Essays about: "literary text"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 110 essays containing the words literary text.
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1. Shifting, Linking and Framing : The Case for Technology as a Coherence-Making Textual Device in Literary Realism
University essay from Karlstads universitetAbstract : Literary realism, that is, texts that seek to represent the actual in literature while achieving a sense of verisimilitude, have historically been analyzed and defined by a number of critics. These critics have, with differing approaches, attempted to make comprehensible what it is that constitutes the realist text. READ MORE
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2. Unlocking Poliphilo’s Dream: Towards a digital scholarly edition of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)Abstract : Hypnerotomachia Poliphili is a fifteenth-century illustrated incunabulum first published in 1499 by Aldo Manuzio in Venice. It delivers the story of two lovers separated by death but united in a dream; in fact, the entire book is a complex, multi-layered dream narrative which gradually unfolds through the interaction between text and image, inviting readers to engage with its rich content in a playful manner. READ MORE
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3. Pursuits of the body: Sensory realities in Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This thesis explores how corporeality is represented within horror literature, and if the depicted corporeality can be read in a more material way rather than in a metaphorical way. By using the character of Frank from Clive Barker’s novel The Hellbound Heart, the relation between representations of corporeality and physical materiality is examined. READ MORE
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4. Predicting the Unpredictable – Using Language Models to Assess Literary Quality
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : People read for various purposes like learning specific skills, acquiring foreign languages, and enjoying the pure reading experience, etc. This kind of pure enjoyment may credit to many aspects, such as the aesthetics of languages, the beauty of rhyme, and the entertainment of being surprised by what will happen next, the last of which is typically featured in fictional narratives and is also the main topic of this project. READ MORE
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5. "But Maybe They Should Feel Lost": Magical Literariness in the Computer Game Kentucky Route Zero
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This thesis investigates the poetical interplays of the contemporary magical realist computer game Kentucky Route Zero. Through the notion of literariness coined by the Russian formalists, the work centers on the ways the game operates with the established conventions of magical realism. READ MORE
