Essays about: "Reader Response Criticism"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 10 essays containing the words Reader Response Criticism.
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6. The Reception of Mo Yan in the British and North American Literary Centers
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : This thesis investigates the two major conflicting modes of interpretation applied to Mo Yan’s literary texts diachronically and synchronically in order to reveal both the aesthetic imperative and the liberating force of the British and North American literary centers in receiving literature from the periphery. After an introduction to the centers’ disparate responses to the paradigmatic shift of the local Chinese literary trend in the 1980s, the thesis continues with a theoretical discussion on reader-response theory and the uneven power relations between the literary center and the periphery. READ MORE
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7. In Defense of Violent Fiction The why’s and values of violent and ‘immoral’ fiction.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Abstract: This essay aims to answer two related questions; why are people able to accept actions of fictional characters that deviate from normal morality, and why works of fiction which invite such a response can be valuable. The first parts of the essay is a general discussion of the criticism and defense of violent fiction; here we establish why it is problematic and why it is valuable, discussing the possible cathartic and educational aspects of fiction. READ MORE
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8. Virginia Woolf's Orlando and the Feminist Reader : Feminist Reader Response Theory in Orlando: a Biography
University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This essay is a close reading of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: a Biography that focuses on representation of gender in the novel and the possible response it elicits in the reader. The essay argues that the implied reader of Orlando - as manifested in the novel - is a feminist one, as well as it explores the possibility of this implied feminist reader being a female. READ MORE
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9. Making Gender Visible : Breaking down the narration in Stephanie Meyer's Breaking Dawn
University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)Abstract : This essay analyzes the difference between feminine and masculine narration in Stephanie Meyer's final novel in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn. The methods used are Narratology, Reader-Response Criticism and Gender Theory. READ MORE
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10. The Functions of the Narratee in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakultetenAbstract : Since its publication in 1989, Kazuo Ishiguro’s third novel, The Remains of the Day, has received a great deal of attention. It has been the object of criticism as well as acclaim and even been turned into film. READ MORE
