Search for dissertations about: "metalepsis"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word metalepsis.

  2. 1. Margaret Atwood's Environmentalism : Apocalypse and Satire in the MaddAddam Trilogy

    Author : Marinette Grimbeek; Maria Holmgren Troy; Magnus Ullén; Sylvia Mayer; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Margaret Atwood; MaddAddam Trilogy; environmentalism; apocalypse; satire; celebrity activism; metalepsis; commodity aesthetics; storytelling; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This study considers the way in which Margaret Atwood’s post-apocalyptic MaddAddam Trilogy functions as an environmental project. The main focus is on how the three novels, Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013), simultaneously draw on and destabilise the apocalypticism inherent in so much environmental discourse, primarily through the use of satire. READ MORE

  4. 2. Time of Turmoil : Reading and Media Combination in the American Young Adult Novels Cathy’s Book, Skeleton Creek, and Endgame

    Author : Julie Blomberg Gudmundsson; Daniel Kane; Anna Nordlund; Danuta Fjellestad; Astrid Ensslin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; young adult fiction; reading; media combination; literary competence; reading paths; interrupted reading; media consciousness; multimedia novels; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Curriculum Studies; Didaktik;

    Abstract : In the beginning of the twenty-first century, Young Adult (YA) fiction experienced a renaissance, and YA novels began to appear on the best-seller lists in the US. Around the same time, many reports sounded alarms about rapidly declining rates of fiction reading among young adults. READ MORE