Search for dissertations about: "Metafiction"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the word Metafiction.

2. 1. A World of Myths : World Literature and Storytelling in Canongate's Myths series

   Author : Malin Nauwerck; Johan Professor; Paula Docent; Torbjörn Forslid; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sociology of Literature; World Literature; Book History; Publishing Studies; Sociology of Translation; Marketing; Storytelling; Book Trade; Metafiction; 21st Century; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis discusses contemporary publishing within the global, literary system through the prism of the transnational publishing project the Myths series, initiated by Scottish publishing house Canongate Books in 2005. By combining the perspectives of world literature studies and sociology of literature, I explore the conception, development and communication around the Myths series (today published in forty countries) in relation firstly to the contemporary changes in the publishing industry, situated within a more general literary debate on globalisation and cultural diversity and secondly the rise of a social order epitomised under the umbrella term “new economy”, in which the practice of strategic communication or marketing storytelling has become increasingly common. READ MORE

4. 2. The Gothic in contemporary interactive fictions

   Author : Van Leavenworth; Heidi Hansson; Catherine Spooner; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gothic; interactive fiction; subjectivity; posthuman; unspeakable; live burial; labyrinth; uncanny; grotesque; vampire; historiographic metafiction; cybergothic; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

5. 3. In transit : aspects of transculturalism in Janice Kulyk Keefer's travels

   Author : Elisabeth Mårald; Sven-Johan Spånberg; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; transculturalism; ethnicity; the postcolonial discourse; travels; tourism; imagology; Imagined Communities; environment; Bakhtin s dialogic theories; cultural studies;

   Abstract : Transculturalism refers to how cultural barriers are transcended and how cultures meet. Because the transcultural perspective reflects hitherto unrepresented spaces, it revises and innovates literary canons. This study investigates aspects of transculturalism in texts dealing with travel by the Canadian writer Janice Kulyk Keefer. READ MORE