Sökning: "Ahab"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 uppsatser innehållade ordet Ahab.

  1. 1. Information Conveyance : An Examination of Using Level Design to Communicating the State of Play in a Competitive Video Game

    Kandidat-uppsats, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för teknik och estetik

    Författare :Ahab Ibrahim; Adam Xavier Andersson Novela; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Information conveyance; Level design; third-person shooter; Game design;

    Sammanfattning : This is a study on information conveyance, specifically a study on how specific level design techniques can be used to convey information to the players regarding a competitive multiplayer game's “state of play”. Through an analysis of different games, three different level design elements were identified as effective tools for conveying information and these elements are; architectural placement, visual cues and environmental changes. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Criticism of Emerson's Transcendentalism in Melville's Moby-Dick

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Författare :Alexander Myrén; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Transcendentalism; Melville; Emerson; Ahab; Ishmael;

    Sammanfattning : In conceptualizing Moby-Dick; or, the whale, Herman Melville was both drawn and opposed to the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Through an analysis of the main characters in MobyDick and Emerson’s writing, it becomes evident that Transcendentalism is embodied in the characterization of the novel’s main characters. LÄS MER

  4. 3. El personaje femenino en la novela del dictador : Un análisis de La fiesta del rey Acab y La Fiesta del Chivo con enfoque al personaje literario de la esposa

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Romanska och klassiska institutionen

    Författare :Terese Andersson Ramirez; [2016]
    Nyckelord :personaje femenino; novela del dictador; predominio masculino; La fiesta del rey Acab; Enrique Lafourcade; La Fiesta del Chivo; Mario Vargas Llosa; Rafael Trujillo;

    Sammanfattning : El propósito de este trabajo es investigar el personaje femenino y el papel que ocupa en dos novelas del subgénero novela del dictador. El predominio masculino es evidente tanto por lo que se refiere a los autores como a los protagonistas despóticos y el tema es poco tocado en la gran cantidad de aportes críticos sobre el subgénero. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Peqoud

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Borås/Institutionen Textilhögskolan

    Författare :Jonas Collberg; [2013]
    Nyckelord :Moby Dick; Herman Menville; interpretation; character;

    Sammanfattning : Pequod - is an exploration of the translation problem. And an idea to examine the myth of"why the book is always better than the movie."The work began by choosing a character to interpret. My choice was the characteristicCaptain Ahab and his mono manic quest for revenge. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Intolerableness of All Earthly Effort : of Futility and Ahab as the Absurd Hero in Melville's Moby Dick

    Kandidat-uppsats, Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Sten Mittermaier; [2008]
    Nyckelord :Herman Melville Albert Camus Moby Dick futility absurdism human condition;

    Sammanfattning : In 1942, Algerian writer Albert Camus published a philosophical essay called The Myth of Sisyphus along with a fictional counterpart, The Stranger, wherein he presumed the human condition to be an absurd one. This, Camus claimed, was the result of the absence of a god, and consequently of any meaning beyond life itself. LÄS MER