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Narrative Paradigm, 2002.
This paper discusses the theory of narrative paradigm.
1,890 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 41.95
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This discussion focuses on the theory of narrative paradigm looking at
when and why the theory developed and how it has been researched. The author examines the theory in detail, discusses the views of the rational world paradigm, summarizes what scholars believe to be true about the paradigm theory and gives suggestions for future research in this area.
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"The Narrative Paradigm theory was created in the 1970?s by Walter Fisher. (Narrative Paradigm Theory, n.d) Fisher created the theory because he felt that the rational world paradigm did not take into consideration the need for the narrative form of communication. Fisher asserts that the rational world paradigm only took into consideration the argumentative nature of communication a theory that was made famous by philosophers such as Aristotle. (Narrative Paradigm Theory)
Many experts in the field of communications assert that narratives play an important role in communication; Fisher reasoned that any type of communication is actually a form of storytelling. (Fournier 2002) Fisher?s theory contends that human beings are animals whose ability to reason is based own our ability to tell stories. (Fournier). The following paragraphs will discuss Fisher?s theory in detail and provide some insight into the methods that he used to produce this theory."
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Narrative Therapy: A Case Study, 2008.
A discussion of narrative therapy and its application as a treatment strategy for anorexia.
1,774 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 7 sources, APA, £ 39.95
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The paper discusses narrative therapy, which is considered a post-modern therapy and mental health treatment that seeks to gain the cooperation and insight of the patient himself. The paper applies narrative therapy to an anorexic patient to illustrate how this therapy can be utilized in the patient's recovery.
Outline:
Narrative Therapy Overview
Characteristics
Narrative Perspectives
Narrative Concerns
Narrative Therapy in the Future
Narrative Therapy in Application
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"Narrative therapy can be considered a post-modern therapy and mental health treatment that seeks to gain the cooperation and insight of the patient him or herself. It consists of the integration of individuals' expressions of their unique experiences in life, an account of the individuals' interpretive processes about those experiences, and in relating these unique experience sets to both the culture background of the individual and the treatment plan (Bull, Dettinger, Detwiler, Petersen & Propst, 2005, paras.1-12). It is the counselor's or therapist's duty to reconcile these experiences and, most importantly, the individual's interpretive perception of them, with the particular mental affectation that is manifesting itself."
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Continuous Narrative Art, 2007.
This paper discusses the art technique called continuous narrative in which the same figure appears more than once in a single scene.
3,580 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 69.95
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This paper explains that the Roman aesthetic approach, known as continuous narrative, makes use of a number of images of the same figure within a work, linking different aspects of a story together and evoking meaning while setting events distant in time in the same frame. The author points out that these works are reproduced in a variety of media, including on vases and cups, on huge towers, on walls as friezes or frescoes and on panels to be placed on the wall. The paper relates that an examination of some of the panels found at Pompeii shows some of the ways in which images were linked together to form a narrative, although this narrative would often be less then crystal clear because of the possibility of different interpretations.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Continuous Narrative Art
Continuous Narrative at Pompeii
Conclusion
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"Under and slightly to the right of the tree and column, Polyphemus sits on top of an outcropping formed by a steep pile of rocks, on which four white, wooly sheep graze. In the right foreground, at the base of the outcropping, a tall column carries a small statue. The statue is depicted in three-quarters view to the left, facing towards Polyphemus. Although the figure appears to wear a cloak and some sort of headdress, the statue's large, erect phallus allows for a secure identification of the figure as Priapus."
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Post Modern Narrative Films, 2008.
Looks at the post modern narrative film using David Fincher's "Fight Club" (1999) Park Chan-wook "Oldboy" (2003) as examples.
1,115 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, £ 26.95
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This paper explains that D. W. Griffith's techniques in "The Birth of a Nation", in which the narrative aspects are emphasized over the spectacle elements, are still evident in post modern films. The paper then looks at the movies "Fight Club" and "Oldboy" as examples if narrative films that employ a strong and interesting narrative in combination with a visual storyline and action, which supports the plot. The paper also relates that narrative over spectacle films are difficult to make because it is easier to lose the viewer to either the spectacle or narrative element. The author concludes that these two films are successful because they bring together the techniques of directorial skill, an interesting storyline, and fine acting ability.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Case Studies
Conclusion
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"The director cuts to inside the room where Dae-su is held prisoner, and the mise-en-scene is the hotel look, desk, bed, bath and toilet. This is where Dae-su's narrative picks up, as he is held captive for a total of 13 years. During this time, the scenes are limited to the room where Dae-su is held; his life revolves around the props in the room, and the food that is slid under the door.
"Television becomes the largest part of Dae-su's life, and on television he learns that his wife has been murdered and he is suspected as the murder".
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Auteur Theory, 2005.
This paper looks at the Auteur theory and discusses its importance and impact on the cinema world.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 8 sources, £ 49.95
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The following discussion describes the Auteur theory in greater detail, analyzing the importance of this theory and its contribution to cinema. The role of the director as an author and narrator is discussed at length as a means of understanding the various issues that directors face in their efforts to bring their creative vision to the big screen.
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"The film industry is comprised of a wide variety of cinematic theories and concepts, which promote the creation of films that convey some of the most interesting ideas for entertainment and learning purposes. These theories continue to encourage filmmakers to develop works that facilitate the understanding of their creative visions in a variety of contexts. One such concept that is worthy of further examination is Auteur theory, which exemplifies much of the work of some of the world's most famous filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock. There is considerable evidence to support this theory and its use in cinema; however, there are also issues related to this theory that create challenges for the film industry. The following discussion will evaluate the Auteur theory in filmmaking, and examples will be provided that support this theory in film practice."
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Conversion and Narrative in "Robinson Crusoe", 2006.
An examination of the conversion and narrative in Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe".
3,249 words (approx. 13.0 pages), 17 sources, MLA, £ 64.95
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In this paper the author looks at the biographical typology of the conversion narrative, the structurally and thematically fixed point of the conversion, the consistent intrusion of a double perspective and the allegories of spiritual progress that appear in Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe". He analyzes these points to show that they all provide the narrative with moments of coherence and meaning. The author looks at "Robinson Crusoe" not as a spiritual autobiography, or even properly a conversion narrative; but as a tangential account of Crusoe's life which intrudes only along the margins of the narrative, with flashes of coherence and pattern that serve to set off the general experience of the narrator. He looks at this as an experience which tends toward wandering, indirectness and confusion. In conclusion, the author states that the beginning of the novel "Robinson Crusoe" is actually the end of the novel where the course of human life is only touched by completeness and in doing so Defoe is cleverly telling the reader about the confusion of human experience.
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"The genius of Defoe's novel partly lies in the association of these two antithetical narrative structures into a single narrative. Defoe had his eye on the Puritan conversion narrative but also on the earlier long fiction of the seventeenth century, the romance. The conversion narrative, in particular the spiritual autobiography, often appears to lend the narrative pattern and coherence. The adventure or romance narrative offers Defoe not only a structure for the piling on of wonders and variety, but undercuts the coherence and meaning inherent in the conversion narrative, and ultimately the patterning of history or biography in any sense. Spiritual autobiography fails to supply an organizing principle for Crusoe's life, despite the narrator's attempts, because Crusoe's underlying "malaise", his integral restlessness, 2 constantly thrusts his life out of the enclosures imposed by the conversion event."
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The Slave Narrative is Born, 2006.
Introduces, discusses and analyzes Olaudah Equiano's classic slave narrative.
1,724 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 38.95
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This paper examines and analyzes the slave narrative, "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African" by Olaudah Equiano. The paper explains that Equiano's narrative was special because of the language Equiano employs, the descriptions of his experiences as a slave that it includes and the message it conveys about examining our own lives and what we are meant to accomplish with our lives.
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"Author Equiano's experiences were varied and unusual. His goal to share them with his readers caused him to pen his narrative, hoping to urge others to follow the same spiritual path he chose. As a young boy, he served on board an English fighting ship for his master. He fought in the French & Indian War alongside this man. He viewed slaves mistreated in the West Indies, and was cheated out of the freedom he worked for by a dishonest owner. With experience and his wits, he developed into a businessperson, traveled the world including the North Pole, helped resettle slaves to their native Africa, toured and spoke out loudly against slavery, and wrote a narrative describing his many experiences that brought the horrors of slavery home to many. In the end, publishers (including himself) published twenty-two editions of his book, and it remained popular literary material even after his death in 1797. All of these experiences added to the treasure trove of experience that created a compelling and admired narrative."
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Narrative Structures in Two Early Films, 2003.
A comparison between Renoir's "La Regle du Jeu" and Wiene?s "Des Cabinet des Dr. Caligari" to the classical Hollywood narrative structure.
2,146 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 12 sources, APA, £ 46.95
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The narrative strategies and artistic approaches of Wiene?s "Des Cabinet des Dr. Caligari" and Renoir?s "La R?gle du Jeu" appear significantly different from both the classical Hollywood model and from each other to warrant comparative analysis. This essay examines the alternative narrative strategies used in both films in relation to the classic narrative system and briefly compares the formal, technical, and aesthetic approaches of the two films with each other.
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"Another interesting feature is the use of iris transitions to and from black to point out certain objects or characters in a frame. This can be used as a less jarring alternative to close-ups (of which there are few) and is especially effective when used to highlight the emotion of a dramatically important scene, such as the malevolent lingering on Caligari?s black striped glove as he lures Jane into his caravan, or when used to link related subjects, such as the iris close on Francis on the right side of the frame and subsequent iris open at the same place on the screen to reveal Jane near the start of the film."
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Analysis of the "Captivity Narrative" by Mary Rowlandson, 2002.
A narrative of Mary Rowlandson, a symbol of the New England Puritan Experience, during King Phillip's war of 1675.
3,290 words (approx. 13.2 pages), 9 sources, MLA, £ 65.95
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This paper explores the construction and meaning of Mary Rowlandson's famous Captivity Narrative, first published in 1682 which tells how she was held captive during King Philip's War of 1675 by Algonquin Indians. The author explains how her autobiographical narrative reveals her religious fervor and struggles, within the context of New England Puritan thought. Within this paper on the Captivity Narrative, there is an analysis of Calvinist thought, and insight into White New Englander prejudices against the Algonquin Indians, and how those prejudices were influenced by a loathing of the Catholic Church.
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"Mary Rowlandson was captured by the Indians from her home in Lancaster, Massachusetts, during King Philip's War of 1675. She wrote a narrative about her captivity and "restoration" which was so widely read that its popularity lasted for another century and more, after its first publication in 1682. Rowlandson's captivity narrative was reissued in Boston in 1770, 1771, and 1773, and it was also released many more times in various colonies and states during the 19th century. (Slotkin: 1973, p. 96). Thus it became one of the most representative documents by which white New Englanders remembered King Philip's War. But just how representative was Rowlandson's narrative, when it came to the realities of the conflict, on both sides, Puritan and Indian? Having been trapped in the wilderness as a prisoner of war, and surviving, Mary Rowlandson saw herself as spiritually renewed and redeemed. While many of the events in her account are probably true, her narrative is still somewhat mythical and shaped, both consciously and unconsciously, to fit her religious and cultural ideals. "
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Narrative Therapy, 2003.
A case study of narrative therapy as a counselling model.
1,380 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 32.95
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This paper applies narrative therapy to the counseling of two clients. The paper begins by describing the therapeutic approach of narrative therapy. Then the paper demonstrates how narrative therapy was used in the case of an 11-year old boy and a 14-year old boy.
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"Narrative therapy is based on the fundamental belief that people can engage in a constant process of re-authoring the stories of their lives. By recognizing that their choice of appropriate language can enable them to reshape their consciousness and understand..."
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The Narrative Frame of Nabokov's "Lolita", 2007.
This paper considers Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita" as a framed narrative.
1,303 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 30.95
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This paper examines the use of the literary device, framed narrative, in Nabokov's "Lolita." First, the paper defines the term framed narrative. It then suggests that this device was used in "Lolita" because of the novel's controversial content. Finally, the author suggests that Nabokov may have used framed narrative to protect himself, and possibly his position as a tenured professor.
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"As for Nabokov's note at the end, called "On a Book Entitled Lolita" (pp. 313-319), Lolita's true author ("Foreword" included), Vladimir Nabokov, comes clean immediately, in the first line of this "afterward" note to the reader, about his "impersonation of suave John Ray" (Nabokov, Lolita, p. 313). Nabokov then tells us in detail about both the genesis of, and the creative processes that went into his writing of Lolita, assuring us along the way that (1) the original idea for Lolita was a very old one, and has in fact seen several metamorphoses, on two continents, before finally emerging into the public eye, as the book it is today; (2) his urge to write it was solely a literary one (and he has in fact been writing novels, in not one language but two, since 1924), and once the idea finally emerged into the raw form of a novel, he had no creative choice but (like an itch that simply must be scratched) to finish it; (3) that he had initially been reticent to sign his own name to the book; (4) that he is in fact a stably married man, with hobbies, interests, and a routine kind of life ("Every summer my wife and I go butterfly hunting" (p. 314)), and that this particular work, his own artistic creation Lolita, is a work of art, not pornography (". . . in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of cliches", p. 315)"
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The Narrative Stories of Christianity, 2001.
This paper discusses how the Christian scriptures make use of an intensely personal, narrative form of story that gives that religion its unique quality.
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This paper shows how the Christian scriptures use of an intensely personal, narrative form of story that gives that religion its unique quality, as distinct from Judaism, the religion Christianity evolved and sprung from. It suggests that because of the fact that Jesus? believes were disseminated in a narrative structure, the confession and the personal became the dominant Christian mode of understanding the world, rather than the collective and the tribal.
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"The New Testament, or Christian Bible, is divided into three basic sections, that of the Gospels, the Epistles, and lastly the Book of Revelation. The latter two sections were composed long after the death of Jesus. The last has a strikingly a similar form to apocalyptic books of that period. However, the first section, the section that is the founding core of the Christian story, could be entitled ?Jesus speaks.? Although these books were written considerably after the actual life and death of Jesus, the gospels thus attempt to convey a certain sense of accuracy, of reported testimony of the life of Jesus. "
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"The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas", 2002.
A review of the literary style of "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, £ 18.95
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This paper will discuss the book "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas", and seek out why it was valid, and why the language he used was very credible in his day. He not only knew that the Bible, in many of the religious references in the book, would appeal to white educated elites, but also saw that the religious doctrines of Christianity would break down race barriers in this aspect. All of these elements will show how Douglas was an accomplished writer, and used the best language of his day- that of the Bible-to show that blacks were intelligent, and not beneath whites in any way. The thesis of this narrative is that of religion, and how Douglas uses this to prove racial equality.
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Narrative Therapy, 2002.
This paper explores one method of family (home) nursing, Narrative Therapy. It looks at the advantages of this positive non-medical approach
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This paper discusses the importance of narrative therapy with reference to Moules and Streitberger?s article, "Narrative Influences in Family Nursing". The paper carefully analyzes the arguments presented in favor of this non-medical approach to judge their validity.
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"Family nursing refers to those methods or practices in nursing, which involves family-centered care and thus includes families in the entire illness and healing experience. There are various ways in which this can be achieved and one such practice is known as narrative therapy, which is gradually gaining acceptance as a positive non-medical approach towards healing. Nancy Moules and Sylvia Streitberger have focused on the significance of this emerging practice in nursing field. They are of the view that story telling or ?storying? as they call it can help families gain approval and validation for their feelings and emotions. These emotions may not always be directly connected with a particular illness, but they need someone to validate those feelings by only providing a listening ear."
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