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1. Navigating through life with metaphors as a guide. : An analysis about mind style and metaphors in John Green's The Fault In Our Stars and its pedagogical use.
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This essay offers a literary study of John Green’s novel The Fault In Our Stars which was published in 2012. This thesis argues that Hazel and Augustus are portraying unorthodox mind styles, and they are demonstrating this with their use of and stance towards metaphors. LÄS MER
2. The Body as a Grenade : Illness Metaphors, The Suffering of Others and Conservativism in Contemporary Sick-Flicks
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudierSammanfattning : Film has since its inception been a potent storytelling tool, and the concept of illnesses and death havebeen a critical element in the stories mankind has told through cinema since the beginning. While theearly years of film saw few titles which directly named or featured diseases such as cancer, the 1980’sand 1990’s saw a vast increase in illness narratives being produced. LÄS MER
3. The Gaps in Our Stars : The Fault in Our Stars and Reader-response Theory in the Swedish EFL Classroom
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This essay analyses John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (2012) with a theoretical approach of reader-response theory to show how the potential interpretations of the gaps in the novel make it a relevant choice of literary work for EFL education. The essay also examines whether the concept of gaps can be used as a tool in literary analysis. LÄS MER
4. Narrating the process of dying : An analysis of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and its pedagogical implications
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This cross-disciplinary essay explores the use of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (2012) and its pedagogical implications for learners in middle school. It demonstrates that the novel expresses preparatory grief by implementing internal focalisation through the main character Hazel Grace. LÄS MER
5. The Young & The Dying : The Continued Romanticization of Terminally Ill Adolescents in Contemporary American Cinema
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudierSammanfattning : This essay examines how the past decade’s wave of young adult films portraying termi-nal illnesses compare and contrast with similar works from both film as well as literary works commonly referred to as “sick-lit”. By viewing three prominent films released be-tween 2014 and 2019 and applying both literature dealing with sick-lit as well as texts fo-cused on how cinema tends to portray serious illnesses such as cancer, I attempt to dis-cern whether significant change in the way which contemporary film handles severe ill-nesses has occurred. LÄS MER
