Essays about: "Paul Auster"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words Paul Auster.

  1. 1. A Post-Structural Approach to Language Theory in Relation to Paul Auster’s City of Glass

    University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Johanna Leimola; [2021]
    Keywords : City of Glass; Paul Auster; post-structuralism; centre; signifier; signified;

    Abstract : Do words mirror reality? This question has been at the core of several linguistic disputes for decades. Several scholars have investigated the relationship between the signifier and the signified, and different literary theories suggest different approaches. READ MORE

  3. 2. Three Postmodern Detectives Teetering on the Brink of Madness in Paul Auster´s New York Trilogy : A Comparison of the Detectives from a Postmodernist and an Autobiographical Perspective

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Author : Björn Sondén; [2020]
    Keywords : Keywords: postmodernity; chance; identity; solitude and the metaphysical detective story;

    Abstract : As the title suggests, this essay is a postmodern and autobiographical analysis of the three detectives in Paul Auster´s widely acclaimed 1987 novel The New York Trilogy. The focus of this study is centred on a comparison between the three detectives, but also on tracking when and why the detectives devolve into madness. READ MORE

  4. 3. Performing Paul Auster’s Authorship : Authorship and Authority as Cultural Performance in the New York Trilogy

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Jordan Lewis Mathes; [2019]
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  5. 4. Getting out of Strange Spaces : A Reconstructive Reading of Paul Auster’s Oracle Night

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Author : Cia Gustrén; [2019]
    Keywords : critique; deconstruction; desubjectification; estrangement; existentialism; literary theory; narratology; postmodernism; reconstruction; strange spaces; subjectivity; subjectification; thematic analysis; themes; thematic units; thematic motifs; writing;

    Abstract : As the title of this essay suggests, Paul Auster’s 2003 novel Oracle Night is studied with regard to what is here considered to be a search for a way out of estrangement. This search, as narrated from the point of view of the protagonist, is followed by a certain recognition of the limits of human existence – which may be essentially meaningless but is nevertheless portrayed as an intentional state of being, not least through the act of writing as a means of subjectification. READ MORE

  6. 5. Postmodern in the English Classroom : A Didactic Consideration of Paul Auster’s City of Glass

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Robin Lehto; [2017]
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