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11	‘A Machine for Living’ : Urban Domesticity in Polish Literature and Cinema 1969–2008 Svensson, My January 2015 (has links) The aim of this dissertation is to study urban domesticity in Polish film and literature against the background of the political and social transformations that have taken place in recent decades. The study begins with the so-called belle époque of the Polish People’s Republic and the decade of Edward Gierek, continues through the political upheavals, the period of martial law, and the system transformation of 1989 and the two following decades, which have been marked by the introduction of democracy, global capitalism, consumerism etc. The primary sources consist of almost thirty literary and cinematic works from various genres covering a period of forty years – twenty before the system change, and twenty after. Their common denominator is their setting in the socialist housing projects (blokowisko). The dissertation places itself in the field of geocriticism and literary/cinematic spatiality. The object of the study is the ̒social space’ (Henri Lefebvre) of the urban home, and the main analytical frames are spatial representations and narrative space, which are viewed as important in shaping both character and plot. The analysis also draws from cultural theory by Michel Foucault, Marc Augé, Mikhail Bakhtin, Mircea Eliade, and Loïc Wacquant. The dissertation detects a shift in the representations of the urban home that indicates that the home has become more private and secluded after 1989, also suggesting that a spatial and social marginalization of the socialist housing projects has occurred. These findings are interpreted as consistent with theories in human geography on changes in the perception and experience of space due to global paradigm shifts and changes in the production system. urbanism the idea of home Polish literature Polish cinema narrative space heterotopia non-places social space the city geocriticism apartments in motion pictures Henri Lefebvre cities and town life in motion pictures cities and towns in literature system transformation
12	The lord of the rings : the representation of space in the novel and film texts of The return of the king / Shané du Toit Du Toit, Shané January 2014 (has links) This study investigates the representation of narrative space in the novel and the film of The Return of the King. As the two representations belong to two different mediums, the theories on narrative space in the novel and in the film are examined in order to distinguish between their modes of representation of space. In essence, the theory utilised for the spatial analysis focuses on the content, function and symbolic meaning within spaces, as created by the description of objects, the repetition and accumulation of spatial information, as well as the movement of characters within spaces and the interaction between characters and different spaces. This spatial interaction relates to the events, representations of time and the role of the narrator within the different dimensions of narrated space, that is, concrete and abstract space. The three most significant spaces within the novel and the film, namely Minas Tirith, Mount Doom and Hobbiton form the basis of the analysis, which focuses on the narrative spaces as they are represented. From this study, it becomes clear that there are different levels of meaning embodied within a space: the physical and geographical space, the social space of interaction and the abstract, symbolic space. The significant spaces and their meanings in the novel have been subjected to filmic transformation. Essentially, the spaces in both the novel and the film display the fact that space ultimately influences those events and people who interact with it and vice versa. These spaces thus embody specific meanings, which contribute towards the undertaken journey represented in Tolkien's fantastical, imaginative world. / MA (English), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014 Narrative Space Space and Place Novel Film Film Adaptation Semiotics Symbolism Fantasy Alternate Worlds Boundaries The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien Peter Jackson Narratiewe ruimte Ruimte en plek Roman Filmtransformasie Semiotiek Simboliek Fantasie Alternatiewe Wêrelde Grense
13	The Narrative Space of Childhood in 21st Century Anglophone Arab Literature in the Diaspora Ben-Nasr, Leila 27 August 2019 (has links) No description available. American Literature British and Irish Literature Gender Studies Literature childhood narrative space of childhood Anglophone Arab literature diaspora child narrators Arab American literature Arab British literature coming-of-age narratives Arab American girlhood Arab masculinity

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