Dom Casmurro and the irony of formation by Marcelo Brandão Mattos

“…Drawing on the concepts of Bakhtin analysis of the novel form, particularly on the polyphonic discourse, the article proposes a reading of the book by Machado de Assis as a novel of formation, which relies on irony to refract the fictional voice built (or formed) in relation to other voices that might question or deconstruct it.…”
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Mulholland Drive: An Intertextual Reading by Ebrahim Barzegar

“…To achieve this aim, this study provides a close reading of the selected film so as to trace and illustrate the polyphonic network of references, citations, quotations and intertexts of Mulholland Drive to the significant already-made films such as Sunset Boulevard, The Wizard of Oz, and Persona.…”
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The Carnivalesque in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter by Hossein Pirnajmuddin, Omid Amani

“…The canonical novel of the American literature published in the middle of the nineteenth century portrays the genesis of the American Puritan culture, while the polyphonic nature of the novel, it is argued, exposes the rifts of and the grotesqueness of this culture.…”
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Religious and philosophical dialogues in Dostoevsky’s novel Demons by Gaponenkov, Alexey A.

“…In this sense, the theory of M. M. Bakhtin about polyphonic dialogue in Dostoevsky’s novels does not allow to fully explain its (dialogue’s) mystical-religious content, and even more so the hidden author’s modality – Christian assessment (“pointing finger, passionately raised”). …”
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THE IMPORTANCE OF MEDICAL FINDINGS AND OBSTRUCTION DEGREE TO THE LIFE QUALITY OF ASTHMATIC PATIENTS by Ljiljana Isakovic, Vesna Milanovic, Ljiljana Milojkovic, Vesna Bojic

“…Their average age was 43.92+12.25 and they were all hospitalized in the "Sokobanja" special hospital during the period of 2 or 3 weeks.The patients were divided into four groups according to the presence of pathological lung sounds:1(18 patients): no pathological lung sounds;II (41 patients): high pitched whistles;III (6 patients): low pitched whistles;IV (35 patients): polyphonic whistling.According to the seriousness of obstruction they were divided into three groups:I (22 patients): less than 60% of anticipated standard;II (31 patients): 60% to 80%III (47 patients): more than 80%.The highest scores in the questionare had the patients with normal auscultatory findings (I group) and the lowest scores had the patients with polyphonic whistling (IV group). …”
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A latent rhythm complexity model for attribute-controlled drum pattern generation by Alessandro Ilic Mezza, Massimiliano Zanoni, Augusto Sarti

“…Trained on a large corpus of MIDI files of polyphonic drum recordings, the proposed method proved capable of generating coherent and realistic samples at the desired complexity value. …”
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Social system design methodology for transitioning to a new social structure – a holistic urban living lab approach to the well-being city by Atsunobu Kimura, Hisashi Haraguchi, Yutaka Yamauchi, Katsuta Matsuura

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Dialogue on Dialogic Pedagogy by Eugene Matusov, Kiyotaka Miyazaki

“…Kiyotaka Miyazaki introduced the third heated topic of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">treating students as “heroes”</span> of the teacher’s polyphonic pedagogy similar to Dostoevsky’s polyphonic novel based on Bakhtin’s analysis. …”
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Teksttype og polyfoni by Kjersti Fløttum

“…It is shown how the polyphonic structure can describe, make explicit and explain ty-pological text features.…”
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La référence à l'autorité dans la conversation by Martin David-Blais, Christian R. Bellehumeur

“…This then prolongs the work of the polyphonic school, which shed light on the function of modulation and parametrization of authority referencing statements and this, leaning toward the side of action in the pure sense. …”
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La ScaPoLine. Analyse polyphonique du discours théâtral by Mariana CHIRIŢĂ

“…This article focuses on the study of polyphonic analysis of the dramatic discourse. It is the linguistic polyphony, as developed by Nølke, which we are interestet here. …”
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Nicolas Bouvier. L’usage d’un monde sans histoire ? by Guillaume Bridet

“…Through three main axes, the study reveals that History, in all its dimensions, occupies a central place in this polyphonic text. Indeed, Bouvier brings depth to his narrative by evoking multiple temporalities in the course of his travels. …”
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Narration et montage cinématographique : As I Lay Dying, de W. Faulkner by Aurore Touya

“…This article investigates the relationship between Faulkner’s narrative technique in his polyphonic novel As I Lay Dying (1930) and the tools that filmmakers and directors can use through montage. …”
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Orient and Occident Encounters in Dimitrije Buzarovski’s Oratorio “Radomir’s Psalms” by Trena Jordanonska

“…The oratorio Radomir’s Psalms op. 47 (1999) by Dimitrije Buzarovski addresses Orthodox chant in a Western tradition, embedding Eastern modal monodic sacred and folk tradition into Western polyphonic sacred and secular tonal forms. The work is also an example of the influence of the cultural environment upon shaping of the musical ideas.…”
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Quina lenga per revitalizar l’occitan ? by Cristian Lagarda

“…The self-reflexive and polyphonic exercise highlights the issues and a certain consensus on the part of the actors.…”
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“Metaphoric Displacement” – a Reliable Guide in Literary Translation by Seda Gasparyan

“…The article attaches special importance to the translation of lexical units especially to that of polyphonic words.…”
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Verbal Art: From the Polyphony of the Word to Non-Verbality by Seda Gasparyan

“…The research has the poetic word in its core which demonstrates an explicit tendency to expand its semantic and stylistic opportunities in the context of the work taking on new emotive-expressive charge. The polyphonic realization of the word obtains a decisive importance in terms of the non-verbality of the literary text taking it beyond the level of the nominative function of the word and participating in the formation of the system of the aesthetic values of the piece of work.…”
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El pluralismo en la narrativa actual: Alfons Cervera y sus voces fugitivas by Valeria Possi

“…This change is based on the rupture of the Manichean pattern when portraying the events of the post-Civil War, expressed in Cervera’s novels through multiple points of views and narrative voices that collaborate in the creation of plural and polyphonic novels.…”
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Hybride Konstruktionen als identitätsstiftende Verortung in Vladimir Vertlibs Roman «Viktor hilft» by Miša Glišič

“…The author describes polyphonic situations in the cross-cultural narrative process and indirectly pluralizes the concept of culture, advocating a transcultural understanding of modern cultures. …”
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Bibel - LeserInnen - Perspektiven by Schiefer Ferrari, Markus

“…Consequently, this leads to a polyphonic understanding of biblical texts. At the same time, the interpretation of the text stays fragmentary. …”
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