MASTER LECTURE 1/5 What Makes A Short Story A Short Story? Dr. Rica Bolipata-Santos June 30‚ 2014 Structure of Lecture - Definitions - Conflict - Blowfish Definitions "Defining is never a complete process." SHORT STORY - Mac dictionary: a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel - Merriam-Webster: an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often
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Matheson I S S U E S IN CULTURAL AND MEDIA STUDIES S E R I E S E D I T O R : S T U A R T A L L A N Media Discourses Analysing Media Texts Some of the most important questions regarding the relationship between media and culture are about communication. How are the meanings which make up a culture shared in society? How is power performed in the media? What identities and relationships take shape there? Media Discourses introduces readers to discourse analysis to show how media communication
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Narrative Strategies and Chronotope of Violence in Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun By Ayodabo J. Sunday Department of English‚ Elizade University‚ Ilara-Mokin‚ Ondo State‚ Nigeria Introduction As an event in a specific time and history‚ the exploration of the Nigerian civil war as a theme in fiction returns us to the focus on memory and its connection to narrative forms. The war happened in 1967-1970 when the South Eastern states‚ led by Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
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Wodak-3795-Ch-01:Wodak-3795-Ch-01.QXP 9/29/2008 4:29 PM Page 1 1 Critical Discourse Analysis: History‚ Agenda‚ Theory‚ and Methodology1 Ruth Wodak and Michael Meyer CDA – What is it all about? A brief history of the ‘CDA Group’ The common ground: discourse‚ critique‚ power and ideology Main research agenda and challenges Differences and similarities – beyond the social dimension Methodology Summary and criticism 1 3 4 11 19 23 32 CDA – What is it all about? In this chapter
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(1995): Media Discourse Feuer‚ Jane (1992): ’Genre study and television ’. In Robert C Allen (Ed.): Channels of Discourse‚ Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism Fiske‚ John (1987): Television Culture. London: Routledge (Chapter 7: ’Intertextuality ’) Fowler‚ Alastair (1982): Kinds of Literature Fowler‚ Alastair (1989): ’Genre ’. In Erik Barnouw (Ed.): International Encyclopedia of Communications‚ Vol. 2. New York: Oxford University Press‚ pp. 215-7 Freedman‚ Aviva & Peter Medway (Eds.)
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Heroes and Villains in Postmodernism The perfect (maybe) word to write about in Urban Dictionary because everything you say about it is encompassed by it. So if I were to say that Postmodernism is a goat‚ I am of course‚ right (left). If I say that Postmodernism is an art movement based on the unsurity of a declining art market of the 90 ’s‚ I ’d be correct (whatever that means). Eat your Captain Crunch‚ look at a Madonna video and drink a glass of Tang. Reality is media. Reality is simulation.
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Corporate Communications: An International Journal Emerald Article: Challenges in collaborative writing in the contemporary corporation Kerryn Colen‚ Roslyn Petelin Article information: To cite this document: Kerryn Colen‚ Roslyn Petelin‚ (2004)‚"Challenges in collaborative writing in the contemporary corporation"‚ Corporate Communications: An International Journal‚ Vol. 9 Iss: 2 pp. 136 - 145 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13563280410534339 Downloaded on: 29-09-2012
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systematically. Metafiction is dealing with how fiction is produced. Something textual – it’s not an essence‚ constructed and divided. The distinction between fiction and metafiction is blurred. The fictionality of the world is questioned. Intertextuality becomes also important – allusions to other authors. The language citations are used and show how constructed and how artificial English literature is. It is called in the post-modernist era (Linda Hutcheon)‚ a parody = referring to the past with
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THE NARRATIVE RESEARCH METHOD The use of narrative research in IS has been limited although there have been some recent publications (Alvarez & Urla‚ 2002; Davidson‚ 1997; Dube & Robey‚ 1999‚ Hirschheim & Newman‚ 1991). Table 2 lists some of these studies. However‚ the clear understanding of how to conduct‚ interpret and describe narrative research in the context of information systems does not exist and is being provided in this paper. Here‚ we explain the theoretical foundations and
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TEXT‚ PERFORMANCE AND FILM: AN INTERMEDIAL READING OF ANTUNES FILHO´S THRONE OF BLOOD/MACBETH Liana de Camargo Leâo (UFPR) Mail Marques de Azevedo (UNIANDRADE) “Shakespeare´s plays‚ with their inherently flexible structure and openness of style‚ positively invite distinctive re-interpretation on performance.” John Russell Brown Throne of Blood/Macbeth‚ the title of Brazilian director Antunes Filho´s staging of the Shakespearean tragedy‚ refers explicitly to Akira Kurosawa´s film‚
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