Essays about: "The Parable of the Talents"
Found 2 essays containing the words The Parable of the Talents.
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1. Compounding the Problem? : Gated Communities in Climate and Environmental Disaster Fiction
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : The gated community motif occurs frequently within climate and environmental disaster fiction. This thesis investigates its occurrence across three media to establish how the gated community mode of living, as rendered in post-apocalyptic speculative fiction, responds to the threat and consequences of climate and environmental crisis. READ MORE
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2. Character Narrators, the Implied Author, and the Authorial Audience: A Rhetorical and Ethical Reading of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents
University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikationAbstract : This essay considers the interplay between character narrators, the implied author, and the authorial audience in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents. The aim of the study was to investigate how narrators, the implied author, and readers position themselves in relation to each other and in relation to the novel’s ethical dimensions. READ MORE