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Shieh, Wen-Shan. "Literature in masks : Katherine Mansfield, Eileen Chang and the possibilities of creative writing." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45906/.
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The thesis proposes that the figurative and extensive use of the ‘mask'—persona, masquerade, disguise, impersonation—provides a crucial literary device for the development and liberation of the expressive potential of Katherine Mansfield and Eileen Chang (1920-1995). Chapter 1, ‘Introduction', elucidates the relationship between mask and language with respect to the writings of Mansfield and Chang by revising John Keats's idea of ‘the chameleon poet', Robert Browning's conception of dramatic monologue, Oscar Wilde's insights into truth and masks, and Ezra Pound's adoptions of ‘personae' in his poetry. The affinities between Mansfield and Chang will be explored by looking at their critical writing as well as criticism on them, revealing their shared awareness of the masks of a person in daily life as well as in fiction and drama. Chapter 2, ‘Katherine Mansfield's Art of Changing Masks', explores how Mansfield's characters switch between three types of masks—speech and the non-verbal, gender, animality—to respond to changes in their situations. Particularly important for this exploration are Joan Rivi re's ‘Womanliness as Masquerade', Michael Goldman's theory of masks in acting, and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of ‘becoming-animal'. Chapter 3, ‘Prosopopoeia: Katherine Mansfield's “special prose” ', considers Mansfield's attempt ‘to bring the dead to life again' in what she calls ‘special prose' as a ‘prosopopoeia', or in Cynthia Chase' phrase, ‘giving a face to a name'. In this chapter I will also trace how Mansfield's work was first translated into Chinese in 1923 by the Chinese poet, Zhimo Xu (1897-1931), which made her one of the most widely-read foreign writers in the Chinese-speaking world. More importantly, I suggest that Xu's use of quotations from Keats and other nineteenth-century poets in portraying Mansfield in his memoir calls our attention to her decisive and still insufficiently examined relationship to poetry. Chapter 4, ‘ “Hiding behind a foreign language”: Eileen Chang's Self-Translation and Masquerade', examines Chang's penchant for translating her fiction and essays from Chinese into English or vice versa. Taking a cue from Pound's view of translations as ‘elaborate masks' and Deleuze's idea of the writer being a ‘foreigner' in their own language, I examine some of the ways in which that the mask of a foreigner / foreign language enables Chang, a bilingual fiction writer and essayist, to gain the emotional and spatial distance from which to reflect on Chinese culture and her personal life. Being inspired by Mansfield and Chang's courage to get away from the notion of writing as self-expression and Dionysus' gift of crossing boundaries through the assistance of the mask, the creative component of the thesis, Chapter 5, consists of 4 short stories. I conclude the thesis with a poem entitled ‘Gifts (for Katherine Mansfield)' and a quick fiction called ‘The Functions of Theory', considering theory and literary terms as a variety of make-up that I apply to the face of my thesis. While critical chapters contain embedded fiction, the creative component demonstrates and tests how the interior space behind the mask allows me to liberate my creative energy. In these stories, I attempt to cross the boundaries between male and female, Chinese and non-Chinese, human and animal, creative and critical writing.
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Reynolds, Nicholas. "Sense and Creative Labor in Rainer Maria Rilke's Prose Works." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18350.
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Although Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the most widely-read poets in the world and there are mountains of secondary literature on his poetry, his prose works are not given nearly so much attention. The present study is a reading of several of those works, with particular attention given to the role that the senses and creative labor play there. I begin with his "Ur-geräusch" essay (1919), in which Rilke reveals a fascination with the phonograph and a certain jealousy of its abilities. The phonograph provides a model for creative labor, as well as clues about Rilke's thinking on the relationship between this process of creation and the senses. There is an original synesthetic moment when, as a child in his science classroom, Rilke sees the phonograph translating the vibrations received by the horn and carving them into the wax and in turn hears his and the voices of his classmates played back through that horn. This moment in which the senses are blurred together perplexes him and he is left to make sense of this experience for years afterward.
With the Geschichten vom lieben Gott (1900), the question turns to the relationship between creative labor and creation as such. The primordiality that was revealed in the sound produced by the phonograph is the subconscious for Rilke, which is our connection to the divine. Although we have been severed from that divine source, we are able to produce it through certain circumstances, viz. through our intersubjective interactions, especially storytelling. We also cultivate it through labor, if we are able to do it: we are stuck in the "Seventh Day," unable to work for the most part, which is the particular plight of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910). He undergoes the necessary transformation to do labor, a certain deconstruction of the self, but is unable to complete the circuit by expressing this change through his works. Auguste Rodin (1903), Rilke's monograph on the sculptor, shows us the ideal artist: able to dig up the tremendous energies of the subconscious and to channel them into great works.
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Dyer, Emily L. "Sugar Nine: A Creative thesis." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1342.
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This collection of short stories explores the different ways women tolerate violence in exchange for some form of validation. The narratives focus on women and the reverberations of small moments which carry violent mass. While the violence occasionally includes physical elements, the collection is more concerned with the ways women accept emotional and psychological violence—specifically from men. Themes, motifs and symbols from the Clytie-Helios myth are threaded throughout the collection as well as a concern for space and touch, art and the creation of art, silence and voice. All of these elements involve control as the women characters in these stories struggle to resist their own objectification. A critical introduction which explains how form and language amplify story precedes the collection.
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Fennick, Ruth McLennan Fortune Ron. "The creative processes of prose-fiction writers what they suggest for teaching composition /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1991. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9203044.
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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University,Title from title page screen, viewed December 19, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Ronald Fortune (chair), Janice Neuleib, Ray Lewis White, Elizabeth McMahan, Russell Rutter. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 441-479) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Luibl, Chad. "Flame and Shadow: Selected Prose by Chad Luibl." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/628.
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The following is a collection of works of fiction set in Kazakhstan during World War II, modern-day Budapest, with one short story taking place in Richmond, Virginia. No characters in this collecting of fiction is meant to depict any real, live person, though some of the settings are real. These works were written between February, 2012, and April, 2014.
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Lane, Renee. "A Comparison of Oral & Written Verbal Expressions of Creative Thinking Using the Prose Quantification System." TopSCHOLAR®, 1986. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2531.
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The purpose of this study was to compare oral and written expressions of creative thinking which took the form of prose, e.g. stories. The Prose Quantification System (PQS) was the instrument of comparison. The PQS is an instrument developed to predict teachers' ratings of the creative quality of written prose. The study investigated the following: (a) interjudge agreement and intrajudge stability for oral and written stories, (b) Teacher Ratings of Story Creativity (TRSC) of oral and written stories, (c) alternate mode (i.e., oral vs. written) equivalence and (d) criterion validity of the PQS.
PQS story-starters (unfinished opening lines to a story) were administered to 87 fifth-grade students enrolled in four classes in two schools located in Nashville, Tennessee. Each student received two story-starters about the same content or object (i.e., box) but in different contexts (usual vs. unusual settings). Students were asked to complete one story orally and the other in written form.
Thus, a total of 174 stories were collected. The stories were then (a) blindly rated by eight teachers according to the creativity level of the stories using a seven point Likert Scale and (b) scored by five judges who were selftrained in the use of the PQS using the PQS Scoring Manual (Redfield and Martray, 1984b).
Interrater agreement and intrajudge stability were comouted using an average correlation coefficient and percent agreement, respectively. Both interrater agreement and intrajudge stability were computed separately for the oral and written language samples. Results indicated that the PQS for oral and written language samples, used by judges self-trained with the Scoring Manual, is reliable across judges and over specified periods of time.
Eight 2 x 2 x 2 ANOVAs were used to determine whether PQS judges and teachers allowed storv-starter context (usual vs. unusual setting), order of requested response (oral first vs. written first) and mode (oral vs. written) to influence their scores and ratings. Results indicated a main effect for mode for TRSC and the following PQS scores: elaboration, originality, organization, and total score. TRSC of written stories were significantly higher than TRSC of oral stories; PQS elaboration, organization and total scores of oral stories were significantly higher than PQS elaboration, organization and total scores of written stories; PQS originality scores for written stories were significantly higher than PQS originality scores for oral stories. ANOVAs indicated the following significant interaction effects: (a) PQS ideational fluency scores of written stories in a usual setting were significantly higher than PQS ideational fluency scores for oral stories in an unusual setting; (b) PQS associational fluency scores for written stories in an unusual setting were significantly higher than PQS associational fluency scores for oral stories in a usual or unusual setting and for written stories in a usual setting; and (c) PQS originality scores were significantly higher for written stories in either a usual or unusual setting than PQS originality scores for oral stories in a usual setting. Therefore, the PQS judges viewed the oral stories to be more creative overall than the written stories while the teachers viewed the written stories to be more creative overall than the oral stories.
Multiple regression analyses were used to investigate the relationship (a) between the PQS (subscale and total scores) and TRSC of oral stories and (b) between the PQS (subscale and total scores) and TRSC of written stories. These stepwise multiple regression ?rocedures indicated that PQS total scores of oral stories are the best predictors of oral TRSC and PQS total scores of written stories are the best predictors of written TRSC. Therefore, the PQS is an accurate predictor of TRSC of oral and written stories.
Results of this study indicated that (a) the PQS is a reliable instrument when used as a measure of the creative quality of oral and/or written language samples by judges self-trained with the PQS Scoring Manual, (b) oral and written expressions of creative thinking differ, and (c) the PQS is an accurate predictor of TRSC of oral and/or written stories. It is suggested that future research include (a) reexamination of alternate mode equivalence of the PQS and (b) investigation of the reliability of TPSC.
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Matthews, R. E. "Researching emotion and traumatic memory through creative writing and psychotherapy." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/49687/.
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Alastair, Philip Lovett Alastair Philip. "Creative aspiration and public discourse : the prose, verse and graphic images of William James Linton (1812-1897)." Thesis, Durham University, 2003. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3742/.
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This thesis sets out to show that William James Linton's writing as a coherent body of material is defined by his long-term preoccupation with authorship as a vocation. The argument concentrates on how this sense of vocation created the potential to combine personal creative aspiration as a form of self-fulfilment with the forms of public discourse attendant on his construction of models of culture which embraced and were adaptable to the emotional needs of the self in a society based on concepts of innate human equality. In recognising both Linton’s understanding of authorship in these terms, and the cultural significance of his work as a nexus of influences, the argument offers a balanced view of his development as a writer while dealing with the ramifications of his political and cultural affiliations on the form of his writing. This contribution to current interest in Victorian artisan-class culture is balanced by an equal emphasis on perceiving Linton's work, particularly his later writing, as valuable in its own terms. Organized into an Introduction and six chapters, the thesis begins with a discussion of the rarely utilised primary sources from which the argument has developed, and an evaluation of the rapidly growing body of critical studies on Linton’s work. Chapter One deals with the biographical and cultural context of Linton’s creative aspiration and public discourse as features of his political philosophy and as themes within his writing. The subsequent five chapters are a chronological survey of Linton's writing. Chapters Two to Four are particularly concerned with Linton's view of the role of individual creativity in political reform. Chapters Five and Six examine how he found an increasingly personal motivation for his writing while maintaining a search for an authorial voice through which to express his ideas of culture.
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Robinson, Nigel John. "The Apothecary's Tales : a game of language in a language of games." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/296770.
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The thesis shows how the novel The Apothecary's Tales manipulates narrative frames to create a 'simulachron', an unreliable virtual world, which problematises the reader's conceptions of the past. The novel transgresses the generic rules of 'historical fiction' to create a quality of 'historicity' located in the affect of alterity. This is argued to be a somatic response to peril deferred. The novel seeks to evoke alterity by defamiliarising linguistic norms. It does this principally through the use of 'diachronic polysemia' (lexical 'false friends') and intertexts to syncopate the reader continually between the disparate sensibilities of the 1ih and 21 st centuries. These sensibilities are simulated in the novel by the imbedment of sociolects and 'hypomemes', the tacit thoughtways supposed peculiar to a given milieu. To self-authenticate its fictions, the novel employs the 'parafictive' devices of a testamentary found artifact, an unreliable narrator and editor, plausible sociologuemes (social conventions) and ideologuemes (ideologies that inform behaviour), along with a density of period minutiae putatively grounded in the record. Any truth effects achieved are then ludically subverted by a process of critique in which structural units of the novel systematically parody the other. The novel is patterned in the structure of a nested diptych, of expositions contra posed in a mutual commentary, which extends from the defining templates of plot and episode to the micro levels of morphemes in polysemic wordplay. The tropes of nested framing and repetition of form and syntagm are defined in the thesis, respectively, as encubi/atio and 'emblematic resonance'. It is argued that these tropes, encoded in a fictive discourse that defies closure, provide a simulation of hermetic form that -when mapped upon the aleatory life world -can be productive of aesthetic affect. The agonistic elements of plot and incident in the novel are figured within the tapas of theatre, foregrounded by the duplicitous self-fashioning of the characters, and by the continual metaleptic shifts or 'frame syncopation' of narrative viewpoint, both intra and extra-diegetic. Frame syncopation is used advisedly to dilemmatise significations at both the structural and syntagmatic levels. The thesis contends that such contrived collisions of narrative interpretation may be the dynamic of affectivity in all aesthetic discourse.
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Lobsinger, Megan M. "The Last Chance Texaco." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1282763631.
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Sandten, Cecile, and Mandy Beck. "Turning Pages: An Annual Creative Writing Journal at Chemnitz University of Technology." Universitätsverlag Chemnitz, 2020. https://monarch.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A72086.
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TURNING PAGES is an annual journal of bright voices from all over the world in creative and original writing in English in short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and drama, as well as in drawings, art projects and many other related genres by students, academics, and writers. It is a production of the Chair of English Literatures at the English Department at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, and the first journal of its kind at the university.
TURNING PAGES can be read in both ways, literally and metaphorically, implying that we need to turn the pages, that we need to demonstrate that literature has something to say and that it can also be interventionist as it shows how we can use our own imagination for the better. Therefore, TURNING PAGES will make readers not only literally browse through a variety of texts and turn pages, but it also seeks to reflect situations, events, experiences, or emotions that turn the page for individuals, or groups of people.
The second issue of TURNING PAGES includes a variety of foci, ranging from meta-poetic texts and stories, to graphic artworks and illustrations via themes of belonging in an ever-changing world, tracing one’s origins, conquering personal struggles, or dealing with current incidents like COVID-19 and self-isolation. This issue combines students from diverse fields and backgrounds with professional writers from all over the world, such as Srishti Chaudhary, Andreas Gloge, Ogaga Ifowodo, Harald Linke, and Ian Watson.
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Hogan, Elizabeth M. "E to Em." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1961.
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A poetry thesis exploring subjects of gender identity, sexuality, socialization, writing, and craft, and including a preface that credits Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich as primary influences. One-third of the manuscript features epistolary prose poems in conversation with Dickinson, while the remaining portion contains poetry written in either free verse, traditional poetic form, or field composition.
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Sandten, Cecile, and Mandy Beck. "Turning Pages: An Annual Creative Writing Journal at Chemnitz University of Technology." Universitätsverlag Chemnitz, 2019. https://monarch.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A34663.
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TURNING PAGES is an annual journal of bright voices from all over the world in creative and original writing in English in short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and drama, as well as in drawings, art projects and many other related genres by students, academics, and writers. It is a production of the Chair of English Literatures at the English Department at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, and the first journal of its kind at the university.
TURNING PAGES can be read in both ways, literally and metaphorically, implying that we need to turn the pages, that we need to demonstrate that literature has something to say and that it can also be interventionist as it shows how we can use our own imagination for the better. Therefore, TURNING PAGES will make readers not only literally browse through a variety of texts and turn pages, but it also seeks to reflect situations, events, experiences, or emotions that turn the page for individuals, or groups of people.
The first issue of TURNING PAGES features a range of texts and artworks, including first-time writers as well as professional writers, such as Michael Augustin, Sujata Bhatt, Stephen Collis, Ian Watson and the renowned Belfast theatre company Play It By Ear.
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Bachert, Sara-Lois. "Points of Interest: Essays on People, Places and Perceptions." TopSCHOLAR®, 1989. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1873.
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I wrote my first story in third grade. “Francine and the Head-Chopper Man” borrowed its plot from “Beauty and the Beast,” but my teacher didn’t seem to mind. In fact, she arranged for me to read the story to the fifth-grade class down the hall. After that first public reading, I was hooked. I knew at age seven I was going to be a writer.
When I discovered journalism in the ninth grade, I knew just what type of writing I was going to do. In junior high and high school, I was editor of the newspapers, and in college I worked on the newspaper and was editor of the yearbook. After graduation I was a reporter, copy editor and features editor at two daily newspapers in Kentucky.
I began teaching journalism part-time at Western Kentucky University in 1983, and two years later, when I heard about the English department’s new writing concentration, I decided to study for my master’s. In Frank Steele’s Advanced Writing Workshop, I was confronted by a question I hadn’t asked in years: What did I want to write?
Having written newspaper articles for years, I wanted to try something different – the essay, based on fact and usually written in the first person, although not necessarily. I believe this type of writing is valuable because it records and attempts to understand events, people and perceptions.
As the number of essays grew, I began to realize a potential problem: If the subjects are dissimilar, any collection of essays runs the risk of seeming disorganized. If the subjects are similar, it runs the risk of sounding the same from essay to essay.
I hope this collection of essays avoids both faults. The subjects are dissimilar – ranging from family to education – but revolve around the common themes of relationships and time. Each essay examines relationships between parents and children, sisters and brothers, friends, teachers and students, or others. In addition, they all deal with time, either chronicling the passage of time or preserving the moment.
Most of the essays are written in the first person, and many deal with family issues. Those two details may sound as if the collection is germane to only one person, the writer. But it is not. Most readers will recognize themselves or people they know in the characters, and many will recall a way of life, an attitude, or a conversation they thought they had forgotten. Even those who don’t recognize or remember the characters may find the essays valuable if they learn a little about ordinary people and ordinary problems.
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Haak, Sarah. "Great Wounds: A Collection of Essays and Prose." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1554996583436946.
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Au, Yeung Nga-ching, and 歐陽雅清. "An evaluation of the inclusion of creative writing in thenew advanced level Chinese literature curriculum =." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30244638.
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Campbell, Erin. ""Refugees" and Others." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc955061/.
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Refugees, a novel in progress, begins in the collective first-person with a group of people who live on the same residential street of middle-class homes in an east coast American city and are experiencing the most exquisitely vivid aurora borealis to appear in recorded history. But they quickly learn that this gorgeous wonder is a harbinger of civilization's demise and possibly the end of all life on the planet, because the solar storms causing the sky's fantastic nightly coloring is also slowly stripping away the atmosphere and leeching oxygen into space. This "we" narrative switches to third person, moving between two characters—Julie and Amira—as the narrative moves forward. The first chapter covers the first few months of this apocalyptic crisis, and Julie and Amira are central as they are forced decide if they still have the strength and the will to even attempt survival in these new and brutal circumstances. The second chapter, also told in third person, picks up seventeen years in the future with Aya, Amira's daughter who was six during the initial atmospheric disaster. A small group survived in an underwater refuge, recently discovered the atmosphere above had healed over time, and sent an excursion group, including Aya, to evaluate the changing environment. This chapter reveals the history and particular struggles of these characters living in this complex society, both residual and nascent. The third chapter returns to the group of neighbors—including Julie and Amira—seventeen years prior, immediately following the catastrophic event as their story continues to unfold. This chapter opens, like the first chapter, in the "we" voice, tracing the movement of the group south in a search for help and a desperate, though orderly, effort toward survival. This next phase of their journey introduces fresh conflicts and new characters and points to approaching challenges and the persistent hope for survival. Two short stories, unrelated to the novel and each other and entitled "Awake" and "Her," are also included.
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com, johnstubley@yahoo, and John Stubley. ""the lonely and the road (novel) Whats your road, man?: my experiences with the life and work of Jack Kerouac in relation to the development of the lonely and the road (exegesis)." Murdoch University, 2008. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20081210.120038.
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Thirty thousand feet above the Pacific Oceansomewhere between Sydney and Los Angelesthe narrator of the lonely and the road doesnt really know where he is going, or why. His is a quest written spontaneouslyon-the-go. It is a journey of uncertain motivation, of uncertain means, towards uncertain ends. From Los Angeles, to Vegas, to the Rocky Mountain states and beyond, the narrator travels with and learns from his friends, his family and even his ex-girlfriend as he searches for that which continues to elude him. But what is that exactly? Does it even exist?
While the novel details a journey, the exegesis is a phenomenological account of the intersecting of my road with that taken by Jack Kerouac. It explores my experiences with the life and work of Kerouacthe creator of spontaneous prosein relation to the development of my writing, up to and including this novel. In doing so, the exegesis is itself a quest that seeks to understand more fully the essence of Kerouacs and my own representation of the quest motif in content and in form. Both the exegesis and the novel, then, constitute part of the search for my own artistic road, and aim to assist others in search of theirs.
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McCarthy, Meghan E. "THE LEMON TREE: MY TREE OF LIFE." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/49.
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The Lemon Tree is a collection of poems that arose from my attempt to capture memories of influential experiences in growing up. The poems are written in prose blocks and move in and out of childlike and adult sensibilities, creating the disillusion of time and memory. The poems themselves are comments on the unreliability and limited scope of memory and compare remembrance to dreams. This suggests that time moves more fluidly than the waking world accepts. Through looking back, through prisms, the speaker remembers experiences that impacted her development as we follow her on a journey to coming-of-age. The Lemon Tree grapples with becoming and expressing her female fertility and growth as a woman. The speaker constantly searches for love in places of religion, marriage, romantic relationships and friendships. At times, the poems decide what love is by what it isn’t. The act of creating itself was the aim of the manuscript more than the finished project. Some remembrances are intentionally left unclear and messy like wild weeds. The poems are confessional and bear resemblances to a memoir in a lyrical fashion. The Lemon Tree focuses on the processes of life: both the barren and the abundance of fruit, light and dark, winter and summer. The speaker tries to resolve the binaries of trauma and of love and in the process, finds her identity as seen through the symbol of The Lemon Tree, which ultimately becomes her personal tree of life.
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Buchanan, David. "Contextual thesis Part I & Part II : Book of poems, "Looking off the Southern Edge" ; Stage play (full-length): Ecstasis." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2001. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1015.
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This thesis, which accompanies my book of poems Looking Off the Southern Edge and my full-length stage play Ecstasis, is submitted in two parts: Part-I and Part-II. Part-l contextualises the writing practice of the above poems in considering the epistemological, autobiographical and landscape contexts of my poetry. Part-I then discusses how the poetry is involved in the process of decentring subjectivity within the southern India/Pacific arena. It should be pointed out that Part-I was submitted and marked last year, as the first year component of the Master of Arts (Writing) course. It is included this year because much of its thesis informs Part-II (and indeed is referred to and referenced by Part-II), especially in terms of my general theoretical approach to writing poems, plays, as well as the relevance of my music, painting and stained glass practices. Part II mostly addresses the writing of the play Ecstasis. I have however, discussed why I have re-edited, augmented and re-submitted my book of poems. I have then contextualised the writing of the play, by addressing the areas of Apophasis and the Aporia of 'the story', An Ecstatic Dramaturgy and the Undecidable Subject, and Ecstasis and an Endemic Specificity. This play was written, workshopped and enjoyed a partially moved reading (as late as the 11th, November) in the course of this year. While the writing of the piece is addressed under the previous headings, the workshopping and reading process is discussed in Workshopping the 'Spectacle Text' in the Co-operative Medium of 'Theatre. I have also included Appendix (i) in support of this process, in particular, the changes inspired by the reading. The conclusion discusses some of the boundaries for my writing of A Poetry and The Spectacle Text for theatre, and hints at the context required for any writing of experimentation in the southern Indian/Pacific arena.
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Lewis, Ruby Christiaan. "Die skep en voorstelling van 'n postmoderne karakteridentiteit in die prosa / Ruby Christiaan (Sanko) Lewis." Thesis, North-West University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1717.
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Gradidge, Claire. "Innovating from tradition : creating an historical detective novel for a contemporary audience." Thesis, University of Winchester, 2018. http://repository.winchester.ac.uk/1234/.
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As a writer seeking to construct a detective text as part of a research study, I looked to the work of previous authors to inform and contextualise the making of a fiction which would both respect and test genre boundaries. A remarkably adaptable genre, detective fiction has, from its early beginnings to the present day, offered the opportunity for writers to create texts which, while introducing changes to the genre and expanding its boundaries, nevertheless remain of the genre. My thesis is presented in two parts. The first is the creative element: a historical detective novel entitled Close to Home, set in the small town of Romsey during World War II. Historically and geographically accurate, the characters and events are entirely fictional. The novel demonstrates how my practice of reading as a writer – a reiterative and multi-layered exploration of the work of authors Allingham, Sayers, Tey and Peters from the twentieth century, and Penney, Griffiths and McPherson from the twenty-first century – has enabled me to create my own text. Patterned on the milieu and tropes of the earlier detective fictions and contextualised by the later works, Close to Home presents a fiction in which plot and writing technique express elements of innovation to the classic detective text. The second part is a commentary reflecting on my research process, tracing the development of my practice of reading as a writer. It explores the way in which reading and writing were inextricably linked: so that my reading influenced and inspired the creation of my novel, while the writing focused my reading practice. In offering an account of how a specific creative writing research study has been undertaken, it suggests how this can illuminate individual practice and be disseminated to other creative writing practitioners.
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Rawlins, Isabel Bethan. "Counting planes." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001816.
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This collection of prose-poems and flash fiction, together with a few short stories, shows how romantic relationships colour our perspectives on the world. The collection has echoes throughout of speakers' voices, theme, imagery and tone. There is a narrative logic too, but working on a subtle level of echo and resonance
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Santos, Lilian Engracia dos. "Aspectos do poema em prosa de Pierre Reverdy." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8146/tde-24112009-153444/.
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Pierre Reverdy (1889-1960) é considerado um dos principais poetas franceses do século XX, apesar de ser pouco estudado no Brasil. O poeta idealizou e criou a revista literária Nord-Sud (1917-1918), publicando os artigos Sur le Cubisme, LImage, LÉmotion e Essai desthétique littéraire com os principais conceitos de sua reflexão estética. Neste trabalho, analisaremos alguns poemas em prosa da obra Poèmes en Prose (1915), buscando compreender a relação entre os conceitos estudados por Reverdy (imagem, criação, emoção) e a construção dos poemas, destacando os elementos que atormentam e aprisionam o sujeito, assim como as contradições e oposições semânticas e estruturais. Dessa forma, verificaremos também a contribuição de Pierre Reverdy para o gênero poema em prosa.Pierre Reverdy (1889-1960) is consedered one of the most important French poets of the 20 century, although in Brazil, he is little studied. The poet idealized and founded the literary magazine Nord-Sud (1917-1918), publishing the articles Sur le Cubisme, LImage, lÉmotion and Essai desthétique littéraireusing the fundamental concepts of his esthetics reflexions. In this paper, we will analyze some poems in prose of his work Poèmes en Prose (1915), trying to understand the relationship between the concepts studied by the poet (image, creation, emotion), and the construction of the poems. We will detach the elements and images which contribute to the themes tantalizing and imprisionment of the subject, in addiction to the semantics and structural contractidions and oppositions. In this way, we will also check Pierre Reverdys contribution to the poem in prose genre.
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Kemp, Anna Francina. "Die onontkombaarheid van die verlede." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02222010-172655.
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Demenkova, K. V. "Stylistic devices of creating the artistic image of the East in modern prose." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2020. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/80898.
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Every literary piece of work is created by the author with a certain purpose. The main aim is to pursue an objective of creating a vivid artistic image. The stylistic devices are those instruments, which meet all the modern objectives of creating the reflective artistic image.
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Goundareva, Irina. "La traducción como acto creativo en la prosa de Jorge Luis Borges." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37201.
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In this thesis we examine the conception of translation in the work of Jorge Luis Borges. Our hypothesis maintains that Borges approaches translation as a creative act and as a paradox, which stands for translation as an impossible and at the same time inevitable act of transference from one culture and its language into another linguistic and cultural system. Some of the questions that guide this project are: according to Borges 1) What is the difference between author and translator? 2) Does translation require linguistic, cultural and philosophical competence, or one is more important than the other? 3) What is necessary to be a good translator? 4) Is it necessary to be a writer to become a literary translator? 5) What is the relationship between a translated text and a source text? 6) Is the “original” only a version? 7) Is there an implicit hierarchy between the translated text and the original? From here we suggest that Borges, without establishing his own theory of translation, problematizes the idea of the “original” and the requirement of linguistic and cultural competence for a translator. According to Borges, only through the freedom of creativity, translation can get closer to the values of a text that belongs to another language, culture or time. For him, translation is only possible if it becomes rewriting ad infinitum of a text that is not necessarily the “original”.
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Nordberg, Eric Kinsley. "Creating Scientific Software, with Application to Phylogenetics and Oligonucleotide Probe Design." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64366.
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The demands placed on scientific software are different from those placed on general purpose software, and as a result, creating software for science and for scientists requires a specialized approach. Much of software engineering practices have developed in situations in which a tool is desired to perform some definable task, with measurable and verifiable outcomes. The users and the developers know what the tool "should" do. Scientific software often uses unproven or experimental techniques to address unsolved problems. The software is often run on "experimental" High Performance Computing hardware, adding another layer of complexity. It may not be possible to say what the software should do, or what the results should be, as these may be connected to very scientific questions for which the software is being developed. Software development in this realm requires a deep understanding of the relevent scientific domain area. The present work describes applications resulting from a scientific software development process that builds upon detailed understanding of the scientific domain area.
YODA is an application primarily for selecting microarray probe sequences for measuring gene expression. At the time of its development, none of the existing programs for this task satisfied the best-known requirements for microarray probe selection. The question of what makes a good microarray probe was a research area at the time, and YODA was developed to incorporate the latest understanding of these requirements, drawn from the research literature, into a tool that can be used by a research biologist. An appendix examines the response and use in the years since YODA was released.
PEPR is a software system for inferring highly resolved whole-genome phylogenies for hundreds of genomes. It encodes a process developed through years of research and collaboration to produce some of the highest quality phylogenies available for large sets of bacterial genomes, with no manual intervention required. This process is described in detail, and results are compared with high quality results from the literature to show that the process is at least as successful as more labor-intensive manual efforts. An appendix presents additional results, including high quality phylogenies for many bacterial Orders.Ph. D.
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Behin, Bahram. "Aspects of the role of language in creating the literary effect : implications for the reading of Australian prose fiction /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phb419.pdf.
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Helguero, Lorenzo. "Transgresion y modernidad la prosa de Rubén Darío /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/453505739/viewonline.
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Bychkova, A. V., O. N. Sorokina, P. G. Pronkin, A. S. Tatikolov, A. L. Kovarski, and M. A. Rosenfeld. "Protein-Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles: Creation and Investigation." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/35378.
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A novel universal approach to cross-linking of protein macromolecules on the surface of magnetite na-noparticles has been developed. The approach is based on protein liability to free radical modification, leading to the formation of intermolecular covalent cross links. Free radicals are locally generated on the surface of nanoparticles. Using a set of physicochemical methods, it has been proven that stable coatings composed of protein macromolecules are formed around individual nanoparticles. The proteins fixed on nanoparticles do not lose their activity as a result of adsorption and free radical modification. Fluorescent probe approach for evaluation of the native functional properties of serum albumin as a part of coating is suggested.
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CREPIN, PASCAL FABIEN. "A. M. U. : l'urgence dans le nord, l'ouverture du smur d'armentieres, prise en charge d'un probleme de sante publique." Lille 2, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991LIL2M067.
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Sheldon, Robert C. "The economics of entrepreneurship : an information cost approach to international venture creation." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012IEPP0031.
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La visée empirique de cette étude porte sur la façon dont les décisions se prennent dans le cadre de la création d'entreprise internationale, en particulier sur la décision de faire ou faire faire ex nihilo qui intervient lors du choix initial, ou le mode d'entrée adopté par les créateurs d’entreprise pour entreprendre une nouvelle activité. L’étude montre qu’ils utilisent une ou plusieurs des six méthodes d'acquisition de l'information dont une recherche d’information, en soi très limitée, conforme aux modèles économiques courants. Parmi ces méthodes également, celles non prospectives telles que les réseaux, les sollicitations, les marchés provisoires et les témoignages. La proposition d’une théorie sur la décision de faire ou faire faire ex nihilo rend compte de l’utilisation de diverses méthodes selon le degré d'incertitude dans un contexte décisionnel donné ; elle démontre qu’un degré élevé d’incertitude majore les coûts d'acquisition d'information par le biais de méthodes prospectives, si bien qu'un changement préférentiel se produit. Là où le résultat serait choisi en fonction de sa relative efficacité ex post, il l’est en fait pour son degré d’opportunité ex ante, ou pour la disponibilité de l'information à faible coût. On montre que cette volonté d’économiser sur les coûts d'information place le processus de décision de faire ou faire faire ex nihilo dans des conditions d'extrême incertitude. Les implications ex post liées au choix de résultats pour des raisons autres que leur relative efficacité sont également exploréesThe empirical focus of this work is on how decisions are made in the context of international venture creation. It focuses on the ex nihilo make or buy decision, which occurs when individuals choose the initial form, or entry mode, which will be used to undertake a new business activity. It finds that they tend to use one or more of six information acquisition methods. These include search and very limited search, which are in keeping with mainstream economic models. They also include non forward-looking methods such as networks, solicitations, provisional markets and stories. A theory of the ex nihilo make or buy decision is proposed that explains the use of various methods by the degree of uncertainty in a given decision context. It holds that elevated uncertainty increases the costs of information acquisition via forward-looking methods such that a preferential shift occurs. Where an outcome would be selected according to its relative ex post efficiency, it is instead selected for its ex ante expediency, or the degree to which information about it is readily available and hence low-cost. It is maintained that this desire for information cost economies drives the ex nihilo make or buy decision process under conditions of extreme uncertainty. The ex post ramifications of selecting outcomes for reasons other than their relative efficiency are also explored
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Bortoluzzi, Vanessa Trindade. "Efeitos da hiperfenilalaninemia materna em ratas Wistar sobre alguns parâmetros de metabolismo energético na prole e efeito protetor da associação de piruvato com creatina." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/97857.
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A fenilcetonúria (PKU) é um dos erros inatos do metabolismo mais frequentes. Ela é causada pela deficiência na atividade da fenilalanina hidroxilase, levando à acumulação de fenilalanina e dos seus metabolitos no sangue e tecidos. A PKU ou hiperfenilalaninemia materna não tratada pode resultar em prole não fenilcetonúrica com baixo peso ao nascer e sequelas neonatais, especialmente microcefalia e deficiência intelectual. Os mecanismos subjacentes à neuropatologia da lesão cerebral na síndrome da fenilcetonúria materna são pouco compreendidos. No presente estudo, avaliou-se o possível efeito preventivo da coadministração de creatina e piruvato sobre os efeitos desencadeados pela administração de fenilalanina a ratas Wistar durante a gestação e lactação em algumas enzimas envolvidas na rede de fosforil transferência no córtex cerebral e no hipocampo da prole aos 21 dias de idade. A administração de fenilalanina provocou diminuição do peso corporal, do córtex cerebral e hipocampo e diminuição da atividade da adenilato-cinase e creatina-cinase citosólica e mitocondria. A coadministração de creatina e piruvato foi eficaz na prevenção destas alterações provocadas por fenilalanina, sugerindo que modificações no metabolismo energético podem ser importantes na fisiopatologia da PKU materna. Se estas alterações também ocorrem na PKU materno, é possível que a suplementação com creatina e piruvato à dieta restrita em fenilalanina possa ser benéfica para os filhos de mães fenilcetonúricas.Phenylketonuria (PKU) is the most frequent inborn error of metabolism. It is caused by deficiency in the activity of phenylalanine hydroxylase, leading to accumulation of phenylalanine and its metabolites. Untreated maternal PKU or hyperphenylalaninemia may result in nonphenylketonuric offspring with low birth weight and neonatal sequelae, especially microcephaly and intellectual disability. The mechanisms underlying the neuropathology of brain injury in maternal PKU syndrome are poorly understood. In the present study, we evaluated the possible preventive effect of the co-administration of creatine plus pyruvate on the effects elicited by phenylalanine administration to female Wistar rats during pregnancy and lactation on some enzymes involved in the phosphoryltransfer network in the brain cortex and hippocampus of the offspring at 21 days of age. Phenylalanine administration provoked diminution of body, brain cortex an hippocampus weight and decrease of adenylate kinase, mitochondrial and cytosolic creatine kinase activities. Coadministration of creatine plus pyruvate was effective in the prevention of those alterations provoked by phenylalanine, suggesting that altered energy metabolism may be important in the pathophysiology of maternal PKU. If these alterations also occur in maternal PKU, it is possible that pyruvate and creatine supplementation to the phenylalanine-restricted diet might be beneficial to the children born from phenylketonuric mothers.
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Mathias, Michel. "Pedagogies de la redaction et probleme de la creativite - les conditions fondamentales d'un modele d'apprentissage de la langue ecrite." Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990STR10018.
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L'enseignement de la "redaction" connait depuis l'origine des difficultes considerables et l'on n'a pas encore apporte de solution efficace pour les resoudre. Il importe donc d'en rechercher les causes et l'on ne peut ecarter les modalites memes de l'apprentissage, telles qu'elles sont definies par des instructions officielles qui n'ont jamais su avoir de coherence et eviter les contradictions. Profitant des avantages de la creativite, est esquissee ici une analyse qui en fait un proces et non plus un etat. Elle se trouve donc separee de l'inspiration que nous devons au romantisme. On etablit alors le moyen privilegie d'y acceder : le rythme dont la langue connait une forme-source : le vers. Il importe cependant de l'epurer jusqu'a parvenir au "modele du vers" duquel deriveront des exemples d'execution. Sa mise en oeuvre, resultat d'un apprentissage strict, offre la possibilite d'ameliorer singulierement les performances des eleves, tant en vers proprement dit qu'en prose courante. Un profil d'evolution est trace qui mene du vers regulier au vers libre. On s'interroge aussi sur les raisons de cette efficacite et les causes de son absence dans l'arsenal pedagogique. Tout un courant de polemique est exhume et les fondements ideologiques mis a jour. Le parcours de la pedagogie officiel est dessine depuis le debut du siecle, ou les espoirs sont franchement affirmes, jusqu'a nos jours ou ne restent plus que desillusion et agressivite. . .Is it possible to teach pupils the constraints of written expression ? how can we manage this ? the art and practice of essay writing has always tried answering part of these questions, the solution of which is the pre-requisite of mastering language in secondary schools. This habit has been imposed by reasoning from a point of reference and by the precedent of a model to which the pupils have previously been initiated. The first model referred to the literary language and had recourse to its imitiation. The working language was latin. The pupils - or at least some of them - were eventually supposed to be able to write a play in latin verses and a latin speech. The second model which is still ours since it constitutes the base of official pedagogy, such as it has been codified in "official instructions", has chosen the french language and built up a whole methodology which has known - and still knows - nothing but failure. This is the crisis faced by french, denounced since the beginning of this century and for which a solution is being sought in vain. The after- 1968 spirit has popularised a model known under the name of creativity. It claims to be successful and has quickly become part of the official pedagogy. Two fundamental procedures have sprung from these models: - an analytical one which has benefited from the pre-eminence of sciences. It certainly produced excellent results in description and was particularly well adapted to
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Carvalho, Solange Peixe Pinheiro de. "As muitas faces de uma pedra: o universo lexical da obra em prosa de Ariano Suassuna." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8142/tde-13062012-153103/.
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Os estudos estilísticos, inseridos na área de estudos da língua portuguesa, têm por objetivo verificar como a escolha lexical e os neologismos literários podem causar diversos efeitos sobre os leitores de obras literárias. Entre outros autores, Alves (1990), Barbosa (1981), Lapa (1977), Mattoso Câmara Jr. (1985) e Martins (2000), discorreram a respeito do tema, salientando a importância da criação lexical em relação à expressividade e à criatividade de diferentes autores brasileiros. Tendo em vista a importância das pesquisas nessa área, escolhemos como corpus da nossa pesquisa a obra em prosa do autor teatral Ariano Suassuna, o Romance d\'A Pedra do Reino e a História d\'O Rei Degolado, caracterizada pela presença significativa de criações lexicais, as quais, além de transmitir para o leitor a visão de mundo do narrador, Dom Pedro Dinis Ferreira-Quaderna, também conferem a seu texto grande originalidade, tendendo para a subversão ou validação dos gêneros literários nos quais Suassuna se inspirou para criar sua obra, sobretudo as novelas de cavalaria e a literatura de cordel. Verificamos também como, por meio de uma cuidadosa manipulação do léxico, Quaderna procura aliciar seus leitores, mostrando uma visão de mundo única e procurando impor os valores culturais que considera importantes no campo da cultura brasileira. A partir da identificação e recolha dos neologismos suassunianos, e dada sua grande diversidade, nossa proposta é apresentar neste trabalho uma amostra dos neologismos sintagmáticos e semânticos encontrados nas duas obras, levando em conta aspectos como a afetividade das palavras e expressividade de sufixos, salientando também como, por meio de suas criações, o autor concretiza a mistura dos elementos eruditos e populares que constituem a base de seu pensamento cultural.Stylistics studies, included in the field of research related to the Portuguese language, aim at verifying how the choice of lexicon and literary neologisms can affect readers of literature. Among other authors, Alves (1990), Barbosa (1981), Lapa (1977), Mattoso Câmara Jr. (1985), and Martins (2000) studied this subject, highlighting the importance of lexical creation in connection with the expressiveness and creativity of many Brazilian writers. Bearing in mind the relevance of research in this field, we have chosen as corpus for our study the only prose works by playwright Ariano Suassuna, Romance d\'A Pedra do Reino and História d\'O Rei Degolado, characterised by the significant amount of lexical creation, which not only conveys to the reader the worldview of their narrator, Dom Pedro Dinis Ferreira-Quaderna, but also confer the text great originality, tending either to the subversion or validation of the literary genres which inspired Suassuna to create his works, especially chivalric romance and cordel literature. We have also verified how, through careful lexical manipulation strategies, Quaderna attempts to entice his readers by showing a single worldview, and trying to impose Brazilian cultural values that he deems to be important. From the identification and collection of neologisms created by Suassuna, the main objective of this study is to present a sample of syntagmatic and semantic neologisms found in both works, taking into consideration aspects such as the affectivity of words and the expressiveness of suffixes; thus highlighting how effectively Suassuna creates and uses classical and popular elements the basis of his cultural thinking.
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Angel, Ferrero Maria Claudia. "Idée, innovation et création d'entreprise : une investigation du rôle de la surconfiance et de la prise de risque dans le comportement innovant des entrepreneurs." Thesis, Montpellier, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016MONTD007/document.
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Ce travail cherche à mieux comprendre les facteurs cognitifs en jeu dans les différentes étapes d’élaboration et de réalisation du projet entrepreneurial : quel est l’impact de la cognition entrepreneuriale sur la réalisation et le succès d’une opportunité d’innovation ? Pour répondre à cette question nous décomposons la problématique en trois axes. Le premier essai propose un modèle conceptuel de l’innovation entrepreneuriale en tant que processus individuel. Nous conceptualisons les différentes activités – génération d’une idée créative, évaluation et implémentation – et examinons leurs spécificités et l’influence des facteurs cognitifs sur chaque étape. Le deuxième article présente une analyse empirique qui teste les hypothèses issues du modèle à travers une expérimentation avec 70 entrepreneurs. Le design expérimental permet de reproduire le processus d’innovation, depuis la génération de l’idée jusqu’à l’implémentation tout en offrant également une mesure de la performance de l’innovation sur le marché. Nos résultats montrent que la créativité est un facteur d’innovation mais que ce lien entre génération de l’idée et implémentation est influencé par les facteurs cognitifs : excès de confiance, optimisme et comportement face au risque. Le troisième article se concentre sur la décision par des individus innovants de créer ou non leur entreprise. Avec une étude quantitative sur 124 chercheurs, dont 76 ont créée leur entreprise, nous apportons un éclairage au lien entre innovation et création d’entreprise : être innovant ne suffit pas pour devenir entrepreneur, l’effet du sentiment d’auto-efficacité et du comportement face au risque sont des éléments déterminantsThis thesis investigates the cognitive factors involved all along the entrepreneurial process and their impact over the different activities underlying such process. We aim at answering the research question: What is the impact of entrepreneurial cognition on the successful implementation of an innovation?To tackle this question, we depicted the subject in three axes. The first essay proposes a conceptual model of individual innovation embedded in the entrepreneurial process. We conceptualize the different stages of creative idea generation, evaluation and implementation and examine the peculiarities of each stage and the influence of cognitive factors. The second paper presents an empirical analysis that tests the hypotheses issued from the model through an economic experiment with 70 entrepreneurs. The experimental design provides an objective measure of innovation and imitates every stage of the process: from the generation of ideas all throughout the implementation and performance of innovations in the market. Our findings show that although creativity is the source of innovations, the relationship between generation of ideas and its implementation is influenced by cognitive factors: overconfidence, optimism and risk-taking. The third essay focuses on the decision by innovative individuals to start a venture. Building on a quantitative study with 124 researches, from which 76 created their venture, we contribute to the debate about the link between innovation and entrepreneurship: being innovative is not enough for becoming an entrepreneur, self-efficacy beliefs an risk-taking behavior are two drivers of individual’s decision to start a venture
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Farge, Odile. ""Rhétorique de la conception" : pour une prise de conscience des stratégies de l'outil de création : proposition d'une typologie de postures d'auteurs." Thesis, Paris 8, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA080016.
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Les outils de création numériques, conçus pour faciliter la publication des textes en ligne ou la création d’animations interactives, proposent et parfois imposent des façons de présenter les contenus. Les auteurs sont-ils conscients de la possible influence de ces présupposés, anticipations de pratiques et contraintes ? Jusqu’à quel point l’écriture est-elle conditionnée par l’outil que l’auteur emploie ? Quelles sont ses effets sur l’écriture numérique ? Dans cette thèse, nous montrons que les outils-logiciels sont structurés comme des « discours » adressés à l’auteur-concepteur, fondés sur des stratégies que nous nommons « rhétorique de la conception ». Comme l’auteur d’un texte numérique anticipe lors de l'acte d'écriture sur les pratiques du lecteur, l’outil propose des discours qui constituent un ensemble de présupposés, de sous-entendus et d'implicites anticipant sur les pratiques de l'auteur. Il s’agit alors de se pencher sur les relations de pouvoir ainsi établies, et nous nous demanderons si certains éléments de discours de l’outil-logiciel ne sont pas de nature à influencer considérablement le créateur, pour qu’il adhère aux propositions défendant les intérêts ou les stratégies de l'industrie culturelle du logiciel. La création à partir d’éléments préfabriqués remet-elle alors en cause le statut de l’auteur ?The tools for digital creation, designed as they are to facilitate the publication of online texts or the creation of interactive animations, propose and sometimes impose ways of presenting contents. Are writers aware of the possible influence of these assumptions, patterns of practice and constraints? How much is the act of authoring conditioned by the tool used by the writer? What effect do such tools have on digital creation? In this thesis we will show that software tools are structured as « frameworks » aimed at the writer-designer and based on strategies that we have called « rhetoric for creative authoring ». Just as, in the act of authoring, the writer of a digital text anticipates the practices of the reader, the tool itself proposes a framework which amounts to a number of underlying or implicit givens which anticipate the practices of the author. We therefore need to look into the power relationship thus established and to ask ourselves whether certain elements of the software-tool framework are not strongly influencing the author in order to make him/her adhere to propositions which defend the interests or strategies of the software cultural industry. When starting from prefabricated elements does the creative act not call into question the very status of the author?
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Backhans, Gustav, and Douglas Driving. "Voice assistants and railway passengers : A user-centered exploration of value creation opportunities in a railway service context." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-166386.
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There is a current rising trend of using voice assistants (VAs) to perform tasks in new ways, and various companies are considering introducing them as part of their service propositions. One such company is the railway service provider SJ AB that is interested in understanding how a VA may benefit their passengers. To better understand the utility of a VA in the railway service context, this thesis aims to explore the value creation opportunities that the introduction of such a technology presents. This exploration is done through identifying the potential functionality of such a VA, what value that functionality can create for passengers, and what barriers exist for creating that value. This identification is done through a user-centred research process, during which design probes and experience prototyping were carried out with railway passengers and analysed through qualitative content analysis. The results show that a VA presents fast, convenient, and intuitive access to a wide set of functions but is hindered by its invisible affordances and the user’s preconceptions. It shares several functions with existing channels, presented in a new way, that span the entire course of the train journey. The functionality and the identified functions primarily create utilitarian values, which connects to the passenger’s pragmatic view of the service. Furthermore, the passengers perceived the VA as an agent able to take over responsibilities and tasks from the passenger, resulting in a peace of mind but also a diminished sense of control. Finally, the railway service context affected what functionality is suitable, what values can be created and what barriers need to be considered. Some of the value creation possibilities and barriers are also contemporary and might change with shifting social norms and further technological development.
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Abou, Jaoudé Chady. "Regard info-communicationnel sur la prise de décision. Application au choix d'une université au Liban." Phd thesis, Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambresis, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00966542.
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La décision est omniprésente dans l'existence humaine. Dans nombre de cas, elle engage même le reste d'une existence. Cette recherche problématise le rapport entre information et communication, en lien avec l'engagement et la décision qui en résulte. Elle montre que la décision est contrainte par l'information qui caractérise la situation et les éléments de connaissance communiqués. Son terrain expérimental concerne les lycéens devant choisir une université future - décision spécialement difficile au Liban, pays atypique assez complexe et influencé par la religion et la situation géopolitique.L'objectif principal de cette thèse est de présenter une étude exploratoire cherchant à caractériser les facteurs majeurs qui déterminent les lycéens dans leur prise de décision. Partant de l'information telle qu'elle est projetée dans la représentation documentaire, elle s'attache concrètement à étudier les formes de la médiation entre une université et un futur candidat lycéen, dans une optique de prise de décision. L'étude examine les expériences vécues par des étudiants en première année universitaire, qui ont donc définitivement accompli leur prise de décision ; elle établit des liens entre la théorie de l'engagement et la décision, et vise à définir des liaisons entre l'information construite à partir d'un document, le processus décisionnel et l'ingénierie de l'aide à la décision. L'originalité de cette recherche réside dans la mise en œuvre d'une méthode d'écoute des besoins et de hiérarchisation des attentes, développée par le laboratoire DeVisU à l'Université de Valenciennes, basée sur le croisement et la complémentarité de méthodes qualitatives et quantitatives.L'apport principal de cette recherche est de dévoiler quelles caractéristiques des institutions universitaires emportent la décision des lycéens. Car sous l'effet de la concurrence nationale et internationale, la plupart des universités soignent leur attractivité et se voient contraintes de développer de nouvelles stratégies de recrutement. L'enjeu est de retenir les meilleurs étudiants. Ainsi, pour la population étudiée, ce n'est pas l'acquisition de connaissances mais la préparation au marché du travail qui importe le plus. En outre, a contrario de nombre d'idées reçues, c'est la médiation humaine qui s'avère avoir le pouvoir d'instaurer une communication engageante et en aucun cas celle des systèmes documentaires, même de technologie avancée.
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Bonnetto, Émilie. "Prise en compte des problèmes inter-métiers lors de l’introduction d’une innovation relative aux automatismes et systèmes d’information d’une entreprise : processus de spécification et de conception de l’offre." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016SACLC081/document.
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Ce travail de thèse propose une démarche méthodologique pour caractériser et anticiper les perturbations organisationnelles dues à l’introduction d’un concept d’offre innovant dans un contexte « business to business ». Elle s’intéresse donc à des produits dont la mise en oeuvre induit conjointement une création de valeur pour le client et une modification des interrelations professionnelles entre métiers de cette entreprise cliente. L’enjeu est de concevoir des nouveaux produits ou services qui soient mieux acceptés par les clients internes des sociétés acheteuses par anticipation et intégration, dans la démarche de conception, de ces impacts. Les apports de cette recherche se positionnent à deux niveaux. D’une part, une démarche méthodologique est proposée. Elle s’intègre au processus de création de l’offre et permet de mieux décrire les opportunités de création de valeur induites par une meilleure définition des structures et attentes des acteurs des organisations clientes. Ces acteurs sont vus comme des individus mais aussi comme un réseau évolutif. D’autre part, une capitalisation des données recueillies auprès des clients est proposée. Ces dernières reposent sur une utilisation revisitée des concepts de « customers concerns » et de personas. Les informations recueillies et interprétées sont la base de nouveaux standards des cahiers des charges concepteurs. La première contribution, d’ordre méthodologique est appelée processus RACCP. Elle a été élaborée à partir d’un cas d’étude : la phase amont d’un processus de conception déployée chez un fournisseur d’automatisme industriel. Elle aide le concepteur à modéliser les évolutions induites par un concept d’offre sur le fonctionnement de tous les acteurs chez son client. Ceci est possible par l’utilisation conjointe de trois modèles opérationnels dès la phase amont d’un processus de conception : le modèle descriptif des problèmes clients, des profils d’acteurs associés à ces problèmes et une représentation des interrelations entre ces acteurs. La seconde contribution est constituée de l’ensemble des trois modèles opérationnels instanciés au cas de la convergence IT OT. Cet apport permet une meilleure compréhension des systèmes humains et techniques liés à ce contexte, riche en opportunités de création de valeur. Cette instanciation apporte également des premiers éléments de preuve d’efficacité du processus RACCPThis thesis proposes a methodological approach to characterize and anticipate organizational disruptions due to the introduction of an innovative concept offer in a « business to business » context. Therefore, it concerns products whom implementation induced both value creation for the customer and a change of professional interrelationships between trades within the client company. The challenge is to design new products or services that are better accepted wihtin purchasing companies by anticipating and integrating these impacts into the design process. The contributions of this research are positioned at two levels. First, a methodological approach is proposed. It is integrated into the creative process of suppliers. It enables to better describe the value creation opportunities by a better definition of structures and expectations of actors within customer organizations. These actors are seen as individuals but also as a scalable network. Moreover, a capitalization of data collected from customers is proposed. It is based on an adapated use of "customers concerns" and personas concepts. The information collected and interpreted are the basis of new standards for designers’ specifications. The first methodological contribution is a process called RACCP. It was developed from a case study: the upstream phase of a design process used in an industrial automation supplier. It helps the designer to model the changes implied by an offer concept on the operations of all stakeholders within the client company. This is possible by the combined use of three operational models since the upstream phase of the design process: the descriptive model of customer pains, actors profiles involved in these pains and representation of the interrelationships between them. The second contribution consists of an instanciation of all these three operational models in the convergence IT OT context. This contribution enables a better understanding of human and technical systems related to this context, sources of high value creation opportunities. This instantiation also provides the first proof of RACCP process efficiency
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Takagaki, Yumi. "LES PLANS D'ORGANISATION TEXTUELLE EN FRANÇAIS ET EN JAPONAISDe la rhétorique contrastive à la linguistique textuelle." Phd thesis, Université de Rouen, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00470265/en/.
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Cette étude à la fois culturelle et linguistique a pour but de décrire et d'expliquer certaines différences dans les modes d'organisation textuelle en français et en japonais.La Partie I de cette thèse décrit des différences d'organisation textuelle entre les deux langues et tente d'en trouver les origines du point de vue de la rhétorique contrastive. Sont identifiées, entre autres, neuf spécificités du japonais qui contribuent à créer des différences : 1. le schéma organisationnel ki-syô-ten-ketu, 2. la structure relâchée et le cadre, 3. le sujet comme point de départ, 4. le goût du symbole, 5. l'expression de soi, 6. l'interaction, 7. l'expression indirecte, 8. le caractère fragmentaire, 9. l'évocation et les liens associatifs. L'examen de ces spécificités, avec d'autres caractéristiques, se fait sur le plan de la production (la comparaison de manuels scolaires français et japonais) et sur le plan de la représentation (une enquête auprès d'étudiants japonais et de professeurs français).
La Partie II est consacrée à l'examen des facteurs proprement linguistiques et à la caractérisation des deux langues. En adoptant le cadre théorique de Jean-Michel Adam (2008), nous examinons cinq aspects textuels : la continuité, la discontinuité et les trois dimensions d'une proposition-énoncé. Entre les deux langues sont observées cinq différences fondamentales. 1. La cohésion est plus forte en français qu'en japonais. 2. La référence est plus explicite en français qu'en japonais. 3. La prise en charge énonciative est moins explicite en français qu'en japonais. 4. La valeur illocutoire est moins forte en français qu'en japonais. 5. La segmentation textuelle est plus forte en français qu'en japonais. Pour vérifier ces hypothèses, les quatre phénomènes suivants sont examinés : les connecteurs, le non-dit, oui/si/non (et leurs équivalents japonais hai/îe) et les personnes.
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Sidorcenco, Dalia. "La réforme des écoles d'art françaises : une approche théorique à la frontière de la sociologie des organisations et la socio-économie de la culture." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCB193.
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En 2011, suite à un mouvement de réformation accélérée menant à l'appropriation par les écoles d'art françaises du dispositif LMD, celles-ci rejoignent l'espace européen de l'enseignement supérieur et quittent le ''régime de singularité'' qui les distinguait du système universitaire. Cette adhésion signe l'aboutissement d'une série de mesures dont l'implémentation visait à agir sur deux dimensions constitutives (différentes mais complémentaires) de la réalité des écoles d'art : la dimension académique, dont la mise aux normes des cursus et la restructuration de l'organisation pédagogique permettaient à ces établissements de délivrer des diplômes reconnus au grade de master ; le volet administratif qui, à travers la transformation des écoles d'art en établissements publics de coopération culturelle (EPCC), amorce un processus d'autonomisation vis-à-vis des structures tutélaires locales. C'est par une double opération d'interrogation des déterminants qui sont au fondement de la ''remise à niveau'' de la condition des écoles d'art, et d'examen des outils de gouvernance rendant effectif le déploiement de l'autonomie décrétée, que cette recherche se propose de saisir les nouveaux enjeux dont les écoles d'art font l'objetIn 2011, following an accelerated reformation movement led by the network of French art schools, they joined the European area of higher education, getting out of the ''regime of singularity '', which distinguished them from the university system. This adherence note the accomplishment of a series of measures, whose implementation was intended to affect two distinct dimensions, constituting the reality of art schools: -the academic dimension, including the ''upgrading'' of curricula and restructuring the pedagogical organization, which allowed to accredit the awarded degree with a recognized diploma; -the administrative dimension, which through the transformation of municipal art schools into Public Cultural Cooperation Establishment (EPCC) aimed to start the empowerment process of local authorities. The aim of this research was to perceive the new issues regarding the art schools, one of them being the factors that stimulated the ''upgrading'' of the art schools condition. The other issue examined the governance tools that made possible and effective the deployment of autonomy decreed
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Abi, Fadel Eva. "Une rencontre "philosophique" avec l'art ? Les ateliers Philosoph'art : observations, interprétations, interrogations en France et au Liban." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO20063.
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L’objet de cette thèse consiste à analyser une expérience pédagogique en maternelle sur deux ans dans le cadre d’une association lyonnaise « Philosoph’art ». Dans cette recherche, nous interrogeons le statut d’innovation de cette expérience et nous étudions, plus précisément, la posture des animateurs pendant les ateliers à visée philosophique et pendant les ateliers artistiques et nous examinons ce qui fait l’originalité d’une telle expérience mise en perspective avec des travaux déjà existants sur la philosophie avec les enfants et les pratiques artistiques. De plus, nous exposerons la mise en place de ce projet et les conditions qui ont assuré la transférabilité d’une telle expérience au LibanThe subject of this thesis consists in an analysis of an experiment that took place over the course of two years, at the kindergarten level, in association with « Philosoph’art », an organization from Lyon. In this research, we interrogate the status of innovation of this experience and we focus on the posture of the quizmaster during workshops with philosophical content as well as artistic projects. We closely examine what sets apart such experiences from those already in use in philosophy with children and artistic practices. Furthermore, we will explain the set up of this project and the conditions in which it has been made transferable for use in Lebanon
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Brossier, David. "Élaboration et validation d'une base de données haute résolution destinée à la calibration d'un patient virtuel utilisable pour l'enseignement et la prise en charge personnalisée des patients en réanimation pédiatrique Perpetual and Virtual Patients for Cardiorespiratory Physiological Studies Creating a High-Frequency Electronic Database in the PICU: The Perpetual Patient Qualitative subjective assessment of a high-resolution database in a paediatric intensive care unit-Elaborating the perpetual patient's ID card Validation Process of a High-Resolution Database in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit – Describing the Perpetual Patient’s Validation Evaluation of SIMULRESP©: a simulation software of child and teenager cardiorespiratory physiology." Thesis, Normandie, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019NORMC428.
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La complexité des patients de réanimation justifie le recours à des systèmes d’aide à la décision thérapeutique. Ces systèmes rassemblent des protocoles automatisés de prise en charge permettant le respect des recommandations et des simulateurs physiologiques ou patients virtuels, utilisables pour personnaliser de façon sécuritaire les prises en charge. Ces dispositifs fonctionnant à partir d’algorithmes et d’équations mathématiques ne peuvent être développés qu’à partir d’un grand nombre de données de patients. Le principal objectif de cette thèse était la mise en place d’une base de données haute résolution automatiquement collectée de patients de réanimation pédiatrique dont le but sera de servir au développement et à la validation d’un simulateur physiologique : SimulResp© . Ce travail présente l’ensemble du processus de mise en place de la base de données, du concept jusqu’à son utilisationThe complexity of the patients in the intensive care unit requires the use of clinical decision support systems. These systems bring together automated management protocols that enable adherence to guidelines and virtual physiological or patient simulators that can be used to safely customize management. These devices operating from algorithms and mathematical equations can only be developed from a large number of patients’ data. The main objective of the work was the elaboration of a high resolution database automatically collected from critically ill children. This database will be used to develop and validate a physiological simulator called SimulResp© . This manuscript presents the whole process of setting up the database from concept to use
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Prawdzik, Hull Anna. "Blue Sky: five short stories." Thesis, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/42632.
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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.Though some of these five short stories seem related in theme, they were not written with any connection in mind. They were, instead, an exploration of different settings, different lives, either beginning or ending, but always aiming at a rebirth, forced or hoped for. The difference between these two movements—arrivals and departures—is often minute and almost impossible to discern. The fourth story, “Sandhill Cranes,” was broadcasted in podcast form by PenDust Radio in September 2020, and published in Carve Magazine the following month. It won the Editor’s Choice Award in the 2020 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. “Sandhill Cranes” represents a turning point in my writing, and a moment in time just before I redefined myself as a writer, and allowed myself to be a writer, at last—it also represents the beginning of a new phase in my craft, and showed me the way to portraying immigration, the defining principle of my life, in my fiction; the other four stories in this collection were written after “Sandhill Cranes,” that is, after November 2019.
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"Apocryphology: Stories & Studies." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.25098.
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abstract: A collection of eight stories set in American landscapes that are distorted, anachronistic or magical. The characters in these stories are hunting monsters, touring strange museums, dating shapeshifters and performing death-defying illusions, but the greatest mysteries they encounter are the most human: obsession, loneliness, loss. As they struggle to distinguish fantasy and reality, they also strive to transform and transcend the things that haunt them.Dissertation/Thesis
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Bennett, Anne-Marie. "The quiet." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3333.
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Spencer, Brenda. "Responding to student writing : strategies for a distance-teaching context." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16094.
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Responding to Student Writing: Strategies for a Distance-Teaching Context identifies viable
response techniques for a unique discourse community. An overview of paradigmatic shifts in
writing and reading theory, 'frameworks of response' developed to classify response statements
for research purposes, and an overview of research in the field provide the theoretical basis for
the evaluation of the empirical study.
The research comprises a three-fold exploration of the response strategies adopted by Unisa
lecturers to the writing of Practical English (PENl00-3) students. In the first phase the focus falls
on the effect of intervention on the students' revised drafts of four divergent marking strategies
- coded correction, minimal marking, taped response and self assessment. All the experimental
strategies tested result in statistically-significant improvement levels in the revised draft. The
benefits of self assessment and rewriting, even without tutorial intervention, were demonstrated.
The study is unique by virtue of its distance-teaching context, its sample size of 1750 and in the
high significance levels achieved.
The second phase of the research consisted of a questionnaire that determined 2640 students'
expectations with respect to marking, the value of commentary, their perceptions of markers'
roles and their opinions of the experimental strategies tested. Their responses were also
correlated with their final Practical English examination results.
The third phase examined tutorial response. The framework of response, developed for the
purpose, revealed that present response strategies represent a regression to the traditional
product-orientated approach to writing that contradicts the cognitive and rhetorical axiological
basis of the course. There is thus a disjunction between the teaching and theoretical practices.
The final chapter bridges this gap by examining issues of audience, transparency, ownership,
timing of intervention and training. The researcher believes that she has successfully identified
practical and innovative strategies that assist lecturers in a distance-teaching context to break
away from old response blueprints.English Studies
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Lee, Hsiao-min, and 李曉旻. "The Reasearch of Xia Mian-zun’s Prose Creation and Writing Theory." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84410218012296807085.
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20’s of modern Chinese literary history is the era of bright, "54" movement, has brought a more modern literary reborn change, creative achievement is particularly commendable, "White Horse Lake style of writing" It was at this point in order to a unique gesture in the history of literature emerge, but Xia Mian-zun with respect to these writers for literary studies of the members, so researchers have not been a long time from special attention. Therefore, respect for his works on Xia Mian-zun in-depth study is imperative, which is why I conducted this study the purpose and value, this thesis structure divided into eight chapters: Chapter I: Introduction, Motivation purpose, literature review analysis, research methods and scope. Chapter II: Induction and analysis of Xia Mian-zun respect for his life and thinking of creative background. Chapter III: Conduct Xia Mian-zun respect prose Analysis of social themes, including war against Japanese aggression, social criticism, women''s issues topics Chapter IV: Conduct Xia Mian-zun respect lyrical prose Analysis of subjects, including human relationships, life emotional themes. Chapter V: Conduct Education and subject to the Xia Mian-zun respect Analysis essays, including education philosophy, knowledge sketches themes. Chapter VI: Conduct Xia Mian-zun Theory of Literature and Writing Analysis, including the writing preparation, writing process theory, articles, appreciation and criticism. Chapter VII: Conduct Xia Mian-zun statue Theory of prose writing type, including the notes text, narrative text, expository essay, argumentative writing, writing essays and other genres theoretical research. Chapter VIII: Attributed to the Xia Mian-zun respect the achievements of prose writing, writing theory and this era. References