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A Contrastive Analysis of the Verbal Group Structures of English and Urhobo
Contrastive analysis (CA) is used in the study of language as a method of explaining why some features of a target language are more difficult to...
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Extrapolation and Social Reproduction: Anne Charnock’s Dreams Before the Start of Time and Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps
This chapter explores the use of narrative extrapolation as the world-building method in Anne Charnock’s Dreams Before the Start of Time and Bina...
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Relational Authority, Jurisdiction, and the captatio benevolentiae as Metanarrative Device in Fictions by Gautier, Poe, Wilde, Kafka, and Borges
In short stories by T. Gautier, E. A. Poe, O. Wilde, F. Kafka, and J. L. Borges, the captatio benevolentiae is a key element in a rhetorical...
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Confronting Otherness: The Built Environments in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Shadows of the Apt
Confronting the unfamiliar is a common theme in the fantasy fiction genre. British author Adrian Tchaikovsky underlines this theme in his ten-book...
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A Structural Approach to Photographers’ Memoirs
Now is the time to consider the nature of the semantic interaction between a text and photographs in an autobiographical context, and more...
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Crime for a Higher Cause: The Baader Meinhof Complex and The Left Wing Gang
The purpose of this chapter is to examine the politics of narrating the ultra-radical legacy from 1968. The juxtaposition of the German film The...
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Methodologies: Working with Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts
The methodologies students and scholars can use when working with early modern women’s manuscripts are multiple. Insights can be gained from applying...
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Scissors and Glue: Material Writing Dynamics
When Anzaldúa was writing in the 1970s and 1980s, she cut and pasted the pages she had written and distributed them in the room, lining them up all...
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Information Synthesis of Time-Geometry QCurve for Music Retrieval
We expand information segmentation to include additional properties of music geometry. We establish a distinct metric for invariant chord structure...
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Introduction
This chapter presents narrative time, point of view, and narrative structure as the theoretical framework for analyzing the change of narrative modes...
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Cycling and Narrative Structure: H. G. Wells’s The Wheels of Chance and Maurice Leblanc’s Voici des ailes
Through a parallel analysis of two seminal texts in turn-of-the-century cycling literature from each side of the Channel, this article explores how...
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‘The Open’: Hardy and Jefferies
In his spiritual biography, The Story of My Heart (1883), Richard Jefferies seeks to defeat the time of writing, to transcend the spiritual instant,...
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Hemingway in Translation
The chapter performs a qualitative analysis of a group of Polish student translations of the opening passage from Hemingway’s “Cat in the rain” in an...
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Locating the World in the Prose Poems of Peter Riley
This essay discusses the plural significations of the category of the “world” in the prose poems of Peter Riley, namely, Excavations (1995–2004) and...
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The Echo of a Morning Song: The Biarkamál Fragments in Bertel Christian Sandvig’s Danish Songs from the Oldest Times (1779)
Andreas Hjort Møller’s chapter focuses on the translations from Icelandic manuscripts, by the Dane Bertel Christian Sandvig, of skaldic songs...
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God Help the Child: Morrison’s Coming Full Circle
Discussion of Morrison’s last novel, God Help the Child in relation to her oeuvre and particularly to her first book, The Bluest Eye. Issues of...
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A Few Green Leaves: Looking to the Future
A Few Green Leaves, published posthumously in 1980, was the only novel written after Pym’s return to the publishing world in 1977. In it, Pym very...
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Fractal Narrative and Chaos Theory: The Formal and Thematic Paradox of Escapism
This chapter examines the tension between escapist melancholia, on the one hand, and how avant-pulp narrative, on the other, confronts the realities...
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Character Shifts in Harry Potter Fanfiction
In fanfictions, authors can explore the fictitious universe of a fandom without restricting themselves to its canonical rules and orders. These...
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The Political Dimension of Literary Criticism
This chapter sums up a threefold meaning of the concept of politics for classical Marxist writers which are intrinsically unified in historical...