Essays about: "Vladimir Propp"

Found 4 essays containing the words Vladimir Propp.

  1. 1. Modern Comrades or Old Enemies? : A comparative study of the representation of Russia in Italian and Swedish Press

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Sara Francesca Lindgren; [2018]
    Keywords : narrative analysis; national representation; Italian press; Swedish press; russia; Vladimir Putin; comparative study;

    Abstract : Starting from a personal, contemporary outlook on society today, it might be obvious for a reader to immediately think of media as global, an entity hovering over national borders, transcending geography and geo-politics. As such viewers, we ignore thus that media - and the press in particular - have for a long time in the past been associated and tightly linked with mechanisms of nation-building, as well as with concepts such as nation, national identity and nationalism. READ MORE

  3. 2. Modern Fairy Tales: The New Existence of an Old Genre : Exemplified by the Books of Alan A. Milne, Tove Jansson and Eno Raud

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Svetlana Yashkina; [2016]
    Keywords : children s literature; literary fairy-tale; modernism; poetics; semiotics; folkloristics; myth; mytho-logic; archaic intertext; memory of the genre; fantasy; chronotope; A.A. Milne; Tove Jansson; Eno Raud; Elezar Meetinsky; Michail Bakhtin; Yuri Lotman; Vladimir Propp; Bruno Bettelheim; barnlitteratur; saga; konstsaga; folkloristik; semiotik; myt; intertextualitet; poetik;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to draw new perspectives to the theoretic approach towards the complex nature of the modern fairy tale genre and its transformation. The study is exemplified by two books by Alan A. READ MORE

  4. 3. Morphology of a digital narrative : prototyping digital narratives using the theories of Vladimir Propp

    University essay from Institutionen för speldesign, teknik och lärande

    Author : Johan Sjöström; [2013]
    Keywords : narrative; game design; digital narrative; narrative generation; prototyping; narrativ; speldesign; digitala narrativ; narrativ generering; prototypande;

    Abstract : This paper will detail the prototyping and subsequent production of an digital narrative experience utilizing the theories of Vladimir Propp. The prototype will examine the theories detailed in Propps Morphology of the Folktale. It will implement Propps narrative functions according to a general scheme, connected by connectives. READ MORE

  5. 4. Gothic Horror and The Folktale : A Formalist Approach to Horace Walpole’’s The Castle of Otranto

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Sarah Lundwall; [2013]
    Keywords : Formalism; Horace Walpole; the Castle of Otranto; Vladimir Propp; Gothic Horror;

    Abstract : This essay examines the structural relationship between the folktale and the gothic novel with focus on characterization. This study will present a clearer definition of the now problematized gothic genre and show how newer genres are influenced by the older ones. READ MORE