Sökning: "reader response"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 32 avhandlingar innehållade orden reader response.
16. The Third Gospel for the First Time: Luke within the Context of Ancient Biography
Sammanfattning : If Luke’s first audience understood the Gospel as a biography, what would their experience of the text have been? This book invites the reader to accompany the first readers or hearers of Luke’s Gospel and to experience the narrative about the life of Jesus alongside them. It utilises Wolfgang Iser’s theory about reading and readers and focuses on gaps and vacancies in the text. LÄS MER
17. Narratorial Commentary in the Novels of George Eliot
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to study how narratorial commentary is implemented in six of George Eliot's novels ? Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Felix Holt, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda ? as a process for shaping the reader's responses to these texts. Focusing on the ways in which narratorial commentary steers the dynamic relationship between narrator and reader, this investigation introduces the concepts story-time now and narration now to demarcate commentary from other modes of narrative. LÄS MER
18. Towards a Poetics of Nostalgia : The Nostalgic Experience in Modern Fiction
Sammanfattning : In recent years there has been a body of studies relating nostalgia and fiction in political, sociological, feminist, or historical ways. This thesis, instead, sets out to perform an unusual textual study of nostalgia in modern fiction in order to work towards a poetics of nostalgia. LÄS MER
19. Tag Questions in Fiction Dialogue
Sammanfattning : This study investigates the use of tag questions (TQs) in British English fiction dialogue by making comparisons to spoken conversation. Data has been retrieved from two subcorpora of the British National Corpus (BNC): a Fiction Subcorpus and the demographic part of the spoken component. LÄS MER
20. Ambiguity and Estrangement : Peer-Led Deliberative Dialogues on Literature in the EFL Classroom
Sammanfattning : The thesis focuses on ideological and emotional dimensions of literature reading in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. The empirical data at the heart of this dissertation comprises questionnaires, group sessions, student texts, and post-study evaluation. LÄS MER