Essays about: "Reader Immersion"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words Reader Immersion.
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1. Dissonance in Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : This essay identifies a type of narrative dissonance in the depictions of working-class conditions within Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. In this thesis, the dissonance is argued in part to be the effect created when an author belonging to one social class attempts to portray a class separate from their own. READ MORE
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2. Gamification of reading aloud using Godot and Web speech
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskapAbstract : Immersion is a subject studied in various areas and especially in games, since a game that immerses a player, counts as a game of great value. Many studies have been performed to understand how to measure immersion through various forms of questionnaires, but how can one with the help of gamification and loud reading make reading more immersive? To see if gamification and loud reading can make reading more immersive an application is developed, the application provides a paragraph, and when read loud correctly creates sound and shows images. READ MORE
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3. ANIMAL QUALIA AND NON-ANTHROPOCENTRIC NARRATION IN BARBARA GOWDY’S THE WHITE BONE : PROBLEMATIZING NONHUMAN EXPERIENTIALITY THROUGH ENVISIONMENTS IN THE EFL CLASSROOM
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This thesis examines nonhuman phenomenological experiences, communication, and sensory perception in Barbara Gowdy’s The White Bone. Drawing on literary and pedagogical theories by Roman Bartosch, Monika Fludernik, Marco Caracciolo, David Herman, and Judith Langer, the thesis argues that Gowdy’s novel employs narrative strategies and devices that involve nonhuman experientiality evoked from sensorial configurations, narration, and textual cognitive and embodied experiences. READ MORE
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4. EXPANDING NARRATIVE EMPATHY Exploring “Dynamic” Empathy in The Left Hand of Darkness
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Narrative empathy, the sharing of a feeling between a reader and characters, is often thought of as a 'static' phenomenon; either it is present, or not in a given story. Yet, on scrutiny, narrative empathy seems quite fluid, its connective strength ebbing and flowing throughout a story. READ MORE
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5. Anovel: Sound Reading
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS)Abstract : Över en trestegsprocess brukar studien research through design för att utforska narrativ presenterade genom ett multimodalt medium bestående av komponenterna text och stream (ljud). En existerande applikation, Booktrack, har blivit undersökt under studien. READ MORE
