Essays about: "historical narration"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words historical narration.

  1. 1. Third-Person Present Tense as Stylistic Allusion to Theatre : A Study of Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Kajsa Hermansson; [2023]
    Keywords : Hamnet; Maggie O’Farrell; Third-Person Present Tense; Stylistic Allusion; Shakespeare; Historical Fiction; Stylistics; Narratology;

    Abstract : In this essay, I illustrate how the third-person present tense narrative perspective can be used as stylistic allusion to theatre, by studying Maggie O’Farrell 2020 historical fiction novel Hamnet. Previous studies conclude that present-tense narration has the effect of blurring the lines between narration and experience. READ MORE

  3. 2. A Captor held Unconsciously Captive: Postcolonial Iranian Identity and its Narration in Man of my Time 

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Céline Nasim Valentina Ragus; [2022]
    Keywords : Iran; Post-Colonialism; Literature;

    Abstract : This project aims to investigate the presentation of identity in Dalia Sofer’s novel Man of My Time with concepts coined by Homi K. Bhabha and further discussed by Stuart Hall and David Huddart. READ MORE

  4. 3. Narrating Independence - A Narrative Analysis of Contemporary Estonian and Latvian Narratives about Independence

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Per Brishammar; [2020]
    Keywords : Estonia; Latvia; Historical Consciousness; Historical Narratives; Independence; European Studies; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In 2018, several European nations celebrated their centennial anniversaries of independence. Two of them, Estonia and Latvia, had never been independent before 1918, and for these nations, the events surrounding independence therefore have a special meaning. READ MORE

  5. 4. An Imperfect World, Imperfectly Retold : Mimetic Uncertainty in Early, Late, and Meta-Modern Fiction

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Jonathan Brott; [2020]
    Keywords : Mimetic Uncertainty; Uncertain Narration; Unreliable Narration; Realism; Modernism; Metamodernism; Reflexivity; Virginia Woolf; Tao Lin; Daniel Defoe.;

    Abstract : Proposing the concept of mimetic uncertainty, this project aims to provide a critical inquiry into the correspondence of unreliable narration and realism. Building on Springett (2013) and Olsen (2003), a distinction between narratorial unreliability and uncertainty is proposed to denote whether a narrator explicitly signals an awareness of their fallible narration. READ MORE

  6. 5. Contemporary stories of water

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Johanne Oline Storgaard Brok; [2017]
    Keywords : Vatten; hantering av vatten; narrativ; konflikt; kommersialisering; Irland; vattenavgifter; Water; water management; narrative; conflict; commercialization; Republic of Ireland; water charges; human rights; Law and Political Science; Earth and Environmental Sciences; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : Vattenkonflikter är inget nytt fenomen, det är snarare så att vattnets status genererar konflikter. Forskningen kring vatten har generellt sätt fokuserat på utvecklingsländerna, men i den här uppsatsen ligger fokus på den utvecklade, västliga kontexten, där vatten är en lika stor nödvändighet för människors överlevnad. READ MORE