This thesis will examine the heroes in the graphic novel and television series through a specific approach to the gothic, which frames these heroes as modern gothic monsters: which in turn bring to...Show moreThis thesis will examine the heroes in the graphic novel and television series through a specific approach to the gothic, which frames these heroes as modern gothic monsters: which in turn bring to the fore the aforementioned aspects of late twentieth-century and contemporary American society.Show less
Never before were there so many people that can read and have access to reading material on demand. This is a time of great technological innovation, and carrying a small computer in the back...Show moreNever before were there so many people that can read and have access to reading material on demand. This is a time of great technological innovation, and carrying a small computer in the back pocket of your jeans has become a normality, and often even a necessity. An increasing number of people relies on the ability to read, and current literacy numbers are exceptionally high, with a vast majority of the world population being literate. Reading is done on a large scale by a staggering number of people, yet reading enthusiasm and the number of people who read as a leisure activity in its own right is declining. This results in a decline in the number of people able to read a long-form text in the deep reading mode, and this poses a problem. Reading long-form texts in a deep reading mode trains the reading comprehension ability and general reading skill, if these skills are not regularly trained there is a risk of becoming low-literate, which impedes someone to fully participate in society. Being low-literate decreases the chances of being able to think critically, differentiate between real and fake news, understand political party programmes, or the information attached to drugs. The increase of people at risk of becoming low-literate is connected to heavy screen use. Screen reading does not train the deep reading mode, but rather the skimming reading mode. Being well trained to read in the skimming reading mode has made it extremely difficult for people to be able to read long-form texts. In this thesis I address this problem and argue that reading graphic narratives can be a stepping stone to acquiring and improving general comprehensive reading skills and reading enthusiasm for non-graphic text. I support my argument by indicating the characteristics of the graphic narrative and how these enable the reluctant reader to read a graphic narrative in a way that resembles the skimming reading mode, while still being able to read deeply. Additionally I review several research studies that have found the graphic narrative to provide a positive learning experience for students, in the fields of second language acquisition, and reading comprehension ability.Show less
Bachelor thesis | Film- en literatuurwetenschap (BA)
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Interiority has long been seen as the domain of literature. While there has been research into the way cinema uses visual means to represent interiority or subjectivity, similar analyses of other...Show moreInteriority has long been seen as the domain of literature. While there has been research into the way cinema uses visual means to represent interiority or subjectivity, similar analyses of other media seem to be lacking. This thesis looks into how interiority and subjectivity are represented in narrative television shows, video games and comics or graphic novels.Show less
The main focus of this thesis will be to research in which ways the translator of Persepolis deals with CSIs and whether the models of Javier Franco Aixelá (different media), Jan Pedersen ...Show moreThe main focus of this thesis will be to research in which ways the translator of Persepolis deals with CSIs and whether the models of Javier Franco Aixelá (different media), Jan Pedersen (subtitles) and Ritva Leppihalme (allusions and realia) are suitable and sufficient for the categorization of CSIs and translation procedures. The thesis will determine how the translator has rendered CSIs in Persepolis and assess to what degree the translation models of Aixelá, Pedersen and Leppihalme are suitable for the categorization of CSIs and their translation procedures in comics. The thesis will also determine whether it is possible to assess if the translator rendered CSIs with source language oriented or target language oriented strategy.Show less
The present thesis analyzes two works: Les Hommes centre l'human from Gabriel Marcel (1951) and Maus II from Art Spiegelmann (1991). The first one is a philosophical essay, very representative of...Show moreThe present thesis analyzes two works: Les Hommes centre l'human from Gabriel Marcel (1951) and Maus II from Art Spiegelmann (1991). The first one is a philosophical essay, very representative of the post-war French existentialist thoughts. The second one is a graphic novel about the Holocaust. Gabriel Marcel's philosophy is used in order to elucidate and get a better understanding of Spiegelman's interpretation of the Nazi crimes against the Jewish people. This thesis can also be situated in the larger framework of linking visual arts and philosophical texts, which is a developing but still not common process.Show less
