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- Characterization is the musical creation of fictional characters, and it is particularly important for creating multi-dimensional, nuanced characters in opera. However, how do composers characterize roles if the opera does not feature a traditionally linear plot or story? Does opera need a narrative to create characterization? Some may view narrative...
- Keyword:
- music, narrative, opera, composition, characterization, and chamber opera
- Subject:
- Music
- Creator:
- Liza Sobel Crane
- Owner:
- Liza Anna Sobel
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/24/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-05-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and In The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, Paul A. Roth resolves disputes persisting since the nineteenth century about the scientific status of history. He does this by showing why historical explanations must take the form of a narrative, making their logic explicit, and revealing how the rational evaluation of narrative explanation becomes possible. Roth...
- Keyword:
- historiography, science, history, narrative, metaphysics, epistemology, naturalism, and theory change
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Roth, Paul A.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/20/2023
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4088-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4087-5, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4089-9
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- This dissertation casts an aesthetic light on a selection of polyphonic novels from the Francophone contemporary canon. From the forms of feminism around the prophet of islam in Far from Madina by Assia Djebar, to the multiple voices of Créolité in Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau, to the forms of...
- Keyword:
- francophone, postcolonial, narrative, feminism, politics, and islam
- Subject:
- French and Italian
- Creator:
- Emilie Marie-Louise Cappella
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Scholarly inquiry has yielded a wealth of evidence in support of narrative-based strategies for persuasion, and yet support for this approach is less consistent in relation to contentious or controversial issues. To better understand why this might be the case, the first part of this dissertation reports a theoretically-guided content...
- Keyword:
- media effects, narrative, abortion, message format, narrative persuasion, and persuasion
- Subject:
- Mass communication and Communication
- Creator:
- Brooks, John Jennings
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1013586 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16755
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- “Speculative Justice” asks how U.S. terrorism cases with numerous indicators of entrapment prevail in federal court despite case law designed to prevent these very policing practices. Drawing on a combination of two case studies, an original archive of digital court filings from over 250 defendants, and a collection of over...
- Keyword:
- entrapment, narrative, culture, preventative policing, terrorism, and law
- Subject:
- Criminology and Sociology
- Creator:
- Degenshein, Anya
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_685823 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14816
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- Children acquire linguistic competence via social interactions with adults and learn to converse in accordance with the norms of their communities. The present dissertation examined the communicative patterns of Thai-English bilingual mothers and children in their two languages, as well as compared the bilinguals’ conversations to each of their monolingual...
- Keyword:
- parent-child interactions, narrative, bilingualism, cross-cultural, cross-linguistic, and language development
- Subject:
- Developmental psychology and Communication
- Creator:
- Rochanavibhata, Sirada
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_900936 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16044