Sökning: "metafiction"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 21 uppsatser innehållade ordet metafiction.
1. ”Mu eallin” – genrens funktion i Mikael Niemis roman Koka björn
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionSammanfattning : This master’s thesis studies the functions of the genres in Swedish author Mikael Niemi’s novel To Cook a Bear (2017). The plot is set in Kengis in 1852 and is told through two protagonists: the priest and Jussi Sieppinen. The priest is a fictionalization of the priest, botanist, and revivalist preacher Lars Levi Laestadius. LÄS MER
2. Ahtesham-Grunebaum-Stark’s The Tale of the Missing Man: a Dāstāṃ of a Bhopālī Lāpatā
L3-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiSammanfattning : Mazoor Ahtesham is a renowned writer in the modern Hindi literature. He is one of the fewMuslim voices in the modern Hindi literary canon.2 He gives a detailed picture of the Muslim society, which is undergoing a change within and, at the same time, is confronted by the change outside. LÄS MER
3. Painful Narrative : A metafictional reading of The Hour of the Star,by Clarice Lispector.
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : .... LÄS MER
4. Beyond Modernity : Narrative Strategies in Hindi Short Stories of Uday Prakash
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiSammanfattning : This thesis explores different genres and modes of writing in short stories of the contemporary Indian author Uday Prakash, such as magical realism, the fantastic, regionalism, postcolonial and postmodern writing. It poses the question: “In which literary genre should Uday Prakash’s writings best be categorised?” The study is based on a reading of Prakash’s collection, 10 Pratinidhi kahāniyāṃ – Ten Representative Stories, consisting of ten stories of the author’s own choice. LÄS MER
5. "No good being a witch unless you let people know" : The importance of performance in Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters
Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Sammanfattning : In this analysis of Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters, I argue that performance of the witch is the most important part of witchcraft on Discworld, and, indeed, what drives the story. To underpin this position, I understand Wyrd Sisters as a work of metafiction and parody, examine witch tropes and stories on Discworld and draw parallels to the weird sisters of Shakespeare's Macbeth. LÄS MER