Essays about: "narrativity"

Found 5 essays containing the word narrativity.

  1. 1. Potentials and limitations of pantomime storytelling: An experimental study with intersemiotic translation.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Barbora Dadlíková; [2023]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : When in need to tell stories we often find ourselves using not only our words but also accompanying gestures, as well as pictures. However, what if we were to use only gestures to narrate? Would the stories we tell be clear enough to understand? The thesis investigates the potentials and limitations of pantomime, which consists mostly of gesture, for storytelling. READ MORE

  3. 2. Outline's Silence – In Search for A Silent Narrator

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Aspasia Dimou- Grampa; [2020]
    Keywords : silent narrator; absent; Neutral; silent narrator; absent; Neutral;

    Abstract : Outline’s Silence: In Search for a Silent Narrator is a Bachelor research paper that hopes to open a discussion about Rachel Cusk’s Outline (2014) and the possibility that an absent and silent narrator could lead to a new and innovative writing mode. The paper bases its theory on Hayden White’s “The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality” (1980) where White argues that moralization is unavoidable as long as there is a narrator in the text (27). READ MORE

  4. 3. From Necessitous Refugees to Menacing Migrants : The Syrian Refugees and their depiction in the Media from September 2015 to January 2016

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

    Author : Steven Koener; [2016]
    Keywords : refugee crisis; cosmopolitanism; identity; media power; news frame analysis; media sentiment; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This research touches upon the influence of media on both society and politics on the sensitive issue that is the refugee crisis Europe is subject to at the time of writing. By the means of newspaper and alternative media content analysis, the thesis will attempt to create a framework intended to rationalize the development of sentiment towards refugees as well as determine and investigate the internal mechanics of the phenomenon. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Rebellion of the Chicken: Self-making, reality (re)writing and lateral struggles in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Adelaida Caballero; [2015]
    Keywords : self-making; lateral struggles; Equatorial Guinea; politics of the belly; the practice of everyday life; existential anthropology; creativity; agency; narrativity; display; enunciative procedures; Obiang Nguema; Macías Nguema; postcolonial states; suicides; Mamí Watá; construcción del yo; conflictos laterales; Guinea Ecuatorial; política del vientre; la práctica de la vida cotidiana; antropología existencial; creatividad; agencia; narratividad; display; procedimientos enunciativos; Obiang Nguema; Macías Nguema; estudios poscoloniales; suicidios; Mamí Watá;

    Abstract : Historical sources suggest that the bad reputation of Bioko island ―a product of mixed exoticism, fear of death and allure for profit— might have started as early as the first European explorations of sub-Saharan Africa. Today, the same elements seem to have been reconfigured, producing a similar result in the Western imagination: cultural exoticization, fear of state-sponsored violence and allure for profit are as actual as ever in popular conceptions of Equatorial Guinea. READ MORE

  6. 5. Understanding ‘Illness’

    University essay from Kulturantropologiska avdelningen

    Author : Magdalena Brzezinska; [2004]
    Keywords : Cultural anthropology; Illness; Candomblé; Rio de Janeiro; medical pluralism; lifeworld; narrative; medical knowledge; Kulturantropologi;

    Abstract : This study describes and analyses understanding ‘illness’ among clients and leaders of the spiritual tradition Candomblé in Rio de Janeiro. The study focuses on the individuals’ narratives of illness and of healing rituals within the cult. READ MORE