Search for dissertations about: "historiographic metafiction"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words historiographic metafiction.

  2. 1. 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

  4. 2. 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