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Theme (narrative) In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative. [ 1] Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject". [ 2]
If themes are problematic, it is important to rework the theme and during the process, new themes may develop. [1] For example, it is problematic when themes do not appear to 'work' (capture something compelling about the data) or there is a significant amount of overlap between themes. This can result in a weak or unconvincing analysis of the ...
The relation between topic/theme and comment/rheme/focus should not be confused with the topic-comment relation in Rhetorical Structure Theory-Discourse Treebank (RST-DT corpus) where it is defined as "a general statement or topic of discussion is introduced, after which a specific remark is made on the statement or topic". For example: "[As ...
What Trump wants to do nationwide, Frost said, is what DeSantis has been doing for years in Florida, mentioning the mass removal of certain books from public school libraries as an example.
Speakers, including Vice President Kamala Harris, tended to stick to biography, big themes, subjective arguments and uncheckable promises and predictions. When they did make assertions of fact ...
Proposal theme statement. A proposal theme statement is a technique used in a business proposal to call attention to benefits offered by the vendor to the customer. The concise benefit statement normally precedes discussion of any section of the proposal where the vendor thinks the proposal contains a significant advantage to the prospective ...
Both overt statements and propaganda in books favored sincere feeling over thought, because such feelings, stemming from nature, would be simple and direct. [115] In Mein Kampf, Hitler complained of biased over-education, brainwashing, and a lack of instinct and will [116] and in many other passages made his anti-intellectual bent clear. [117]
Motivic saturation is the "immersion of a musical motif in a composition", i.e., keeping motifs and themes below the surface or playing with their identity, and has been used by composers including Miriam Gideon, as in "Night is my Sister" (1952) and "Fantasy on a Javanese Motif" (1958), and Donald Erb.