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 Peter Foord: Simenon, Maigret and Paris: Two Recent Books
This is an alphabetical list of fictional characters, as well as real people, referred to in The Main Text and the Introduction, each one followed by a page reference.
A list of locations referred to in the text, with certain establishments (mainly cafés, restaurants and hotels) indicated in italics.
This lists the titles and sources of the photographs used throughout the text by page number.
www.trussel.com /maig/foord4.htm   (2238 words)

  
 Faculty Profiles
His study of the limits of interpretation has led him to define difficulty in reading as a key to understanding (for instance, the automatic writing of the Surrealists), and, in his Fictional Truth (1990), to develop the notion of a grammar of literature.
Major contributions to those areas have been exemplified by Riffaterre’s work on the aesthetic perception of the text, in his Essays of Structural Stylistics (1971), and on the replacement of linguistics with semiotics, in Semiotics of Poetry (1984) and Text Production (1979).
She teaches a variety of courses in French and Comparative Literature, from Literature Humanities to courses on 19th and 20th century fiction and poetry, autobiography, paratextual discourse and travel narratives.
www.columbia.edu /cu/french/profiles.html   (2238 words)

  
 philoexam1.doc
It is a fictional character, it is wrong to ask “does Ishmael have a mole on his right shoulder?” because Ishmael is fictional and the text doesn’t tell us, there is no fact of the matter.
Dennett tries to show that our selves are centers of gravity by showing that fictional characters are like centers of gravity and that selves are fictional characters -In Moby Dick, Ishmael is a fictional character, and all we know about Ishmael is what the text of the book tells us.
This is fine in terms of fictional characters, but intolerable when trying to interpret someone, even a fictional character, so we usually bifurcate the character to resolve the conflict.
www-personal.umich.edu /~ktrahan/philoexam1.doc   (2238 words)

  
 The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity
Because Sherlock Holmes is a merely fictional character, created by, or constituted out of, the text and the culture in which that text resides.
This process does change the "fictional" character, the character that you are, in much the way that Rabbit Angstrom, after Updike writes the second novel about him as a young man, comes to be a rather different fictional character, determinate in ways he was never determinate before.
The chief fictional character at the center of that autobiography is one's self.
ase.tufts.edu /cogstud/papers/selfctr.htm   (5199 words)

  
 A Quick List of TEI Tags -- Electronic Text Center
Description: describes the extent to which the text may be regarded as imaginative or non-imaginative, that is, as describing a fictional or a non-fictional world.
Description: signifies text supplied by the transcriber or editor in place of text which cannot be read, either because of physical damage or loss in the original or because it is illegible for any reason.
For a written text, this might be print, manuscript, e-mail, etc.; for a spoken one, radio, telephone, face-to-face, etc.
etext.lib.virginia.edu /tei/teiquic.html   (7642 words)

  
 The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity
Because Sherlock Holmes is a merely fictional character, created by, or constituted out of, the text and the culture in which that text resides.
This process does change the "fictional" character, the character that you are, in much the way that Rabbit Angstrom, after Updike writes the second novel about him as a young man, comes to be a rather different fictional character, determinate in ways he was never determinate before.
The chief fictional character at the center of that autobiography is one's self.
ase.tufts.edu /cogstud/papers/selfctr.htm   (5199 words)

  
 Joyce Kinkead on Harold Bell Wright, Chapter 4
Through a complicated series of events, the smugglers are arrested, and Jun's sight is miraculously restored making it possible, under Wright's fictional manipulation, for her to marry Will.
Subsequent references to this book will be incorporated into the body of the text as A Son and pagination.
Subsequent references to this book will be incorporated into the body of the text as The Man and pagination.
www.hbw.addr.com /kinkead04.htm   (7655 words)

  
 [itvt] Bloggit: December 19, 2005
To ensure speedy delivery of Web pages during a live program, the platform allows producers to download and cache those pages' graphics and text to viewers' computers before they are displayed.
According to Desktopbox founder and CEO, Mike Church, the latest version of the Projector player has a scoreboard-style message window that allows broadcasters to give live text updates with just two to eight seconds of delay time.
Once a list of URL's, complete with timing notations, has been created, it is then uploaded to the server for broadcast.
blog.itvt.com /my_weblog/2005/12/19   (2725 words)

  
 archive_of_fictional_things
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy List of X-Men List of Final Fantasy characters See also: Archive of fictional things Unseen character Fictional realm Stock characters All text is available under the terms of...
Text: Fictional character Archive of fictional things 1.2.1 Fictional characters from books or plays: 1.2.2 Fictional characters from cartoons...
Archive of fictional things [ edit ] External links Most Honored Fiction at the Book Award Annals [ edit ] Finding Fiction Books A comprehensive list of thousands of fiction authors and titles A frequently...
archive_of_fictional_things.networklive.org /index.php?title=Fictional_serial_killers&action=edit   (2725 words)

  
 EJVS-7-2.htm
After listing the problems in approaching this archaic poetical text and its ritualistic and mythological background, I pointed out the several historical layers, the geographical and tribal divisions, and the great mobility of the authors.
Ironically, of course, the text where the "early" kASi appear is not in the RV itself, but in Talageri's late- or post-Vedic list, which he wrongly assumes is as old as the RV itself.
By contrast, my own RSi lists in my 1995 paper were based on the RV itself, not on such outside information: the anukramaNI was cited there only as one, actually the last of the several means to assess RV traditions.
www.people.fas.harvard.edu /%7Ewitzel/EJVS-7-2.htm   (19696 words)

  
 The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity
Because Sherlock Holmes is a merely fictional character, created by, or constituted out of, the text and the culture in which that text resides.
This process does change the "fictional" character, the character that you are, in much the way that Rabbit Angstrom, after Updike writes the second novel about him as a young man, comes to be a rather different fictional character, determinate in ways he was never determinate before.
The chief fictional character at the center of that autobiography is one's self.
ase.tufts.edu /cogstud/papers/selfctr.htm   (5199 words)

  
 Shop Fresh : Article 'New York City'
Text: List of ZIP Codes in New York
Text: List of bridges in the United States
This article lists songs that contain geographical names (as opposed to personal names) in their titles.
www.shop-fresh.net /DisplayArticle539193.html   (432 words)

  
 AVL AVL Databases
Indexes 2,600 journals with full text articles from 1,400 titles in academic disciplines including the arts, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
Indexes 875 titles, many with full text articles, including all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers.
There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
www.avl.lib.al.us /databases/showall.html   (3212 words)

  
 Databases, Alphabetical List - Eastern Michigan University Library
List of full text periodicals by title and discipline.
Contemporary criticism is available through the full text of 120 current literature journals that can be accessed through the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), which contains over 880,000 records of literary criticism from 1920 to date.
While you can search for schools by different criteria and view school profiles (including admission requirements, financial aid options) from any computer, full college catalogs can only be viewed in EMU's Bruce T. Halle Library, Information Commons North, First Floor.
brand.emich.edu /indexde.php   (3212 words)

  
 Government & politics - Homework Center - Multnomah County Library
This site provides full text of the document as well as biographies of each of the signers, and a list of significant people and events that helped lead to and shape the creation of this document.
From the University of Oklahoma's Law Center, this site not only provides the timeline of historical documents, but it also provides the full text of those documents.
Take a trip through our nation's justice system by following along or participating in a fictional murder trial.
www.multcolib.org /homework/govhc.html   (2317 words)

  
 acc01.doc
This is a list of all the properties of any object, from a label, text box etc., to a general area like the form or form footer.
To change the text on the label for the combo box, highlight it and then right click it, to bring up the Properties.
When you list at the Properties of anything, look at the title bar of the Properties window to see what you are changing.
www.ehcweb.ehc.edu /faculty/ljcumbo/downfiles/access2/acc01.doc   (6019 words)

  
 Book Reviews From The Hook Magazine
Interspersed within the listings are excellent general informational paragraphs on individual types of aircraft, campaigns and weapons, all of which lend considerable interest to the text.
Notably, the only reserve operator listed is VA-776 out of NAS Dallas, but the text explains it was called up for the Pueblo crisis in 1968 with A-4Bs and immediately shifted to A-4Es.
In addition to documenting the aircraft’s history, author Libis provides a listing of the plane’s test pilots, an account of the crash of the No. 2 aircraft, and details concerning the race to be the first aircraft to break the sound barrier.
www.tailhook.org /Book_Reviews.html   (21552 words)

  
 The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity
Because Sherlock Holmes is a merely fictional character, created by, or constituted out of, the text and the culture in which that text resides.
This process does change the "fictional" character, the character that you are, in much the way that Rabbit Angstrom, after Updike writes the second novel about him as a young man, comes to be a rather different fictional character, determinate in ways he was never determinate before.
The chief fictional character at the center of that autobiography is one's self.
ase.tufts.edu /cogstud/papers/selfctr.htm   (5199 words)

  
 Scriptorium - Kobo Abé
Stylistically, The Ark Sakura differs from Abé's previous novels in that he has reduced the percentage of text that is strictly exposition on the motivations of the characters and increased the proportion accorded to the dialogue and action of the narrative.
Abé writes, "In seeing there is love, in being seen there is abhorrence." This idea, which drives the box man to hide within the cardboard box, is also reflected in Abé's incorporating photographs into the text of the novel.
In mentally noting the discrepancies between the man and the horse, the businessman notes not the obvious fact that the man is simply not a horse, but instead focuses on the subtleties, such as the man's poor posture and rhythm in his gait.
www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/abe.html   (6765 words)

  
 Double Dare Press-Issue1 Story-TELLING THE TRUEST LIE, Story families and family stories
Fiction writers are instructed not to jar the reader with wacky details that pull them out of the text.
Fiction is very nearly completely how it would have happened, if it had indeed occurred but it didn’t, so fiction is a severely honest lie.
Fiction that hurries or memoir in which every person appears to have been spawned of a satanic union does not illuminate because they only cast light on one aspect of the event.
www.doubledarepress.com /2001/08/stories/truest-lies.shtml   (6765 words)

  
 The Hope Chest by Charles Sloat (Book) in Books > Fiction & Literature > Humorous Fiction
To 'bring alive' a fictional writer, and a bad one at that, has been done very well indeed, and the authors notes are often even funnier than the main text.
Fiction & Literature > Humorous Fiction : The humorous novel “The Hope Chest - By Arthur Meds,” is the draft of a fictional book by a fictional author.
This book is an experiment where the reader follows along as a novel unfolds and its author struggles to tell a story.
books.lulu.com /content/46418   (861 words)

  
 THE BOOK REPORT
The title of the book you are to read is listed in the BUS 217 Course Info file under the Text heading.
This disk contains some information which should be of help to you in preparing a written book report-- A synopsis on how to read a non‑fictional book'.
Finally, look at titles of books and articles to see if they are germane to the topic of the book.
www.clab.cecilcc.edu /faculty/BUS217/bookreport.htm   (881 words)

  
 Advanced Fighting Fantasy - What is FF?
This is done by making the reader assume the role of the main fictional character in the story from the beginning of the story to the end by allowing them to take the character down various paths through the use of numbered paragraphs.
As well as allowing the reader to control a fictional character down various paths of a story, the books also acted as an ingenious game that a reader could play individually by his or herself.
STAMINA rated from one upwards, with the fictional hero of the book starting with anything from 14 to 24 (the roll of two die plus twelve).
www.advancedfightingfantasy.com /whatisff.htm   (881 words)

  
 Jahn: Drama
In this sense, a play is a 'play in performance', and the play's text is mainly a guide to a performance, comparable to a blueprint, a musical score (Krieger 1995: 78), or even a recipe for baking a cake (Searle 1975: 329).
Plays could be censored for treason, heresy, and blasphemy, and sanctions included the closing of playhouses, or the cutting of offending scenes (for instance, the famous deposition scene in Richard II was omitted from the Folio edition [Lloyd Evans and Lloyd Evans 1978: 294]).
Just as the reception of a play is a collective public experience, staging a play is a collective enterprise, involving the collaboration of many people including producers, directors, choreographers, musicians, and, of course, actors.
www.cx.unibe.ch /ens/cg/genres/pppd.htm   (881 words)

  
 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The TV series was followed in 1984 by a piece of best-selling interactive fiction - effectively a text adventure game - distributed by Infocom and designed by Adams and Infocom regular Steve Meretzky.
the fictional book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional guidebook and sort of eccentric encyclopedia which features in the series;
The theme tune used for the radio and television series and the LPs comes from an instrumental by The Eagles called "Journey of the Sorcerer", though the version used on the LP and TV versions is a new recording, not by the Eagles.
www.encyclopedian.com /th/The-Hitchhikers-Guide-to-the-Galaxy.html   (1030 words)

  
 CM Magazine: Good Times Travel Agency Series.
As well, the books can be read in a variety of ways--readers can choose to read only the fictional part from start to finish; they can read just the guidebook; or, they can read the story and then the accompanying information in the guidebook on each page as they go along.
Bailey presents both the story and the non-fictional guidebook in a familiar style that employs kids' language and a large dose of humour.
She cleverly leaves the door open for more adventures of the Binkertons because each time the kids return a volume to the travel agency, the text hints that this will not be their last visit.
www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol7/no13/goodtimes.html   (599 words)

  
 fictional - OneLook Dictionary Search
Fictional : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
Phrases that include fictional: fictional character, fictional animal, fictional building, fictional buildings, fictional cat, more...
Words similar to fictional: fabricated, fancied, fiction, fictitious, invented, made-up, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=fictional&ls=a   (599 words)

  
 List of fictional deities - Result for List of fictional deities - Meaning of List of fictional deities - Definition of List of fictional deities - Dictionary of Meaning - www.mauspfeil.net
There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article List of fictional deities.
This '''list of fictional deities''' aims at giving information about deities in the different religions, cultures and mythologies of fictional worlds.
See also List of deities, List of deities, List of deities.
www.mauspfeil.net /List_of_fictional_deities.html   (599 words)

  
 The Philosophy of the Wold Newton Universe and the Crossover Chronology
Yet another way to facilitate the inclusion of superheroes in a fictional universe which emulates the real world is to take the position on that the least powerful version of the hero is the correct one.
For the convenience of the reader who chooses not to include superhero universe references in his or her version of the Wold Newton Universe, the references are in green text.
Since all superheroes and their associated universe fit into the WNU "surprisingly well" (no support is given for this statement), those who prefer to place limits and rules are prejudiced and biased against superheroes and comic books in general.
www.pjfarmer.com /woldnewton/Chron0.htm   (7633 words)

  
 reviews @ tengrrl.com
Whether we are exploring the vision of technology included in these texts ourselves or we are asking students to analyze the technology, the process begins with asking specific questions about how technology is presented in the book.
Class discussion focuses on the overarching question “What is the author of this story saying about technology?” By exploring the fictional technology, students are urged to pay attention to the ways that technology is described and used.
What are the features of the technology mentioned in the text?
www.tengrrl.com /reviews/2005/06/from-danny-to-raisin-close-readings.shtml   (856 words)

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