Essays about: "psychological reader response"

Found 3 essays containing the words psychological reader response.

1. 1. Heathcliff’s Complex Character : Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality and Reader-response Theory to Understand Heathcliff

   University essay from

   Author : Mohamed Ashmawi; [2024]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, presents Heathcliff as a complicated character that makes it hard for readers to declare him a victim or a villain, hence leaving them with questions about his morality. This work looks deep into Heathcliff’s tough character by integrating the view of psychoanalysis with reader-response theory. READ MORE

3. 2. Rooting for the Bad Guy: Narrative Empathy in Shakespeare’s Macbeth

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Brian Bell; [2018-01-19]
   Keywords : engelska; Shakespeare; Macbeth; Narrative empathy; Reader response; Transportation; authorial input;

   Abstract : One of the reasons for feeling an emotional connection with fiction is narrative empathy. Research shows that for narrative empathy to be fully realized, it must compose both reader response and authorial strategies. READ MORE

4. 3. Experienced Intensity throughCharacter Description in Stephen King’s Cell

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

   Author : Niclas Green; [2015]
   Keywords : narratology; apocalypse; zombies; horror; intensity; reader response theory; character descriptions; psychological reader response; subjective reader response;

   Abstract : This essay investigates experienced intensity through character description and development in Stephen King’s Cell. The thesis of the essay is that a deliberately produced narrative indeterminacy, used mainly on the level of character descriptions, is what produces intensity by holding the readers of Cell in suspense, i.e. READ MORE