Sökning: "cognitive literary criticism"
Hittade 3 uppsatser innehållade orden cognitive literary criticism.
1. Other People’s Darkness : Difficult empathy and villains in two novels by Graham Greene
Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : The thesis aims to mesh narrative theory with theory of empathy in a study of two novels by Graham Greene, A Gun for Sale (1936) and Brighton Rock (1938), where the use of narrative building blocks from the crime thriller genre and the empathy that the characters may evoke are analysed. The second aim is to discuss how to implement the rather complex works of Graham Greene in the EFL classroom. LÄS MER
2. Relevans i litteratur En relevansteoretisk undersökning av Johannes Anyurus De kommer att drunkna i sina mödrars tårar
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionSammanfattning : This essay aims to show how Relevance Theory from the Philosophy of Language can be used in literary analysis. The integration of Literary Theory and Relevance Theory has high value in that it raises the status of fiction and literature in the eyes of Philosophy of Language, giving it the same communicative power as other language use rather than discarding it to the realm of pretense or untruthfulness. LÄS MER
3. Horrifying Empathy : A comparative study of empathy in Stephen King's Pet Sematary and The Shining, with a discussion of the use of horror literature in the EFL-classroom
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This essay is a comparative analysis of the novels Pet Sematary and The Shining by Stephen King, where the empathy that the characters may invoke is analyzed. The focus lies on the children, mothers and fathers of the two families featured in the novels, who are analyzed in terms of Leake’s division of easy or difficult empathy. LÄS MER
