Essays about: "focalisation"

Found 5 essays containing the word focalisation.

1. 1. Involving the Reader : A Narratological View of Elizabethan Prose Fiction

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Maud Koenders; [2023]
   Keywords : Elizabethan prose fiction; Narratology;

   Abstract : This research was conducted to see why some scholars have decided that Elizabethan prose fiction is no longer of value to a modern audience; this essay will apply narratological analyses and theory to examine Elizabethan prose fiction, noting where and how these works build their stories to involve their readers: differently than we would nowadays. The main subjects within narratology used for the analyses are the narrator, the narratee, focalisation, point of view and perspective. READ MORE

3. 2. Narrating the process of dying : An analysis of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and its pedagogical implications

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Felix Fernebring; [2022]
   Keywords : Preparatory grief; the process of dying; trauma-informed teaching; The Fault in Our Stars; narrative of trauma; internal focalisation; middle school; EFL;

   Abstract : This cross-disciplinary essay explores the use of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (2012) and its pedagogical implications for learners in middle school. It demonstrates that the novel expresses preparatory grief by implementing internal focalisation through the main character Hazel Grace. READ MORE

4. 3. Focalising trauma narrative : An analysis of Konigsberg’s The Music of What Happens and its pedagogical use

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Louise Gunnarsson; [2021]
   Keywords : Trauma Theory; EFL Classroom; The Music of What Happens; Rape; Internal Focalisation; Survivor; Trauma Narrative; Upper Secondary School.;

   Abstract : This essay argues that Bill Konigsberg depicts the traumatic experience of being raped and the inner conflict of being a male rape survivor with harsh immediacy by implementing internal focalisation in his young adult novel The Music of What Happens (2019). Additionally, the essay argues that the novel is a useful teaching resource in the Swedish EFL classroom by discussing the pedagogical implementations. READ MORE

5. 4. Before and After the Bomb : A Study of Narration and Politics in Conrad’s The Secret Agent

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Tilda Karlsson; [2016]
   Keywords : The Secret Agent ; Conrad; narration; focalisation; plot-structure; anarchy; anarchism; irony;

   Abstract : The aim of this essay is to investigate ways in which the narrative in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent reflects the political views within and around the novel. The narrative focus of the essay is plot-structure and focalisation, and the political focus circles around anarchy and anarchism. READ MORE

6. 5. "That Innsmouth Look" : A Study of First-Person Narration and the State of Uncertainty in "The Shadow over Innsmouth" by H. P. Lovecraft

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Author : Margareta Lizon; [2015]
   Keywords : Narratology; narration; focalisation; H. P. Lovecraft; pedagogy;

   Abstract : The aim of the present essay has been to study how narration and focalisation generate the reader’s state of uncertainty in ”The Shadow over Innsmouth” by H. P. Lovecraft. It has been accomplished with the aid of Yvonne Leffler’s narratological analysis on horror fiction and, to some extent, Mieke Bal’s narratological theories. READ MORE