Essays about: "Reader-response"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 46 essays containing the word Reader-response.
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1. Heathcliff’s Complex Character : Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality and Reader-response Theory to Understand Heathcliff
University essay fromAbstract : Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, presents Heathcliff as a complicated character that makes it hard for readers to declare him a victim or a villain, hence leaving them with questions about his morality. This work looks deep into Heathcliff’s tough character by integrating the view of psychoanalysis with reader-response theory. READ MORE
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2. Conversational Implicature for Language Teachers: Reading between the lines in John Marsden's Tomorrow, when the war began
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska; Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : The aim of this study is to investigate how John Marsden’s Tomorrow, when the war began (1993) could be used for reading-between-the-lines practice in the English language classroom. It answers questions relating to how reading between the lines can be understood in relation to Grice’s cooperative principle, the effects of implicature in the text and how teachers can use this information to facilitate reading between-the-lines practice. READ MORE
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3. The Gaps in Our Stars : The Fault in Our Stars and Reader-response Theory in the Swedish EFL Classroom
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This essay analyses John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (2012) with a theoretical approach of reader-response theory to show how the potential interpretations of the gaps in the novel make it a relevant choice of literary work for EFL education. The essay also examines whether the concept of gaps can be used as a tool in literary analysis. READ MORE
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4. Challenging the straight line : Opening a new space for LGBTQ literature in the EFL classroom through a queer phenomenological reading of young adult literature
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This thesis aims at analysing the novel History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera using a queer phenomenological lens in order to reveal to what extent it depicts aspects of sexuality, consent and relationships in a non-heteronormative way. Furthermore, the thesis discusses different ways of making visible the effects of normativity on student’s learning and development through the proposed queer phenomenological pedagogy. READ MORE
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5. Stop Calling Me That! : A Reader-Response Analysis of Bullying in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, in Accordance with Theory of the Carnivalesque
University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : In school bullying is a well-known problem and unfortunately it is not uncommon that adults do not see all the signs of a bullying situation. Bullying can be hard to detect and several factors are possible foundation pillars for a hierarchical subjugation of another individual. READ MORE
