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1. 1. Affect Poststructuralism and Repressed Emotion: The True Tragedy of The Remains of The Day

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Melvin Linderot; [2023]
   Keywords : Kazuo Ishiguro; The Remains of the Day; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day has garnered much discussion by literary theorists. Studies have primarily concerned themselves with the main character Mr Stevens and how he interacts with the complex situations around him. READ MORE

3. 2. Dissonance in Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Kristian Jeremic; [2022]
   Keywords : Elizabeth Gaskell; Mary Barton; George Orwell; Down and Out in Paris and London; Marxism; class; class consciousness; historical materialism; Althusser; internal distantiation; unreliable narrator; intranarrational unreliability; extratextual unreliability; representations of poverty;

   Abstract : This essay identifies a type of narrative dissonance in the depictions of working-class conditions within Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. In this thesis, the dissonance is argued in part to be the effect created when an author belonging to one social class attempts to portray a class separate from their own. READ MORE

4. 3. “We Did Not Trust Ourselves” : A study of the unreliable narration in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Author : Filip Mattsson; [2021]
   Keywords : Annihilation; Jeff VanderMeer; perception; unreliable narrator; science fiction; horror;

   Abstract : Annihilation is the first novel in the trilogy named “The Southern Reach,” a ScienceFiction/Horror series of books written by Jeff VanderMeer. Annihilation focuses on a team of scientists on an expedition into an area where the very nature has been altered in mysterious ways. READ MORE

5. 4. “Imitating Reality”: An Analysis of “American Psycho”

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Sana Sadraddin Mahiddin; [2020]
   Keywords : American Psycho; Postmodernism; Narratology; serial killers;

   Abstract : This paper analyzes Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (1991), and more specifically, the protagonist-narrator Patrick Bateman. He is analyzed through the theoretical framework known as narratology, and more specifically, the designation of “unreliable narrator,” in order to analyze the interplay between the character and the postmodernist society of which he is a product. READ MORE

6. 5. What loving Gatsby does to the narration of a novel

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Elna Olofsson; [2020]
   Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This essay examines the narration in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby by posting that the novel’s narrator, Nick Carraway, is unreliable and in love with protagonist Jay Gatsby. READ MORE