Essays about: "epistolary novels"

Found 3 essays containing the words epistolary novels.

1. 1. Teaching Interpretation Through the Epistolary Novel: Using Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Teach Literary Interpretation in the Swedish Upper Secondary EFL Classroom

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Erik Hed; [2022]
   Keywords : teaching interpretation; epistolary novel; Dracula; English as a foreign language; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This essay examines how Swedish English as foreign language (EFL) students in the English 7 course can be taught textual interpretation skills through working with fiction in the classroom, using Bram Stoker’s 1897 epistolary novel Dracula as an example novel. A qualitative text analysis of Stoker’s novel was conducted, using Grice’s maxims of conversation and the concept of focalization, to determine the extent to which Dracula is suitable teaching material for the development of students’ interpretation skills. READ MORE

3. 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 kommunikation

   Author : Linda Melkner Moser; [2020]
   Keywords : Octavia Butler; Parable of the Sower; Parable of the Talents; James Phelan; the implied author; character narrators; narrators; authorial audience; rhetorical narrative theory; rhetoric ethics; ethics; rhetoric; rhetoric of character narration; Lauren Olamina; Olamina; Earthseed; epistolary novels; narrative theory;

   Abstract : 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

4. 3. The Savage and the Gentleman : A Comparative Analysis of Two Vampire Characters in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

   Author : Ramona Anttonen; [2000]
   Keywords : vampire; Bram Stoker; Anne Rice; Lestat; Dracula; Lombroso; Gothic Fiction; Neo-Gothic Fiction;

   Abstract : The creatures known as vampires have inspired authors for several hundred years. These beings are stereotypically described as belonging to a “nocturnal species” who live “in shadows” and drink “our lives in secrecy” (Auerbach 1). READ MORE