Essays about: "fictional expectation"

Found 3 essays containing the words fictional expectation.

1. 1. Unrequited Luxury Love: A story about how luxury met the internet

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för marknadsföring och strategi

   Author : Natalie Eriksson; Amanda Lindsjöö; [2020]
   Keywords : Luxury; representations; narratives; fictional expectation; promissory organizations;

   Abstract : The luxury industry has for long been hesitant towards online channels. It has been argued that the accessibility and mass-distribution of the internet is not compatible with values of exclusivity and rarity that are said to be critical to luxury brands. READ MORE

3. 2. The Non-World : Inaccessibility and Law in Charles Dickens' Bleak House

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Jonathan Foster; [2016]
   Keywords : Charles Dickens; Bleak House; non-world; Chancery; law; Pierre Bourdieu; Fredric Jameson; cognitive mapping; space; time; geocriticism; possible-worlds theory; the sublime.;

   Abstract : The representation of Chancery court in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House (1852-3) emphasises the inaccessibility of this institution to members of the laity. Dickens’ critique of Chancery chimes with Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological description of law as a formalistic social field defined by practices of exclusion. READ MORE

4. 3. The Reception of Mo Yan in the British and North American Literary Centers

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Victoria Xiaoyang Liu; [2015]
   Keywords : Mo Yan; reception; reader-response criticism; horizon of expectation; interpretive communities; Pascale Casanova; discourse; hegemony;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the two major conflicting modes of interpretation applied to Mo Yan’s literary texts diachronically and synchronically in order to reveal both the aesthetic imperative and the liberating force of the British and North American literary centers in receiving literature from the periphery. After an introduction to the centers’ disparate responses to the paradigmatic shift of the local Chinese literary trend in the 1980s, the thesis continues with a theoretical discussion on reader-response theory and the uneven power relations between the literary center and the periphery. READ MORE