Sökning: "genre science-fiction"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 48 uppsatser innehållade orden genre science-fiction.

1. 1. FLYKTEN FRÅN VARDAGEN. Om fantasy, eskapism och verklighet

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Författare :Jonathan Axelsson Ossiansson; [2024-02-07]
   Nyckelord :ritual; symbolisk interaktionism; fantasy; eskapism; verklighet; rollspel; cosplay;

   Sammanfattning : This paper investigates the relations between the fantasy genre and the phenomena of escapism. It also delves into the factors which motivates consumption of various fantasy mediums. LÄS MER

3. 2. Skapande med lust på under : En analys av Selma Lagerlöfs Kevenhüller och Slåtterkarlarna på Ekolsund ur ett science fiction-perspektiv

   M1-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Författare :David Bjälvegård; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Selma Lagerlöf; Science Fiction; Future; Genre Analysis; Literature History; Selma Lagerlöf; Science fiction; Framtid; Genreanalys; Litteraturhistoria;

   Sammanfattning : Selma Lagerlöf är en författare som sällan förknippas med genren science fiction, men i denna uppsats analyseras två av hennes ovanligare berättelser med hjälp av science fiction-teori. Berättelserna är ”Kevenhüller”, ett kapitel ur Gösta Berlings saga från 1891, och ”Slåtterkarlarna på Ekolsund”, en versifierad berättelse från samlingsvolymen Troll och människor I från 1915. LÄS MER

4. 3. As Dark As Darkness : Using Star Maker and The Hobbit to Promote a Constructionist Understanding of Race in the ESL Classroom

   Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Engelska

   Författare :Martin Svanborg; [2023]
   Nyckelord :;

   Sammanfattning : Although the popular conception of fantasy has nothing to do with race, in fact, the genre frequently exhibits underlying concerns with racial dynamics. Conversely, science fiction, due to its speculative perspective on the universe and the potential existence of alien species is, by nature, more inherently preoccupied with the concept of race. LÄS MER

5. 4. 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

7. 5. “The Answer to the Great Question” : The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Narrative Worldmaking 

   Master-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Författare :Marina Allbäck; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Science fiction; cognitive narratology; narrative worldmaking; components of the genre; time; space; characters; The Hitchhiker’s Guide; Douglas Adams;

   Sammanfattning : Abstract Cognitive narratology constitutes the study of mind-related aspects of storytelling embracing the nexus of narrative and mind. Theorists in the sphere of cognitive narratology believe that the mental capacities of the reader provide basis for narrative experience involving him or her in the process of co-creation of narrative worlds. LÄS MER