Sökning: "Genre fantasy"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 93 uppsatser innehållade orden Genre fantasy.
16. Fashion and player retention in MMORPGs : A case study of Final Fantasy XIV: A realm reborn
Magister-uppsats, Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för informationsteknologiSammanfattning : Expression and identification through virtual characters in MMORPGs has actively been, and is still being studied throughout the 21st century, and with the growing industry of video games, these studies become more and more relevant than ever. However, the same cannot be said about the subject of self-expression in terms of wearable items of clothing in MMORPGs. LÄS MER
17. En bonn är alltid en bonn : Klassresan som motiv i Vilhelm Mobergs emigrantepos och Christopher Paolins Inheritance Cycle
Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaperSammanfattning : The thesis discusses if the hero’s journey in the fantasy genre could be seen as a journey through social classes. By comparing Paolin’s Eragon’s journey to that of Moberg’s Karl Oskar’s with a focus on the home, education and the chosen one trope via the concepts skogsgång (to go into the forest) and return the thesis concludes that many of the steps necessary for social mobility is also necessary in the hero’s journey, and that the change between social classes can be an answer to the heroes isolation in the end of their stories. LÄS MER
18. A Worm in an Apple : An analysis of hegemonic masculinity, personal responsibility and the nature of the Shadow in Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : In this paper, Ursula K Le Guin’s 1968 fantasy novel, A Wizard of Earthsea will be investigated in two ways. First, through a thematic analysis of the primary antagonist through a deconstructive close-reading technique. Second, through a pedagogic analysis of the depiction of hegemonic masculinity in the novel. LÄS MER
19. Sexy 16-Year-Old Baby-Eater: Gendered, Sexualized, and Racialized Discourses in Exalted, Second Edition
Master-uppsats, Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologiSammanfattning : Previous research finds roleplaying games, as well as the wider spectrum of geek culture that they exist within, to be defined by discourses favoring a white, heterosexual, cis-male viewpoint, drawing up and reproducing stereotypes and tropes that are inherently misogynist, homophobic, and racist. Heretofore, research into discourses of gender, sexuality, and race in roleplaying games has focused overwhelmingly on market leader Dungeons & Dragons (1971- ongoing), largely neglecting to scrutinize other well-established titles that may adhere to or break from the same tendencies. LÄS MER
20. Los aspectos fantásticos en "Noche boca arriba", "Continuidad de los parques" y "Axolotl" de Julio Cortázar
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This essay deals with the fantasy aspects that exist in work of Julio Cortázar. It is knownthat Cortázar frequently uses certain narrative tools in order to make a story to one of thefantastic kind. The purpose of the study is therefore to plunge into some of the fantasyaspects that are included in his work. LÄS MER
