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Author: Jana Karoff Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3668094713 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 19
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Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Mannheim (Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft), course: 20th Century American Short Fiction, language: English, abstract: This paper will focus on the fragments of male fantasies and the challenge they present to the reader under the assumption that the babysitter is only an idea and not a person. The babysitter builds the centre of the story and stands in the spotlight of all events, possible realities and fantasies. Throughout the whole story, the babysitter is not once mentioned by name, which makes her more into a sexualised object than a real person. This notion is intensified by the broken-up form of the story and the uncertainty about which events “really” happen to the characters and which are only imagined. In the second chapter, the babysitter will be analysed as sexual fantasy and the object of male desire from the perspectives of the male characters Mr. Tucker, Jack, Mark and Jimmy Tucker. The following chapter will give a general view on stereotypical perceptions of babysitters and how they are represented in the short story as well the influence the story’s form and style have on the reader. Lastly, the fourth chapter will offer a conclusion and have a look at prominent social issues.
Author: Jana Karoff Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3668094713 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 19
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Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Mannheim (Amerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft), course: 20th Century American Short Fiction, language: English, abstract: This paper will focus on the fragments of male fantasies and the challenge they present to the reader under the assumption that the babysitter is only an idea and not a person. The babysitter builds the centre of the story and stands in the spotlight of all events, possible realities and fantasies. Throughout the whole story, the babysitter is not once mentioned by name, which makes her more into a sexualised object than a real person. This notion is intensified by the broken-up form of the story and the uncertainty about which events “really” happen to the characters and which are only imagined. In the second chapter, the babysitter will be analysed as sexual fantasy and the object of male desire from the perspectives of the male characters Mr. Tucker, Jack, Mark and Jimmy Tucker. The following chapter will give a general view on stereotypical perceptions of babysitters and how they are represented in the short story as well the influence the story’s form and style have on the reader. Lastly, the fourth chapter will offer a conclusion and have a look at prominent social issues.
Author: Jan Alber Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110229048 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 281
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In recent years, the study of unnatural narratives has become an exciting new but still disparate research program in narrative theory. For the first time, this collection of essays presents and discusses the new analytical tools that have so far been developed on the basis of unnatural novels, short stories, and plays and extends these findings through analyses of testimonies, comics, graphic novels, films, and oral narratives. Many narratives do not only mimetically reproduce the world as we know it but confront us with strange narrative worlds which rely on principles that have very little to do with the actual world around us. The essays in this collection develop new narratological tools and modeling systems which are designed to capture the strangeness and extravagance of such anti-realist narratives. Taken together, the essays offer a systematic investigation of anti-mimetic techniques and strategies that relate to different narrative parameters, different media, and different periods within literary history.
Author: Hazel Smith Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000248194 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 266
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'A systematic and engaging approach to creative writing' - Carla Harryman, Wayne State University By suggesting that students who are not born poets can yet learn to become good ones, Smith performs a very important service.' - Professor Susan M. Schultz, University of Hawaii This is an impressive book, because it covers areas of creative writing practice and theory that have not been covered in published form It links radical practice with radical (but better-known) theory, and will appeal to anyone looking for a different approach ' - Robert Sheppard, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, UK The Writing Experiment demystifies the process of creative writing, showing that successful work does not arise from talent or inspiration alone. Hazel Smith breaks down writing into incremental stages, revealing processes that are often unconscious or unacknowledged, and shows how they can become part of a systematic writing strategy. The book encourages writers to take an explorative and experimental approach to their work. It relates practical strategies for writing to major twentieth century literary and cultural movements, including postmodernism. Suitable for both beginners and experienced writers, The Writing Experiment covers many genres including fiction, poetry, writing for performance and new media. Each chapter is illustrated with extensive examples of both student work and published writing, and challenging exercises offer writers at all levels opportunities to develop their skills.
Author: Mathias Fuchs Publisher: Meson Press by Hybrid ISBN: 9783957960757 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 112
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The early days when digital games were new, harmless and niche are long gone. Today's games can simulate battlefields, predict disaster, and crash markets. We are faced with a diversity of play and the ubiquity of games, making them not only a popular medium, but the leading medium of contemporary society. Based on the keynote lectures held at DiGRA2015, Diversity of Play provides a critical view on the current state of digital games from theoretical, artistic, and practical perspectives. With an interview with Karen Palmer and essays by Astrid Ensslin, Mathias Fuchs, Tanya Krzywinska, and Markus Rautzenberg, Diversity of Play explores the uncanny in games, the power of "unnatural" narratives, and the exceptions and uncertainties of digital ludic environments.
Author: Alison Gibbons Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349953172 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 291
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This edited collection brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who together offer cutting-edge insights into the complex roles, functions, and effects of pronouns in literary texts. The book engages with a range of text-types, including poetry, drama, and prose from different periods and regions, in English and in translation. Beginning with analyses of the first-person pronoun, it moves onto studies of the subject dynamics of first- and second-person, before considering plural modes of narration and how pronoun use can help to disperse narrative perspective. The volume then debates the functional constraints of pronouns in fictional contexts and finally reflects upon the theoretical advancements presented in the collection. This innovative volume will appeal to students and scholars of linguistics, stylistics and cognitive poetics, narratology, theoretical and applied linguistics, psychology and literary criticism.
Author: Astrid Ensslin Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262322048 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 217
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A new analytical framework for understanding literary videogames, the literary-ludic spectrum, illustrated by close readings of selected works. In this book, Astrid Ensslin examines literary videogames—hybrid digital artifacts that have elements of both games and literature, combining the ludic and the literary. These works can be considered verbal art in the broadest sense (in that language plays a significant part in their aesthetic appeal); they draw on game mechanics; and they are digital-born, dependent on a digital medium (unlike, for example, conventional books read on e-readers). They employ narrative, dramatic, and poetic techniques in order to explore the affordances and limitations of ludic structures and processes, and they are designed to make players reflect on conventional game characteristics. Ensslin approaches these hybrid works as a new form of experimental literary art that requires novel ways of playing and reading. She proposes a systematic method for analyzing literary-ludic (L-L) texts that takes into account the analytic concerns of both literary stylistics and ludology. After establishing the theoretical underpinnings of her proposal, Ensslin introduces the L-L spectrum as an analytical framework for literary games. Based on the phenomenological distinction between deep and hyper attention, the L-L spectrum charts a work's relative emphases on reading and gameplay. Ensslin applies this analytical toolkit to close readings of selected works, moving from the predominantly literary to the primarily ludic, from online hypermedia fiction to Flash fiction to interactive fiction to poetry games to a highly designed literary “auteur” game. Finally, she considers her innovative analytical methodology in the context of contemporary ludology, media studies, and literary discourse analysis.
Author: C. Wald Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230288618 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 294
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Hysteria, trauma and melancholia are not only powerful tropes in contemporary culture, they are also prominent in the theatre. As the first study in its field, Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia explores the characteristics and concerns of the Drama of Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia through in-depth readings of representative plays.
Author: Cathy Leeney Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9780953425778 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 310
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"This is the first collection of articles to be published on the theatre of Marina Carr, a major contemporary Irish playwright whose work is highly acclaimed in Ireland and internationally for its poetic energy and its remarkable theatrical imagination." "These essays examine Carr's highly original voice, and place her plays in the context of current theatre in Ireland and abroad. They raise lively debate on contemporary representation of 'Irishness' on the stage, on the current state of Irish theatre, on the impact of female authorship on the canon of Irish theatre, and on Carr's portrayal of characters who are fundamentally at odds with the world around them."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: M. Sihra Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230801455 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 261
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Featuring original essays by leading scholars in the field, this book explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of theTwentieth century. Chapters consider the intersecting contexts of gender, sexuality and the body in order to investigate the broader cultural, political and historical implications of representing 'woman' on the stage. In addition, a number of essays engage with representations of women by a selection of male playwrights in order to re-evaluate familiar contexts and traditions in Irish drama. Features a Foreword by Marina Carr and a useful appendix of Irish women playwrights and their works.
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