Essays about: "Literary devices"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 25 essays containing the words Literary devices.

1. 16. TEXTILE - Augmenting Text in Virtual Space

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Simon Hansen; [2016]
   Keywords : interactive poetry; electronic literature; mixed reality; augmented virtuality; bodystorming; embodied interaction; design methodology; gopro; action camera; video editing; POV; point-of-view; poetry; literature; three-dimensional literature; workshop; textile;

   Abstract : Three-dimensional literature is a virtually non-existent or in any case very rare and emergent digital art form, defined by the author as a unit of text, which is not confined to the two-dimensional layout of print literature, but instead mediated across all three axes of a virtual space. In collaboration with two artists the author explores through a bodystorming workshop how writers and readers could create and experience three-dimensional literature in mixed reality, by using mobile devices that are equipped with motion sensors, which enable users to perform embodied interactions as an integral part of the literary experience. READ MORE

3. 17. “…my insides were like a house…” : A Study of Body and Space in Mercè Rodoreda’s La Plaça del Diamant 

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Sofia Iaffa; [2016]
   Keywords : Mercè Rodoreda; body; space; subject;

   Abstract : The present thesis is a study of how body and space interrelate in the novel La Plaça del Diamant (1962) by the Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda (1908-1983). I will in the following argue that these relations are important effects of the literary form of the novel and study how they produce a certain form of subjectivity. READ MORE

4. 18. A Recipe for Responsiveness : Strategies for Improving Performance in Android Applications

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik

   Author : Elin Nilsson; [2016]
   Keywords : Android; performance; testing; mobile performance;

   Abstract : Mobile applications are expected to be fast and responsive to user interaction, despite challenges mobile platforms and devices face in terms of limited computational power, battery, memory, etc. Ensuring that applications are performant is however not trivial, as performance bugs are difficult to detect, fix, and verify. READ MORE

5. 19. The Performance of Gender Ambiguity in Patti Smith´s Just Kids

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Sandra Schriefer; [2015-04-20]
   Keywords : Gender; Patti Smith; ambiguity; identity;

   Abstract : Abstract: Gender is considered fixed by society and women are confined to their defined roles; however, gender is not black and white. Patti Smith opposed these traditional roles. This essay will argue that Patti Smith, in her autobiography Just Kids, blurs fixed ideas with regard to gender. READ MORE

6. 20. Human and animal in ‘the Open’: an exploration of image and worlding in the poetry of Marianne Moore and João Cabral de Melo Neto

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Enaie Maire Azambuja; [2015]
   Keywords : Marianne Moore; early poems; João Cabral de Melo Neto; The Dog without Feathers; Jacob von Uexküll; Umwelt; Brett Buchanan; Onto-Ethologies; Martin Heidegger; Giorgio Agamben; Fable; Allegory.;

   Abstract : This thesis firstly aims at discussing the early works of American poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) through the bio-philosophical perspectives developed since the investigations of Estonian Jacob von Uexküll (1864-1944). The study elucidates Uexküll’s research on the web-like forms of life that is the Umwelt of animals and Moore’s creation of poetic environments. READ MORE