Dissertations / Theses: 'Authors'

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Rambridge, Kate. "Authors, texts & communities." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274638.

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NAKANO, RENATA GABRIEL. "PICTUREBOOK: DEFINITIONS, READERS, AUTHORS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30205@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Em diversos países europeus, norte e latino-americanos estão disseminados entre especialistas termos que representam um tipo específico de subcategoria da literatura infantil, como picturebook, album illustré, álbum ilustrado, livro-álbum e bilderbuch, caracterizado pelo papel que a linguagem visual representa na leitura da obra. Apesar de não haver um nome específico para tal subcategoria no Brasil, há muitos exemplos de livros ilustrados brasileiros que aqui a representam. Esta pesquisa trata sobre tal objeto analisando-o sob três aspectos: primeiro, suas definições por diferentes autores brasileiros e estrangeiros, com foco nas especificidades do diálogo entre linguagens verbal e visual e uso consciente da tecnologia livro como recurso estético; segundo, em uma análise da infância sob abordagem filosófica e social, em busca dos pressupostos de leitura que o livro ilustrado, ao ser considerado um livro infantil, pode produzir; e terceiro, sobre as particularidades da criação de um objeto que muitas vezes é fruto de quatro autores - o escritor, o ilustrador, o designer e, por vezes, o editor.
In many countries from Europe, North and Latin America there are different terms commonly used by specialists to refer to a certain subcategory of children s literature - picturebook, album illustré, álbum ilustrado, livro-álbum, and bilderbuch - characterized by the role that visual language plays in reading of the work. Despite the want of a specific name for this subcategory in Brazil, there are many examples of Brazilian picturebooks. This research focuses on the picturebook, and analyzes it from three different perspectives: firstly, definitions presented by different Brazilian and foreign authors, with focus on the specificities of the dialog between verbal and visual languages, and the deliberate use of the book technology as an aesthetic object; secondly, analyzing childhood under a philosophical and sociological approach in search of the possible implications to reading that the categorization of the picturebook as children s book may produce; thirdly, the particularities of creating an object which often has four authors - the writer, the illustrator, the designer, and the editor.

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Ahn, Charles S. "Automatically detecting authors' native language." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/5821.

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When non-native speakers learn English, their first language influences how they learn. This is known as L1-L2 language transfer, and linguistic studies have shown that these language transfers can affect writing as well. If there were a model that exploits L1-L2 language transfer to identify the authors' native language, it would be an invaluable tool for the intelligence community as well as in the field of education. Therefore, the objective of this research is to find out if it is possible to automatically detect the author's native language based on his/her writing in English using traditional machine learning techniques. For this research, we used eight different collections of writings by speakers of eight different nationalities: native English speakers as well as speakers of Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. Among the various feature sets used in this research, character trigrams and bag of words alone achieved higher than 80% accuracy, and the empirical analysis of character trigrams revealed that the character trigrams just model lexical usage. When content words were extracted, the performance dropped and the results revealed that the topic words were doing all the work.

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Loman, Lilia. "Suicide-authors : a deconstructive study." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30977/.

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The purpose of this thesis is to problematize the relationship between suicide and the author. On the basis of a deconstructive approach, it will study the effect of the self-inflicted death of the writer, namely the emergence of a dual figure, the "suicide-author". To deconstruct the suicide-author, this thesis will combine theoretical issues with examples taken from authors who killed themselves, including texts written by the suicides and by their survivors. Such texts will be referred to as "memorial texts" and will constitute a key element in the deconstruction of the figure of the author, namely his/her "posthumous persona". The thesis is divided into two parts. Part I, comprising the first three chapters, will propose an anti-teleological theorizing of suicide, followed by a study of the role of memorial texts in the deconstruction of the figure of the suicide author and a problematizing of Roland Barthes's concept of the "death of the author" in the context of the multiplicity of deaths of the suicide-author. In Chapter Two, the study of memorial texts will be developed in conjunction with analysis of selected examples, such as Yukio Mishima, Mario de Sa-Carneiro, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sergei Esenin, Raymond Roussel, Walter Benjamin, Anne Sexton, and Virginia Woolf. Also divided into three chapters, Part II is dedicated to an extended analysis of the thesis' case study, namely Sylvia Plath. Rather than focusing on Plath's suicide as an individual unique case, the second part aims at extending and complementing the discussion of the issues previously proposed. Of particular interest is the magnifying of such issues offered by the mythical aura of the Plath case. Chapter Four deals with the "voice of the other", the deconstruction of Plath's image by the living, including both those who had known her in person and the so called "anonymous witnesses" to her suicide, namely critics, journalists, et al. Chapter Five focuses on the "voice of the deceased", as emanating from Plath's writings. Finally, Chapter Six analyses the Plath-Hughes dialogue, with attention to Hughes's particular role in the deconstruction of her posthumous persona.

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Tai, Chih-Che, Renee Rice Moran, Laura Robertson, and Karin J. Keith. "Professional Development for Chapter Authors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3620.

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Vazquez, Garcia Veronica 1963 Carleton University Dissertation Sociology. "Gender differences in contemporary Latin American narrative; a comparative study of male authors and female authors." Ottawa.:, 1989.

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Ahmad, Zaidi Adruce Shahren Mueller Milton Mueller. "Academic authors' perception on copyright protection /." Related Electronic Resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Ahmad, Zaidi Adruce Shahren Mueller Milton. "Academic authors' perception on copyright protection." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Hirschler, Konrad. "Medieval arabic historiography : authors and actors /." London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb410201876.

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Quandt, Guilherme de Oliveira. "Elizabeth Bishop and 5 brazilizn authors." Florianópolis, SC, 2005. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/101827.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente
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This is an intertextual reading of texts by Elizabeth Bishop and texts by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Manuel Bandeira, Vinicius de Moraes, and Clarice Lispector, based on Mikhail M. Bakhtin's notion that juxtaposing texts may establish semantic dialogues between them, even if they are not apparently related. The first chapter shows that in some poems by Bishop and Drummond, encounters of the narrator with animals and paupers represent the act of becoming increasingly aware of the world and of the limits of one's own perception; then the first chapter moves to Bishop's translation of Cabral's poem "Morte e Vida Severina" and to her own ballad "The Burglar of Babylon," analyzing how these works are related in theme-the life of poor migrants-and how they differ. The second chapter deals with the perception of intimacy and private life in some texts by Bishop, Bandeira, Vinicius, and Clarice, showing that in the selected poems by Vinicius and Bandeira intimacy is associated to loneliness, while in Bishop and Clarice the presence of other people is taken in consideration but intimacy itself seems frail and unstable. Esta é uma leitura intertextual de textos de Elizabeth Bishop e de textos de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Manuel Bandeira, Vinicius de Moraes e Clarice Lispector, baseado na idéia de Mikhail M. Bakhtin segundo a qual a justaposição de textos aparentemente sem relação uns com os outros pode estabelecer diálogos semânticos entre eles. O primeiro capítulo mostra que em determinados poemas de Bishop e Drummond, encontros do narrador com animais e com pobres representa uma evolução de sua percepção sobre o mundo e sobre os limites de sua própria consciência; em seguida o primeiro capítulo passa à tradução de Bishop para o poema "Morte e Vida Severina" de Cabral e à balada "The Burglar of Babylon", analisando como essas obras se relacionam quanto ao assunto (a vida de imigrantes miseráveis) e como diferem. O segundo capítulo trata do tema da intimidade em textos de Bishop, Bandeira, Vinicius e Clarice, apontando que os poemas selecionados de Vinicius e Bandeira mostram intimidade associada à solidão, ao passo que nos textos de Bishop e Clarice as demais pessoas são levadas em conta, mas a intimidade em si parece frágil e instável.

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Govender, Dyalan. "The Author Figured in Film." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2009. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23107.

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For all the critical attention paid to the author in literary theory and criticism, there has been no study of the film medium’s fascination with authors and authorship. Every year, Hollywood produces numerous films about poets, playwrights, novelists, and screenwriters. This thesis explores the narrative and cinematic potential of the author. In broad terms, it is an exercise in genre criticism, establishing the defining characteristics of films characterising authors. It is also a very specific type of genre criticism, taking a cognitivist approach that defines the author as a set of historically and socially established expectations and characteristics against which the characters in these films are measured. After establishing the phenomenological parameters and critical value of the cognitivist approach in Chapter 1,1 then take up Andrew Bennett’s outline of the author as a cultural concept, discussing its utility in dealing with films figuring authors and authorship. Chapters 3 to 8 explore a selection of the sub-genres of films containing authors, starting with characterisations of the author as a detective, then moving to films using and depicting writer’s.block, horrific characterisations of the author, characterisations of female authors, the biopic, and films characterising screenwriters in Hollywood. The work concludes with an analysis of Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze’s Adaptation (2002), whose broad exploration of authorship traverses more of these sub-genres than any other film, offering an opportunity to bring together the findings of Chapters 1 to 8. I focus on English language, feature length, narrative films released between 1927 and 2007. Rather than taking a chronological approach and tracing the history of the medium’s treatment of the author, I select films from various periods, identifying in them the defining characteristics of the genre. But more than this, the genre and its characteristics represent the persistent interpretive function of the author in face of the critical trend away from biographically based interpretation towards textual and semiotic analysis.

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Carnegie, Elizabeth. "Essays on representation : authors, audiences and organisations." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26383.

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Paproth, Matthew Walker. "Modernist authors, postmodernist writers : Joyce, Beckett, Rushdie /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1147179731&sid=16&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Kubiski, Joyce Marie. "Uomini Illustri : the revival of the author portrait in renaissance Florence /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6241.

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Campbell, Anthony. "Bending authors & narrative straits, Shakespeare's telling strategies." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ42564.pdf.

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Park, Young Hyun. "Supporting high productivity among disconnected mobile collaborative authors." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0009462.

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Homestead, Melissa J. "American women authors and literary property, 1822-1869 /." Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb400550012.

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Marching, Soe Tjen 1971. "Negotiating identity : Indonesian women's published autobiographies and unpublished diaries in the New Order." Monash University, Dept. of Asian Languages and Studies, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5825.

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Bowman, Gaillynn M. "Constance Cary Harrison, refugitta of Richmond : a nineteenth-century Southern woman writer's critically intriguing antislavery narrative strategy /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2003. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=250.

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Sowinska, Suzanne. "American women writers and the radical agenda 1925-1940 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9328.

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Ronnow, Gretchen Lyn. "John Milton Oskison: Native American modernist." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186243.

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The works of John Milton Oskison, Cherokee writer, originally published in popular magazines, have been out of print since the 1920s. Oskison's stories have often been dismissed as sentimental and lacking a Native American focus; a more diligent reading, however, shows subtle and complex Native American motifs and concerns. John Oskison was born in Indian Territory in 1874, attended Willie Halsell College, Stanford and Harvard Universities, and then began to write for major New York magazines. It was not necessarily popular nor politically advantageous at that time to be known as Indian, especially if one wished to influence public opinion as a journalist. Oskison's Native American point of view and sympathy are strongly coded in the text, embedded in narrative displacements and rhetorical silences. His are "writerly" texts; at the most superficial level readers may see only populist and assimilationist "messages," but the narrative complexities belie such easy readings. Oskison grappled with the issues of being a highly educated mixed-blood trying to defend a tribal heritage while speaking in the most public arenas. This dissertation is a critical examination of the way this struggle manifests itself in his literary production.

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Moldenhauer, Martin A. Fortune Ron. "Teaching concepts of textuality through engagement with authors' manuscripts." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9803729.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1997.
Title from title page screen, viewed June 5, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Ronald Fortune (chair), Rodger Tarr, Ray Lewis White, Douglas Hesse. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-199) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Varga, Zsuzsanna. "Spinsters and authors : women's roles in Margaret Oliphant's writing." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27573.

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Using recent critical developments in feminist social history and literary historiography, as well as the recently increasing interest in Victorian journalism, this thesis re-examines Margaret Oliphant’s position on women’s roles from a sociological and historical perspective. The question of Oliphant’s position on women’s roles has been raised before, yet literary historians, inspired by the presuppositions of second-wave feminism and second-wave literary history, have restricted the debate to the question whether she was a ‘bad’ feminist or a ‘good’ one, and have ignored Oliphant’s representation of female authorship. This thesis attempts to redress the balance by providing a close reading of Oliphant’s journalism in a historical context. The examination of Oliphant’s journalism, a largely neglected area, along with selections from her extensive output of fiction, has allowed the identification of two fundamental roles for women which she represents as natural to the 19^th century woman: the domestic woman and the woman writer. While the former appears to be a less than radical point, it explains Oliphant’s ostensibly conservative views on the nascent women’s rights movement. Moreover, in the second part of her long writing career, Oliphant explored alternative domestic structures that enable female authority and domestic existence. Oliphant’s examination of the position of the female author partly replicates this pattern by suggesting the naturalness of female authorship to the domestic women, and this allows her to start to develop an early theory of female writing and literary history, analysing the ways in which the female author can exercise authority in the marketplace. While the Oliphant represents both of these positions as natural to the domestic woman, she also investigates those social structures that allow the proper exercise of female authority. At the same time the thesis attempts to describe Oliphant’s ideas on the ideal humane community as well as her ground-breaking work in literary history and the definition of alternative versions of domestic authority and female authority.

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Thomas, Rhondda Robinson. "Exodus literary migrations of Afro-Atlantic authors, 1760-1903 /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/6886.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.
Thesis research directed by: English Language and Literature. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Fournier, Helene. "The nature of task representation by novice multimedia authors /." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85160.

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The continuing importance of literacy and the emergence of electronic text forms have incited interest in the use of technology in a number of domains, among them writing and multimedia authoring. The expectation is that technology will facilitate the writing process by supporting cognitive processes and align school instruction with real-world tasks by providing more meaningful learning environments. This study tracked middle school students' task representation as they participated in protracted multimedia design and writing tasks. Students were engaged in the creation of a literary magazine over several weeks, with both written and media products linked to a particular theme. Cognitive strategies and behaviours associated with problem solving and communication are described through joint design activities. Students' working activities and their competencies in English Language Arts and Computer Science were identified, and cognitive processes tracked in negotiating and defining the boundaries of the task. Teachers' task representations were also examined in terms of their ability to address student variability; strengths and weaknesses between members of a group as well as their inherent dynamics are brought to the fore. Results point to the need for a better understanding of complex cognitive activities in developing new and more sophisticated repertoires of practice to realize the vision of children 'constructing' their own knowledge. Consequently, educators will gain new insights into what students can achieve when given the opportunities and the tools to do so. The role of educators is seen as instrumental in providing structure and mechanisms for supporting students' engagement in complex tasks. Findings underscore the importance of adopting a broader framework for thinking about the impact of students' participation in literacy projects. Limitations of the study are addressed as well as the key variables in the research on written

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Doak, Naomi. "Assessing an absence : Ulster Protestant women authors 1900-1965." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444474.

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Krasner, Sarah. "Adapting Skazki: How American Authors Reinvent Russian Fairy Tales." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1055.

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Adaptations of works have the potential to bring their subject matter to a new audience. This thesis explores the adaptation of Russian fairy tales into novels by authors Orson Scott Card and Joy Preble by looking at how they present Russian fairy tales, folkloric figures, and fairy tale structure to an American audience.

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Marron, Rosalyn Mary. "Rewriting the nation : a comparative study of Welsh and Scottish women's fiction from the wilderness years to post-devolution." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2012. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/rewriting-the-nation(acc79b10-cd63-48ee-b045-dabb5af2f77c).html.

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Since devolution there has been a wealth of stimulating and exciting literary works by Welsh and Scottish women writers, produced as the boundaries of nationality were being dismantled and ideas of nationhood transformed. This comparative study brings together, for the first time, Scottish and Welsh women writers’ literary responses to these historic political and cultural developments. Chapter one situates the thesis in a historical context and discusses some of the connections between Wales and Scotland in terms of their relationship with ‘Britain’ and England. Chapter two focuses on the theoretical context and argues that postcolonial and feminist theories are the most appropriate frameworks in which to understand both Welsh and Scottish women’s writing in English, and their preoccupations with gendered inequalities and language during the pre- and post-devolutionary period. The third chapter examines Welsh and Scottish women’s writing from the first failed referendum (1979) to the second successful one (1997) to provide a sense of progression towards devolution. Since the process of devolution began there has been an important repositioning of Scottish and Welsh people’s perception of their culture and their place within it; the subsequent chapters – four, five, six and seven – analyse a diverse body of work from the symbolic transference of powers in 1999 to 2008. The writers discussed range from established authors such as Stevie Davies to first-time novelists such as Leela Soma. Through close comparative readings focusing on a range of issues such as marginalised identities and the politics of home and belonging, these chapters uncover and assess Welsh and Scottish women writers’ shared literary assertions, strategies and concerns as well as local and national differences. The conclusions drawn from this thesis suggest that, as a consequence of a history of sustained internal and external marginalization, post-devolution Welsh and Scottish women’s writing share important similarities regarding the politics of representation. The authors discussed in this study are resisting writers who textually illustrate the necessity of constantly rewriting national narratives and in so doing enable their audience to read the two nations and their peoples in fresh, innovative and divergent ways.

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Cheung, Sui-fan Ellen. "The notion of 'identity' and the role of English in the writings of Singaporean and Malaysian writers." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31951922.

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Dickel, Manfred Salten Felix. ""Ein Dilettant des Lebens will ich nicht sein" : Felix Salten zwischen Zionismus und Jungwiener Moderne /." Heidelberg : Winter, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2987243&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Cheung, Sui-fan Ellen, and 張瑞芬. "The notion of 'identity' and the role of English in the writings of Singaporean and Malaysian writers." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951922.

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Lim, Likie Shawn. "Number of Authors Predicts Influence on Evaluations of Journal Submissions." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Psychology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5521.

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180 students from the University of Canterbury were randomly assigned to reading and evaluating 4 counterbalanced abstracts under the cover story of a departmental journal submission procedure. This study tested whether the number of authors assigned to a journal submission is an influential factor on the acceptance rate of a submission regardless of the quality of the abstract. Also, it assessed whether the influence of a number of authors on the chance of acceptance interacts with the acceptance rate of the journal. In other words, the study investigated not only the extent to which number of authors influences acceptance regardless of quality, but how much of an influence this has for which kind of journals (in terms of the journal’s acceptance rate). The study also measured how much individual personality variables such as guilt-proneness and tendency to adhere to descriptive norms influences a reviewer’s willingness to accept a journal submission. Results found that number of authors had a significant effect on evaluation. Possible reasons and study limitations were discussed.

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Laeven, Hubert, and Lucy Laeven-Aretz. "The authors and reviewers of the Acta Eruditorum 1682 – 1735." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-138484.

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For reasons of editorial policy the contributions to the Acta Eruditorum (Leipzig 1682-1731) and its successor, the Nova Acta Eruditorum (Leipzig 1731-1772), were published anonymously. However, a lot of volumes of the copies of these journals in the UB Leipzig, the SLUB Dresden, the SUB Göttingen and the UB Heidelberg are provided with handwritten marginal notes, originating from the editors. With the help of these, it was possible to identify, to a very large extent, the vast number of contributors from all corners of the international Republic of Letters for the period 1682-1735. So, the present publication may add to the history of the Acta Eruditorum as such, and to that of learned journalism, more in general. Furthermore it might contribute in some respects to the intellectual history of the Republic of Letters, and in particular to that of Saxony and the University of Leipzig. And last, but not least, it may add valuable information to the biographies and bibliographies of the scholars involved in the work of the Acta Eruditorum
Aus Gründen der Redaktionspolitik wurden die Beiträge der Acta Eruditorum (Leipzig 1682-1731) und deren Fortsetzung, die Nova Acta Eruditorum (1732-1772), anonym veröffentlicht. Eine Menge Bände der Exemplare dieser Zeitschriften in der UB Leipzig, der SLUB Dresden, der SUB Göttingen und der UB Heidelberg sind aber mit handschriftlichen Eintragungen aus dem Kreis der Herausgeber versehen. Mit Hilfe dieser Randnotizen war es möglich die grosse Schar der Kontribuenten aus allen Ecken der internationalen Gelehrtenrepublik für die Jahre 1682-1735 fast vollständig zu identifizieren. Damit erweitert diese Veröffentlichung die bisherigen Kenntnisse der Geschichte der Acta Eruditorum und die des gelehrten Journalismus mehr im allgemeinen. Weiterhin kann sie in einigen Hinsichten beitragen zu der intellektuellen Geschichte der internationalen Gelehrtenrepublik, und Sachsens und der Universität Leipzig ins besondere. Und nicht zuletzt enthält sie wertvolle Erweiterungen zu den Biographien und Bibliographien der Gelehrten die an der Arbeit der Acta Eruditorum beteiligt waren

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Ledger, G. R. "The computer analysis of style of selected ancient Greek authors." Thesis, University of Reading, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376780.

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Head, Dominic John. "The modernist short story : theory and practice in five authors." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1989. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/106470/.

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I am proposing a connection between the generic capacities of the short story and the way in which writers have depicted their social world, a connection which stems from a special kind of literary experience relevant to readers, as well as to writers, of short stories. LP. Hartley, discussing the status of the short story in the sixties, noted how readers were apt to 'devour them singly on a news sheet' but would be disinclined to read them in collections. The reason for this was (and is) the 'unusual concentration’ the genre demands, a concentration which permits no respite in a series of short stories because '"starting and stopping” exhausts the reader's attention just as starting and stopping uses up the petrol In a car'.* Hartley's yardstick was the comparatively favourable fate of the novel, and this same comparison - novel versus short story — has proved pervasive in short story criticism, as we shall see. The main point here, however, is Hartley's emphasis on a unique kind of attention demanded by the short story. Susan Lohafer writes that short stories 'put us through something — reality warp is the shorthand for it', and this may be the best shorthand definition we can come up with, indicating as it does two key elements of the short story: its intensity and its exaggerated artifice.

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Cooke, Suzanne Gagne. "Writing and metacognition: Empowering young authors in the writing workshop." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3016.

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Staas, Gretchen L. (Gretchen Lee). "The Effects of Visits by Authors of Children's Books in Selected Elementary Schools." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331813/.

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Guest author visits are popular events in schools across the United States. Little has been written, however, on a single author doing a single presentation in a school. This study addressed that situation. The study utilized two authors visiting four schools in a large North Central Texas school district.

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Hatzikosta, Calliope Popi. "The short story as discourse of control between texts and readers." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289154.

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McDaniels, Ivy. ""Beautiful external life to watch and ponder" : Katherine Mansfield confronting the material : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1295.

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Galliher, Debra L. (Debra Lee). "The Light Under." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500864/.

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A poet who is a woman and a theologian writes under three pressures, or a triple bind: individuality, spirituality, and society. The desires and drives of the ego and those of spirituality often conflict, and societal expectations which gender bestows add further stress to the poet's efforts. This constant struggle destroys some poets (Plath, Sexton) and renders silent many of the rest. The following collection of poems combats the silence in four progressive sections: The first is an introductory essay which further discusses the triple bind; the second, "Between Two," illustrates spiritual relationships from despair to disillusionment; the third section, "Life in the Mirror," describes deteriorating human relationships; the final section, "Salt," presents problems resolving to a kind of negative capability. This poetry collection continues one woman's poetic struggle toward validity and acceptance.

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Cloos, Marianne. "Adequacy of authors' conclusions in diagnostic test evaluation studies : literature survey /." Zürich, 2007. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?sys=000253763.

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Klein-Tumanov, Larissa Jean. "Between literary systems, authors of literature for adults write for children." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0020/NQ46937.pdf.

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Godwin, Sarah Catherine. "Usurping authors a case study of authority displacement in Richard II /." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Spring/master's/GODWIN_SARAH_14.pdf.

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Ward, David. "Invitations to literacy : research on literacy interactions between authors and students." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5640.

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This study explored the nature of and extent to which Canadian children's authors were inviting school-age students into literacy. The most common forms of interaction between authors and readers were identified. While essentially exploratory in nature this investigation provided some descriptive research to help uncover the parameters of the phenomenon of authors interacting with readers at literacy events. A pilot study was conducted in 2004 to help inform the national survey given in 2007. Seventy-three Canadian children's authors participated in the national survey. The email survey consisted of 15 items and asked a variety of questions ranging from how authors shared their craft with students to how beneficial authors found websites as a means of communicating with their readership. From the 125 pages of transcription of responses the following general themes arose: authors in school environments, correspondence, websites, author roles, authors as literacy resources, engaging in the literacy process, and facilitating events and people. Two main research tools were used in this study. Atlas.ti was used to generate key categories from the authors' comments. SPSS was used to generate frequencies. Findings from this study suggested that authors were highly engaged in inviting students further into literacy by meeting and corresponding with readers. Authors identified elements of fiction, researching, reading, developing style, and generating ideas as central components of their dialogues and mentoring of school-aged children. Authors also said that websites were significant for maintaining contact with their readership. Based on the findings of this research, a theoretical model was developed. The Reader/Author Reciprocal Mediation Model considers how students' literacy can improve when authors and readers of texts interact with a storyworld. This study provides a framework for understanding how authors are impacting student literacy.

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Dickey, Eleanor. "Greek forms of address : a linguistic analysis of selected prose authors." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386426.

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Axiotou, Georgia. "Breaking the silence : West African authors and the Transatlantic slave trade." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3270.

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This thesis explores how Syl Cheney Coker’s The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990), Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost (1964), Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments (1970), and Buchi Emecheta’s The Slave Girl (1979) respond to the need to revisit and re-think the history of transatlantic slavery. The texts of these four contemporary West African authors provide symptomatic instantiations of the problematic of writing silence, and narrating a history whose archives are impossible to fully retrieve. By attending to the violence and silencing committed on the history of slavery, as well as the difficulty of writing, and narrating, history from the perspective of silence all the texts considered in this study perform acts of resistance against the forgetting enacted in and among their communities, and the silencing of colonial modernity, which has turned the history of transatlantic trade into a footnote. Although, all four authors come from different historical specificities and localities, and, thus, the ways they stage slavery in their narratives are informed by the local/historical urgencies they encounter in each contemporary political context, each, within their respective domain, provides powerful and influential examples of undoing historical silences and absences, not by imposing voices or presences, but by tracing the voids/gaps in the historical representation of slavery. The silent, but not silenced stories of the slave trade that these authors narrate in their attempts to speak to the history of slavery bring dis/order to the national and communal milieu, by unsettling a number of myths such as this of ethnic purity (Coker); of ideal “homes” for the diaspora (Aidoo); of national revolutions that putatively disrupt the colonial past (Armah); and of communal/national discourses that include the gendered racialised subaltern (Emecheta). These authors reveal the exclusionary practices of these myths, bearing witness to the fact that they proliferate at the expense of what they exclude. By bringing forth the excluded, the marginal, the “the othered” in place of the dominant, the central and “the same” they raise the impossible, and yet imperative, question of justice towards the “others”. The study intends to introduce the work of these authors to the current resurgence of interest on the literary trajectories of the Black Atlantic that tend to focus on the narratives of diasporic writers dwarfing the voices that speak form within the African continent. As I argue, close, symptomatic, readings of their texts through the lens of slavery attest to the fact that its spectral presence is intertwined in the cultural and communal fabric, and is used to comment and rethink issues such as questions of belonging and ethnicity, the quandaries associated with the neo-colonial condition, the role of the intellectual, violence and gender issues. Following the complexities raised by each text, my chapters explore a number of concepts such as “diaspora”, “ethnicity”, “trauma”, “memory”, “violence”, “the city”, “subaltern agency” and “the body” that invite cross-disciplinary links between post-colonial studies and a number of fields such as history, geography, feminism, psychoanalysis, philosophy and political theory. One of the ambitions of this study is that these initial forays into a largely unexplored field will lead to further research in African representations of the history of slavery; at the same time, its larger goal is to provide the stepping stone for trans-Atlantic dialogues between African and diasporic writers, who will re-think the history of the Atlantic from the perspective of its spectres, from the perspective of the footnoted.

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Scherzer-Sawal, Elena [Verfasser]. "Living Anthologies: Authors' Carnivals in Nineteenth-Century America / Elena Scherzer-Sawal." Mainz : Universitätsbibliothek Mainz, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1199139599/34.

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Smith, Jennifer. "The information behaviour of authors of children's and young adult literature." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/9b8f1496-436b-4791-a0a5-2241c2dea250.

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The study explored the information behaviour of authors of children's and young adult literature in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In addition, it sought to determine whether personality and cognitive styles had any influence on this behaviour. The contribution of this study to the research base is due to the focus on a group of creative professionals that has received little attention in the information seeking field and has so far been under-researched. The study followed a concurrent embedded qualitative dominant mixed methods research design. Instruments included in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 38 authors that took place in the natural work setting of these individuals, the BFI personality questionnaire, and the ASSIST learning styles questionnaire, modified to apply to the working lives of authors. Analysis of the qualitative interviews followed an inductive grounded theory approach with constant comparison and emerging codes while the quantitative results were analysed in SPSS with descriptive statistics and correlation analysis. Results from the quantitative elements demonstrated clear links between personality and cognitive styles and a significantly high openness to experience for this group of creative professionals. The qualitative data portrayed a group of authors with diverse and idiosyncratic needs. The combination of the two data sets showed relationships between all three elements, leading to the development of five information styles for authors and a model of information seeking for the group as a whole. Key recommendations to information providers include enhancing resource access for authors, developing programmes to assist them in learning more about library resources as well as subject matter related to their novels, and providing creative workspaces that would double as an ?office? environment. Recommendations for publishing professionals involves setting up a network of experts for authors to utilise for information, as well as obtaining key information from the target audience. These recommendations could assist authors in the development of their works and provide them with easier access to the sources they deem valuable. Future research could examine a larger sample of authors, including those who write for adults. Doing so could highlight any differences in author groups and further enhance the findings of this study.

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Göransson, Clara. "Gender awareness among text book authors : from one curriculum to another." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-31991.

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Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur läroboksförfattare i historia arbetar med de genus-och jämställdhetsfrågor som enligt kurs- och läroplaner ska behandlas i undervisningen. En jämförelse görs mellan läroböcker från tiden innan Lpo 94 infördes och tiden efter, för att på så sätt försöka påvisa en förändring. Problematiken med presentationen av kvinnor i och-historia behandlas, samt problematiken kring läroböcker gällande olika intressenter och begreppsapparaten kring genus. Läro-och kursplanernas intentioner ställs mot läroböckerna, i syfte att påvisa en ökad genusmedvetenhet. Undersökningen visar att genusmedvetenheten i den betydelse jag använder den, inte ökat, men att man inkluderat fler kvinnor i historieböckerna sedan införandet av Lpo 94, i så kallad och-historia. Slutsatsen är att genusmedvetenheten som sådan inte ökat trots att Lpo 94 ställer högre krav på detta än Lgr 80, men att det finns en uppenbar ansats att föra in kvinnor i historieläroböckerna.

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Jones, Steven Robert Andrew. "Easing the writing task : designing computer based systems to help authors." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2026.

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An increasing number of people interact not only with computers, but through computers. Interaction between people through computers to complete work tasks is termed Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). The scope of activities supported by CSCW systems is described, and CSCW systems which support communication, meetings and writing are discussed. More specifically, the potential for improved computer support of the writing task is investigated. It is concluded that models of the writing task and writers are not yet sufficiently accurate to be embedded in normative computer programs or systems; individual writers and writing tasks are extremely varied. Leading on from the studies of both existing systems and writing theories, requirements for generic CSCW systems, single author support systems and multiple author support systems are presented. The design of CSCW systems which support asynchronous collaborative authoring of structured documents is investigated in this thesis. A novel approach to design and implementation of such systems is described and discussed. This thesis then describes MILO, a system that does not feature embedded models of writers or the writing task. In fact, MILO attempts to minimize constraints on the activities of collaborating authors and on the structure of documents. Hence with MILO, roles of participants are determined by social processes, and the presentational structure of documents is imposed at the end of the writing process. It is argued that this approach results in a workable, practical and useful design, substantiating the view that 'minimally-constrained' CSCW systems, of which MILO is an example, will be successful. It is shown that MILO successfully meets the stated requirements, and that it compares favourably with existing collaborative writing systems along several dimensions. The limitations of work presented in the thesis are discussed, leading to suggestions for future work which will remedy deficiencies and extend the work which has been undertaken. The nature of this thesis's contribution to CSCW in general, computer supported collaborative writing, and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is discussed.

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