Essays about: "The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy.

1. 1. Investigating a possible dearth of stars with zero angular momentum in the solar neighbourhood.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Astronomi - Genomgår omorganisation; Lunds universitet/Fysiska institutionen

   Author : Aayush Desai; [2023]
   Keywords : Galaxy: disk; Galaxy: fundamental parameters; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: nucleus; solar neighborhood; stars: kinematics and dynamics; Physics and Astronomy;

   Abstract : Background. Carlberg & Innanen (1987) first proposed the idea of measuring the solar re- flex velocity (the velocity of the Sun around the galactic centre), Vg,⊙, using the momenta of the stars in the solar neighbourhood. The proposal was a consequence of the work of L. READ MORE

3. 2. “The Answer to the Great Question” : The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Narrative Worldmaking 

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Marina Allbäck; [2022]
   Keywords : Science fiction; cognitive narratology; narrative worldmaking; components of the genre; time; space; characters; The Hitchhiker’s Guide; Douglas Adams;

   Abstract : Abstract Cognitive narratology constitutes the study of mind-related aspects of storytelling embracing the nexus of narrative and mind. Theorists in the sphere of cognitive narratology believe that the mental capacities of the reader provide basis for narrative experience involving him or her in the process of co-creation of narrative worlds. READ MORE

4. 3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Irony

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Simon Torffvit; [2022]
   Keywords : irony; humor; principle of relevance; literature teaching; English as a Foreign Language; EFL; maxims of conversation; close reading; The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : In this paper, I explore how Douglas Adams’ comedic 1979 science-fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy could be used to improve English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ understanding of irony. Specifically, the study is based on criteria for the English 5 course in Swedish upper secondary school and is performed using a combined theoretical framework of Dan Sperber and Deidre Wilson’s principle of relevance and Paul Grice’s maxims of conversation. READ MORE

5. 4. Science-fiction neologisms in translation : A case study of neologisms in Douglas Adam’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and its Japanese translation

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Author : Tamara Zaitseva; [2022]
   Keywords : neologism translation; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; science fiction translation; author’s neologisms; neologisms in fiction;

   Abstract : This study aims to discover how author’s neologisms in Douglas Adams’s science fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy were translated in its only existing official Japanese translation by Kazumi Yasuhara. It also tries to answer the question of whether the type of a neologism influenced the translator’s choices when translating it. READ MORE

6. 5. The Novelization of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Carmen Katarina Robertson Salas; [2011]
   Keywords : Adams; Douglas; Novelization; intermediality; adaptation theory; radio theatre; radio theater; Languages and Literatures;

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