Sökning: "Douglas Adams"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade orden Douglas Adams.

1. 1. “The Answer to the Great Question” : The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Narrative Worldmaking 

   Master-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Författare :Marina Allbäck; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Science fiction; cognitive narratology; narrative worldmaking; components of the genre; time; space; characters; The Hitchhiker’s Guide; Douglas Adams;

   Sammanfattning : Abstract Cognitive narratology constitutes the study of mind-related aspects of storytelling embracing the nexus of narrative and mind. Theorists in the sphere of cognitive narratology believe that the mental capacities of the reader provide basis for narrative experience involving him or her in the process of co-creation of narrative worlds. LÄS MER

3. 2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Irony

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Författare :Simon Torffvit; [2022]
   Nyckelord :irony; humor; principle of relevance; literature teaching; English as a Foreign Language; EFL; maxims of conversation; close reading; The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : In this paper, I explore how Douglas Adams’ comedic 1979 science-fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy could be used to improve English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ understanding of irony. Specifically, the study is based on criteria for the English 5 course in Swedish upper secondary school and is performed using a combined theoretical framework of Dan Sperber and Deidre Wilson’s principle of relevance and Paul Grice’s maxims of conversation. LÄS MER

4. 3. Science-fiction neologisms in translation : A case study of neologisms in Douglas Adam’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and its Japanese translation

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Författare :Tamara Zaitseva; [2022]
   Nyckelord :neologism translation; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; science fiction translation; author’s neologisms; neologisms in fiction;

   Sammanfattning : This study aims to discover how author’s neologisms in Douglas Adams’s science fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy were translated in its only existing official Japanese translation by Kazumi Yasuhara. It also tries to answer the question of whether the type of a neologism influenced the translator’s choices when translating it. LÄS MER

5. 4. Don't Panic! A study of the Absurd as an Expression of Anxiety and Existentialism in Douglas Adam's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Författare :Ellen Julie Opdahl; [2013-06-26]
   Nyckelord :Douglas Adams; Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy; absurd; anxiety; existentialism;

   Sammanfattning : This essay studies the absurd as expressions of anxiety and existentialism in Douglas Adam's novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"; my thesis is that the absurd is the key to understanding the novel. With the help of ideas from mainly Gary Cox and Marilette van der Colff, this essay concludes that Adams emphasizes the nature of anxiety and existentialism by simplifying, exaggerating and pointing at the irrational. LÄS MER

7. 5. The Novelization of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Författare :Carmen Katarina Robertson Salas; [2011]
   Nyckelord :Adams; Douglas; Novelization; intermediality; adaptation theory; radio theatre; radio theater; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER