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Theme (narrative)

About: Theme (narrative) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 13050 publications have been published within this topic receiving 159511 citations. The topic is also known as: narrative theme.


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01 Nov 2003
TL;DR: The authors argued for a classroom culturalist approach to educational development and paid particular attention to issues of gender, the theme of the 2003/04 UN Global Monitoring Report, arguing for a review of the concept of quality in education to embrace classroom and cultural realities.
Abstract: This study contributes to a significant United Nations broad research exercise of over 70 commissioned papers carried out by researchers and institutes from around the world. By drawing upon the author’s funded research into the quality of basic education in a number of countries including South Africa in 2003, Afghanistan in 2001, and Vietnam in 2003, it argues for a review of the concept of quality in education to embrace more centrally classroom and cultural realities. Arguing for a classroom culturalist approach to educational development, the study pays particular attention to issues of gender, the theme of the 2003/04 UN Global Monitoring Report.

28 citations

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01 Apr 1978
TL;DR: A chronological account of "epyllion" in English is given in this article, where Ovid's interweaving of myths in the "Metamorphoses" is described.
Abstract: "Epyllion" is the term coined by modern scholars for a relatively short poem on a mythological theme otherwise appropriate to longer epic. One of its recurrent characteristics is "ekphrasis", the telling of one myth encapsulated within the context of another, and the two thematically or symbolically linked to offer subtle comparison and contrast. The most persistent modes of "ekphrasis" are narrative by a character form, or the description of myth depicted on a work of art used in the context of the "outer" myth. The phenomenon has its origins in Homeric epic (the shield of Achilles) but was refined in the Hellenistic period by Callimachus and Theocritus, and taken up by the neoterics (Catullus 64). Its methods were absorbed back into long epic and form a dominant characteristic of Ovid's interweaving of myths in the "Metamorphoses". This book was originally published in 1931, and presents a chronological account of "epyllion" in English.

28 citations

Book
01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: The linking theme of these essays is modernity, for Woolf was writing in a world radically separated from the old certainties by the catastrophe of World War I as discussed by the authors, and here she provides some responses to what she called "the crowded dance of modern life".
Abstract: The linking theme of these essays is modernity, for Woolf was writing in a world radically separated from the old certainties by the catastrophe of World War I. Here she provides some responses to what she called "the crowded dance of modern life".

28 citations

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01 Nov 2016
TL;DR: This paper used a two-stage decoding process, which proposes new words from the target theme and scores the resulting stories according to a number of factors defining aspects of syntactic, semantic, and thematic coherence.
Abstract: Texts present coherent stories that have a particular theme or overall setting, for example science fiction or western. In this paper, we present a text generation method called {\it rewriting} that edits existing human-authored narratives to change their theme without changing the underlying story. We apply the approach to math word problems, where it might help students stay more engaged by quickly transforming all of their homework assignments to the theme of their favorite movie without changing the math concepts that are being taught. Our rewriting method uses a two-stage decoding process, which proposes new words from the target theme and scores the resulting stories according to a number of factors defining aspects of syntactic, semantic, and thematic coherence. Experiments demonstrate that the final stories typically represent the new theme well while still testing the original math concepts, outperforming a number of baselines. We also release a new dataset of human-authored rewrites of math word problems in several themes.

28 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20221
2021347
2020497
2019509
2018449
2017404