Essays about: "prose"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 31 essays containing the word prose.

  1. 1. Involving the Reader : A Narratological View of Elizabethan Prose Fiction

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

    Author : Maud Koenders; [2023]
    Keywords : Elizabethan prose fiction; Narratology;

    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

  3. 2. “I’m a girl. But now I’m a boy too”: Ｑueerness and autonomy in Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden (1986) and “The Sea Change” (1931)

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Author : Mikael Nilsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Ernest Hemingway; relational autonomy; queer theory; transgender studies; contagious gendering; queer spaces; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Much has been written about Hemingway’s works from a feminist or queer perspective, including the relation between Hemingway’s biography and his representation of female characters, female domination and homosexuality. In comparison, the queer sub-field of transgender studies, which entails analyzing gender transgression and influence, has received little attention by scholars of Hemingway studies. READ MORE

  4. 3. "I have alluded to him, Reader". Categorising literary references in Jane Eyre (1847)

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Olivia Nordgren; [2022-02-17]
    Keywords : Charlotte Brontë; Jane Eyre; allusions; references; structuralism; dimensions of the text; textual and extratextual; allusioner; referenser; strukturalism; textdimensioner; textuellt och extratextuellt;

    Abstract : This essay examines the use of references to real books within the narrative of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847). Jane Eyre is one of the most densely allusive novels of its time, which is well-documented, but there is a limited focus on the use of allusions and references woven into its narrative, as opposed to the references woven into the textual side of the prose itself. READ MORE

  5. 4. Rollen av det poetiska språket i "Den Nya Vetenskapen" av Giambattista Vico

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Maresca Massimo; [2021-07-05]
    Keywords : kropp; retorik; Vico; sensus communis; metafor; repetition;

    Abstract : In the seventeenth century the Italian rhetorician Giambattista Vico imagined the history of human civilization in his major work The New Science. He conceived the progression of humanity from barbarism along the way towards the construction of a self-conscious mind, the highest and final achievement of human development. READ MORE

  6. 5. FATE ACCORDING TO THE PROSE EDDA NARRATION OF RAGNAROK : A Theological contemplation, elaboration and insight to the Norse pagan concept of fate

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Religionsvetenskap

    Author : Miralem Mehanovic; [2021]
    Keywords : fate; fatalism; theological; logical; determinism; free will; Amor Fati;

    Abstract : The Prose Edda chapter, Ragnarok as recorded by Snorri, was taken as a pivotal point for exploring fate according to the Norse mythology. The eschatological concept of collapsing gods and destruction of the world was explored through the logical and theological fatalist theory, diverging the orientation from standard textual exploration. READ MORE