Dissertations / Theses: 'Literary style and technique'

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Williams, Denise Rochelle. "The vagaries of voice in the composing process." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/445.

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Roche, Paul, and n/a. "De bello civili, Book 1." University of Otago. Department of Classics, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20060911.112204.

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This thesis represents the first full-scale, English commentary on the opening book of Lucan�s epic poem, De Bello Ciuili, in sixty-five years. Its fundamental purpose is to explain the language and content of the Latin text of the book. The subject matter of the thesis beyond the introduction is naturally dependent upon the content of each individual line under consideration, but the following questions may help establish some of the larger issues I have prioritised throughout my response to the Latin text of book one. These questions may be variously relevant to an episode within book one of De Bello Ciuili, or else a sentence, a line, a word, a metrical issue, or a combination of these. How does it help locate the text within the genre of epic? What does it contribute to the overall meaning of the poem? What does it contribute to our understanding of epic narrative technique? What does it contribute to our understanding of Lucan�s poetic usage and technique? How does it interact with the rest of the poem (i.e. what are the structural or intratextual markers advertised and what do they contribute to the meaning of the passage under consideration or the structure of the book or poem as a whole)? How does it interact with its (especially epic) models (i.e. what intertextual markers are at work and how does the invocation of earlier models affect the meaning of the passage under consideration)? How does it behave in relation to what we know of the norms espoused by Classical literary criticism? What are the programmatic issues, themes, and images explored or established by book one?

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Radojkovich, Leanne. "The literary benefits of linguistic and cultural hybridity." AUT University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/868.

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The objective of this exegesis is to show how linguistic and cultural hybridity create a unique prose style, and how my stories sit within that style. I will use Grace Paley and Lucia Berlin to demonstrate the distinctive narrative techniques. These include the use of sensuous details (instead of descriptions) to make place and character palpable; dialogue that convincingly evokes living speech; plots which emanate from the characters, rather than the other way round; and open-ended resolutions, as in real life. I will then show how I use these narrative techniques in my collection Happiness and other stories.

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Grieve, Jack William. "Quantitative authorship attribution : a history and an evaluation of techniques /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2055.

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Mackay, Raymond George. "Stylistics: foregrounding and the search for objectivity (with particular reference to Edwin Muir's ��Variations ona time theme')." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31234379.

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Mahoney, Ann White. "Tutoring toward style." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/507.

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Moran, David andrews. "The Technique of the Poquoson-Style Log Canoe." W&M ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626751.

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Amrine, William James. "The plenary address: A rhetorical analysis." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3127.

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In terms of structure, style, content and intended audience, Genre Analysis 58, this thesis presents a rhetorical analysis of the plenary address as a genre. Four examples of the opening plenary were analyzed because they represent the opening plenary lecture-keynote speech type, the most common presented at conferences: Mina Shaughnessy and the teaching of writing, Keynote address, Literacy after the revolution and The uneasy partnership between grammar and writing instruction.

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Mackay, Raymond George. "Stylistics : foregrounding and the search for objectivity (with particular reference to Edwin Muir's V̀ariations on a time theme') /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13857770.

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Matthews, Alastair. "Middle High German Narrative Technique : The Kaiserchronik in its Literary Context." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504115.

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Gregg, V. M. "Jean Rhys, Europe and the West Indies : A literary study." Thesis, University of Kent, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379406.

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Williams, Rachel Griffiths. "A literary commentary on Lucan, De Bello Civili, lines 1-401." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303988.

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Ifejika-Obukwelu, Kate Omuluzua. "Igbo pottery in Nigeria : issues of form, style and technique /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1990. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10939362.

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Lee, Jacob Zan Adachi. "Style, Discourse, and the Completion of the Vernacular Style in Modern Japanese Literature." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3629.

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Many histories of modern Japanese literature see the "completion" of the modern vernacular style in the writings of Shiga Naoya (1883--1971), Mushakōji Saneatsu (1885--1976) and Takamura Kōtarō (1883--1956). Why and how this critical-historical perception of stylistic normalcy arose and still continues is better understood, I propose, through a close reading of key texts that identifies instances and patterns of creative manipulation of-as opposed to mere determination by or complicity with-certain philosophical, social, and historical discourses.How this creative manipulation plays out varies in prose and poetry and from text to text. In Mushakōji's Omedetaki hito (1911; The Simpleton), temporal and generic transitions establish a doubled discourse of sincerity that normalizes the genbun itchi prose into the background. In Shiga's An’ya kōro (1921--37; A Dark Night's Passing), certain syntactical and lexical innovations construct a new and rigid model of intuitive interiority. Takamura's Dōtei (1914; The Journey) reverses, to its own literary historical advantage, gendered discourses on the Japanese language and Japanese literary history.

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Shah, Uttamlal T. "The solo songs of Edward MacDowell : an examination of style and literary influence." Virtual Press, 1987. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/515624.

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Edward MacDowell is widely recognized as America's first great native-born composer. His music has come to be characterized as being extremely lyrical and harmonically inventive. Solo songs constitute an overlooked area of MacDowell's output and no serious study has been undertaken of them to date. The goal of this dissertation is to obtain a more complete portrait of MacDowell through a detailed examination of his songs.Previously unstudied manuscripts and sketches from the MacDowell Collection of the Library of Congress provide important insights into his songwriting process. The choice of text proved to be such an important determinant in MacDowell's settings that the author has chosen to divide the songs into three stylistic groupings based primarily on MacDowell's selection of texts rather than on chronology.In MacDowell's first-period songs, he concentrated on setting German texts while living in Germany from 1880 to 1888. Poetry by Heine, Goethe, and Klopstock plays an important role in these songs, which are stylistically similar to the nineteenth-century Lied. Chromatic harmonies, frequent modulations, and active piano accompaniments characterize these songs.MacDowell's second-period songs, written between 1886 and 1890, use English texts and differ markedly from the earlier Lieder. While many of their texts (and consequently, best songs of this group show the development of MacDowell's characteristic harmonic language and lyricism.The second-period songs serve as a transition into MacDowell's final songwriting period (c. 1893-1901), during which he wrote his most successful works. The third-period songs are delineated by the use of original poetry and represent a synthesis of the first two periods. The chromaticism and active piano parts of the lieder are combined with the new lyricism of the second-period songs.Songwriting spans MacDowell's entire career and is evidence of the seriousness with which he viewed the medium. A thorough study of the songs, both published and unpublished, reveals a steady line of development throughout MacDowell's career, with many musical advances predicated by the text. This development, which closely mirrors similar advances in the piano music, is an important factor in MacDowell's entire creative output.

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Rutherford, Ian C. "Canons of style in the Antonine age : idea-theory in its literary context /." Oxford (GB) : Clarendon press, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb376740641.

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Epstein, Hugh. "Hardy, Conrad and the senses : epistemiology and literary style in the early fiction." Thesis, St Mary's University, Twickenham, 2013. http://research.stmarys.ac.uk/413/.

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In discussions of English fiction, Hardy and Conrad are only occasionally considered together, and generally as being different exemplars of a late Victorian pessimism who give human dimension to the cosmic ironies of a world bereft of Providence. This study argues for a more vital connection than a coincidence of intellectual outlook, one that finds their fiction is generated by similar conceptions of how human beings experience and gain knowledge of the world in which they live. An epistemology of sense impressions underlies the invention of ‘fictional worlds’, the construction of characters, and the literary style of the otherwise very different novels considered here. As such, it is illuminating to explore both of these novelists in the light of the empirical scientific investigations of the nineteenth century which accorded such prominence to the function and evidence of the senses. While both authors have been the subject of several excellent studies of their relation to Darwin, such studies have tended to concentrate on biology in the case of Hardy, and have seen Conrad more in the province of metaphysics than empirical science. The originality of my study lies in its attention to physics and physiology as informing realms for fiction, not as a matter of direct influence upon the writers, but rather as conceptually and historically complementary modes of apprehending the world within which human experience takes place. Consequently, some of the work of contemporary scientists, as well as modern theorists in the fields of sensation, vision and sound, are seen to be as helpful in elucidating the sensory effects achieved in Hardy’s and Conrad’s novels as the many contemporary and modern literary critics whose work also informs this study. After an Introduction which locates Hardy and Conrad in relation to each other in terms of critical estimation, and which establishes the importance of the senses to their fiction and to their theoretical outlook as novelists, the study closely examines the modes of writing found in three sets of paired novels, exploring their individual treatment of a shared epistemology. In taking Desperate Remedies and The Rescue as often disregarded yet, in my view, foundational texts for each author, the focus is upon the phenomenology of sensation itself, with a distinction made between the outer-directed sensory field established in these novels as opposed to the inner mental world characteristic of Walter Pater which was so influential for Modernism. Both Hardy and Conrad are renowned for their visual evocations, and I take Far From the Madding Crowd and Lord Jim in order to explore each novelist’s extraordinary attention to light, and what it reveals to the eye. I argue that, unlike the later Modernists, the scenic construction of Hardy and Conrad creates occasions that exceed the perceptions of individual consciousness, which it renders as participating in a larger process of the ‘event’. Attending to the sound-world of these novels yields a different inflection of this account: The Return of the Native and ‘Heart of Darkness’ show characters surrounded by an active universe which penetrates to that which is hidden within, and the subject for portrayal is the attempt to give a human accent to phenomena that retain a mystery in their location and transmission. Throughout, both novelists are seen to have a united interest in the medium that surrounds human action and perception, but each novel examined is allowed its individuality and is not coerced into being a mere representative for a theoretical position. This is a study centred upon the early fiction, but the Conclusion proposes that Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Nostromo explore in very different ways an end-point for the novel of sensation, in which the identity of the individual self is open to absorption by the sensory qualities of the circumambient universe that it apprehends.

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Waters, Nigel Bruce. "An examination of the literary quality of two reading schemes." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001411.

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Learning to read is one of the most crucial life tasks that the young child must acquire whilst in primary school. In modern society, much of what one does is dependant on having the ability to read. While a great deal of research has focused on how children learn to read, relatively little attention has been paid to the literary quality of the material the children are exposed to whilst learning to read. In the past few years I have become increasingly concerned with the number of teachers who use material designed for teaching children to read without being aware of the literary quality of the material. While numerous teachers are aware of the issues surrounding the learning to read debate and use up to date materials to teach reading, far too many accept the material supplied by the school without questioning its literary merit and its impact upon the young reader. This piece of research is an attempt to evaluate the literary quality of two reading schemes currently in use in Cape Education Department schools. The chief conclusion of the research is that the schemes examined fall far short of the standards required for them to be considered good literature. Although the research is limited to two reading schemes, it is hoped that a teacher using other schemes could use the framework supplied in this study to examine the literary quality of the material she is using. Furthermore, the final chapter offers suggestions as to how to replace material of poor literary quality with books of a higher literary standard. On the basis of the above findings it is suggested that there is a need for individual teachers, schools, teacher training institutions and the Cape Education Department to examine the literary quality of reading schemes and books that are used in the process of teaching children to read. It is hoped that this piece of research will create a greater awareness amongst teachers of the literary quality of reading materials and prompt further research into such materials that will be of benefit to the central character in this study; the young child learning to read

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SILVA, DAVID MUSSEL DA. "TIMING IN ANIMATION: THE INTERSTICE BETWEEN THE TECHNIQUE AND THE STYLE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=33773@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
O presente estudo analisa a aplicação da temporização de animação japonesa para TV nos filmes brasileiros que a utilizaram como recurso estético. Buscou-se, para tanto, mapear as diferentes aplicações de temporização por diferentes estúdios, que fizeram escola. Inicialmente, foi estudada a aplicação da temporização nos filmes de longa-metragem realizados pelo estúdio de Walt Disney, passando pelos curta-metragens da UPA e chegando até o trabalho para TV de Osamu Tezuka. A pesquisa tem como conceitos norteadores a Aura de Walter Benjamin, Legitimidade e Performance de Jean-Francois Lyotard, o estudo da mise-en-scéne no cinema por David Bordwell, e a atualização deste conceito para animação por Maureen Furniss. Com base no estudo prévio da temporização descrito no presente trabalho, pôde-se analisar três obras brasileiras de animação representativas quanto à aplicação da temporização japonesa, a saber: Uma História de Amor e Fúria, de Luiz Bolognesi, O Menino e o Mundo, de Alê Abreu, e Menina, de Pedro Eboli. A análise dos filmes foi confrontada com as informações obtidas em entrevistas semi-estruturadas feita com os autores, a fim de conseguir um quadro mais completo do uso da temporização japonesa nesses filmes, das intenções nessas aplicações e dos resultados obtidos.
This study analyzes the applications of Japanese s TV animation timing in the Brazilian films that used it as a aesthetic tool. In order to do so, it was researched the different applications of timing from the Disney movies to UPA and Osamu Tezuka s TV series. The research has as a guilding concepts the Walter Benjamin s Aura, Lagitimacy and Performance of Jean-François Lyotard, the study of mise-en-scène in the cinema by David Bordwell, and the updating of this concept for animation by Maureen Furniss. Based on the previous study of the timing, it was possible to analyze three representative Brazilian animation movies regarding the application of Japanese timing, namely: Rio 2096, by Luiz Bolognesi, The Boy and the World, by Alê Abreu, and Menina, by Pedro Eboli. The analysis of the films was compared with the information obteained in semistructured interviews with the authors, in order to obtain a more complete picture of the use of the Japanese timing in these works, the intentions in these applications and the results.

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羅璇. ""新序"文體研究 = A study of literary style of Xin Xu." Thesis, University of Macau, 2011. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2456365.

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Hawes, Clement. "Mania and literary style : the rhetoric of enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart /." Cambridge [GB] : Cambridge university press, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36959074h.

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Cook, John. "The philosopher masked as literary theorist : 'cunning intelligence' (metis) instantiated in Bakhtin's rhetorical style." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:61c605c3-33f2-4a41-adb9-e4c3530aacfc.

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This dissertation discusses and analyses Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin's conscious strategy of self-fashioning and reinvention, which is realised in his life and supported by the theoretical constructs contained in his Collected Works. It addresses the ambiguities and uncertainties in Bakhtin's life and work and uses two aspects of his philosophical approach and constructs to explicate these inconsistencies: his theory of identity and his theory of language. The analytical tools used to arrive at this conclusion include the notion of reflexivity (using Bakhtin's own theoretical constructs to analyse incidents in his life, and in turn, using those incidents to illustrate the concepts he developed). Theoretical support for Bakhtin's self-fashioning is provided by Fitzpatrick's theory of reinvention through impersonation and imposture in Revolutionary Russia. Bakhtin's theory of identity (expressed in his Nietzsche-influenced concept of the mask and its associated concept of travesty) supports this reinvention. Bakhtin's notion of double-voicedness, supported by his linguistic theories of interdiscursivity, heteroglossia and the utterance reinforce these two lines of thought. Bakhtin's two figures of speech: the word with a 'backward glance' and the word with a 'loophole' encapsulate this convergence of theory and life. These two constructs are brought into sharp relief when illuminated by Wittgenstein's theory of language-games, Austin's concept of performativity and Benveniste's formulation of deixis. The overarching metaphor for this dissertation is the Classical Greek concept of metis, or 'cunning intelligence', a concept that is instantiated in the way in which Bakhtin framed the narrative of his life and the manner in which he performed his work. The dissertation concludes that Bakhtin evolved a multi-threaded philosophy which was self-consistent in the way in which it addressed the creation of identity, the expression of language and the performance of life and work through the metaphor of metis.

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Erkazanci, Hilal. "Heteroglossia in Turkish translations : locating the style of literary translation in an audience-design perspective." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429673.

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The present dissertation aims to build up a theoretical framework which provides translation studies with a novel perspective on analysing translations of literary heteroglossia, i.e. language variation in literature. The theoretical framework is based on an exploration of the process and product of translating heteroglossia. The practical viability of this framework is tested via its application to the Turkish translations of heteroglossia. The study initially finds that heteroglossia has been systematically standardised in the Tukish translations. To account for this systematicity, the emphasis of translation-as-process is placed on seeing translation in terms of language ideologies which involve such critical-sociolinguistic concepts as the translator's linguistic habitus, the culture of monoglot standardisation, and the symbolic capital. The study also refers to the theories of poly system and skopos. Having seen the strategy of standardisation as a kind of domestication, the study re-defines the concept of domestication as accommodation of the style and/or content of the source text in line with the target-language audience's perceived linguistic, social, and ideological habitus. The study brings an audience-design approach to the translation of heteroglossia which suggests that (i) the translators accommodate style in line with an inferred audience design, and (ii) the strategy of standardisation systematically pursued in the Turkish translations of heteroglossia tells us a great deal about the Turkish audience. The emphasis of translation-as-product is placed on the effects of standardisation. Specific Turkish translations of heteroglossia are examined in line with such relevance-theoretic concepts as implicatures, explicatures, communicative clues, and interpretive resemblance. The examination of translation-as-product shows that standardising Turkish translations end up with a context that differs, in varying degrees, from that of the heteroglossic source texts.

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Potter, Sarah. "Changing vocal style and technique in Britain during the long nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8345/.

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This thesis presents an overview of solo singing styles and techniques prevalent in Britain during the long nineteenth century, drawing upon evidence from didactic writing, correspondence, critical review, biography, voice science research, and early acoustic recordings in order to analyse changing approaches to voice production and musical expression. The discussion of vocal style is underpinned by discussion of a changing approach to larynx height, and concepts of chiaroscuro, bel canto, and expression are reconsidered in the light of technical discussion. The origins of the continuous larynxlowering now expected of the modern operatic singer are recognised in early nineteenthcentury voice science literature, but notable trends in selective larynx-lowering are identified from the mid nineteenth century onwards. This confirms the ideal of continuous larynx-lowering as a twentieth-century development, and has significant repercussions for current approaches to historically-informed performance and the singing of ‘early music’. The changing use of vibrato effects, portamento and messa di voce, and the application of expressive devices more generally throughout this period are considered within the context of nineteenth-century approaches to voice production. This thesis is accompanied by a four-CD portfolio of recordings that demonstrates experimentation with nineteenth-century styles and voice production techniques, the emulation of early recorded vocal performances, and the realisation of nineteenth-century repertoire using historically-appropriate approaches to style and technique. Repertoire includes didactic material, operatic arias (including those by ‘bel canto’ composers), repertoire annotated by renowned pedagogue Manuel Garcia II, and works sung by celebrated nineteenth-century performers and early recording artists. Also included is experimentation with audio filtering that seeks to emulate the limited frequency capture of early acoustic recording apparatus with a view to further understanding the evidence of nineteenth-century voices on record.

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Dingle, Christopher Philip. "Understated charm : style and technique in the last works of Olivier Messiaen." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10233/.

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When Olivier Messiaen completed the vast opera Saint Francois d'Assise in 1983, he was mentally and physically exhausted, believing that this monumental work would be his final compositional statement. Coaxed at first by his wife, Yvonne Loriod, he began to write a series of miniatures -a rarity in his output. Then, in the last years of his life, Messiaen composed a final large orchestral cycle, Eclairs sur l'Au-Dela ... This thesis examines the seven works which Messiaen completed after Saint Francois and argues that, following the crisis provoked by the opera, his music underwent a discernible change in style. In addition, the thesis uses the works in question to examine the characteristics of Messiaen's music, with a particular emphasis on an often overlooked aspect of his technique: harmony. In the process, many other questions are addressed, such as the ways in which Messiaen utilizes birdsong within a larger structure. The thesis is in three parts. Part I begins with a brief historical survey before discussing Saint Francois d'Assise as the work which defines everything that follows. Part II examines the series of miniatures whose significance belies their (relatively) modest proportions. Not only do they provide an indication of Messiaen's artistic self-confidence, but they also contain important links with his final masterpiece, Eclairs sur l'Au-Dela ... This sublime eleven movement work for large orchestra is the subject of Part III, and is the focus of the thesis. Each movement is analysed in turn, before the work is considered as an entity and its hidden structure and motivic cohesion is demonstrated.

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Nguyen, Huong Tra. "Lisibilité des écrits scientifiques des Vietnamiens: étude de l'influence du vietnamien sur les mémoires en français des étudiants en agroalimentaire à Can Tho (Vietnam)." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209380.

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L’exprérience d’enseignement et l’examen des mémoires en français des étudiants en Agroaliemtaire ont montré que nos apprenants produisaient souvent des phrases longues et peu compréhensibles à cause des erreurs morphosyntaxiques. En conséquence, les mémoires sont peu lisibles sur le plan linguistique.

De plus, nous remarquons des traces de la langue vietnamienne dans la production en français des étudiants. Or, les apprenants sont obligés de consulter les articles scientifiques en vietnamien de leurs enseignants lors de la préparation du mémoire. De plus, l’étude des articles montre que les auteurs formulent aussi des phrases très longues de plusieurs informations.

Ainsi, toutes ces constatations nous orientent vers une analyse contrastive des phrases longues en vietnamien des scientifiques avec celles trouvées dans les mémoires en français des étudiants.

Selon notre revue de littérature des recherches précédentes, des auteurs prédécesseurs mesurent la lisibilité d’un texte en se basant statistiquement sur la familiarité du vocabulaire, la longueur des mots, la longueur des phrases, ou la longueur des sous-phrases.

Toutefois, la mesure par le comptage du nombre de mots par phrase des auteurs semble inappropriée à notre travail par la différence des objectifs.

Nous avons donc essayé de trouver une unité de mesure de la longueur des phrases pertinente à notre propre corpus :« informations enchâssées ».

Selon les auteurs prédécesseurs, une phrase sera vue comme longue si elle contient plus de trois sous-phrases. Quant à nous, les phrases seront jugées longues si elles dépassent trois informations enchâssées.

Après la collecte des phrases longues, nous avons utilisé l’approche qualitative pour les analyser. Après l’analyse du corpus, nous avons obtenu des résultats suivants :la production des phrases longues ainsi que la présence des erreurs morphosyntaxiques dues à l’interférence du vietnamien constituent des caractéristiques typiques des mémoires des étudiants francophones à Can Tho. Ce sont ces traits représentatifs qui ont compromis la lisibilité des phrases de nos apprenants.

Face aux difficultés de nos apprenants, nous essayons de trouver quelques esquisses didactiques adéquates à notre propre public.

Doctorat en Langues et lettres
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Chan, Kam-wing Philip, and 陳錦榮. "The stylistic analysis of literary language in relation to English teaching in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31948935.

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Detrell, Jordi Comella. "Language in combat : literary style as a response to cultural and political constraints in Franco's Catalonia." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485111.

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This thesis explores the rewriting process of Incerta gloria (1956-1969-1971) by Joan Sales, El testament (1955-1963-1967) by Xavier Benguerel, Laia (1932-1934-1.952-1968) by Salvador Espriu and Tina Costa (1947-1968) by Sebastia Juan Arbo.Ã‚Â· The study analyses the compositional and stylistic evolution of these novels from a pluralistic methodological approach that includes stylistics, socially oriented linguistics, sociology of literature and critical theory. The first part of this study analyses the Catalan .literary field of the post-war period, placing special emphasis on the ideological struggles for legitimate language between grammarians and writers. This part considers the social and political circumstances under which Arb6, Sales, Benguerel and Espriu decided to rewrite their novels and it also focuses on the perception of the Catalan language (using categories such as spoken/written language) by writers, grammarians and intellectuals. The second part explores the self-reflexivity on discourse that can be found in Incerta gloria, El testament, Laia and Tino Costa. This part explores the novels as historical agents of language, but also as being shaped by language. It describes the language of these texts by analysing its polyphonic qualities, paying special attention to the traces of struggle between socio-ideological discourses that can be found in the voices of narrators and characters. This research aims to demonstrate how the rewriting processes undertaken by Sales, Espriu, Benguerel and Arbo, the original aim of which was to update the linguistic properties of their prose, ultimately resulted in changes to the whole structure of their novels. . This thesis is my own work, and has not been submitted in substantially the same form for the award of a higher degree elsewhere.

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Thöne, Sebastian. "Dynamic software architectures : a style based modeling and refinement technique with graph transformations." kostenfrei, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=977862356.

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Jones, Margaret H. "The principle of "Langsamkeit" in Peter Handke's In einer dunklen Nacht ging ich aus meinem stillen Haus." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1194280656.

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Fortin, Alexandra. "L'invention de l'identité : lecture en miroir de Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable de Romain Gary et de La Vie devant soi d'Émile Ajar /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2001. http://theses.uqac.ca.

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Khamis, Said A. M. "Implication as a literary technique in Mohamed S. Mohamed`s novels: Kiu and Nyota ya Rehema." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-93535.

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Reading Mohamed´s novels Kiu (`Thirst´; 1972) and Nyota ya Rehema (`The Star ofRehema´or `The Destiny of Rehema´; 1976), one is struck by abundant use of `implication´ technique. Implication is regarded as a feature that is statistically more frequent in poetry than in prose, hence the presence of this technique in abundance in Mohamed´s idiom, renders it a quality of poetic prose. The purpose of this paper is therefore to show how various linguistic features are used as vehicle for the realisation of the implication technique used to create exponents for the semantic structure in his novels. Exponents as literary devices need not be implicit as in Mohamed`s idiom, however if used implicitly, they form an artistically engineered correlation with literary substance of the novel and gives it a certain quality that affects our `attitude´ and `judgement` towards it. Hence in this paper we hold it that the reader`s involvement in the interpretation of the novel eventually entails the decoding of the corpus for the externalisation of the literary substance. A reader who is fully involved in the interpretation and processing of implied meaning(s) in the novel, digs into its semantic structure by condation and deduction and comes out with more lasting impressions than he would if he were to deal with a less subtle or totally explicit idiom that may be regarded as plain and spoon-feeding.

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King, Richard Jay. "Immediate passage : the narrative of Joel H. Brown, with a critical essay on form and style in the sea voyage narrative." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/550.

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Kotarcic, Ana. "Aristotle's concept of lexis : a theory of language and style." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7754.

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Aristotle's concept of lexis has been discussed by numerous scholars, yet no comprehensive account of lexis has been produced so far. To fill this gap in scholarship, this thesis offers a systematic analysis of Aristotle's concept of lexis by dividing it into three levels, which allow a step-by-step approach to understanding this multi-layered concept. By considering Plato's and Isocrates' thoughts on lexis, Chapter 1 outlines the intellectual context in which Aristotle's ideas on the concept of lexis developed. Chapters 2-5 focus on the three levels of lexis and Chapter 6 brings a concluding discussion of metaphor. In Chapter 2 the linguistic elements treated under the notion of lexis and Aristotle's theory of language are delineated. These not only present Aristotle's thoughts on language as an abstract system, but they also form the most fundamental level upon which the remainder of Aristotle's thoughts on the concept of lexis are based. Chapter 3 explores Aristotle's remarks regarding individuals' use of linguistic elements as determined by sociolinguistic factors. Aristotle's occasional statements about language usage within the concept of lexis provide valuable pieces of evidence for studies in sociolinguistics and for his ideas on lexis on its third level as discussed in Chapters 4 and 5. In Chapter 4 the intra-textual aspect of Aristotle's remarks on lexis as a means for the creation of different kinds of poetry and rhetoric, i.e. lexis as technē, is examined. In Chapter 5 extra-textual factors are considered and are followed by a discussion of the purpose and function of lexis on its third level. Chapter 6 concludes the discussion of lexis by focusing on metaphor, the linguistic and stylistic element par excellence treated under the notion of lexis, which further highlights the benefits of a three-level approach to Aristotle's concept of lexis.

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Dutsch, Dorota. "Boundless nature : the construction of female speech in Plautus." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36765.

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The existence of specific lexical features marking the speech of female characters in Roman Comedy is signalled in scholiastic literature, and has been confirmed by modern quantitative research. This thesis, focusing on the comedies of Plautus, investigates the question of why the playwrights made specific linguistic choices for female personae.
Greek and Roman literary theory stipulated that the speech of women in drama had to be constructed so as to reveal the speakers' feminine nature. Philosophical doctrines that construed gender as a polar opposition evince a fundamental distinction, defining male as 'bond' and female as 'boundless'. The association of female with boundlessness, it is argued, also determines woman's position with respect to speech. A study of Greek New Comedy reveals that the reflections on female nature and expression found there depict woman as adverse to limits, a concept which Plautus seems to have subsequently adapted from his sources.
Donatus's scholia to Terence characterize female speech as disorderly and disrespectful of the norms of verbal interaction. Concrete linguistic patterns are rationalized as symptoms of 'softness' and querulousness, both representing the female propensity to violate interpersonal limits. The text of Plautus, examined for meta-textual asides on female speech, confirms the scholiast's observations. An inquiry into the Plautine perception of blanditia reveals that female mannerisms are interpreted as tokens of a contagious moral disorder, and that they earmark the feebleness of female (and effeminate) personae. The otherness of female complaints, emphasized during the performance of palliata by both verbal and para-verbal means, is intimately associated in the text of the comedies with the chaos within women's minds. Female speech patterns in Plautus thus illustrate the concept of infirmitas sexus.

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Ludovico, Roberto. "Le città invisibili di Italo Calvino : le "ragioni" dello scrittore." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=27952.

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In 1972, Italo Calvino published Le citta invisibili, a text which marked a radical departure from "traditional" narrative methods.
This study is an analysis of the literary techniques used in the text. It posits Calvino's critical and theoretical evolution as the source of the specific stylistic choices that determine the originality of the work.

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Youdale, Roy. "Translating literary style : close and distant reading in the translation of Gracias por el Fuego by Mario Benedetti." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.738225.

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Arredondo, Daniel. "Style: A new perspective on Kate Chopin." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2786.

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Uses Edward Corbett's theory of style to help define Chopin's style and expose her rhetorical strategies (sentence and paragraph length, diction, tropes, scheme, etc.) in the short story "The Story of an Hour ." Examines the controversy over using literature to teach composition and provides an analysis of the reasons for and against using literature in composition classes. Finally, defends the use of literature in writing classrooms.

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Pappas, Paul Alexander. "The narrative thematics of the late style of Henry James : incorporating an analysis of The wings of the dove." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17685.

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Bibliography: pages 74-77.
This paper represents a study of contemporary narrative theory in relation to the late style of Henry James. Using the work of various narrative theorists it examines the concepts of the Narrator, Speech Representation, Focalization and Figural Narration. This is the main emphasis of part I. The work of the different theorists is examined selectively in order to give a concise but comprehensive summary of the chosen narrative concepts. Part II of the dissertation deals with the relationship of Henry James to the ideology of modernism. The modernist notions of 'showing' and 'telling' are discussed in relation to the narrative theory of part I. This section also deals with James's notions of dramatization, foreshortening and impersonal narration. The narrative style of Henry James's later novels is discussed in relation to the concepts of narrative theory examined in part I. Furthermore, part II examines the difficulties James faced m constructing his narratives and how they are manifested as discrepancies in his novelistic project. The specific facets discussed are those of the effacement of the authorial narrator and the representation of consciousness; this discussion also deals with James's approach to these facets of narrative representation. Part III consists of an examination of selected 'Prefaces' to James's novels, and discusses these as a reflection of James's ideas of narrative. It combines parts 1 and II in a discussion of James's notions of narrative, and utilizes the contemporary narrative theory to order to illuminate some of these notions. In order to show how James utilized certain narrative techniques an analysis of extracts from The Wings of the Dove is undertaken. This section examines James's use of the Narrator, Speech Representation, Focalization and Figural Narration. Part III also deals with the extent to which James succeeds in his project and furthermore, shows that certain narrative devices James employed contradict his notions of dramatization and objectivity.

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Yu, Wei-Shuan. "A Comparison of Cello and Viola da Gamba Bow Technique and Style from 1600–1750." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1627667722072256.

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Morris, Geraldine. "A network of styles : discovering the choreographed movement of Frederick Ashton (1904-1988)." Thesis, Roehampton University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326826.

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Chan, Kam-wing Philip. "The stylistic analysis of literary language in relation to English teaching in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1987. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31948935.

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Brown, Tamara. "On a women's language." PDXScholar, 1990. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3995.

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Assessing the feminist belief that women have a perspective dramatically differing from the patriarchal perspective, and that this viewpoint is, or could be, couched in a language differing from the norm, this researcher addressed the following three questions: (1) is there a definition of a women's language? (2) does a women's language exist? and (3) if a women's language does exist, in what form does it exist? These questions engendered feminist rhetorical criticism on the work of two radical feminists well known for their interest in, and attention to, the issue of a women's language.

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Cui, Yan. "The style of Lao She and modern Chinese : a study of Lao She's literary language in his fictional works." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2009. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29580/.

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The works of Lao She have inspired many people from all over the world to carry out research into different aspects of his life. However, to date, the study of Lao She's literary language has been largely neglected in comparison to the large volume of work that has been dedicated to other aspects of his writings, so there are still gaps in the study of his literary language. This present research provides a detailed analysis of the nature and development of Lao She's literary language style, and of the unique linguistic characteristics of his works over the thirty-seven year period of his writing career. The distinctive features of the literary language he used in his novels are identified and classified in the following categories through a thorough investigation based on a large amount of selected language data. These are the usage of (1) spoken language, (2) the Beijing dialect, (3) classical Chinese and written language, (4) English and unconventional language phenomena and (5) his distinctive modes of expression, on which no previous research has been carried out. In addition, this research also provides evidence of the development of Lao She's literary language through different historical periods by using charts and statistics which have been produced by the present writer. Lao She's literary language developed with the changes in society around him in China. The pattern of this development reflects the reality of modem Chinese language development: from classical Chinese to the vernacular, and then to the normalised Chinese common language. The Beijing dialect in Lao She's works is not solely the property of the Beijing citizens in the stories. From the usage of classical words to lexical items of written language, Lao She had his own theories on which he based his choice of words. He always consciously used his literary language in order to widen his readership. He regarded the adoption of a foreign language style in the modem Chinese written system as a way of helping the development of the Chinese language. The proof of this lies in the discovery of a large amount of language data which has an English language style and the lexical items which cannot be found in Chinese dictionaries.

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Hamel, Sébastien. "La rhétorique de l'extrême chez Anne Hébert /." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26736.

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The goal of this thesis is to shed light upon a particular style of writing, namely the rhetoric of the extreme, which characterizes the oeuvre of Anne Hebert. Many facets of this rhetoric are reflected in her work: the use of words referring explicitly to the notion of the extreme ("toujours", "jamais", etc.); formation of isotopies (extreme wealth or extreme poverty); dualistic themes; ethical polarisation; the elaboration of strongly contrasting characters (Bernard and Heloise in the novel Heloise); and the use of the trope which unifies two extremes: the oxymoron.
Rhetoric, in the modern sense of the word (following the work of the Groupe Mu, Gerard Genette and Roland Barthes) enables, on the one hand, a lexical analysis of the vocabulary of the extreme (such as "toujours", "rien", "pas un", etc.), and on the other, through the character analysis of Elisabeth Rolland, heroine of Kamouraska, renders the repeated use of the oxymoron meaningful.
Finally, the adoption of a holistic viewpoint highlights an evolution in her style. Given the possible juxtapositions inherent in a Manichean universe (opposition in her earliest and latest works, union in her three novels from the 1970s), two different worldviews are revealed which correspond, for the author, to two stylistic modes.

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Roy, Alain. "L'écriture minimaliste; suivi de Journée programmée." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59429.

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This master's thesis in creative writing is divided into two parts. The first constitutes a critical analysis of "minimalist" writing, a term which has been used to describe the work of certain contemporary American writers but which might equally be applied to a portion of the world literature. This literary form has two fundamental characteristics from an aesthetic point of view: brevity and realism. In fact, it could be defined as the short story taken to its ultimate expression. Furthermore, it represents one of two poles by which we can evaluate all literature. The second part of the thesis is a collection of short stories which embody the minimalist aesthetic with everyday life and relationships between couples as their central theme.

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Knapper, Daniel. "The Tongue of Angels: Pauline Style and Renaissance English Literature." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1574171968581074.

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Masters, Benjamin Scott. "The ethics of excess : style and morality in British fiction since the 1960s." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648740.

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Brams, Janis A. "Writing and the unconscious." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/409.

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Allan, Stu. "Passive be damned : the construction that wouldn't be beaten : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Linguistics at the University of Canterbury /." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2265.

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This thesis brings together two different lines of research, the nature of passive voice, the nature of readability. Commonly, languages have a range of tools for detransitivisation, topicalisation, and impersonalisation, of which passivisation is one (Givón, 1981). Passives have important roles in our language, and prescribing against their use lacks a full understanding of these roles. Much of the concern around passives from writers, editors, and teachers is no more than folklore that has not clearly analysed various writing and reading problems. Many awkward sentences are not awkward because they use passives but because they are wordy, clumsy, or pretentious. Most criticisms have little basis in linguistic theory, and rarely is there more than passing mention of the important role that passives play in communication. Some uses of passives are inappropriate, being vague, ambiguous, or even deceitful. These inappropriate uses of passive voice give the construction a bad name. They have become ammunition for prescriptive grammarians to fire at all uses of passives, often with weak analysis and minimal reference to linguistic theory. ‘Avoid passives’ has become a mantra. I tentatively suggest that there is unlikely to be a cost to processing passives. Given the speed at which the brain processes clauses, any differences in readability (if they exist) must be miniscule. Consequently, I suggest that any differences are unimportant relative to the benefits that appropriately used passives bring to readability. Furthermore, appropriately used passives may actually improve readability, especially when there is greater interest in the passive subject than the active subject, and when the passive serves to connect clauses or sentences.

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