Sökning: "metafiction"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade ordet metafiction.
6. As Coordenadas da Viagem no Tempo : Uma contribuição para a teoria da ficção histórica baseada em alguns textos portugueses dos séculos XVI, XIX e XX
Sammanfattning : In Portugal, as in other countries, a common characteristic of many of the novels published in the past twenty years is the recourse to a repertoire of literary devices that recall those of the historical novel. On the basis of critical studies published in the 1990’s, and in particular Fernández Prieto’s Poética de la Novela Histórica, this thesis undertakes a study of the Portuguese historical novel with the aim of defining, to the extent possible, the limits of this literary genre, and to examine in detail some of its intrinsic—and pertinent—semantic and pragmatic traits: the setting of a fictional narrative in the past, theintroduction of historical persons and events and, not the least, the transtextual relationship between the fictional and the historiographic text. LÄS MER
7. The Gothic in contemporary interactive fictions
Sammanfattning : This study examines how themes, conventions and concepts in Gothic discourses are remediated or developed in selected works of contemporary interactive fiction. These works, which are wholly text-based and proceed via command line input from a player, include Nevermore, by Nate Cull (2000), Anchorhead, by Michael S. LÄS MER
8. Agustina Bessa Luís et l’écriture de l’Histoire
Sammanfattning : When Agustina Bessa-Luís rewrites History she is guided by the will to show the absence of women in History. Our reading will show the reintroduction of women in Portuguese History through the “descontruction” of its discourse. LÄS MER
9. Krapula : Henry Parland och romanprojektet Sönder
Sammanfattning : The subject of the dissertation is the work of Henry Parland (1908-1930) during the last two years of his life. The main focus is on the novel Broken. (about developing Velox paper) and some essays about film and poetics. LÄS MER
10. Masken des Erzählens : Studien zur Theorie narrativer Unzuverlässigkeit und ihrer Praxis im Frühwerk Thomas Manns
Sammanfattning : Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is a key figure in literary modernism. The status of Mann as a German intellectual and cultural icon of the 20th century was firmly established only after the appearance of the novella Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig) in 1912. LÄS MER
