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Hart, Catherine. "And Her Increase and Selected Stories." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/48.

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A recently freed slave strives for her independence and renegotiates her relationship with the white father of her children in the aftermath of the Civil War. Foreclosed homeowners find a literally explosive artifact. Co-workers cope with layoffs and a suicide. A fugitive witch struggles against a fantasy theocracy. A revolutionary tries to save an innocent man and her conscience. A doctor chooses to resist an oppressive regime in a dystopian future. The historical novel And Her Increase and these widely varying stories coalesce around themes of freedom and oppression, choice and desire.

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Boswell, Rebecca C. "Twelve Hearts of Clay and Selected Stories." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/320.

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This thesis contains what I consider to be the best of my work over the course of my three years in the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University, and it is meant to demonstrate my range of ability as a creative writer. Included are a portion of my unfinished novel, Twelve Hearts of Clay, as well as a few of my favorite short stories. "Calluses," my foray into experimental writing, is perhaps the most completed piece in the collection, having found publication in the October 2010 issue of Blue Crow Magazine, an Australian literary journal. "Dead Baby Jokes," the short short piece include

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Skotnicki, Michal. "Popcorn Politics – Selected Philip K. Dick Stories in Contemporary Film Adaptations." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-112981.

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This essay is a comparative anlysis of ”Paycheck”, ”The Minority Report” and ”Adjustment Team” by Philip K. Dick and their film adaptations, Paycheck, Minority Report and The Adjustment Bureau. I am primarily interested in the political message of the original stories and how it is affected in the process of transmediation into film. The political message is clearly reflected in the way the protagonists’ free will relates to the bigger system of power. This relationship can either problematize the protagonist’s struggle, forcing him to sacrifice something, or simplify the political dimension

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Manolov, Gueorgui V. "Elements of narrative discourse in selected short stories of Ernest Hemingway." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002250.

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Hasanefendic, Sandra. "The carnivalesque in selected short stories by Deborah Eisenberg and Wells Tower." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/5362.

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Mestrado em Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas<br>Esta dissertação analisa a aplicação do conceito do carnavalesco em termos de aspectos formais e temáticos às obras de dois importantes escritores de contos norteamericanos, Deborah Eisenberg e Wells Tower. Enquanto as narrativas de Tower apresentam o uso de “billingsgate”, e outras características grotescas, bem como as inversões de paródia, ironia e também humor negro, o clima carnavalesco bakhtiniano que pressuponha uma celebração festiva que supostamente confronta a cultura dominante está ausente. Deborah Eisenberg, por outro lado, engloba bem

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Palanna, Allan Samuel. "'Compassion' in selected synoptic healing stories : implications for Indian mental health care." Thesis, University of Kent, 2010. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.529414.

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Siroky, David S. "Thou shalt not bear false witness--selected stories and novels of Josef Skvorecky." Thesis, Boston University, 1997. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27774.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>2031-01-02

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Lee, Li-Feng. "The responses of Taiwanese adolescent girls to selected American short stories for young adults." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1173205682.

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Miranda, Luisa de. "Giving voice to silent endurance in selected short stories by contemporary South African women." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/18352.

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Mestrado em Estudos Ingleses<br>This work focuses on and responds to selected short stories by contemporary South African women writers, namely Bessie Head, Sindiwe Magona and Farida Karodia. My readings will foreground the way these writers draw attention to the "ordinary" in contrast to the "spectacle" as defined by the writer and critic Njabulo Ndebele in South African Liferature and Culture: Rediscovery of the Ordinary (1991), as well as show how a pattern of both postcolonial and feminist issues and concerns are introduced and developed in the stories. The engagement with issues o

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Madamombe, Esrina. "Hope and disillusionment: a post-colonial critique of selected South African and Zimbabwean short stories." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/170.

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This study investigates short stories published in South Africa and in Zimbabwe before the turn of the twenty-first century. The short story as a genre provides a more accessible and shorter means of viewing literary trends after the official end of the hostilities of apartheid and colonialism. Because of their brevity and specific focus, these short stories from many voices allow a glimpse of different arenas affecting contemporary reality. Post-independence stories reveal that in the process of navigating or directing hope after independence, people are sometimes left bereft as disenchantmen

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Finnegan, Holly Hartman. "A rhetorical analysis of narration in Kate Chopin's At Fault, The Awakening, and selected short stories." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1334610225.

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Lighthill, Brian. "Can selected Shakespearean stories impact on personal and social development? : seven case studies at Key Stage 3." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/46811/.

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This longitudinal study provides a critique of current delivery of PSHFE and Citizenship lessons and offers an original transdisciplinary approach to these learning-for-life subjects. Using action research methodologies, the study investigated whether selected Shakespearean stories could stimulate Socratic discussions on the decisions made by the characters. Then, in parallel with the topics on the PSHFE and Citizenship curricula, the students philosophised on alternative ways of thinking and acting and vicariously develop their own social and moral reasoning. The research design was based on

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Bledsoe, Paul Walker. "Beyond the femme fatale and flapper : the roles of women in selected stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1277980522.

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Menouar, Annette Ursula. "Self, time, and the quest for God in selected essays, stories and poems by Jorge Luis Borges." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23120.

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The thesis argues that the quest for God, though largely unheeded by the critical canon, was a major and enduring preoccupation for Borges. His reflections on time and identity are symptomatic of a deeper, spiritual searching which can only be answered by a Divine Absolute. A secondary aim is to trace the chronology of these reflections on the self, temporality and the Absolute. This chronological dimension has not received the attention it deserves, but it is of vital importance in establishing the links between these three inter-related preoccupations. The total of five chapters is divided i

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Sampson, Christine M. "Life stories of selected adults with learning disabilities how they come to understand and choose to reveal their disabilities /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10537.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2009.<br>Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 172 p. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-162).

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Roos, Tina. "An exploration of leadership identity and intersectionality through selected life stories of Black women in the South African Public Service." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78367.

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Using the life stories of Black women employed by the Department of Employment and Labour, the study explores leadership identity and role congruity through the lenses of intersectionality and post-colonial feminism. Demographically, Black women constitute the majority of women within the senior management service and as such may have the biggest influence on a gendered leadership identity for the Public Service. However, the study investigates how women’s life stories influence the meaning they attach to their gender, race and ethnicity as contributing to their leadership identity and role co

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Zheltukhina, Daria. "The Functions of Journey and Ascent in Selected Short Stories in Margaret Drabble’s A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för språk och kultur, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-97719.

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The present essay studies the functions of journey and ascent as recurrent motifs in A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman by Margaret Drabble. The relationships between the geographical and psychological journeys and ascents are explored. Chapter 2 of the core analysis presents the four themes in which the protagonists articulate their strength and self-worth. Chapter 3 is devoted to the comparative analysis of the structures of the geographical and psychological journeys and ascents (item 3.2) and the study of the author's multiple angles on marriage, adultery and widowhood (item 3.3).

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Chew, Laureen. "Chinese American images in selected children's fiction for kindergarten through sixth grade." Scholarly Commons, 1986. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2131.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate Chinese American images in selected children's fiction to determine whether or not data support the position of the Council on Interracial Books for Children, that the works of fiction studied tend to stereotype Chinese Americans. After reading the selected fifteen works of fiction, a criterion checklist was devised by the investigator to examine the behavior and lifestyle of Chinese Americans depicted in a variety of circumstances. validity of the criterion checklist was established by a panel of experts in the area of Chinese American studies. Inte

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Njovane, Thandokazi. ""The wings of whipped butterflies" : trauma, silence and representation of the suffering child in selected contemporary African short fiction." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004214.

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This dissertation, which examines the literary representation of childhood trauma, is held together by three threads of inquiry. Firstly, I examine the stylistic devices through which three contemporary African writers – NoViolet Bulawayo, Uwem Akpan, and Mia Couto – engage with the subject of childhood trauma in five of their short stories: “Hitting Budapest”; “My Parents’ Bedroom” and “Fattening for Gabon”; and “The Day Mabata-bata Exploded” and “The Bird-Dreaming Baobab,” respectively. In each of these narratives, the use of ingén(u)s in the form of child narrators and/or focalisers instant

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Sher, Gabrielle Melanie. "Reality or illusion?, a study of the emancipation of women in the GDR as portrayed in selected stories from Helga Schubert's Lauter Leben." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0001/MQ42691.pdf.

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Iorga, Anton. "A translation of selected stories from Thomas King’s One Good Story, That One : idiolect, irony and the trickster as instruments of anticolonial resistance." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/6001.

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My thesis consists of a commented translation of five selected short stories, including the title story of Thomas King’s One Good Story, That One, and a theoretical and contextual introduction. My commentary, beyond the explanation of my syntactic and vocabulary choices -which I will relate to King’s interfusional use of idiolect, which is to say his uniquely personal use of orality in writing-, discusses the use of irony and the Trickster as instruments of anticolonial resistance (based on King’s “Godzilla vs. Post-colonial”), with which King hopes to both challenge Western paradigms and rai

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Conroy, Ashley. "Evaluating the Content and Tone of Mental Health News Coverage in Market 40: a Content Analysis of Selected Internet Stories From Las Vegas Broadcasting News Outlets." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc407804/.

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The purpose of this research study is to analyze mental health related content on the three network affiliated stations in Las Vegas, Nevada. Online web stories from broadcast stations are analyzed in terms of the content and tone. These areas of analysis relate directly to the mass communication theories agenda setting and framing. Historically, mental health news reports have included content and tone that together can potentially create and further stigmatizing sentiments about those with mental illnesses. This study utilizes a chi square test to determine if a relationship exists between t

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Hunt, Sally Ann. "The discoursal construction of female physical identity in selected works in children's literature." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005965.

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This thesis reports on an analysis of the discursive construction of female and male physical identity in children’s literature and explicitly combines corpus linguistic methods with a critical discourse approach. Based on three novels from each of the Chronicles of Narnia and the Harry Potter series, it shows clear gendering of body parts, not only in terms of the purely quantitative preferences for certain body parts to be associated with one or other gender, but in terms of discourse prosody, or the uses to which the body parts are put. Human body parts in these series are mostly used in th

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Survant, Cerinda. "(Re)Presenting Peoples and Storied Lands| Public Presentation of Archaeology and Representation of Native Americans in Selected Western U.S. Protected Areas." Thesis, Portland State University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10142123.

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<p> Every year, hundreds of thousands of people visit the Native American ancestral lands in the western United States developed for tourism and recreation. The stewards of these lands seek to engage visitors and enrich their experience, and simultaneously to protect the lands’ natural and cultural resources. To achieve their mission, protected areas regularly use <i>interpretation </i>—materials and experiences that aim to educate visitors about resources and see them as personally meaningful. However, there is little literature on interpretive content in protected areas, few qual

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Barua, Mala A. "Determination of decomposition rates in selected mid-Atlantic fish species stored under iced and super-chilling temperatures." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08222009-040231/.

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Rahman, Ghani-Ur <1974&gt. "Iconographic symbolism of a worldly mission: some selected prodigious episodes from the life of Buddha Sakyamuni represented in Gandhara sculpture." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/331.

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Enriquez-ibarra, Leopoldo Gerardo. "The use of Pulsed Energy (Flashbast) technology in the shelf life extension of selected marine and freshwater fish species stored in ice." Diss., This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10032007-171829/.

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Moye, Letecia Nicole. "Influence of Shopping Orientations, Selected Environmental Dimensions with Apparel Shopping Scenarios, and Attitude on Store Patronage for Female Consumers." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/11249.

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The decision to patronize a particular store usually starts with a set of characteristics or attributes that consumers consider important. Consumers then use these attributes to make decisions regarding what store or stores can cater to their particular needs. Past retail and marketing studies have identified several consumer-oriented store attributes such as price, quality, variety, discounts, store reputation and their relationship to store patronage, but these studies overlooked how the physical environment affects retail store patronage. In addition, very few studies have addressed the iss

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Tejada, Rodriguez Adriana Cecilia. "E-marketing strategy for introducing peruvian products in selected European country." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-71815.

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The Internet has revolutionized the way the world used to work by becoming a crucial part in people's lifestyle. Nowadays, the speed and extent with which people can communicate has reached unimaginable levels, affecting significantly their behavior and the way they do business. This thesis aims to clarify how does business models have changed with the implementation of the Internet by introducing one of its newest e-business models, an "online store" and its following e-marketing plan concepts. Similarly, the thesis also aims to elaborate a project where this e-business model is used to intro

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Van, de Heyde Valentino Patrick. "An Investigation of magnetic storm effects on total electron content over South Africa for selected periods in solar cycles 23 and 24." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3997.

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>Magister Scientiae - MSc<br>The development of regional ionospheric Total Electron Content (TEC) models has contributed to understanding the behavior of ionospheric parameters and the coupling of the ionosphere to space weather activities on both local and global scales. In the past several decades, the International Global Navigation Satellite Systems Service (GNSS) networks of dual frequency receiver data have been applied to develop global and regional models of ionospheric TEC. These models were mainly developed in the Northern Hemisphere where there are dense network of ground based GPS

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Huizinga, Jeffrey. "Selected stories." Thesis, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/19465.

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Please note: creative writing theses are permanently embargoed in OpenBU. No public access is forecasted for these. To request private access, please click on the locked Download file link and fill out the appropriate web form.<br>Selected Stories is a collection of short fiction works produced between fall 2014 and spring 2016.<br>2031-01-01T00:00:00Z

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Otarod, Vhalla. "Sweet home Pennsylvania and selected stories." Thesis, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/42631.

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Please note: this work is permanently embargoed in OpenBU. No public access is forecasted for this item. To request private access, please click on the locked Download file link and fill out the appropriate web form.<br>Two stories and a novel excerpt.<br>2999-01-01T00:00:00Z

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WEN, YING-YA, and 溫瀅雅. "Interaction of characters in Nadine Gordimer's selected stories." Thesis, 1989. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78052521073847226329.

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LIN, YI-JUN, and 林怡君. "Terra incognita:a con/textual reading of selected short stories." Thesis, 1987. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/56563811402110436422.

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Joseph, Confidence. "Laughter in darkness: humour in selected contemporary Zimbabwean short stories." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/26349.

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A research paper submitted to the Faculty of Humanities and the Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts. Johannesburg 2018<br>Amidst the ongoing socio-economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe, it has long been dangerous to publicly criticize or condemn the situation in ways that put the government in a bad light. However, humorous stories have provided a platform through which such issues may be engaged outside the censoring regime. In this research report I use humour theory and James Sc

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Ngomane, George Nkhesani. "Gender, genre and identity in selected short stories by Bessie Head." Diss., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1152.

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This study probes selected stories from Bessie Head's The Collector of Treasures (1977) in order to elicit instances of contiguity and disjuncture between orality and literacy, to establish Head's complex identity configurations which are often manifested in the interactions between aesthetic form and content, authorial consciousness, character delineation, and narrative voice. At the same time, the dissertation explores her portrayal of the proscribed condition of women, the subversive consciousness that undercuts women's subjugation by patriarchy, and her vision for the liberatory possibili

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Olsen, Andrea E. "A translation of selected short stories by Colombian author Julio Paredes." 2008. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.17363.

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Wang, Yu-Chiang, and 王毓強. "An Investigation of the Appeal of Conan Doyle's Selected Short Stories." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70199935588374870292.

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碩士<br>大葉大學<br>應用外語研究所<br>101<br>Conan Doyle’s short stories of Sherlock Holmes have been popular more than one hundred years. What is the power of the appeal behind them? The aim of this study is to discover and explore the four factors that form this power. The first factor is to challenge readers’ inference ability by two approaches – one is characterization, and the other is the clarification of sequence of events. The second factor emphasizes his creation of ambiance that may arouse a sense of tension or horror in readers or may further mislead them into forming a conclusion that is

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Cheng, Shu-fei, and 鄭淑妃. "Kate Chopin's Selected Short Stories: A Chinese Translation with an Introduction." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35331745361936139808.

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碩士<br>國立中山大學<br>外國語文學系<br>87<br>Kate Chopin (1850-1904), after suffering from more than half a century of misunderstanding and neglect, is now established as one of the important American writers. She is highly praised for her frank and incisive portrayal of human aspirations and pursuit for identity, especially women's quest of self-realization and its following predicament. In scarcely more than a decade of literary career, the earnest and hardworking author published two novels and more than one hundred short stories. After her masterpiece, The Awakening, has won universal acclaim,

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Cook, Meira. "Text into flesh: a Lacanian reading of selected short stories by I.B. Singer." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16535.

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Tang, Yulin, and 唐玉玲. "A Study on the Appeal of Selected Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18552927090914452647.

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碩士<br>大葉大學<br>應用外語研究所<br>101<br>ABSTRACT Maugham’s short stories are marked by highly perceptive observations, rich life experience, and cynical attitude toward human nature. Even though they were published half a century ago, many of them are still popular. This study is aimed to examine the factors that contribute to creating their power appeal. I will first briefly introduce Maugham’s miserable childhood and rich life experience that help develop his cynical and humanitarian attitude toward his life. The first two factors to be dealt with in the first chapter are his ability to create fa

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Mbwera, Shereck. "Short stories for life : implications of the Canonisation of the Zimbabwe story-telling tradition, with special reference to selected Zimbabwean short stories." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22592.

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This study examines the myth of the surrogate power of canonicity by exposing the condition of liminality of the Zimbabwean short story genre within African literary canon. Building on the hypothesis that canonisation distorts literature the study postulates that literary canon produce predictable biases in construing the position of the short story. It fossilises and condenses the marginal genres to the extent that the existing canon repertoire hardly recognises them. The peripheral but de facto canon of the short story genre entertains a strong relationship of heteronomy to the mainstream/ce

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Wasosa, Wellington. "Deviance and moralisiation as portrayed in selected post-independence Shona novels and short stories." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19842.

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This thesis is an exegesis of the portrayal of deviance in selected post-independence Shona fictional works. The analysis is done within the context of moralisation in Shona literature. The forms of deviant behaviour discussed include prostitution, homosexuality, crime and violence and negligence of duty within families. The fictional works are Mapenzi (1999), Totanga Patsva (2003), Ndozviudza Aniko? (2006), Ndafa Here? (2008), and Makaitei? (2008). All the fictional works are set during the period of the Zimbabwe Crisis and this becomes the context of the criticism of the manner in which devi

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Pasacreta, Lenora Maryanne. "Circles within circles: translation and analyses of selected short stories by Jose Emilio Pacheco." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7642.

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This thesis is a detailed examination of three short stories written by the Mexican author and poet, Jose Emilio Pacheco, selected from two of his collections: El viento distante and El principio del placer. I chose "Virgen de los veranos" and "Parque de diversiones" from the former collection, and "La fiesta brava" from the latter. There are two main focuses in my work; one is the translation of the three short stories into English and the other is the analyses of the stories. In addition, as an aid to placing the stories contextually within the history of Mexican literature, I include

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Chen, Chien-Chih, and 陳建志. "Flying Out of the Labyrinth: A Zen Reading of Selected Short Stories by Jorge Luis Borges." Thesis, 1993. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10364766181236821884.

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碩士<br>淡江大學<br>西洋語文研究所<br>81<br>The Argentine writer Borges often reveal in his short stories the spirit that one can also find in Zen. Through a n reading of his selected short stories this thesis attempts to illustrate how Borges and Zen lead man break through the limitationof his reasoning mind, and bring out his intuition to experience Reality that transcends the physical dimensions. The first chapter defines Borges as a mystic thinker andints out the mystical concerns and characteristi

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Von, Memerty Joan Elizabeth. "Distance and clarity in selected works of Michael Ondaatje." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1739.

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Bundesen, Christine Mary. "Aspects of story-telling in Achim von Arnim : a study of historical perspectives, themes, characters and leitmotifs in selected short stories." 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/15431.

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KLIMEŠOVÁ, Daniela. "Intraracial Love and Bigotry in Jonah's Gourd Vine and Their Eyes Were Watching God and Selected Short Stories by Zora Neale Hurston." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-396472.

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Rogers, Sean Anthony. "Fighting tomorrow : a study of selected Southern African war fiction." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1902.

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This research provides an analytical reading of five southern African war novels, in a transnational study of the experience of war as represented by the novels' authors. In order to situate the texts within a transnational tradition of writing about modern warfare, I draw on Paul Fussell's work on the fictional writings of the Second World War in combination with Tobey Herzog's work on the writings of America's war in Vietnam. Through a reading of Sousa Jamba's Patriots and Mark Behr's The Smell of Apples. I illustrate that while these and other southern African war texts can be situated with

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Dengetsha, Mekonnen Redahegn. "Retail shrinkage at two selected stores." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2270.

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Self-service may increase customer satisfaction. But by allowing customers to be in close contact with goods before they purchase, exposes the retailer to possible shrinkage in the form of dishonest customers and staff. Suppliers contribute to the shrinkage problem by under-supplying or falsifying invoices. Errors in the capture of inventory information on the part of management and employees are further contributors to possible shrinkage. The combination of these three factors contributes to the phenomenon of 'retail shrinkage' and is directly responsible for eroding the profits of retailers.

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