Essays about: "Types of novels"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words Types of novels.

  1. 1. External and Internal Horror Objects : Analysis of the "objects of horror" in H.P Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu and Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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

    Author : Samuel Ek; [2023]
    Keywords : Horror; horror objects; mental defeat; Howard Phillips Lovecraft; Robert Louis Stevenson.;

    Abstract : Both Lovecraft and Stevenson have earned their respective fame as horror writers.However, it is interesting to compare their separate approaches to creating fear. The purposeof this essay is to show how there are different kinds of horror objects within the respectivestories of Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu and Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. READ MORE

  3. 2. A corpus-based analysis of phrasal verbs with the particle out in two contemporary English novels used in Swedish secondary schools

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Carola Henriksson; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency and the figurative meaning senses of out-PVs in two contemporary novels read in Swedish secondary schools. The study was delimited to PVs with the particle out. READ MORE

  4. 3. Reality and Subjectivity in Philip K. Dick’s Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Filip Rossenov Zahariev; [2021]
    Keywords : subjectivity; drugs; Philip K. Dick; The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch; postmodernism; Flow My Tears; The Policeman Said; Chew-Z; Can-D; KR-3; Baudrillard; Hutcheon; Lyotard;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the forces that affect subjectivity in two novels by the author Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. The close reading of these two novels makes use of postmodernist theory as its theoretical foundation. READ MORE

  5. 4. Actants and Networks in 'Skagboys' – Thatcher, Crime and Mundane Artifacts as Mediators

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Thomas Pedersen; [2020]
    Keywords : Skagboys; ANT; Actor-Network Theory; Thatcher; Crime; Heroin; Irvine Welsh; Bruno Latour; Mediator; Trainspotting; Literature; Scotland; Edinburgh; Agency; Detection; Objects in literature;

    Abstract : While Skagboys portrays the descent into heroin addiction of young, working class Scots during the Thatcher era, shifting the analysis from a strictly human perspective to one focusing on the agency of objects opens up the novel to new readings wherein morality emerges through nonhuman actors. Welsh’s work has traditionally been hailed as Scottish working-class realism that portrays its characters unideologically, to the point that the novels, through the characters, appear without morality. READ MORE

  6. 5. More Than a Stepping-Stone? : A Study of the Uses of Comics and Graphic Novels as Multimodal Teaching Material in English Courses at Upper and Lower Secondary Schools in Sweden

    University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Gunnar Ernsth Bravell; [2020]
    Keywords : Graphic Novels; Comics; Teaching; Literature; Multimodality;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to examine upper and lower secondary school teachers’ experiences of using graphic novels in the English subject in Swedish schools in order to discuss if, and how, multimodal texts can be used to increase students’ motivation to read and analyze fictional texts. This is done through qualitative semi-structured interviews with 12 participants currently working as English teachers from both upper and lower secondary schools in Sweden. READ MORE