Sökning: "genre studies"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 240 avhandlingar innehållade orden genre studies.
21. La poésie oraculaire de Nostradamus : Langue, style et genre des Centuries
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of the work of Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus). Born in Provence, France in 1503, this true "Renaissance man” (astrologer, doctor of medicine and translator) achieved fame with the publication of his Centuries or “Prophecies”. LÄS MER
22. Gods, Grammars, and Genres : Towards an Ethics of English Studies in Imperial Sovereignty
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, the author argues that the post-process movement towards genre-based writing pedagogies is reproducing the logic of neoliberal or free-market ideology. By analyzing the relationship between three paradigms of sovereignty (feudalism, the nation-state, and globalization) and institutionalized language, the author demonstrates that teaching writing as multiple and genred as opposed to teaching it as a single, abstract skill is no a more rational approach, but rather a differently rational approach. LÄS MER
23. Les langues du roman translingue : Une étude de Nancy Huston, Vassilis Alexakis et Andreï Makine
Sammanfattning : Although literary translingualism, defined as the practice of writing literature in a second language, is by no means new, it is only in the past two decades that a specialized research field has emerged around the phenomenon. Synthesizing recent developments and drawing on several existing research strands, this study sets out to examine translingual writing in French in its contemporary expressions, with a particular focus on the novel. LÄS MER
24. The True Story of Alice B. Toklas : Almost the Same but not Quite/not Straight in the Toklas Autobiographies
Sammanfattning : This study investigates three texts that can be provisionally defined as “Toklas autobiographies,” or inscriptions of “the true story of Alice B. Toklas.” These are Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and The Alice B. LÄS MER
25. Fixed and fluid : Negotiating genre metastability in instructional practice
Sammanfattning : In this compilation licentiate thesis, two studies, concerned with genre and genre-based writing, are synthesized and discussed. Genres are often used as a pedagogical device for teaching the writing of educationally valued texts. LÄS MER