Essays about: "Focalization"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 18 essays containing the word Focalization.

  1. 11. Commanding the Truth: A Narrative Reading of Ian McEwan's "Atonement"

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Emma Helander; [2013-06-27]
    Keywords : commanding the truth; truth and fiction; Briony; Atonement; Ian McEwan; narratology; Manfred Jahn; narrating I; focalization;

    Abstract : The tension between truth and fiction is central in Ian McEwan's "Atonement", since the main character, Briony, turns out to be both the narrating I and the experiencing I. The aim of this essay is to find out how it is possible for Briony to be both author ad character. READ MORE

  3. 12. The Doctor on Screen - Adapting the character of Dr. Watson from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in "Sherlok" and the "Sherlock Holmes" films

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Jonathan Pierre; [2013-06-12]
    Keywords : Sherlock Holmes; Dr Watson; Arthur Conan Doyle; adaption; film; television; crime fiction; point of view; focalization; sleuth;

    Abstract : Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are two of the most recognizable figures in crime literature. They worked numerous cases together; in total, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories and four novels about them. READ MORE

  4. 13. Intermedial Performance: Staging Anna Karenina in Tolstoy’s Novel and Wright’s Film

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Daria Chernysheva; [2013]
    Keywords : intermediality; adaptation; interpretation; theatricalization; ‘ostranenie’; framing; focalization; ‘diva’ character; visual; verbal and musical representation.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In the following thesis Anna Karenina, the novel by Lev Tolstoy and the literary film adaptation by Joe Wright, are discussed. The theatricalization of the upper class society in the novel was developed in the film narrative, and became a key for the analyses. READ MORE

  5. 14. The Different Mr. Rochesters of Jane Eyre

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

    Author : Vigdis Marianne Glad; [2013]
    Keywords : Jane Eyre; Mr. Rochester; adaptation; voice-over; focalizer; POV; literature and film; close reading; Byronic hero; Charlotte Brontë; Harold Bloom; Robert Stam; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The famous novel by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, will be the subject of this thesis. I will seek to research the character of Mr. Rochester and his use and display in four film adaptations. All the adaptations will be compared to the source as well as to each other to determine how the character of Mr. READ MORE

  6. 15. From Brokeback Mountain to Brokeback Mountain : A Critical Study of the Adaptation Process from Short Story to Film

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Cecilia Westergård; [2009]
    Keywords : Brokeback Mountain; film adaptation;

    Abstract : The essay investigates the film adaptation process of the short story "Brokeback Mountain". The short story is compared to the film manuscript and the film. READ MORE