Sökning: "epistolary novels"

Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden epistolary novels.

  1. 1. Teaching Interpretation Through the Epistolary Novel: Using Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Teach Literary Interpretation in the Swedish Upper Secondary EFL Classroom

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Erik Hed; [2022]
    Nyckelord :teaching interpretation; epistolary novel; Dracula; English as a foreign language; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines how Swedish English as foreign language (EFL) students in the English 7 course can be taught textual interpretation skills through working with fiction in the classroom, using Bram Stoker’s 1897 epistolary novel Dracula as an example novel. A qualitative text analysis of Stoker’s novel was conducted, using Grice’s maxims of conversation and the concept of focalization, to determine the extent to which Dracula is suitable teaching material for the development of students’ interpretation skills. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Character Narrators, the Implied Author, and the Authorial Audience: A Rhetorical and Ethical Reading of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents

    Magister-uppsats, Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Författare :Linda Melkner Moser; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Octavia Butler; Parable of the Sower; Parable of the Talents; James Phelan; the implied author; character narrators; narrators; authorial audience; rhetorical narrative theory; rhetoric ethics; ethics; rhetoric; rhetoric of character narration; Lauren Olamina; Olamina; Earthseed; epistolary novels; narrative theory;

    Sammanfattning : This essay considers the interplay between character narrators, the implied author, and the authorial audience in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents. The aim of the study was to investigate how narrators, the implied author, and readers position themselves in relation to each other and in relation to the novel’s ethical dimensions. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Vart tog brevskriverskan vägen? : En analys av Iselin C. Hermanns Prioritaire

    Kandidat-uppsats, Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Författare :Kristin Björnsdotter; [2012]
    Nyckelord :Brevroman; Prioritaire; Hermann; Iselin C.;

    Sammanfattning : The objective with this essay was to compare the modern epistolary novel Priority by danish author Iselin C. Hermann with the epistolary genre during its heyday in late seventeenth to early nineteenth century. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Bränn mitt bref! : En poststrukturalistiskt inspirerad studie av författaren Marianne Lundegård-Hagbergs utträdande ur historien

    Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusvetenskap

    Författare :Karin Lundegård; [2011]
    Nyckelord :19th century; female author; history; social relationships; epistolary form; letters; social position; society; novels; post-structuralist; performativity; epistolary discourse; literature; feminism; 1800-tal; kvinnligt författarsubjekt; historia; sociala relationer; brevform; brev; brevforskning; social position; samhälle; romaner; poststrukturalism; performativitet; brevdiskurs; litteratur; feminism;

    Sammanfattning : Abstract This thesis discusses and analyses a 19th century female author's vanishing from history. The study investigates social relationships as figured and described in the epistolary form, based on letters between the author herself and different members of her family. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Savage and the Gentleman : A Comparative Analysis of Two Vampire Characters in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat

    Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för humaniora

    Författare :Ramona Anttonen; [2000]
    Nyckelord :vampire; Bram Stoker; Anne Rice; Lestat; Dracula; Lombroso; Gothic Fiction; Neo-Gothic Fiction;

    Sammanfattning : The creatures known as vampires have inspired authors for several hundred years. These beings are stereotypically described as belonging to a “nocturnal species” who live “in shadows” and drink “our lives in secrecy” (Auerbach 1). LÄS MER