Essays about: "narrator"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 128 essays containing the word narrator.
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1. My Burning Glances : The Male and queer gaze in three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to show the narrator’s use of the male and the queer gaze in three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe: “Berenice: A Tale” (1835), “The Man that was Used Up: A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign” (1839) and ”The Man of the Crowd” (1845). Through close reading of the stories, I show how the different gazes work, how they are used in the stories and what they lead to. READ MORE
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2. The Fictional World of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea: Emic and Etic Perspectives on its Worldbuilding
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Reading is a past time activity that is popular all around the world. It is something thathelps us escape reality and put our focus elsewhere. When immersing yourself in afictional world, it can be intriguing to think of how it was created. READ MORE
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3. Involving the Reader : A Narratological View of Elizabethan Prose Fiction
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This research was conducted to see why some scholars have decided that Elizabethan prose fiction is no longer of value to a modern audience; this essay will apply narratological analyses and theory to examine Elizabethan prose fiction, noting where and how these works build their stories to involve their readers: differently than we would nowadays. The main subjects within narratology used for the analyses are the narrator, the narratee, focalisation, point of view and perspective. READ MORE
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4. Human and Robot Narrator: How Gestures Affect Comprehension and Recollection
University essay from Lunds universitet/KognitionsvetenskapAbstract : This thesis investigated if a human or a robot narrator affected listeners’ comprehension and memory recollection similarly in a narrative story. 103 participants (MeanAge = 35) were recruited to an online experiment to investigate if gestures affected the participants’ narrative comprehension and recollection more than a narrator that did not produce gestures. READ MORE
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5. Conversational Implicature for Language Teachers: Reading between the lines in John Marsden's Tomorrow, when the war began
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska; Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : The aim of this study is to investigate how John Marsden’s Tomorrow, when the war began (1993) could be used for reading-between-the-lines practice in the English language classroom. It answers questions relating to how reading between the lines can be understood in relation to Grice’s cooperative principle, the effects of implicature in the text and how teachers can use this information to facilitate reading between-the-lines practice. READ MORE