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  • Achievement as a family theme in drama

    Creator:
    Gray, Cecilia D.
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    The development and maintenance of a family achievement theme was analyzed using two dramas: Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill and A Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Three propositions were tested: 1) The development of a family achievement theme involves a transaction between individual personality needs...
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    disgarded if it can assist us in this endeavor. Literature has supplied us with rich protrayals of family

  • Sex role stereotypes and children's memory for story content

    Creator:
    Gentry, Sally A.
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    The present experiment examined children's memory for stereotypic and non-stereotypic sex role content in their reading material. Twenty-four male and twenty-four female fifth grade subjects read two short stories, each depicting a male and female character who exhibited an equal number of masculine and feminine traits and behaviors. Results of...
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    Dissertation
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    literature, or its effect upon their memory for story material. In an effort to address this issue, the

  • Content analysis of fiction as a technique for studying attitudes in social relationships

    Creator:
    Owen, Lois Darling
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    The purpose of the study was to attempt to develop a methodological approach which would tap the contribution of the literary artist to the understanding of human behavior. It was assumed that a content analysis of the social attitudes expressed in fiction would yield data which was complimentary, if not...
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    Porterfield, 1957) have pointed out that literature, and specifically fiction, might provide a source of in