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Pritchard, Gregory R., and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Econstruction: The nature/culture opposition in texts about whales and whaling." Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2004. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050826.111722.

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A perceived opposition between 'culture' and 'nature', presented as a dominant, biased and antagonistic relationship, is engrained in the language of Western culture. This opposition is reflected in, and adversely influences, our treatment of the ecosphere. I argue that through the study of literature, we can deconstruct this opposition and that such an ‘ecocritical’ operation is imperative if we are to avoid environmental catastrophe. I examine the way language influences our relationship with the world and trace the historical conception of ‘nature’ and its influence on the English language. The whale is, for many people, an important symbol of the natural world, and human interaction with these animals is an indication of our attitudes to the natural world in general. By focusing on whale texts (including older narratives, whaling books, novels and other whale-related texts), I explore the portrayal of whales and the natural world. Lastly, I suggest that Schopenhaurean thought, which has affinities in Moby-Dick, offers a cogent approach to ecocritically reading literature.
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Dionne, Lee Elton. "Situating the cetacean: Science and storytelling in Witi Ihimaera's The whale rider." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2883.

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Paddock, Alexandra Angharad. "Beastly spaces : geomorphism in the literary depiction of animals." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:117bf706-74c4-4682-8ecb-36bc1af34562.

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In 2010, Simon Estok observed that, "the most immediate question ecocriticism can ask is about how our assumptions about animals affect the natural environment". In this thesis, I respond to this challenge by generating a sustained conversation between the hitherto surprisingly distinct fields of animal studies and ecocriticism. I do this by formulating a new critical concept, that of the geomorphic animal, which I use to show how literary representations of animals often expose the many complex ways in which they constitute space rather than simply inhabiting it. This, in turn, should make them central to future ecocritical readings. I focus on two periods, medieval and modern; the broad historical and generic scope of this thesis is intended to demonstrate the conceptual validity and robustness of geomorphic readings. Chapter One shows how concerns with death and symbiosis are expressed through the earth-bound activities of the geomorphic animals of the Exeter Book riddles. Chapter Two examines geomorphic whales in texts deriving from two related traditions: the Book of Jonah and the Physiologus. Chapters Three and Four focus on modern theatre, which affords distinctive ways of articulating the spatial implications of geomorphism. Chapter Three discusses the literary representation of museums and zoos in terms of the interpretative complexities generated by staging and spectacle. Chapter Four, focusing on mediation, discusses the interplay between animals, viewpoints and place in theatre, also taking into account particular issues arising from the adaptation of plays into films. This argument paves the way to addressing the geomorphic depiction of marginalised humans and human groups, suggesting the critical potential of geomorphism as a means of furthering feminist and post-colonialist aims.
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Shaffer, Erin Louise. "WHAT'S MISSED: POEMS." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1058649471.

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Silberblatt, Renata Perri. "What's Really in Alaska?" Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1411390276.

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Levitsky, Zhana. "The Rocket and the Whale: A Critical Study of Pynchon’s Use of Melville." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:24078356.

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Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow are two American novels that intersect stylistically and thematically. This thesis argues that Pynchon’s novel mirrors and reinvents Melville’s novel. Gravity’s Rainbow is not simply engaging with Moby-Dick, but actively reprising it for the late 20th century through the power of Pynchon’s imagination. Pynchon responds to and reimagines Melville’s book by mirroring major themes and frameworks from Melville, by adopting some of his central images, and by mirroring his profuse use of technical language to express coded spiritual beliefs and deepening character analysis. The sublime white whale is reinvented as the Schwarzgerät, a German V2 rocket loaded with the mysterious polymer Imipolex G; this profound object stands symbolically at the center of the novel much as the whale, Moby Dick, does in Melville’s opus. The monstrous “grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air” (Melville 7) is re-forged as the “white finality” looming “up in the zero sky” (Pynchon 85, 87). Beyond the functions of the novels’ sublime central images, both novels are here recognized as relying on coded technical, specialist language to express metaphysical beliefs. Throughout each novel, the technical language codes the ineffable and the transcendent, allowing for an entry point to understand the functions of symbolic material. Gravity’s Rainbow echoes Moby Dick’s stylistic structure, which is vast and loose. Very few novels are identified from the world’s literary canon as “encyclopedic,” and the two here discussed are the only examples from American literature, according to Edward Mendelson’s “Encyclopedic Narrative” hypothesis, which is supported by literary critic Andrzej Kopcewicz. It is the similarities in the unconventional, encyclopedic literary style of Moby-Dick and Gravity’s Rainbow that offers one of the strongest arguments for their resonant kinship. I use the work of Lawrence Buell to deepen and critically engage the material; I also engage with the critical work of several other prominent scholars. The metaphors from science extend to the color theory at work in the main symbols present, which are white or suffused with light, such as the whale, rocket, doubloon and light bulb. This thesis argues that light and whiteness as characteristics of the symbolic objects represent evil, malignity or another dark force. I show that the color theory that ties the books together has its main genesis, for both Melville and Pynchon, in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Theory of Colors.
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Jones, Susanne Lenné. "What’s in a Frame?: Photography, Memory, and History in Contemporary German Literature." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1132239561.

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Jones, Susanne Lenné. "What's in a frame? photography, memory, and history in contemporary german literature /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1132239561.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Cincinnati, 2005.
Advisor: Katharina Gerstenberger. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed April 22, 2009). Keywords: Photography; Memory; History; Holocaust; German literature; Jewish; fact; fiction; Sebald; Maron; Liebmann. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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ANDRADE, NATALIA FRANCIS DE. "WRITING A WHALE, DRAWING A BLANK SPACE: THE REINVENTED DIALOGUE BETWEEN LITERATURE, COMICS AND EDITORIAL MARKET." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2015. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=29519@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
Enquanto muitas histórias em quadrinhos foram e são produzidas em escala industrial ou sem grandes pretensões de se perpetuarem, estas convivem, hoje,com outros tipos de iniciativa. Na contramão do que tem acontecido com aquilo que tradicionalmente se convencionou como literário, é no deslocamento cada vez mais frequente para o formato livro que as práticas dos quadrinhos têm se reinventado, especialmente em narrativas mais longas e voltadas ao público adulto. Esta dissertação toma como objeto as HQs Cachalote e Campo em Branco. Frutos de parcerias entre escritores e quadrinistas, elas foram produzidas pela RT Features e editadas pelo selo Quadrinhos na Cia., da Companhia das Letras. Partindo da análise das especificidades de produção e criação dessas obras, busca-se compreender o surgimento de novas nuances tanto nas relações entre o verbal e o visual quanto nas relações entre o literário, o editorial e o midiático. Problematiza-se, também, quais terminologias são mais adequadas a esses objetos e de que forma elas podem ou não aludir a antigas questões de hierarquias entre produtos culturais. Questiona-se que sentidos ganha, em plena era digital, marcada pela onipresença de imagens, o gesto de optar por contar histórias que recorrem ao manual e ao traço estilizado. Investiga-se a dinâmica horizontal de criação a quatro mãos e o empenho conjunto dos autores para evitar a mera repetição do sucesso das gerações anteriores, seja no campo da literatura, seja no campo dos gêneros gráficos. E, enfim, para expandirem os limites do diálogo natural entre estas duas linguagens.
While many comics were and still are produced, either on an industrial scale, or without great pretension to perpetuate, they coexist today with other types of initiative. In opposition to the current arrangements that involve what is usually called literary, comics, in their own way, have been reinvented by their increased displacement to book format, especially on longer narratives aiming adult audience. This dissertation takes as an object of discussion two graphic novels: Cachalote e Campo em Branco. As a result of partnerships between writer and cartoonist, they were produced by RT Features and edited by the label Quadrinhos na Cia. from Companhia das Letras. Starting from the analysis of specificity in production as well as in creation of these works, it is sought to understand the emergence of new shadings in the relations between the verbal and the visual, so much for in the links between the literary, editorial and media. In addition, we discuss of which terminologies are more suitable to these objects and in which way they may or may not allude to long-established issues of hierarchy among cultural products. In the midst of the digital era, marked by the omnipresence of images, we also wonder about what sense it grasps within the gesture of opting for narratives, that call upon manual and authorship trace. Furthermore, we investigate the horizontal dynamics of shared creation and the authors combined effort to avoid the simply-repeated success of previous generations, either in the field of literature, or in the field of graphic genres. Finally, there is an effort in the way the authors bring to new limits the natural dialogue between these two languages.
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Readman, Mark. "What's in a word? : the discursive construction of 'creativity'." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2010. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/17755/.

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This work begins with the idea that creativity is a problematic concept generally and in education particularly. I argue that it is necessary to shed a belief in an ʻessenceʼ of creativity in order to understand how knowledge about creativity is produced. In a review of different approaches to creativity I identify the ways in which ʻtruth effectsʼ are produced in scientific and popular texts. Of particular interest here are approaches and assumptions (expressed through language and operations) in the domains of psychology, education and the arts. A post structuralist analytical methodology, drawing particularly on Foucaultʼs work, is justified in relation to the significance of concepts such as discourse, ideology, rhetoric and myth which, I argue, are crucial in understanding how creativity is made meaningful. The primary analysis is of key documents from the last decade which have sought to inform education policy on creativity: All our futures (NACCCE 1999); Creativity: Find it, promote it (QCA 2004); Nurturing creativity in young people (Roberts 2006); Learning: Creative approaches that raise standards (Ofsted 2010a). Attention is given to the discursive processes of authorising particular models of creativity in these documents, the ways in which tensions and contradictions are dealt with and the implications for ʻcreativityʼ in education. An explicitly reflective mode is adopted where appropriate, in order to highlight my epistemological development during the course of the research. This takes the form of ʻinterruptionsʼ between chapters. I argue, ultimately, that there is a case for only operating with the term ʻcreativityʼ in a reflexive, meta-discursive way and that this is a particular necessity in education.
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Rupert, John. ""Notations of process of mind" in American poetry since 1945: Readings in Creeley, Whalen, Kerouac, and Ginsberg." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ28373.pdf.

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Cohenour, Gretchen M. "Eighteenth-century Gothic novels and gendered spaces : what's left to say? /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2008. http://0-digitalcommons.uri.edu.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3314452.

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Harris, Katherine. "I Know Him Not, and Never Will: Moby Dick, The Human and the Whale." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33711.

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In this thesis, I argue that Herman Melville's Moby Dick depicts the ocean and whales in a way that develops aesthetic theory into a proto-environmentalist message. Melville draws on theories of the mathematical and dynamic sublime as outlined by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant, while also employing Goethe's Theory of Colours in his depictions of the ocean setting. Goethe posits that opposing phenomena require one another to signify and to function, and Melville dramatises this idea throughout a complex and often self-contradictory novel. Moby Dick depicts whale hunting in a paradoxical, unstable way which both defends the practice and highlights its cruel nature. In considering this, I trace how depictions and cultural representations of whales have changed over time, shifting from the whale as icon of the monstrously non-human to the whale as touchstone for environmental humanism. Melville, despite the image of Moby Dick as a monster, also portrays whales in a way which humanises them and allows the reader to empathise with them, so allowing for a counter discourse against whaling to emerge. The industrial consumption of marine animals is highlighted in Moby Dick, as Melville notes the various ways in which whales and similar creatures are used for food and other products. Unscrupulous methods of acquiring resources are paid particular attention in the chapter, ‘Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish,' which I use as a guide to the contradictory ideologies at the heart of the text. I argue that the aesthetic theory embedded in the novel enables a nascent environmentalist consciousness, and I place such moments in dialogue with more recent accounts of whales and work from the field of the oceanic humanities.
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Prosch, Tina Marie. "Incorporating environmental education into the curriculum through the use of children's literature." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1263.

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au, N. Sidebotham@murdoch edu, and Naomi Sidebotham. ""The white man never wanna hear nothin about what's different from him": Representations of Laws 'Other' in Australian Literature." Murdoch University, 2009. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20090318.172325.

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Law controls our everyday. It regulates our lives. It tells us what is and is not acceptable behaviour, it confers and protects our rights, and it punishes us for our indiscretions. But law does much more than this. It creates normative standards which shape the way people are treated and the way that we relate to each other and to society generally. The law defines people. It constructs identity. And it creates the ‘other’. This is a legacy of positivism’s insistence on identifying that which is ‘inside’ law, and so accorded legitimacy, and that which is not. That which does not conform to law’s constructed standards and values is identified as ‘other’ and marginalised and silenced. In this thesis, I demonstrate the way that the law constructs ‘other’, in particular, the Aboriginal ‘other’. I consider the way that Aborigines have been defined by the law to show the consequences that this has had for Aboriginal people beyond the purely legal. I argue that law’s construction of Aboriginality has contributed to the marginalisation of Aboriginal people and their exclusion from many aspects of the legal and the social, and that it has silenced them within the dominant domain, denying them the ability to challenge the wrongs perpetrated against them. I examine these issues through the medium of literature. I argue that literature’s contribution to exposing, critiquing and challenging law’s construction of ‘other’ is invaluable. It informs the reader about the way that the law has treated Aboriginal people and, more generally, about the structures and limitations of our positivist legal system. It thereby contributes to the community’s perception and understanding of the way the law works, and the impact that it has on the lives of its subjects. Perhaps most importantly, it also educates towards social change and reform.
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Sidebotham, Naomi. "The white man never wanna hear nothin about what's different from him: representations of laws 'other' in Australian literature." Thesis, Sidebotham, Naomi (2009) The white man never wanna hear nothin about what's different from him: representations of laws 'other' in Australian literature. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2009. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/465/.

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Law controls our everyday. It regulates our lives. It tells us what is and is not acceptable behaviour, it confers and protects our rights, and it punishes us for our indiscretions. But law does much more than this. It creates normative standards which shape the way people are treated and the way that we relate to each other and to society generally. The law defines people. It constructs identity. And it creates the 'other'. This is a legacy of positivism's insistence on identifying that which is 'inside' law, and so accorded legitimacy, and that which is not. That which does not conform to law's constructed standards and values is identified as 'other' and marginalised and silenced. In this thesis, I demonstrate the way that the law constructs 'other', in particular, the Aboriginal 'other'. I consider the way that Aborigines have been defined by the law to show the consequences that this has had for Aboriginal people beyond the purely legal. I argue that law's construction of Aboriginality has contributed to the marginalisation of Aboriginal people and their exclusion from many aspects of the legal and the social, and that it has silenced them within the dominant domain, denying them the ability to challenge the wrongs perpetrated against them. I examine these issues through the medium of literature. I argue that literature's contribution to exposing, critiquing and challenging law's construction of 'other' is invaluable. It informs the reader about the way that the law has treated Aboriginal people and, more generally, about the structures and limitations of our positivist legal system. It thereby contributes to the community's perception and understanding of the way the law works, and the impact that it has on the lives of its subjects. Perhaps most importantly, it also educates towards social change and reform.
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Sidebotham, Naomi. "The white man never wanna hear nothin about what's different from him: representations of laws 'other' in Australian literature." Sidebotham, Naomi (2009) The white man never wanna hear nothin about what's different from him: representations of laws 'other' in Australian literature. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2009. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/465/.

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Law controls our everyday. It regulates our lives. It tells us what is and is not acceptable behaviour, it confers and protects our rights, and it punishes us for our indiscretions. But law does much more than this. It creates normative standards which shape the way people are treated and the way that we relate to each other and to society generally. The law defines people. It constructs identity. And it creates the 'other'. This is a legacy of positivism's insistence on identifying that which is 'inside' law, and so accorded legitimacy, and that which is not. That which does not conform to law's constructed standards and values is identified as 'other' and marginalised and silenced. In this thesis, I demonstrate the way that the law constructs 'other', in particular, the Aboriginal 'other'. I consider the way that Aborigines have been defined by the law to show the consequences that this has had for Aboriginal people beyond the purely legal. I argue that law's construction of Aboriginality has contributed to the marginalisation of Aboriginal people and their exclusion from many aspects of the legal and the social, and that it has silenced them within the dominant domain, denying them the ability to challenge the wrongs perpetrated against them. I examine these issues through the medium of literature. I argue that literature's contribution to exposing, critiquing and challenging law's construction of 'other' is invaluable. It informs the reader about the way that the law has treated Aboriginal people and, more generally, about the structures and limitations of our positivist legal system. It thereby contributes to the community's perception and understanding of the way the law works, and the impact that it has on the lives of its subjects. Perhaps most importantly, it also educates towards social change and reform.
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Sidebotham, Naomi. ""The white man never wanna hear nothin about what's different from him" : representations of law's 'other' in Australian literature /." Murdoch University Digital Theses Program, 2009. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20090318.172325.

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Heraud, Abby R. "What's cooking in the androgynous kitchen : gender & performance in Anna Gavalda's Ensemble c'est tout." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/2349.

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Banks, Joyce M. "Books in syllabic characters printed for the use of the Church Missionary Society among the Cree, Saulteaux, Slave and Tukudh Indians and the Eskimos of Little Whale River in the diocese of Rupert's Land : 1852-1872." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252138.

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Bertoncini-Zúbková, Elena. "What's wrong with the Marine and the beauty?" Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91034.

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Instead of discussing an outstanding literary work by a well-known Swahili writer, this time I would like to present a second- or third-rate book by a renownless author (at least to my knowledge), Gilbert Gicaru Githere.2 Its title is Mwana Maji na Mrembo (The Marine and the beauty). It was published in 1990 by an otherwise unknown publishing house, Merengo Publishers, and printed in Hawaii. I have chosen this book because, in spite of its many flaws, it has some interesting features: The whole novel is written almost as a film script; descriptions of actions and landscapes are film-like, and the characters are seen as if they were on the screen. The problem is that this narrative technique does not work, so I want to analyse what is wrong with it.
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Hanson, Lisa B. "DOMINICK ARGENTO'S JONAH AND THE WHALE : A STUDY OF THE ORATORIO AND COMPARISON TO REPRESENTATIVE TWENTIETH-CENTURY ORATORIOS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin990819616.

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Bertoncini-Zúbková, Elena. "What's wrong with the Marine and the beauty?" Swahili Forum 15 (2008), S. 15-23, 2008. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11493.

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Instead of discussing an outstanding literary work by a well-known Swahili writer, this time I would like to present a second- or third-rate book by a renownless author (at least to my knowledge), Gilbert Gicaru Githere.2 Its title is Mwana Maji na Mrembo (The Marine and the beauty). It was published in 1990 by an otherwise unknown publishing house, Merengo Publishers, and printed in Hawaii. I have chosen this book because, in spite of its many flaws, it has some interesting features: The whole novel is written almost as a film script; descriptions of actions and landscapes are film-like, and the characters are seen as if they were on the screen. The problem is that this narrative technique does not work, so I want to analyse what is wrong with it.
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Smyth, Karen Elizabeth. ""What's a Nice Mormon Girl Like You Doing Writing about Vampires?": Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" Saga and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626647.

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Wendolowski, Brittany A. "Pushing the Boundaries: Scott Bradfield as a Contemporary Writer." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1452971501.

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Phillips, Nathan C. "Beyond Fidelity: Teaching Film Adaptations in Secondary Schools." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1910.pdf.

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Malcolm-Buchanan, Vincent Alan. "Fragmentation and Restoration: Generational Legacies of 21st Century Māori." The University of Waikato, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2797.

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The content of this thesis is premised on a reflexive examination of some historical juxtapositions culminating in critical aspects of being Māori in the twenty first century and how such aspects have informed contemporary indigenous identity. That is, the continuing acknowledgement and exponential public recognition of critical concepts which inextricably link indigenous and civic identity. The theoretical sources for this research are, in the main, derived from anthropological and religious studies, particularly on the significance of mythologies and oral histories, as well as from the oral theorising of elders in Aotearoa New Zealand. A very significant contribution from one such elder, a senior Māori woman academic, has been included in the form of the transcript of an interview. She herself had collected the views of a number of elders on myth, creating a rare and valuable resource. In the interview she married her reflections on these with her own experiences and her cogent analyses. From the outset, it was necessary to be discerning so as to ensure the thesis workload was manageable and realistic. For this reason the selected critical aspects that have been used to frame this research are (1) a developing Western validation (that is, acknowledgement and respect) of Māori, Māori culture and their mythology; (2) oral history (genealogy) and traditions that have remained constant despite the influences of modernity; and (3) notions of fluidity, negotiation and pragmatism regarding kinship legacies and cultural heritage. The thesis is comprised of six chapters starting from a subjective narrative leading through increasingly objective discourses that culminate in a conclusion which supports a belief that modern Māori require a balancing of critical aspects of cultural heritage, with a broad understanding of the world of the 'other', in order to realise and develop their contemporary indigenous identity. Ultimately, indigenous ideologies, practices and knowledge recorded and examined in the world of academia today, become potential resources for tomorrow. The intention of this research is to aggregate and discuss intrinsic aspects of the Māori past as well as developing aspects of the present, in order to better understand the significance of the future, and to add to the growing corpus of indigenous worldviews.
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Tio, Poe-chu, and 趙珮孜. "A Study of Taiwanese Poetry in The Whale Of Taiwanese Literature（Issue 1～100）." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27477433338407086506.

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Since the publication in February 2001, through April 2010, the Whale Of Taiwanese Literature has published 100 issues, and 219 authors published a total of 1371 poems. The poems mainly express Taiwan spirits and the care to the society , and describe the land of Taiwan. Therefore this thesis explore the Taiwan spirit and the poets in the magazine through analyzing the texts. The thesis is divided into six chapters as follows: Chapter One：Introduction Chapter Two：The development of the Whale Of Taiwanese Literature and King-an educational organization Chapter Three：Taiwan''s spirits and social care of the Taiwanese Poetry in the Whale Of Taiwanese Literature Chapter Four：Taiwan''s land and feelings to express of the Taiwanese Poetry in the Whale Of Taiwanese Literature Chapter Five：The important poet of the Whale Of Taiwanese Literature Chapter Six：Conclusion
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Míková, Barbora. "Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence through Reading Witi Ihimaera's The Whale Rider." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-388215.

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This thesis concerns the development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) through reading a work of postcolonial literature (The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera, 2005) in an English class. The theoretical part explains notions such as intercultural communicative competence and culture. It also describes the benefits of reading in ELT. The practical part presents a project consisting of altogether twelve lessons dedicated to reading The Whale Rider. The aim of the project is to support the pupils' development of ICC, make them aware of other English-speaking cultures than just the traditionally presented ones and, last but not least, to develop their language skills. The outcome of the project is, besides the expected raised level of ICC, which is, however, hard to measure, a poster about Maori culture realized by the pupils. KEY WORDS intercultural communicative competence, postcolonial literature, reading, English language teaching, The Whale Rider
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Han, Huang Shih, and 黃詩涵. ""Whale Of Taiwanese Literature" in Novels and Literary Theory - formerly in the range of one hundred." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r2nrby.

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國立中正大學
台灣文學研究所
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Since the publication in February 2001, through April 2010, the Whale Of Taiwanese Literature has published 100 issues, The literary journal literature in Taiwan with Taiwan in the context of Philology time silently calm walk over a decade, carrying creators and works very considerable quantity , content whether past tradition and collective creation of praise songs about, or modern poetry , essays, novels , have abundant written more than one hundred first issue is very representative. I will be " Whale Of Taiwanese Literature " in the founding purposes and Taiwan Philology comment Contemplating literature and fiction demands that parts Taiwanese magazines , and literary content and form of the show, highlighting the spiritual qualities of these works .
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Chiang, May-wah, and 江美華. "Taiwanese child poem language characteristic and teaching research---Chooses the poem take "Whale Of Taiwanese Literature" as the example." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39676g.

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國立中山大學
中國文學系研究所
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In the 21st century today, the language was the earth resource already was United Nations''s mutual recognition, in 1999 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) drew up specially, started from 2000, every year February 21 decided as the world mother tongue date,When the various countries complete the protection mother tongue diligently the work, certainly Taiwan is not exceptional, in order to therefore save it to lose, announces “nine year consistent curriculum summaries” according to the Ministry of Education the stipulation, from 2001 the national elementary and middle schools comprehensive implementation “the mother tongue teaching”, stipulated the mother tongue belongs to the language domain teaching scope, every Monday hall class. But, the mother tongue teaching because of factor and so on politics, economy, society, education policy influences, many is only pausing the stage which reads, the writing teaching is being unable continuously the comprehensive impetus; However Taiwanese this language language characteristic, solid suitable poetic composition language application, therefore the present paper takes "Whale Of Taiwanese Literature" in the magazine nan the whelp poem is an example, makes the Taiwanese child poem compared with the adult and the Taiwanese child poem which does with the child, its language use characteristic difference, reorganizes induces in these poetic compositions aspect and so on words and expressions use, content performance and sound rhythm characteristics and the difference point of difference, makes the Taiwanese child poem course content the key suggestion. But this paper chapter arrangement for first chapter in introduction several, instruction booklet this paper motive, value, limit, scope and method. Meets down, the second chapter will carry on the discussion the part will be the so-called literature discussion work. Third chapter, we by 20 Taiwanese Tong Shiwei the text, the adult, child each ten, from the glossary use, the content performance skill and the sound and so on three aspects carry on the analysis. The fourth rules are compare the adult and the child poetic composition difference. Finally in the fifth chapter of conclusion, will summarize the poetic composition characteristic and the difference which front the induction three, four chapter of institutes will discuss, and will coordinate student''s basic capability, proposed will carry on Taiwanese Tong Shi to write the instruction course content to suggest, in the synthesis will be the books paper chapter arrangement.
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Kirillova, Elena. "WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT: TRANSLATING SHORT STORIES FROM OMEDETŌ BY KAWAKAMI HIROMI." 2020. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/930.

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This thesis represents a partial translation of the short story collection Omedetō by Kawakami Hiromi. Published in 2000, the collection contains twelve short stories, each narrating an intimate relationship between two people. It was favorably received by the literary world and was republished twice, in 2003 and 2007. My critical introduction provides context to Omedetō by discussing Kawakami’s biography and writing style, and the book’s reception in Japan. I also make note of my translation methods, domestication and dynamic equivalence, and provide examples of how I translated onomatopoeia. Finally, I give historical background to Japanese intimacy at the turn of the millennium and argue that each story serves as a commentary on Japanese modern intimacy, which Kawakami defines as a combination of physical and emotional closeness or a yearning for such.
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Green, Joe David. "From Nebraska to Whalley Range: reflections on place and identity in music." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/19731.

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