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Kemedjio, Cilas. "Des Theories de L'imaginaire aux Imaginaires Theoriques: La Question Theorique dans les Litteratures Africaine et Antillaise: From the Theories of Fiction to Creative Writing: Theoretical Issues in African and Antillean Literatures." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487861796821412.

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Kowalski, Philip J. Thrailkill Jane F. "Cultural genetics theories of inheritance and nineteenth-century American literature /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1452.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Apr. 25, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English." Discipline: English; Department/School: English.

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Brown, James. "'Theories .... to practice brought' : studies in Dryden's dramaturgy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335659.

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Brown, Christopher Russell. "Economic theories of the entrepreneur: A systematic review of the literature." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1826/2152.

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Economic theories of the entrepreneur have received more attention recently in the entrepreneurship literature. Different concepts and ideas are typically borrowed from various economists to create new, or expand upon existing, theories. This has created a somewhat fragmented literature, and I found no evidence of a previous systematic (or comprehensive literature) review of any economic theories of the entrepreneur. The many different economic theories of the entrepreneur over time and a renewed interest in researching entrepreneurship within an economics framework led to my research question

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Feng, Liping. "Modernity and tradition : Chinese theories of literature from 1900 to 1930." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28445.

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This thesis examines the development of Chinese theories of literature in the early twentieth century: what was considered as literature, the role of the writer and reader, and the function of literature in society. The central purpose of the thesis is to retrace the Western-influenced theories of literature of the 1920s back to the theoretical developments at the turn of the century. The thesis also shows that, as a whole, modern Chinese theories of literature are deeply rooted in traditional Chinese poetics. In characterizing traditional Chinese theories, it compares the latter with the mime

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Taylor, Paul Alan. "Theories of laughter and the production of television comedy." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/8433.

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In order to examine the context of entertainment (through studying the particular form of television situation comedy) it was felt necessary to review the literature referring to humour in general. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 look at contributions from the fields of psychology, philosophy, and sociology. Psychology has little to offer if an understanding of the mass media is sought; philosophy places man in society but concentrates on the individual perception of humour; ‘sociology’ confirms the useful concept of comedy as dealing with values and conventions. The audience may be asked to laugh at wha

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Anderson, Wesley. "Beyond reason: revising the place of literature in theories of the uncanny." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22935.

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The psychoanalytic fixation in seeking to validate 'the real' has long overlooked various key components in theories of the uncanny as they relate to literature. The goal of the present study is to reaffirm the roles of uncertainty, ambiguity, and the purposeful lack of closure in the experience of the uncanny, features which will come to form an integral part of a new theory.

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Kirkby, Daniela M. "An analysis of Samuel P. Huntington's theories." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1015964.

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The traditional notion of Western liberal democracy has in recent years been met with a barrage of negative criticism. Liberal democracy from both a minimalist and substantive position appears to be backsliding, and once more falling into what Samuel P. Huntington (1991) termed a reverse wave. The analysis which Huntington (1991) presented ended in an era in which liberal democracy once more dominated the political landscape for a third consecutive wave, without any indication that it was going to relapse. In light of Huntington’s (1991) closure, this study has attempted to continue with his a

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Meijering, Roos. "Literary and rhetorical theories in Greek scholia." Groningen : E. Forsten, 1987. http://books.google.com/books?id=YXtfAAAAMAAJ.

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Kendall, Tessa Clare. "The symbolist theatre on Maurice Maeterlinck : an interpretation structured by contractual theories." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338911.

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Leen, Mary Elledge Jim. "Theories of storytelling surviving the gaps and rhythms of migration in the gift of homeplace /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1995. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9604375.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University,<br>Title from title page screen, viewed April 24, 2006. Dissertation Committee: James M. Elledge (chair), Charles E. Orser, Ray L. White, Torri L. Thompson. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 156-165) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Karidis, Electra. "Towards an interpretation of reading : Elena Garro's short stories as theories of themselves." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369084.

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Colette, Gordon. "Moving passions: theories of affect in Renaissance love discourse and Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28268.

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The 1998 film, Shakespeare in Love, sets Will Shakespeare (and itself) the challenge to "show the nature and truth of love ... to make it [love] true" - with an ideal presentation of Romeo and Juliet. The film finally achieves this by ensuring that Will and Viola end on stage as Romeo and Juliet, playing the parts they respectively inspire. The film, and the play within the film, can achieve the satisfactory embodiment of true love only, it seems, through the replacement of stage lover/player with 'real' lovers. The film attempts to unite love and art, but finds stage representation naturally

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Dunn, Angela Frances. "The continental drift : Anglo-American and French theories of tradition and feminism." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63972.

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El-Murr, Leila. "Seeing God: the use of theories of vision in Jāmī's «Yūsuf va Zulaykhā»." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=123126.

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In this study, I will argue that the difference between profane love and sacred love, as examined in Jāmī's masnavī Yūsuf va Zulaykhā, can be conceptualized through vision and narrative planning. Jami's tale centers on Zulaykhā's love for Yusuf and her subsequent conversion to monotheism. The text makes extensive use of the sense of sight, especially through the trope of jelvah-i maḥbūb, the blinding hierophany of the beloved, to create meaning and to illustrate the transformation of Zulaykhā's profane love into sacred love. This transformation occurs in several stages, each of which conveys p

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Bester, Ian. "A systematic literature review of the strategic management theories of Henry Mintzberg and Peter Drucker." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95670.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>The ability of any business to survive is highly dependent on its ability to continuously sustain an advantage not only on its competitors, but also the constantly changing environment that it operates in. In our current global economy it is imperative that a company’s business leaders consistently make better decisions than their competitors to ensure that they survive, grow and maintain a healthy economical status. This can only be done through insight, knowledge, skill, experience and leadership – all of which is build up over time and ha

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Ferguson, Alice. "The Complexities of Translation: Theories and Practicalities." PDXScholar, 1993. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4663.

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What are the difficulties involved in transferring a work of literature from one language to another, and what contributions might an analysis of the translation of a literary work make to the field of translation studies? These questions are explored in this thesis through the exploration of translation theories in general, and the analysis of one particular case with consideration of the theoretical implications it presents. The case study involves the comparison of the novel Gouverneurs de la rosee, written in 1944 by Haitian author Jacques Roumain, with Masters of the Dew, the translation

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林小燕 and Shiu Yin Lam. "The literary theories of Emperor Jianwen (503-551) and the 'Time-consciousness' in his poetry." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31213224.

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Eda, Sanae. "A Synthesis of Memory Theories and Pedagogy: Teaching Pronunciation in Japanese as a Foreign Language." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392137535.

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Kanwar, A. S. "The fictional theories of Arnold Kettle and Raymond Williams with special reference to selected nineteenth century novels." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372352.

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Pateman, Matthew Elliot. "A critical study of the fiction of Julian Barnes with reference to selected theories of narrative and legitimation." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365278.

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Shaheen, Muhammad. "Theories of translation and their applications to the teaching of English/Arabic-Arabic/English translating." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 1991. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/637.

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Zimolzak, Katharine Ellen. "Mere shadows of human forms intersections of body and adaptation theories in six screen versions of Jane Eyre /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6100.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 22, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

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Morris, Dustin. "Ariadne's threads of identity : foreshadowing of social and individual identity theories in John Dos Passos' U.S.A. /." Read thesis online, 2009. http://library.uco.edu/UCOthesis/MorrisD2009.pdf.

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Wallace, Rick L., and Nakia J. Woodward. "Can Earthquake and Tsunami Preparedness Behavioral Models be extended by Pandemic Flu Theories? A Review of the Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8722.

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Falk, Linnéa. "Literature, a Gateway to New Worlds : Encouraging Aesthetic Reading through Transactional, Reader Response and Envisionment Theories and Metods." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-46434.

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The purpose of this essay has been to demonstrate that increased use of aesthetic reading inthe Swedish Upper Secondary EFL classroom would lead to several benefits to the students. To do this I have given examples of three didactical theories and methods that could be used in combination for this purpose. Each theory, and the methods that can be linked to said theory, has been analysed on how it could be used in the classroom and what benefits it could lead to. Subsequently, a combination of these theories and methods has been created and applied to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, i

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Rossington, Michael. "Mythology as history : theories of origins and formulations of the past in the works of Shelley." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3e98f8e7-4d3f-473c-929a-900d96e962b0.

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This thesis examines Shelley's interest in the mythologies of non-Christian cultures. It argues that Shelley's use of mythology can be best understood as an artistic response to his perception of contemporary historical events and within the context of the hostility of the younger Romantic poets towards the religious and political beliefs of the elder generation. The theological defence of the Mosaic account of the origins of the world by orthodox Christians set against the sympathy towards pagan culture expressed by secular historians and antiquarians of the late eighteenth and early nineteen

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Kamal, Sabrina Sharmin. ""Come on powerful, come on my fresh green" : representations of the child and constructions of childhood in Rabindranath Tagore's writings for children." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267967.

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The present study investigates Asia’s first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s (1861-1941) writings for children, situating his work in the tumultuous time of colonial India marching towards independence. The study makes an original contribution to Tagore scholarship and the field of children’s literature arguing that Tagore’s designated protagonist, the Bengali child, subverts social and political structures of power and authority, and is a vehicle for the author’s hopes for future. The discourse of Tagore’s literature for children posits, hopes for, and construes an implied child reader -

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Creme, Phyllis. "The playing spectator : a study on the applicability of the theories of D.W. Winnicott to contemporary concepts of the viewer's relationship to film." Thesis, University of Kent, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387045.

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This thesis presents an exploration of the relationship of the viewer to film from the perspective of the theories developed by the English psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) on playing, transitional objects, potential space, and a view of the subject that includes a concept of the True Self or Self. The transitional object is defined as the baby's first play object which it uses to achieve subject-object differentiation. Potential space is the transitional psychic area between subjective and objective reality, which Winnicott posits as the location of cultural experience, the adult's f

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O'Hara, Mark William. "Foucault and Film: Critical Theories and Representations of Mental Illness." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1415896906.

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Bayer, Mark 1973. "Changing of the guards : theories of sovereignty in Shakespeare's Richard II." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=27927.

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Shakespeare's history plays are not merely benign representations of various historical figures and events but the site of political, cultural, and ideological contestation at the time of their performance. Richard II documents two divergent theoretical approaches to sovereignty which are more applicable to the political climate in Shakespeare's time than Richard's. In this essay, I read this play through the lens of various political tracts and historical tendencies dominant in late Elizabethan England. Though such an analysis might best be understood as historical materialist in orientation,

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Kinoshita, Yukiko. "Art and society : a consideration of the relations between aesthetic theories and social commitment with reference to Katherine Mansfield and Oscar Wilde." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1997. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1533.

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The chief purpose of this project is to discuss Katherine Mansfield's aesthetic ideas in connection with those of Oscar Wilde and fin de siècle Aestheticism. The proposed study will also analyse her Modernist technique in Symbolist terms, and consider her major themes from aesthetic and political points of view. The primary, underlying concern of this study is to negotiate two, often opposing critical values: the aesthetic and the political. The artist's negotiation of the conflict between aesthetics (art) and politics (society) is a controversial 'modern' critical issue: the issue all serious

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Ozirny, Shannon. "The big shoes of Little Bear : the publication history, emergence, and literary potential of the easy reader." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2727.

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Despite incredible sales success, popularity, and a fifty year history, easy readers are one of the most neglected forms of children’s literature. Called everything from “the poor stepchild of the more glamorous picture book or children’s novel” to “literary flotsam,” easy readers are too-often regarded as insubstantial, superficial, sub-par literature. This thesis provides the first comprehensive, theoretically grounded examination of easy readers and endeavors to prove that a surprising complexity lurks beneath the easy reader’s decodable surface. In order to illuminate both extra-textual an

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Blend, Masifi Sorin. "Utvandringens tid : Kolonialismens variga sår och orientalistiskt begär." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Gender, Culture and History, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1627.

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<p>This paper is an analysis of the novel Season of Migration to The North by Tayeb Salih. Season of Migration to The North was first published in 1967 and it is the most accomplished among several works in modern Arabic literature.</p><p>I shall focus on one of the two major characters, Mustafa Said, a young Sudanese student whose brilliant career at school in Sudan and Cairo eventually brings him to England; he has a successful academic career in England as a lecturer at the University of London.</p><p>One of the major themes of the novel is the confrontation between Mustafa Said and England

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Larsson, Malin. "Cultural Capital through Novels in English : Is There One Sovereign Teaching Method when Teaching Novels in English?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-33634.

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This thesis researches how six of the English teachers in the public upper-secondary schools in Växjö teach novels in English and how their methods influence the gaining of cultural capital for the students. The cultural capital theory is based on Pierre Bourdieu and what he states about cultural capital being one of the factors that may allow a person to shift social status without having any economic capital. Another matter that Bourdieu addresses is that school is one of the institutions where cultural capital may be gained (Bourdieu “Practical Reason” 19). Because school is the one common

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Smith, Lindsay. "The enigma of visibility : theories of visual perception in the early poetry of William Morris and in the work of Ruskin and the pre-Raphaelites." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328237.

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Mujdzic, Amer. "Newspapers in the ESL Classroom : Using newspapers as an introduction for teaching linguistic theories and concepts for advanced learners." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-37157.

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The aim of this essay is to test the suitability for teaching an introduction to meaning through analysing linguistic concepts in newspaper articles. The essay is hypothetical, and the suggestions for teaching linguistic concepts for advanced learners have not been tested in a classroom environment. By analysing concepts related to meaning in newspaper articles, examples, adaptions of previous theories, and suggestions for future activities and studies are conferred and demonstrated. The hypothesis of this study is: Using newspapers as teaching material in the classroom can be useful for teach

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Boyce, Tara Brock. "Kenneth Burke as Educator: What His Theories of Aesthetic Form and (Non-Symbolic) Motion/(Symbolic) Action Suggest for Teachers in the Literature Classroom." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3708.

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Burke scholars oftentimes overlook Burke's fundamental role as educator and how his work can and should be applied to the classroom. This paper explores Burke's theoretical works and centers on two concepts important to developing rhetorical skills necessary for functioning and participating in a democratic society: his theory of aesthetic form and his distinction between motion and action. Specifically, this paper (1) clarifies these concepts and explains how they relate to each other and the emotional experience of literature, and (2) demonstrates how these concepts work together to imply a

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Ashe, Donna Kate. "Developing a quantitative assessment instrument for organizational culture : an integration of the theories from organizational culture and cross-cultural literature." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/29534.

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Grantham, Brianna Jene. "The collection : integrating attachment theory and theories of intergenerational development to write a woman's life." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7423/.

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The Collection tells the story of Barbara, a fifty-something, Christian, teacher, wife, and mother, as she is forced to return home after her estranged father's death. Named executrix of his estate, Barbara navigates family secrets, repressed childhood trauma, and her mentally ill father's legacy. Using Attachment Theory and Intergenerational Theories of Personal Development, this research discusses the development and relationships of the characters in The Collection to demonstrate the connections between their child and adult selves—specifically, the role of Barbara's parents and childhood i

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Minow-Pinkney, Makiko. "Feminine writing and the problem of the self : an examination of Virginia Woolf's novels in the light of recent critical and psychoanalytic theories." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1985. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4406/.

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Central to my analysis of Woolf's work are five novels: Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves. These are written in pursuit of Woolf's modernist project, but as I shall argue below, her modernism was at the same time a feminist subversion of conventions, and I will analyze the ways in which Woolf actually effects this fusion of her concerns in her texts. I will concentrate on her fiction in this thesis, an area of her work that has been, surprisingly, comparatively underemphasized in the recent, intense revival of interest in Woolf. Directed towards her centenary i

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Fabbri, Franco. "Genre theories and their applications in the historical and analytical study of popular music : a commentary on my publications." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2012. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/17528/.

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There can be little doubt that the usage of the concept of genre remains widespread in discourses around music, cinema, theatre, literature. However, for a long period of time, musicologists have paid little attention to genre which is considered to be an outdated legacy of positivism: a concept belonging to amateurish criticism or daily musical practice – and incompatible with the hegemonic ideology of ‘absolute music’. In the commentary that follows, the history of my own efforts to bring genre back to the theoretical core of musicological debate is outlined, and intertwined with the work of

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Tatum, Brian Shane. "Relativity In Transylvania And Patusan: Finding The Roots Of Einstein’s Theories Of Relativity In Dracula And Lord Jim." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc103399/.

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This thesis investigates the similarities in the study of time and space in literature and science during the modern period. Specifically, it focuses on the portrayal of time and space within Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim (1899-1900), and compares the ideas presented with those later scientifically formulated by Albert Einstein in his special and general theories of relativity (1905-1915). Although both novels precede Einstein’s theories, they reveal advanced complex ideas of time and space very similar to those later argued by the iconic physicist. These ideas f

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Pullen, Terri G. Fortune Ron. "The mental imagery in readers' responses emphasizing the visual in audience-centered theories of reading /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9803735.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1997.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed June 7, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Ron Fortune (chair), Douglas D. Hesse, Lee Brasseur. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 219-225) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Miller, Caroline Grace. "The Dual Power of Language: Theories of Maurice Blanchot in Practice." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami159528857275781.

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Innami, Fusako. "The touchable and the untouchable : an investigation of touch in modern Japanese literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:29608446-afd6-4b05-b096-d4ffd5ccf3fd.

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This thesis examines how the experience of touch is depicted in modern/contemporary Japanese literature and culture. Employing touch-related 20th century French thought (Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Nancy) and psychoanalytic theory (Klein, Anzieu, Kimura), it discusses how the representations of touch illuminate various aspects of human existence, specifically: the mediated nature of touch, the process of the bodily encounters, the formation of subject identity, sexual differences, and the way memories of touch depicted in literature affect our sense of temporality. Touch is a particularly interest

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McLean, Karen, and n/a. "Samuel Taylor Coleridge�s use of platonic and neoplatonic theories of evil and creation." University of Otago. Department of English, 2008. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20080222.121810.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge used theories of evil and creation from Plato, Plotinus and Proclus to refine his definitions of the Trinity and the Absolute and Apostate Wills, and to move beyond the Germanic Naturphilosophie concept of self-hood as achieved by a self-objectification which emphasised differences between the persons of the Trinity rather than their similarities. His use of specific classical Greek concepts allowed him to propose that the Absolute Will�s self-substantiative act established unity and distinction as simultaneous and interrelated equals. From this, Coleridge investigated

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Dickfors, Erika. "Teaching Literature in English at High School Level : A Discussion of the Socio-Cultural Learning Theory vs the Transmission Theory." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-19793.

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This essay discusses if teaching English literature in high school classes, in accordance with the socio-cultural learning theory, can be considered to promote language learning substantially better than teaching English literature in accordance with the transmission theory. This essay also investigates and compares how well teaching English literature, in accordance with each of these two learning theories, fulfills stipulations in the Swedish National Curriculum for high school courses English 5, 6 and 7. In order to show differences between the socio-cultural learning theory and the transmi

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Cameron, Nicholas W. "Reclaimed territory : the plays of John McGrath and the 7:84 theatre company considered as a continuum of twentieth-century theories concerning theatrical form." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15983.

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Bibliography: pages 617-630.<br>This dissertation proposes to examine the work of John McGrath and the 7:84 Theatre Company as part of a continuum of theatrical experimentation culminating in postmodernism. To clarify the relationship between aesthetic form and social praxis the inquiry proceeds in two salient lines of direction: the first tracing the withdrawal from "realism" of major theorists of modernist ideology, the second defining the political and social milieu which provided the matrix for the development and staging of McGrath's plays. Recognising the partisan disposition of the 7:84

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Braidwood, Alistair. "Iain Banks, James Kelman and the art of engagement : an application of Jean Paul Sartre's theories of literature and existentialism to two modern Scottish novelists." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3024/.

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Over and above applying Sartrean literary philosophy to Banks and Kelman this thesis therefore also offers a model of literary criticism that can be applied to a number of other contemporary Scottish authors. In conclusion, this thesis suggests that Sartre’s theories of literature can assist in the attempt to better understand the value of the writer in society, and of Kelman and Banks in particular. The comparison and contrast between Banks and Kelman makes clear the importance of contextualising the individual writer not only with the work of their contemporaries, but with the time, place an

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