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Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

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Theoretical Schools and Movements: Identity, Identification, and the Subject Theoretical schools and movements as discussed by the authors have a long history in the field of movement theory and movement.
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1. What is theory? 2. What is Literature and Does it Matter? 3. Literature and Cultural Studies 4. Language, Meaning, and Interpretation 5. Rhetoric, Poetics, and Poetry 6. Narrative 7. Performative Language 8. Identity, Identification, and the Subject Theoretical Schools and Movements References Further Reading Index

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Reinterpreting students’ evaluative comments: a reply to basthomi

TL;DR: The authors reinterpreted Basthomi's interpretation of his students' evaluative comments upon his teaching performance and strengthened the presence of intertextuality process in the students' comments since the comments resulted from their previous reading of a large number of different texts, both spoken (the said) and unspoken (the unsaid), provided by the lecturer.

A Festival of Narrative Automata.

TL;DR: In contrast to the cheery hero journeys through depopulated landscapes that long dominated computer games, this work is notably dark, emotionally complex, and introspective.
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The Constructions of Fay Weldon

TL;DR: Weldon's work as mentioned in this paper explores the nullification of "aura" in the age of mechanical reproduction and explores the connections between several kinds of reproduction associated with human gestation, women's bodies and social identities, and language and literature.

Postmodern Doom and Transmetropolitan Redemption

TL;DR: The analysis of the semiotic relationship between the city and the science fiction mode in Transmetropolitan allows first of all for a critical introduction that challenges certain canonical certainties regarding the Science fiction mode as well as the medium of comic books, and lead us to refine our terminology to better distinguish literary genres from narrative modes as mentioned in this paper.
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Ki̇şi̇ adlari üzeri̇ne di̇lbi̇li̇msel bi̇r çalişma (ağri i̇li̇ örneği̇)

TL;DR: In this article, a study was conducted to determine etymologically similarities and differences between the most commonly used person names in the province of Agri and across the country; is to analyze them in terms of linguistic characteristics.
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Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the conflicts of modernity and modernity's relationship with the self in moral space and the providential order of nature, and present a list of the main sources of conflict.
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Course in General Linguistics

TL;DR: This chapter discusses Diachronic Linguistics, a branch of linguistics that focuses on the study of language structure and semantics through the lens of evolutionary psychology.
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Course in General Linguistics

TL;DR: A brief survey of the history of Linguistics can be found in this paper, with a focus on synchronic and diachronic Linguistic information. But it is not a comprehensive survey of all of the major aspects of linguistics.