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Journal articles on the topic "Plays on words in fiction"
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Rajabov, Akhtam, and Lola Jalilova. "PECULIARITIES OF MODERN UZBEK CHILDREN`S LITERATURE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF KHUDOIBERDI TOKHTABOYEV`S WORKS)." Scientific Reports of Bukhara State University 5, no. 2 (May 24, 2021): 169–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.52297/2181-1466/2021/5/2/15.
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Introduction. In the Uzbek children's literature of the period of independence, the influence of national pedagogy, oral folk art is traced, which leads to the strengthening of the national color in the works, the awareness of folk wisdom, the upbringing of positive qualities, the enrichment of the speech of children with national concepts and terms. The coverage of spiritual and educational problems of the socio-political environment with the help of human emotions and experiences is observed in the works of Uzbek fiction. Research methods. In order to create fiction, it is necessary to study the child's psyche in depth. In the literature of any nation, knowledge of psychology, understanding it and conveying it to the reader through unique words plays a key role. As a result a large part of child psychology is conveyed to younger readers through fiction. A great feature of children's literature is that it is inextricably linked to the age, history and social environment of the reader.
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Martins, Mauricio de Jesus Dias, and Nicolas Baumard. "The rise of prosociality in fiction preceded democratic revolutions in Early Modern Europe." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 46 (October 30, 2020): 28684–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009571117.
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The English and French Revolutions represent a turning point in history, marking the beginning of the modern rise of democracy. Recent advances in cultural evolution have put forward the idea that the early modern revolutions may be the product of a long-term psychological shift, from hierarchical and dominance-based interactions to democratic and trust-based relationships. In this study, we tested this hypothesis by analyzing theater plays during the early modern period in England and France. We found an increase in cooperation-related words over time relative to dominance-related words in both countries. Furthermore, we found that the accelerated rise of cooperation-related words preceded both the English Civil War (1642) and the French Revolution (1789). Finally, we found that rising per capita gross domestic product (GDPpc) generally led to an increase in cooperation-related words. These results highlight the likely role of long-term psychological and economic changes in explaining the rise of early modern democracies.
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Demmerling, Christoph. "Von den Lesewelten zur Lebenswelt. Überlegungen zu der Frage, warum uns fiktionale Literatur berührt." Journal of Literary Theory 12, no. 2 (September 3, 2018): 260–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2018-0015.
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Abstract The following article argues that fictional texts can be distinguished from non-fictional texts in a prototypical way, even if the concept of the fictional cannot be defined in classical terms. In order to be able to characterize fictional texts, semantic, pragmatic, and reader-conditioned factors have to be taken into account. With reference to Frege, Searle, and Gabriel, the article recalls some proposals for how we might define fictional speech. Underscored in particular is the role of reception for the classification of a text as fictional. I make the case, from a philosophical perspective, for the view that fictional texts represent worlds that do not exist even though these worlds obviously can, and de facto do, contain many elements that are familiar to us from our world. I call these worlds reading worlds and explain the relationship between reading worlds and the life world of readers. This will help support the argument that the encounter with fictional literature can invoke real feelings and that such feelings are by no means irrational, as some defenders of the paradox of fiction would like us to believe. It is the exemplary character of fictional texts that enables us to make connections between the reading worlds and the life world. First and foremost, the article discusses the question of what it is that readers’ feelings are in fact related to. The widespread view that these feelings are primarily related to the characters or events represented in a text proves too simple and needs to be amended. Whoever is sad because of the fate of a fictive character imagines how he or she would fare if in a similar situation. He or she would feel sad as it relates to his or her own situation. And it is this feeling on behalf of one’s self that is the presupposition of sympathy for a fictive character. While reading, the feelings related to fictive characters and content are intertwined with the feelings related to one’s own personal concerns. The feelings one has on his or her own behalf belong to the feelings related to fictive characters; the former are the presupposition of the latter. If we look at the matter in this way, a new perspective opens up on the paradox of fiction. Generally speaking, the discussion surrounding the paradox of fiction is really about readers’ feelings as they relate to fictive persons or content. The question is then how it is possible to have them, since fictive persons and situations do not exist. If, however, the emotional relation to fictive characters and situations is conceived of as mediated by the feelings one has on one’s own behalf, the paradox loses its confusing effect since the imputation of existence no longer plays a central role. Instead, the conjecture that the events in a fictional story could have happened in one’s own life is important. The reader imagines that a story had or could have happened to him or herself. Readers are therefore often moved by a fictive event because they relate what happened in a story to themselves. They have understood the literary event as something that is humanly relevant in a general sense, and they see it as exemplary for human life as such. This is the decisive factor which gives rise to a connection between fiction and reality. The emotional relation to fictive characters happens on the basis of emotions that we would have for our own sake were we confronted with an occurrence like the one being narrated. What happens to the characters in a fictional text could also happen to readers. This is enough to stimulate corresponding feelings. We neither have to assume the existence of fictive characters nor do we have to suspend our knowledge about the fictive character of events or take part in a game of make-believe. But we do have to be able to regard the events in a fictional text as exemplary for human life. The representation of an occurrence in a novel exhibits a number of commonalities with the representation of something that could happen in the future. Consciousness of the future would seem to be a presupposition for developing feelings for something that is only represented. This requires the power of imagination. One has to be able to imagine what is happening to the characters involved in the occurrence being narrated in a fictional text, ›empathize‹ with them, and ultimately one has to be able to imagine that he or she could also be entangled in the same event and what it would be like. Without the use of these skills, it would remain a mystery how reading a fictional text can lead to feelings and how fictive occurrences can be related to reality. The fate of Anna Karenina can move us, we can sympathize with her, because reading the novel confronts us with possibilities that could affect our own lives. The imagination of such possibilities stimulates feelings that are related to us and to our lives. On that basis, we can participate in the fate of fictive characters without having to imagine that they really exist.
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Guarneri, Ed.D., Cristina. "Stories in Children’s Literature. An Analysis of Transcendent Language." Journal of English Language and Literature 10, no. 2 (October 31, 2018): 1018–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.17722/jell.v10i2.391.
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Children’s literature plays an essential role in their development through the use of characters that they become familiar with, which become like friends. Stories have become a useful source of information for increasing reading skills, which are necessary for the development of new words. It is through the fiction literature that is based on real-life where children are able to understand traumatic events and complex ideas. They are able to understand life experiences and diversity of the world that they live in. Even with increased learning through literature, the National Literary Strategy conducted a study of words to show that children need 100 words in order to read a “real” children’s book. It is essential to distinguish between ‘restrictive texts,’ which allow for fewer perceptions to take place for active reader judgment of text that enables critical and thoughtful responses.
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Aftab, Rizwan, Asim Aqeel, and Saba Zaidi. "Semantic Set of N-Word Choices in Afro-American Fiction: A Corpus Analysis of Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." Global Social Sciences Review VI, no. I (March 30, 2021): 65–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2021(vi-i).08.
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This study explores the linguistic selection focusing on the use of N-word choice by African-American fiction writers. This study explains the basic concepts of language and language use, language as a text and discourse, and also the function it plays within the context. With Halliday and Hassan's semantic set of choices, this study argues that Zora Neale Hurston does not seem aware of consciously using N-words in her novel, but her use of Nword linguistic choice to communicate the theme of race is in line with her true reflection of the society and culture she is born and bred in. Hurston might have used N-word deliberately both to appropriate lexical choice with that of characters' roles as many of the Harlem Renaissance writers did and to establish a kind of community building and collective cultural solidarity, the major determinants of Hurston's use of the N-word in Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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Cardoso, André Cabral de Almeida. "Precarious humanity: the double in dystopian science fiction." Gragoatá 23, no. 47 (December 29, 2018): 888–909. http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v23i47.33608.
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The double is a common feature in fantastic fiction, and it plays a prominent part in the Gothic revival of the late nineteenth century. It questions the notion of a coherent identity by proposing the idea of a fragmented self that is at the same time familiar and frighteningly other. On the other hand, the double is also a way of representing the tensions of life in large urban centers. Although it is more usually associated with the fantastic, the motif of the double has spread to other fictional genres, including science fiction, a genre also concerned with the investigation of identity and the nature of the human. The aim of this article is to discuss the representation of the double in contemporary science fiction, more particularly in its dystopian mode, where the issue of identity acquires a special relevance, since dystopias focus on the troubled relation between individual and society. Works such as Greg Egan’s short story “Learning to Be Me”; White Christmas, an episode from the television series Black Mirror; Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go; and the film Moon, directed by Duncan Jones, will be briefly examined in order to trace the ways the figure of the double has been rearticulated in dystopian science fiction as a means to address new concerns about personal identity and the position of the individual in society.---Original in English.
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Abdalla, Daniel Ibrahim. "“Heredity, Heredity!”: Recovering Henry James’s The Reprobate in Its Scientific and Theatrical Contexts." Modern Drama 64, no. 1 (March 2021): 67–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/md.64.1.1122.
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The reception of Henry James’s plays has long been scripted by his fiction, overshadowing James’s broad engagement with the concerns of fin-de-siècle drama. This article offers a different approach, reading his play The Reprobate (1895) within its theatrical context and emphasizing its relations with the genre of “Ibsen parodies” – in particular, those produced by authors such as J.M. Barrie and Robert Williams Buchanan. Attention to the play’s humorous treatment of heredity – in the midst of a theatrical scene engaging with the paradigm of degeneration – reveals James as surprisingly in step with dramatic developments informed by contemporary evolutionary paradigms, ideas about gender, and comedic genres. The Reprobate’s clear relationship to works by Ibsen, Barrie, and others – as well as the intellectual framework it shares with plays by George Bernard Shaw – suggests the need to reconsider the entrenched view of James’s output in this period, especially as a playwright.
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Aftab, Rizwan, Asim Aqeel, and Mumtaz Ahmad. "Racist Contextualization of the N-Word in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." Global Regional Review V, no. I (March 30, 2020): 594–603. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(v-i).62.
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With Roger Fowler's theory of 'linguistic construction', this study specifically analyses the use of the N-word (nigger) within Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, its contextual use and the function it plays within the context and sequence of events in the delimited fiction. The N-word, which is considered highly sensitive in American society, especially in the context of African Americans, is analyzed within the immediate context of event and situation in which characters are engaged, depending on who is talking to whom, when and where, and with what purpose in mind. The entire communicative event of the N-word is also placed within the global context to fully situate the event and locate the function of the N-word within and outside the literary text and its use and interpretation in global contexts. This contextual study of Their Eyes Was Watching God argues how the highly sensitive racist words are euphemized through N-word. For this purpose, this study employs linguistic analysis by focusing on delimited text form, meaning, and use within the local and global contexts.
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Creighton, Alexander. "Chekhov’s fiddle: Towards a musical poetics of fiction." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 9, no. 2 (October 1, 2019): 129–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00006_1.
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This article explores what it means to listen to Chekhov and how this listening can provide a useful comparative framework for the study of time in short fiction. Since the tune of Chekhov’s stories lies partly in their strategic silences, we must attend as much to the unsaid, the musical rests, as to what is told. To theorize the meaningful relations that exist in and between a story’s silences and its words, I analyse two of Chekhov’s stories – ‘Easter Night’ and ‘The Bishop’ – with respect to two key terms: melodic setting and harmonic characterization. These terms refer to phenomena that run counter to our assumptions regarding character and setting by asserting that the movement we associate with the former and the stasis we associate with the latter are reductive. In music, movement and stasis are not always clear-cut terms; harmony and melody are interdependent and influence one another. Even in a symphonic form like the sonata, built around development, stasis plays a role; even in a song that dwells in the description of one mood or conflict, there is development and change. The language of music accommodates the possibility of several independent variables moving simultaneously through time, which, as Chudakov and Woolf notice of Chekhov’s work, is part of what makes even the shortest of his stories so profound.
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Sooryah, N., and Dr K. R. Soundarya. "Erraticism in the Cannibal – A Study of the Work of Thomas Harris." International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education 12, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.9756/int-jecse/v12i2.201052.
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Literature is the key to human life that resurrects and gives space for introspection, retrospection and various remembrances which are hued by overjoy, pain and trauma. Nowadays crime literature became one of the most popular genres in this era which centers mostly on murder and violence. It started from Edgar Allen Poe’s most famous fictional character Auguste Dupin, whose first appearance was on The Murders in the Rue Mogue, considered to be the first crime fiction, followed by Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes and the like. The genre crime fiction has contributed innumerable number of works in both fiction and non-fiction. Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Rising is one such fiction which tells about the life of a serial killer who is a psychiatrist as well as a cannibal. It is a series of novels about the famous character Hannibal Lecter. Cannibalism and Psychiatry are two extremes which rarely meet. This novel is intertwined with a mix of violence, emotions and childhood trauma. Trauma studies nowadays became a key aspect in literature. In this specific work of Thomas Harris, he describes how the centralized character is affected with psychological trauma, in particular, Acute and Separation trauma. Trauma theory became popularized in 1980s and played major role in Atwood’s novels. This study tries to explain how childhood shapes a person and how behaviorism plays a vital element in one’s life and it also tries to analyze the psychological issues, trauma and defense mechanism through the central character of the novel.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Plays on words in fiction"
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Ritchey, John Michael. "Elvis Plays Texas." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1418.
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In the novel Elvis Plays Texas, which is my Thesis project to meet the requirements for a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing/Fiction, a little town in far, far West Texas and its people are having a very difficult time and facing what promises to be a bleak future—a long, long drought has exhausted their water supply, oil has peaked and turned down, “fracking” threatens their way of life, friends and family and neighbors are loading up and leaving town. Then, Elvis Presley shows up. It’s the 40th anniversary of the day he died, August 16, 1977, and he, spiritually though appearing in every way to be flesh and blood, is visiting those who’ve continued believing in him and to whom he had been particularly important during their younger lives. My own long history in that part of the country has played its considerable role in informing the setting, the tone, the atmosphere. These are the kinds of characters—strange birds all—I grew up with. The country is the southwestern desert, hot, dry, empty, big sky—the kind of neighborhood that lends itself to oddities like Elvis throwing a benefit concert to help them out of the economic ditch.
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Weiss, Katherine. "Water, Waste, and Words in Beckett’s Plays." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2251.
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Rine, Abigail. "Words incarnate : contemporary women’s fiction as religious revision." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1961.
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This thesis investigates the prevalence of religious themes in the work of several prominent contemporary women writers—Margaret Atwood, Michèle Roberts, Alice Walker and A.L. Kennedy. Relying on Luce Irigaray’s recent theorisations of the religious and its relationship to feminine subjectivity, this research considers the subversive potential of engaging with religious discourse through literature, and contributes to burgeoning criticism of feminist revisionary writing. The novels analysed in this thesis show, often in violent detail, that the way the religious dimension has been conceptualised and articulated enforces negative views of female sexuality, justifies violence against the body, alienates women from autonomous creative expression and paralyses the development of a subjectivity in the feminine. Rather than looking at women’s religious revision primarily as a means of asserting female authority, as previous studies have done, I argue that these writers, in addition to critiquing patriarchal religion, articulate ways of being and knowing that subvert the binary logic that dominates Western religious discourse. Chapter I contextualises this research in Luce Irigaray’s theories and outlines existing work on feminist revisionist literature. The remaining chapters offer close readings of key novels in light of these theories: Chapter II examines Atwood’s interrogation of oppositional logic in religious discourse through her novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Chapter III explores two novels by Roberts that expose the violence inherent in religious discourse and deconstruct the subjection of the (female) body to the (masculine) Word. Chapters IV and V analyse the fiction of Kennedy and Walker respectively, revealing how their novels confront the religious denigration of feminine sexuality and refigure the connection between eroticism and divinity. Evident in each of these fictional accounts is a forceful critique of religious discourse, as well as an attempt to more closely reconcile foundational religious oppositions between divinity and humanity, flesh and spirit, and body and Word.
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Flegal, Kathleen M. "Magic words the phonology of fantasy neologisms /." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3283.
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Thesis (M.A,)--George Mason University, 2008.Vita: p. 78. Thesis director: Steven Weinberger. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan. 11, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-77). Also issued in print.
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Armstrong, Patience. "Excerpts from After the Fire and Use Your Words." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4227.
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After the Fire is a novel exploring a mother and daughter as they are faced with shifts in socioeconomic status and cultures in 1970s Los Angeles. Haunted by the mysterious death of her sister and her father’s abandonment the daughter tries to fit herself into her changing world by giving up her own aspirations to seek replacements for what she lost. The mother is catapulted into financial survival as she uncovers the secrets of her missing husband’s past and comes to terms with the role she played in a life that was a lie. Use Your Words is a collection of linked creative non-fiction essays that examines how things said, and not said, create belief systems and identities, and explores the roles we take on when we speak up and when we stay silent.
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Gonzalez, Stephanie. "A Thousand Words: Responses to Photographs." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1168.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.Bachelors
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Hayter, Irena Eneva. "Words fall apart : the politics of form in 1930s Japanese fiction." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2008. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29296/.
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This thesis presents an analysis of Japanese modernist texts from the 1930s, with an emphasis on the writings of Takami Jun (1907-1965), Ishikawa Jun (1899-1987) and Dazai Osamu (1909-1948). Rather than discuss these experiments within the problematic of influence and see them as secondary gestures imitating the techniques of Gide or Joyce, I attempt to show that Japanese modernist fiction is deeply implicated in its cultural, political and technological moment. 1 begin with a mapping of the historical and discursive forces behind the so-called cultural revival (bungei fukko) and the revolt against the epistemic regime of Westernized modernity: its soulless positivism, its logic of instrumentality which objectified nature and the historical teleologies which inevitably relegated Japan to a secondary place. I examine the works of Takami, Ishikawa and Dazai in this context, against close-ups of specific material and discursive developments. The transgressions and dislocations of linear narrative in Takami Jun's novel Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Kokyu wasureu beki, 1936) are read as radical deconstructions of the deeply ideological discourse of tenko (the official term for the political conversion of leftists) as a regeneration of the self, as the return to a natural organic Japaneseness. The narrative of Ishikawa Jun's Fugen (Fugen, 1936) is structured by dualistic tropes which can be seen as configurations of mediation and unity; I explore the meaning of these narrative strategies against the collapse of political mediation in the mid-1930s and the swell of fascist longings for oneness with the emperor. The marked reflexivity of the stories in Dazai Osamu's first published collection The Final Years (Bannen, 1936) is discussed in the context of the profound anxieties generated by the accelerated logic of cultural reproduction and the technologically altered texture of experience. I argue that in their shared emphasis on discursive mediation and the materiality of language, the texts of Takami, Ishikawa and Dazai become figures of resistance to a nativism which strove for immediate authenticity and abandoned representation for the metaphysics of timeless Japaneseness.
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Abdelmohcine, Ahmed. "Dying in other words : the writing subject in Virginia Woolf's fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297477.
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This thesis examines Virginia Woolf's fiction in light of structuralist and psychoanalytic theories of the subject, with particular reference to the works of Barthes, Bakhtin, Lacan, Kristeva, and Cixous. The orientation of my reading 'bridges' the gap between biographical and text-centred approaches to her fiction. Woolfs novels as the trace of a practice in which the subject is set in a continuous process of enunciation, is constantly questioned, 'put on trial', 'put to death', in pursuit of the 'new': new articulation of the subject with the writing of each novel, experimentation with new modes of writing the subject, with new formal decisions and enunciative strategies, and with a new writing of death and characterisation. The thesis attempts to provide a reading of 'death', not simply as a personal obsession for Woolf and as a thematic construct, but as a writing process which involves the writer's own 'death' in the text. Chapter one explores The Voyage Out, a novel which marks Woolf's laborious entree to the literary world. Woolf's aggressivity offers a cul-de-sac narrative solution with the death of twenty-four-year-old Rachel Vinrace; a formal decision which illustrates the subject's initial difficulties with narrative. Chapter two deals with Mrs Dal/oway, another novelistic attempt to write into the text a 'violent' death, with Septimus's suicide. The chapter pays close attention to the sequence of Septimus Smith's narrative appearances, characterisation, and his aggressivity. Chapter three explores the autobiographical claims of To the Lighthouse in terms of the factual and fictional representation of the mother. Through the artist-in-process Lily Briscoe, Woolf tries to construct a modernist outlook in writing about her own childhood and family. Chapter four examines the unfamiliar formal strategies Woolf experimented with in writing The Waves, using speaking voices as characters and working towards a kind of narrative 'murder' of the conventional omniscient narrator. Chapter five provides an intertextual reading of Woolf's 'Anon', the carnivalesque character of La Trobe's pageant, Kristeva's 'semiotic' language, and the heteroglossia which composes the enunciation of Between the Acts.
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Weiss, Katherine. "The Plays of Samuel Beckett." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. http://amzn.com/140814557X.
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Beckett remains one of the most important writers of the twentieth century whose radical experimentations in form and content won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. This Critical Companion encompasses his plays for the stage, radio and television, and will be indispensable to students of his work.
Challenging and at times perplexing, Beckett's work is represented on almost every literature, theatre and Irish studies curriculum in universities in North America, Europe and Australia. Katherine Weiss' admirably clear study of his work provides the perfect companion, illuminating each play and Beckett's vision, and investigating his experiments with the body, voice and technology. It includes in-depth studies of the major works Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape, and as with other volumes in Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series it features too a series of essays by other scholars and practitioners offering different critical perspectives on Beckett in performance that will inform students' own critical thinking. Together with a series of resources including a chronology and a list of further reading, this is ideal for all students and readers of Beckett's work.https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1072/thumbnail.jpg
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Gazaille, Brian. "Wasteful Words: Visions and Failures of Literary Efficiency in American Fiction, 1885-1910." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20435.
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This dissertation examines how writers helped scientists and engineers transform “efficiency” from a mathematical tool for assessing machine performance to an organizing principle for society. Historians and literary critics have helpfully sketched this transformation. They have paid particular attention to manifestations of Taylorism and Fordism in modernism, especially in the “kinetic” poetics of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and John Dos Passos. But while scholars have illustrated how modernism pushed efficiency into contexts like labor and politics, they have only begun to consider efficiency’s role in Gilded Age fiction, particularly in the works of utopian thinkers—such as Edward Bellamy and Charlotte Perkins Gilman—and technological cynics—including Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Frank Norris, and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton. I argue that efficiency was a decidedly aesthetic concern in the novels of the Gilded Age, an idea so exciting and anxiety producing that writers felt compelled to scrutinize it in terms of literary form. Indeed, the writers examined in this dissertation developed nuanced rhetorical and narratological programs to explore efficiency’s conceptual possibilities outside the factory, specifically in the domestic sphere, the pastoral places of California, and the writer’s study. Moreover, these writers struggled to make sense of efficiency’s conceptual expansion. Thus, their novels reflect the difficulties of realizing different kinds of social efficiency. The texts I analyze either try but fail to represent the promises of a machine-made society, or they use self-destructive literary forms that call attention to the wastes of industrial capitalism. By attending to the poetics and competing definitions of efficiency advanced by these writers, my dissertation explores how Americans adapted traditional literary structures to promote or challenge the idea of technological progress.
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Books on the topic "Plays on words in fiction"
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ill, Murdocca Sal, ed. Double trouble in Walla Walla. Brookfield, Conn: Millbrook Press, 1997.
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Bridges, Margaret. "Trafficking Words." In Fiction and Economy, 45–62. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230223110_3.
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Correoso-Rodenas, José Manuel. "The (Literary) Caricatures of Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction 1." In Painting Words, 113–28. New York : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429242601-11.
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Waswo, Richard. "Supreme Fictions: Money and Words as Commodifying Signifiers." In Fiction and Economy, 24–44. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230223110_2.
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Eagleton, Mary. "Finding the Right Words." In Figuring the Woman Author in Contemporary Fiction, 115–32. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230502215_7.
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Savvas, Theophilus. "Pynchon Plays Dice: Mason & Dixon and Quantum History." In American Postmodernist Fiction and the Past, 67–94. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230307780_4.
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Thaddeus, Janice Farrar. "Fiction and Truth: All the Unpublished Words." In Frances Burney, 203–24. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230288324_10.
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Lyons, Charles R. "Beckett’s Fundamental Theatre: the Plays from Not I to What Where." In Beckett’s Later Fiction and Drama, 80–97. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18713-3_6.
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Seed, David. "The Plays and Other Writings of the 1960s." In The Fiction of Joseph Heller: Againts the Grain, 71–95. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20007-8_4.
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Vauthier, Simone. "Images in Stones, Images in Words." In Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence, 46–70. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10092-7_4.
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McMillan, Dougald. "Human Reality and Dramatic Method: Catastrophe, Not I and the Unpublished Plays." In Beckett’s Later Fiction and Drama, 98–114. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18713-3_7.
Full textConference papers on the topic "Plays on words in fiction"
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Maslennikova, Evgeniya M. "Words In Fiction: Communicative Distance, Codes And Associations." In X International Conference “Word, Utterance, Text: Cognitive, Pragmatic and Cultural Aspects”. European Publisher, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2020.08.110.
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Colonnese, Fabio. "Le Corbusier and the mysterious “résidence du président d’un collège”." In LC2015 - Le Corbusier, 50 years later. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/lc2015.2015.774.
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Abstract: At the very end of his travel to United States, Le Corbusier conceived and designed a modern villa that he lately inserted in the third volume of his Oeuvre Complete with the title ‘Résidence du président d’un college près Chicago’ and few words below describing it. He interpreted a simple request for suggestions by Joseph Brewer, the president of the Olivet College, Michigan, into an actual commission for a new house that responded to the kind of works he expected from his American admirers. He possibly designed it in a few hours’ time from Kalamazoo to Chicago but the autograph hand-drafted plans and bird’s-eye perspective view in the Oeuvre Complete congruently describe a well-thought project showing a number of affinities with his most celebrated European houses. The villa can be considered as an aware modular assemblage of parts that he had previously designed or even built, tied together by a long and suggestive promenade architecturale, to offer the “timid” American people a sort of full scale model to introduce them to his vision of modern life. By analyzing Le Corbusier’s sketches and conjecturing both dimensions and missing elements from previous designs, a threedimensional digital model has been elaborated to virtually visit the résidence and understand its fictive and educational value. Keywords: Le Corbusier; Joseph Brewer; Olivet College; Promenade architecturale; Intertextuality; Digital Model. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.774
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Busyga, Ivan Vadimovich, and Oleg Valentinovich Babak. "To the question of lexical and semantic characteristics of fiction text (based on material of H.P. Lovecraft’s work «The Outsider»)." In All-Russian scientific and practical conference with international participation, chair Sofiia Novikovna Semenova. Publishing house Sreda, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31483/r-98281.
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The research is devoted to the identification of lexical and semantic relations and the establishment of similarities and differences of H.P. Lovecraft’s work «The Outsider» in English and Russian. A comprehensive analysis of the studied words and phrases was done. In the present work, the methods of comparative and statistical analysis which allowed to identify discrepancies between the English and Russian versions of words and phrases were used.
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Baranov, A. N., and D. O. Dobrovol’skij. "STYLE DYNAMICS OF THE RUSSIAN WRITTEN SPEECH OF THE 19TH CENTURY: A CORPUS STUDY." In International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies "Dialogue". Russian State University for the Humanities, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2075-7182-2020-19-48-61.
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The starting point of the present paper is the hypothesis that the distribution of discursive words characterizes the trends in the development of the writing style of the 19th century. The paper presents and discusses the results of an experiment based on the data of the Russian National Corpus on the frequency of using discursive words with the semantics of epistemic modality, such as konechno, razumeetsya (both roughly meaning ‘of course’), po-vidimomu ‘apparently’, kak kazhetsya, kazalos’ by (both ≈ ‘it would seem’), naverno ≈ ‘as it were’, veroyatno ‘probably’, pozhaluy ≈ ‘maybe’, deystvitel’no ‘really’, etc. We show that the frequency of this group of expressions increases in the second half of the 19th century. A similar trend is also observed for some syntactic constructions with the same semantics: (ya) dumayu, chto… ‘(I) think that...’; (ya) schitayu, chto… ‘(I) believe that...’; (mne) kazhetsya, chto… ‘it seems to me that’. The revealed regularity is considered as a discursive practice in changing the style of fiction, which consisted in expanding the modus part of the utterance as compared to the earlier period. The discursive practice of expanding the modus was inherent only to a group of innovative writers (first of all, F. M. Dostoevsky, M. E. SaltykovShchedrin, L. N. Tolstoy, I. A. Goncharov, A. F. Pisemsky, P. I. MelnikovPechersky, N. S. Leskov, and I. S. Turgenev), who, however, due to their talent, social significance, and the number of published texts, had a significant impact on the language of fiction. The task of studying the dynamics of artistic style is to identify and describe a set of discursive practices that establish written discourse as such.
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Magalhães, Dimmy, Aurora Pozo, and Roberto Santana. "An empirical comparison of distance/similarity measures for Natural Language Processing." In Encontro Nacional de Inteligência Artificial e Computacional. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/eniac.2019.9328.
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Text Classification is one of the tasks of Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this area, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) has achieved values higher than CNN's and other related models. For GCN, the metric that defines the correlation between words in a vector space plays a crucial role in the classification because it determines the weight of the edges between two words (represented by nodes in the graph). In this study, we empirically investigated the impact of thirteen measures of distance/similarity. A representation was built for each document using word embedding from word2vec model. Also, a graph-based representation of five dataset was created for each measure analyzed, where each word is a node in the graph, and each edge is weighted by distance/similarity between words. Finally, each model was run in a simple graph neural network. The results show that, concerning text classification, there is no statistical difference between the analyzed metrics and the Graph Convolution Network. Even with the incorporation of external words or external knowledge, the results were similar to the methods without the incorporation of words. However, the results indicate that some distance metrics behave better than others in relation to context capture, with Euclidean distance reaching the best values or having statistical similarity with the best.
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Hakimova, Aida. "Network Approach for Visualizing the Evolution of the Research of Cross-lingual Semantic Similarity." In International Conference "Computing for Physics and Technology - CPT2020". Bryansk State Technical University, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30987/conferencearticle_5fce2773d960b0.37534641.
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The paper is devoted to the problem of the bibliometric study of publications on the topic “Cross-lingual Semantic Similarity”, available in the Dimensions database. Visualization of scientific networks showed fragmentation of research, limited interaction of organizations. Leading countries, leading organizations and authors are highlighted. Overlay visualization allowed us to assess the trends in citing authors. The expansion of the geography of research is shown. For international cooperation, the uniformity of semantic approaches to describing the concepts of critical infrastructure, incidents, resources and services related to their maintenance and protection is important. The stated approaches can be applied for visualization and modeling of technological development in the modern digital world. Semantic similarity is a longstanding problem in natural language processing (NLP). The semantic similarity between two words represents the semantic proximity (or semantic distance) between two words or concepts. This is an important problem in natural language processing, as it plays an important role in finding information, extracting information, text mining, web mining and many other applications.
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Naji Hussein ITHAWI, Hind. "BETWEEN ALBEE’S DOG AND GOAT: IMAGES OF ANIMAL COMPANIONSHIP." In International Research Congress of Contemporary Studies in Social Sciences (Rimar Congress 2). Rimar Academy, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/rimarcongress2-1.
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Modern times seem to have been inflicted with a puzzling sickness that pervades humans’ existence on every possible level. The modern sickness of loneliness and loss of connection assumes center stage position whether in social contexts or personal spaces. This modern ailment is clear within the modern American setting particularly; therefore, many dramatic pieces try to dramatize its manifestations and consequences. The present paper attempts to explore the manifestations of this sickness in the representations of animal companionship. Such representations populate many modern American plays from the beginning of the twentieth century and moving on to the millennium. The paper suggests that images and representations of animal companionship are only expressions of modern individuals’ isolation and loss of connection. The paper examines two plays by Edward Albee, The Zoo Story (1959) and The Goat or Who’s Sylvia? (2000), that represent a new kind of companionship that may or may not sustain the struggle of their modern protagonists to establish some kind of connection with the world around them. Key words: Animal Companionship, Human-Animal Studies, Loneliness
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Çağlayan Akay, Ebru, and Zamira Oskonbaeva. "Modeling the Determinants of Import in Kyrgyzstan." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c03.00388.
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Foreign trade plays an important role in development of each country. Kyrgyzstan, like other transition economies started to open up to foreign countries after achieving it's independence and began to practice it’s own foreign trade policies. But during a 21-year period, a surplus in the trade balance was recorded in 2000 and 2001. In other words, the country's economy has faced a chronic deficit of foreign trade. The main objective of this paper is to study the impacts of domestic income and exchange rate on imports by considering the period after 2000 through econometric method by using of monthly data and according to the results obtained to suggest policy recommendations.
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Koryčánková, Simona. "POETIC TEXTS IN TEACHING OF RUSSIAN ON B1 LEVEL (ON THE EXAMPLE OF WORKING WITH VOCABULARY DENOTING PERCEPTION IN THE POEMS OF O. BŘEZINA AND V. S. SOLOVYOV)." In Aktuální problémy výuky ruského jazyka XIV. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p210-9781-2020-5.
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The author of the article aims to introduce Russian poetic texts into the teaching of Czech students on B1 level. The chosen teaching methodology is based on motivating the students with the use of Czech symbolist poetry by O. Březina and a subsequent analysis of a poem by V. S. Solovyov. Work with the poetry of both authors focuses on perceptual lexicon, which plays key role in uncovering the meaning of a symbolist text. Students can thus gain knowledge of polysemous words and their different author’s connotations in an enticing and creative way. This enhances not only their knowledge of the content and language, but also of the aesthetic component related to the main function of an artistic text
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Tan, Chuanqi, Furu Wei, Wenhui Wang, Weifeng Lv, and Ming Zhou. "Multiway Attention Networks for Modeling Sentence Pairs." In Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-18}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/613.
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Modeling sentence pairs plays the vital role for judging the relationship between two sentences, such as paraphrase identification, natural language inference, and answer sentence selection. Previous work achieves very promising results using neural networks with attention mechanism. In this paper, we propose the multiway attention networks which employ multiple attention functions to match sentence pairs under the matching-aggregation framework. Specifically, we design four attention functions to match words in corresponding sentences. Then, we aggregate the matching information from each function, and combine the information from all functions to obtain the final representation. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed multiway attention networks improve the result on the Quora Question Pairs, SNLI, MultiNLI, and answer sentence selection task on the SQuAD dataset.