Essays about: "cognitive literary criticism"

Found 2 essays containing the words cognitive literary criticism.

1. 1. Other People’s Darkness : Difficult empathy and villains in two novels by Graham Greene

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Ulf Randau; [2020]
   Keywords : Adult education; cognitive literary criticism; crime thriller literature; EFL-classroom; empathy; Graham Greene; narratology; scaffolding;

   Abstract : The thesis aims to mesh narrative theory with theory of empathy in a study of two novels by Graham Greene, A Gun for Sale (1936) and Brighton Rock (1938), where the use of narrative building blocks from the crime thriller genre and the empathy that the characters may evoke are analysed. The second aim is to discuss how to implement the rather complex works of Graham Greene in the EFL classroom. READ MORE

3. 2. Horrifying Empathy : A comparative study of empathy in Stephen King's Pet Sematary and The Shining, with a discussion of the use of horror literature in the EFL-classroom

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Niklas Petersson; [2018]
   Keywords : Cognitive literary criticism; Empathy; Pet Sematary; The Shining; EFL-classroom;

   Abstract : This essay is a comparative analysis of the novels Pet Sematary and The Shining by Stephen King, where the empathy that the characters may invoke is analyzed. The focus lies on the children, mothers and fathers of the two families featured in the novels, who are analyzed in terms of Leake’s division of easy or difficult empathy. READ MORE