Essays about: "Fictional Worlds"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 15 essays containing the words Fictional Worlds.

  1. 6. Making the Imaginary : Worldbuilders, and the Art of Ontogenous Play

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Gabriel Urlich Lennon; [2021]
    Keywords : worldbuilding; imagination; making; anthropology; ontology; ontogeny; online ethnography; sub-creation; netnography; creativity;

    Abstract : How we imagine and the potency of alternative imaginings to socio-political concerns are vital questions for social science, and worldbuilding is a particular and understudied method of doing so. It is the creative making of fictional, imaginative worlds, offering a potential alternative method to imagine otherwise. READ MORE

  3. 7. Reality and Subjectivity in Philip K. Dick’s Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

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

    Author : Filip Rossenov Zahariev; [2021]
    Keywords : subjectivity; drugs; Philip K. Dick; The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch; postmodernism; Flow My Tears; The Policeman Said; Chew-Z; Can-D; KR-3; Baudrillard; Hutcheon; Lyotard;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the forces that affect subjectivity in two novels by the author Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. The close reading of these two novels makes use of postmodernist theory as its theoretical foundation. READ MORE

  4. 8. Vertal HEX : Mobility for the future vertical cityscape

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Simon Turac; [2020]
    Keywords : vertical mobility; future mobility; magnetic levitation; interior design; exterior design; vehicle design;

    Abstract : The project originated with the question "What is the future of urban mobility?" and the counterquestion "What is the future of urbanity?". To understand the future of mobility, we first need to try to understand more of the future context where it'll reside. READ MORE

  5. 9. Embedded Madness: Mad Narrators and Possible Worlds

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Eloise Brason; [2019]
    Keywords : Mad Narrators; Narratology; Postclassical Narratology; Possible Worlds Theory; Fictional Worlds;

    Abstract : Madness has long been a popular theme for literature, featuring as a trope of horror, mystery, tragedy and comedy genres in varying degrees of amplitude. The topic has provided a significant access point for analysing historical, socio-political and cultural issues as it addresses controversial themes of alienation and criminality as well as philosophical theories of perception and consciousness. READ MORE

  6. 10. Eliciting Empathy with William Golding’s Lord of the Flies

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Milana Amadova; [2019]
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    Abstract : Some literature creates fictional worlds similar to the one we live in and others create worlds that are very different from ours. By inviting us to identify with characters, literature raises empathy. READ MORE