Sökning: "Historical fiction"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 124 uppsatser innehållade orden Historical fiction.

  1. 16. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Serra Hughes; [2022]
    Nyckelord :novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

    Sammanfattning : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Antinous – överallt Antinous : En receptionshistoria om antikens vackraste man

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Författare :Marcel Engdahl; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Antique reception; Antinous; genealogy; typology; Foucault; Winckelmann; male beauty; reception history; Mapplethorpe.;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the reception history of Antinous, favourite to the roman emperor Hadrian. Using Michel Foucault's genealogical method, the aim of the thesis is to examine and conclude that Antinous is still, albeit at times hidden, the archetype of the young beautifulman in Western visual culture by examining the expressions of the representation and reception of Antinous as a male ideal of beauty and its change over time. LÄS MER

  4. 18. The Framing of Evil in Oppressive Systems : Barbara, Phoenix, and Transit by Christian Petzold

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Författare :Anna Aschenbrenner; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Evil; oppressive system; Christian Petzold; Barbara; Phoenix; Transit; Hannah Arendt; Banality of Evil;

    Sammanfattning : The present study aims to create a deeper understanding of the cinematic representation of “evil”. Therefore, a special focus lies on contemporary historical fiction films whose stories are set in totalitarian systems with direct or indirect references to German history. LÄS MER

  5. 19. "More Woman Than Man" : Genus i historisk skönlitteratur. Exemplet: Amarna-litteraturen.

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Författare :oskar nimmersjö; [2022]
    Nyckelord :genus; historisk skönlitteratur; amarna;

    Sammanfattning : In this essay the author analyzes three literary works of fiction that all belong to the genre‘historical fiction’. The three works are: Akhnaton (1937) by Agatha Christie, The TwelfthTransforming (1984) by Pauline Gedge, and Nefertiti (2007) by Michelle Moran. All theseworks center around the life and regency of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Dubbelmoralens väktare : Två fallstudier av bibliotekarier som motiv och verktyg i film

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Författare :Amanda Setterwall Klingert; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Reel librarians; Librarians in film; Narratology; Librarians in fiction; Librarian stereotypes; Film genres; Bibliotekarier i film; Bibliotek i film; Bibliotekariestereotyper; Narratologi; Filmgenrer; Modus i film;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on fictious librarians in film. It uses three research questions: Firstly, how the movies make use of typical elements from movie genres and narrative modes in their portrayal of library work and librarians. LÄS MER