voice in Remembrance both from a thematic and poetic standpoint. We have already looked at the various forms of dissatisfaction engendered by a universe that continually flees those seeking to comprehend it. But we have also considered the devices permitting the hero to achieve a sense of fullness through listening, including the synesthesia and reception of an untranslated otherworldly voice, source of literary inspiration. We have alsoexamined the experiential modalities of the voice belonging to a hero-Narrator marked by auditive hyperesthesia : whether he allows to resonate within him the voices he adores, those which persecute him by brutally insisting on his conformity, thereby threatening his genius. This leads as well to a consideration of the writing of Remembrance as an act which, while incorporating the oral exchange, reduces it to silence, the voice appearing in the text solely through the latter's sound amplification

Littérature et politique, deux domaines distincts qui se retrouvent dans un seul livre ; Kalila et Dimna. Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ, à travers un style littéraire qui adopte la parole amusante qui joint l'utile à l'agréable, traite des questions politiques diverses. Notre travail consiste à dévoiler le côté politique du livre sans pour autant écarter sa dimension littéraire. Ainsi, les trois parties de cette étude ont essayé d'analyser premièrement la représentation du politique dans Kalila et Dimna qui passe par le genre de la fable qui instrumentalise les bêtes de manière particulière pour révéler la réalité du monde humain qui ressemble à celle de la jungle. Puis, deuxièmement, elle a abordé le lien existant entre le discours imaginaire et l'action politique, considérée comme la finalité des démarches entreprises dans l'exercice du pouvoir. Ainsi, nous avons traité des points liés à la conservation du pouvoir et à sa stabilisation comme nous avons évoqué le rapport entre le pouvoir et le savoir. Enfin, nous avons consacré la troisième partie à l'analyse des fondements qui servent d'assise pour l'action politique. Nous en avons étudié trois, il s'agit de la violence, de l'obéissance et de l'esprit de justice.

La fragmentation apparente de l’écriture de David Markson, de Reader’s Block (1996) à TheLast Novel (2007), s’assortit d’une continuité assumée par une voix narrative mise en scènejusque dans sa prétendue disparition. Malgré le rejet des conventions fictionnelles annoncédans This is Not a Novel (2001), Markson fait preuve d’un attachement paradoxal au roman,jouant du caractère protéiforme du genre jusqu’à l’excès plutôt que jusqu’à l’épuisement, dansun style aussi prolifique que minimaliste qui fait la part belle au non dit malgré la présenceoccasionnelle de commentaires métafictionnels. L’analyse de l’ensemble éclectique des écritsde David Markson (1927-2010) montre que la pratique de la citation, qui constitue l’essentielde la matière de ses derniers textes, est à l’oeuvre dès ses débuts d’auteur, et que sousl’apparence d’une différence radicale ses derniers « romans » comportent des traces de sonpassage par le roman policier, l’anthologie, le western, la poésie, ou des formesd’autobiographie et de monologue intérieur. L’influence de Malcolm Lowry dépasse le cadrede l’étude que David Markson consacra à Au-dessous du volcan, ou de son propre « romanmexicain ». Des instruments linguistiques, énonciatifs et cognitifs, permettent d’explorer lefonctionnement du roman « expérimental » de David Markson, et de mettre en évidence lerôle liant de l’anaphore et des marques d’énonciation dans une écriture faussement disjointe etneutre. Donnant à voir ce que masque l’idée de rupture, devenue conventionnelle, le lien soustendla phrase, le texte, et l’oeuvre, malgré un éclatement – partiel – de l’écriture en fragments,et un bouleversement – relatif – de la linéarité
The seeming fragmentation of David Markson’s writing from Reader’s Block (1996) to TheLast Novel (2007) is combined with a form of continuity led by a narrative voice whoseapparent vanishing is merely staged. Despite his claiming to reject all fictional conventions inThis is Not a Novel (2001), Markson proves paradoxically attached to the novel as a form,exploring the multiple possibilities of the genre rather than driving it to exhaustion. His styleis both minimalist and profuse, and leaves much unsaid despite existing – if occasional –metafictional comments. A close reading of the miscellaneous works by David Markson(1927-2010) shows that his extensive use of quotations, making up the main material of hislater works, was a very early hallmark of his writings. For all their apparently radicaldifference, his later texts still bear signs that can be traced back to previous literaryexperiments as varied as detective novels, an anthology, a western, poetry, quasiautobiographyand interior monologue. Malcolm Lowry’s influence on Markson’s workreaches beyond his early study of Under the Volcano and his own « Mexican novel ». Placingthe text under close scrutiny by means of linguistic tools, mainly enunciative and cognitive,provides evidence of the linking role of anaphoric devices and of a subjective handling of adeceitfully disconnected and neutral writing. The search for breaks and breaches has nowbecome conventional, but actually conceals what can be revealed when looking forconnections. Indeed, continuity still underpins sentence, text and work, despite a (partial)splitting of the text into fragments and a (relative) upsetting of linear order

À la fois procédé artistico-littéraire et réflexion intellectuelle, la mise en abyme est une des stratégies de création favorites du romancier Umberto Eco. Certains auteurs ont utilisé cette technique uniquement pour de créer de « simples » jeux de miroirs (comme c’est le cas des Nouveaux Romanciers). Chez Umberto Eco, la mise en abyme est destinée à faire saillir aussi bien l’intelligibilité que la structuration de l’oeuvre. Elle est un principe récursif de la génération de figures et de formes narratives fractales : elle est pour ainsi dire le raisonnement servant comme base dans la création d’un univers romanesque par excellence autoréflexif. Selon une représentation très succincte (mais essentielle), la mise en abyme est ce dispositif narratif consistant à insérer un (ou plusieurs) récit(s) dans le Récit, qui, en reproduisant les caractéristiques de ce dernier va (vont) l’illustrer, l’expliquer et mettre en évidence le/les thème(s) de l’oeuvre
An artistic and literary procedure and, at the same time, an intellectual reflexion, mise en abyme is one of the favorite strategies of creation of the novelist U. Eco. Certain authors have used this technique just to create "simple" games of mirrors (such as the French writers called "Nouveaux Romanciers"). In the case of Umberto Eco, mise en abyme is destined to emphasize both the intelligibility of his work, as well as its being structured in multiple layers of narrativity. We reckon that this is the recursive principle, serving at the generating of fractal shapes and characters: this is therefore the reasoning laying at the foundation of creating a fictional universe self-reflective par excellence. If we want a very concise (but essential) representation, we will say that the mise en abyme is that device consisting of the insertion of one or many more stories into The Story, which, by reproducing the characteristics of the latter, provides us with an explanation and will shed light on the theme / themes of the work

Six courts récits, qui peuvent n’en former qu’un, se penchent sur les possibilités de la voix narrative (à la troisième personne, au « je », au « nous », au « tu »). Ils réfléchissent sur l’acte de création comme construction et sur les effets de la narration. Pour preuve, le dernier texte reprend intégralement le premier. Le fantastique surgit au moment de l’hésitation du lecteur devant la nature des faits qui lui sont présentés. C’est avec les différentes instances que composent les destinateurs et les destinataires du récit que ce texte joue. La voix narrative, dans un texte fantastique, a une grande importance et doit créer une tension chez le lecteur, qui n’arrivera pas à trouver une explication pour certains aspects du récit. Le narrateur, souvent au « je », se confond avec un personnage. À l’aide de l’analyse du déroulement de l’intrigue et des procédés narratifs utilisés dans trois nouvelles : La Vénus d’Ille (Mérimée), Apparition (Maupassant), Ligeia (Poe), nous cherchons à montrer le rôle du narrateur dans le texte fantastique.
Six short stories, which can be grouped into one long story, provide different styles for the narrator: a third-person narrative, an ‘’I’’ narrative, a ‘’we’’ narrative, and a ‘’you’’ narrative. This particular text is a reflection about the act of creating as a progressive construction as well as a reflection on the effects of narration. As a concrete proof, the last part is identical to the first one, but having the whole story in mind gives the same text a different meaning. The fantastic mood emerges with the reader’s hesitation of how to interpret the facts that are presented to him. Globally, this text plays with the instances that provide a literary text and the ones that receive it. The narrative in a fantastic text is very important, and has to create tension in the reader, who will not be able to explain certain aspects of the story. Often, the plot is told in the first person, hence merging the narrator with a character, thus creating a double personality. We try to shine the light on the role of the narrator in a fantastic text by analyzing how the plot unravels and which narrative methods are used in three short stories: La Vénus d’Ille (Mérimée), Apparition (Maupassant), and Ligeia (Poe).

abstract: The utilization of multimedia videos has increasingly become more popular, especially in the field of education. In order to facilitate learning it is important to create a natural interaction between the learner and the on-screen material. This study focused on improving the facilitation of the information within a multimedia learning video by focusing on the gender and quality of computer-synthesized voices. Using a randomized pretest - posttest design the study looked at how the gender of the narrator affected a person's ability to learn and implement a new task. Narration was performed by a male and female, classic and modern synthesized voices to determine if there were gender effects across both generations of voices. The participants’ learned knowledge was assessed through a multiple-choice assessment and a word to image matching transfer assessment. Results showed no significant results. Future studies should consider a more reliable knowledge assessment and utilize and larger sample size.
Dissertation/Thesis
Masters Thesis Human Systems Engineering 2019

Unreliable homodiegetic narration presents a unique mode of narrative transmission which demands the encoding within the text of 'translational indices', that is, signifiers of several kinds which justify the reader/receiver in over-riding the sincere first person avowals of the apparent mediator of the discourse. The argument establishes the presence of an epistemologically primary 'immanent' narrative situation within an ostensibly unitary narrative situation. Such a stereoscopic perspective upon the presented world of the literary 'work provides the reader/receiver with a warrant for a rejection of the epistemological validity of the homodiegetic narrator's discourse. Moreover, the thesis advances a typology of such translational indices as they occur in the dense ontology of the literary work of art. The narratological theory of unreliable homodiegetic narration developed in the first half of the dissertation is applied in the second half to selected exemplars of such narrative transmissions, demonstrating thereby the theoretical fecundity of the model for the discipline of narratology.
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1988.