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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film

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The article was published on 1980-05-31 and is currently open access. It has received 1885 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative structure & Narrative criticism.

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Narratives of personal experience: The construction of identity in Basotho accordion songs

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the Basotho accordion songs of the Lesotho people as small narratives of self-identity, which are constructions of the way the singers think of and experience themselves as Basothob, of their home country, Lesothotho.
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Cosmology and Eschatology in Hebrews: The Settings of the Sacrifice

TL;DR: In this article, the quest for the historical Hebrews and the rhetorical strategy of Hebrews are discussed in Hebrews Part I and Part II, respectively, and the settings in time and space are discussed.

A study of the representation of marriage and the family in the film Muriel's wedding

Zoe Chambers
TL;DR: The authors examined the re-evaluation of the nuclear family through a close analysis of the film Muriel's Wedding (1994), in an attempt to understand how the discourses of gender and nationalism intersect with those of marriage and family.
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A Problem Aired: Exploring Radio Therapeutic Discourse and Ethical Self-Formation

TL;DR: It is argued that psychotherapeutic practices tend to escape the problem of power and following a review of psychotherapy 'process' research, a Foucauldian theoretical framework is presented drawing upon Foucault's account of ethics (1992) as providing a means to understand the counselling process as discursive and the operation of power in relation to regulatory practices of the self.
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Theories that narrate the world: Ronald A. Fisher's mass selection and Sewall Wright's shifting balance.

TL;DR: It is argued that some theories have narratives as essential components, and that narratives function as integrative devices of the mathematical components of theories.