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  1. 1. A Post-Structural Approach to Language Theory in Relation to Paul Auster’s City of Glass

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

    Författare :Johanna Leimola; [2021]
    Nyckelord :City of Glass; Paul Auster; post-structuralism; centre; signifier; signified;

    Sammanfattning : Do words mirror reality? This question has been at the core of several linguistic disputes for decades. Several scholars have investigated the relationship between the signifier and the signified, and different literary theories suggest different approaches. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Three Postmodern Detectives Teetering on the Brink of Madness in Paul Auster´s New York Trilogy : A Comparison of the Detectives from a Postmodernist and an Autobiographical Perspective

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Författare :Björn Sondén; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Keywords: postmodernity; chance; identity; solitude and the metaphysical detective story;

    Sammanfattning : As the title suggests, this essay is a postmodern and autobiographical analysis of the three detectives in Paul Auster´s widely acclaimed 1987 novel The New York Trilogy. The focus of this study is centred on a comparison between the three detectives, but also on tracking when and why the detectives devolve into madness. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Performing Paul Auster’s Authorship : Authorship and Authority as Cultural Performance in the New York Trilogy

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Författare :Jordan Lewis Mathes; [2019]
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  5. 4. Getting out of Strange Spaces : A Reconstructive Reading of Paul Auster’s Oracle Night

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Författare :Cia Gustrén; [2019]
    Nyckelord :critique; deconstruction; desubjectification; estrangement; existentialism; literary theory; narratology; postmodernism; reconstruction; strange spaces; subjectivity; subjectification; thematic analysis; themes; thematic units; thematic motifs; writing;

    Sammanfattning : As the title of this essay suggests, Paul Auster’s 2003 novel Oracle Night is studied with regard to what is here considered to be a search for a way out of estrangement. This search, as narrated from the point of view of the protagonist, is followed by a certain recognition of the limits of human existence – which may be essentially meaningless but is nevertheless portrayed as an intentional state of being, not least through the act of writing as a means of subjectification. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Postmodern in the English Classroom : A Didactic Consideration of Paul Auster’s City of Glass

    Master-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Författare :Robin Lehto; [2017]
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