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(In)formal Structure in Wizard of the Crow
In this chapter I show how the arbitrary and capricious force of modernity as it unfolds in the periphery drives the plot of Wizard of the Crow and...
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Structure: John Ashbery’s Improvisatory Architecture
In this chapter, I argue that over-attention to the surfaces of John Ashbery’s poetry has engendered a critical oversight, which fails to account for...
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The Change of Narrative Structure in Chinese Fiction
This chapter discusses the structure development of Chinese fiction by using the tripartite of characterization, plot, and setting. New Fiction...
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Structure
In this chapter, Eastman focuses on the logical, structural relationships that create pieces of storytelling from characters’ individual stories....
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Class and Social Structure: ‘It is not taken seriously’
The question of what was taken ‘seriously’ in war plays was central to the censorship’s consideration of whether they were safe for performance. The...
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Compound Plot and Scenic Structure
The structures of the fictions of the late Qing and the early Republic periods are quite peculiar because of the interaction of the writers’ personal...
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Negotiation between social structure and personal feelings—An inquiry into the covert progressions in Ian McEwan’s Machines like me
This article is an attempt at breaking through the existing pattern of criticism and diverting our attention to the covert narrative dynamic behind...
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Ivan Turgenev’s Poems in Prose and the cycle structure: Russian and French lifetime editions
Ivan Turgenev is the famous Russian writer who actively used his status and contacts for spreading the works of Russian poets and writers in Europe....
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Symmetry as Narrative Structure: OCD in Gottfried Keller’s A Village Romeo and Juliet
This chapter continues the discussion of literature as a source of scientific knowledge, but also as a critique of the historical contingencies of...
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Kuhn, Thomas Samuel: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
In seinem philosophischen Hauptwerk von 1962 entwickelt der amerikanische Wissenschaftshistoriker und Philosoph auf der Grundlage zahlreicher...
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Experiencing Dylan: The Effect of Formal Structure and Performance on the Popularity and Interpretation of Two Dylan Songs
What makes a song popular? The following chapter wishes to shed light on this question by scrutinizing several formal features of popular music which...
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From a political order to a knowledge structure: the influence of western library science on Chinese classical literary system
The classical Chinese literary system owns no independent status because of its affiliation to catalogue books under the dual pressure from politics...
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What is Man: Original Strength and Psychological Structure Revealed by Chinese Genesis Myth
Exploring primitive human prototype can provide us with indigenous cultural wisdom in our pursuit of the question of “what is man?” According to...
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Sacrifice as a Narrative Strategy in May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D.
This book explores sacrifice as a narrative theme and a stylistic strategy in works by May Sinclair, Mary Butts and H. D. It argues that the...
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Parsons, Talcott: The Structure of Social Action
Das 1937 in zwei Bänden erschienene soziologische Werk ist nicht nur eine umfassende Darlegung ökonomischer und soziologischer Klassiker, sondern...
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Perception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy
This book examines Thomas Hardy’s writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, ‘being’, class and environment. It illustrates...
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The Narrative Structure of Diagnosis
This chapter examines the structure of diagnosis and the structure of literary narrative in detective stories; it focuses on the logic of “abduction”...
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Merton, Robert King: Social Theory and Social Structure
In der Aufsatzsammlung, die erstmals 1949, in jeweils erweiterter Fassung 1957 und 1968 publiziert wurde, finden sich Originalbeiträge und bereits...
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Chinese Science Fiction Concepts, Forms, and Histories
This volume brings together emerging approaches and addresses shifting paradigms in Chinese science fiction studies, offering a window on fan...
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Psychology, Torture, Networks: Or, Structure as the Subject of Human Rights
This essay lays out a networked conception of violence and justice work. Locating a prime example of networked culpability for twenty-first-century...