Essays about: "realist fiction"

Found 4 essays containing the words realist fiction.

  1. 1. The Relationship Between Humans and the Environment in The Grapes of Wrath

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

    Author : Anna Zsofia Orosz; [2022]
    Keywords : realism; realist fiction; fiction; steinbeck; naturalism; john steinbeck; the grapes of wrath; great depression; great depression literature; environmental impacts; climate fiction; socialism; communism; human agency; environment; human environment relationship;

    Abstract : The paper explores the human-environment relationship in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. It argues that every impact on humans by the environment or by human-made objects is initially triggered by human actions. The paper questions humans' and objects' agency. READ MORE

  3. 2. Exposing Masculinities : Reframing the Hardboiled Detective in Lehane’s Shutter Island

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

    Author : Payvand Behnam Nikou; [2022]
    Keywords : noir fiction; masculinity; hardboiled; gender; Shutter Island;

    Abstract : This literary study examines the relationship between the hardboiled detective and the 2003 detective novel Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. Known for his thought provoking stories as a crime novelist, Lehane exemplifies the desire of a current literary shift from stoic patriarchal constructs of detective archetypes towards a more feminist perspective. READ MORE

  4. 3. An Imperfect World, Imperfectly Retold : Mimetic Uncertainty in Early, Late, and Meta-Modern Fiction

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Jonathan Brott; [2020]
    Keywords : Mimetic Uncertainty; Uncertain Narration; Unreliable Narration; Realism; Modernism; Metamodernism; Reflexivity; Virginia Woolf; Tao Lin; Daniel Defoe.;

    Abstract : Proposing the concept of mimetic uncertainty, this project aims to provide a critical inquiry into the correspondence of unreliable narration and realism. Building on Springett (2013) and Olsen (2003), a distinction between narratorial unreliability and uncertainty is proposed to denote whether a narrator explicitly signals an awareness of their fallible narration. READ MORE

  5. 4. Postmodern or conventional? An inquiry into the nature of Ian McEwan's Saturday.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Maia Lovén; [2006]
    Keywords : postmodernity; realism; progress; narrative theory; Baudrillard; Lyotard; English literature; Engelsk litteratur; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : My aim with this paper is to examine to what extent Saturday is a postmodern novel, and with that follows the question how much it adheres to the aesthetics of the realist genre. I will in the paper ask how the two different views of reality - realism and postmodernism -are dramatised thematically in the novel and how they are represented formally. READ MORE