Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine is a novel depicting a world of authentic Native American experiences for readers to immerse themselves in. Erdrich creates this immersive setting with an unconventional sense of pace, realistic handling of characters, and clever choices of narration. The question of how this unique type of writing creates effective storytelling can be answered by analyzing its effects through the use of narratology. This essay outlines narratological features and effects in Love Medicine through the use of structuralist concepts. By utilizing terms out of Genette’s structuralist framework such as time, events and narration, defining the methods applicable to this novel, the scattered pieces of Erdrich’s narrative come together to describe its underlying structure with greater clarity.

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Rollen som skolchef i Sverige idag innebär ett ansvar för att alla styrdokument förutbildningen följs. Det finns dock inga lagstadgade erfarenhetskrav för skolchefer.Huvudmannen för utbildningsorganisationen bestämmer vilka erfarenheter och kunskapersom skolchefen behöver. Denna studie fokuserar på yrkeslivsberättelser från tre skolcheferinom en förskoleorganisation som alla har pedagogisk bakgrund. Studiens syfte är attundersöka skolchefers berättelser om deras yrkesresa från pedagog till skolchef samt attanalysera de yrkesidentiteter som framträder. Studien tillämpar en livsberättelseansats ochanvänder sig av en narrativ teorigrund. Genom tematisk narrativ analys presenterar studien deenskilda yrkeslivsberättelserna i sin helhet. Därefter följer en jämförande analys av likheteroch skillnader mellan berättelserna utifrån teoretiska begrepp. Studiens resultat och analysger, i form av berättelser, en bild av skolchefernas yrkesresor från pedagoger till skolcheferoch de individuella yrkesidentiteter som framträder. Utifrån studiens gemensamma analys sesskillnader i vad som är mest framträdande för skolcheferna utifrån subidentiteter och vad sommotiverar dem. De gemensamma likheterna utifrån yrkesidentiteterna visar på att samtligarespondenter såg fördelar med sin pedagogiska bakgrund i sin roll som skolchef samt att deansåg att deras sociala relationer var viktiga för deras möjligheter att utvecklas. Dessutomfann studien att skolcheferna framträder som individer med stort driv. / The role of school superintendent (Swedish: Skolchef) entails the responsibility of assuring that all educational regulations are observed. There are however no specific requirements for the school superindentents background. The head of the educational organisation decides what previous experience the school superintendent should have. This study focuses on the work life stories of three school superintendents in a private preschool organisation, all with pedagogical backgrounds. The purpose of the study is to explore the superintendents’ stories about the journey from educationist to superintendent, and to analyse the professional identities that emerge. The study employs a life story method and uses narrative theory as its theoretical framework. Through thematic narrative analysis the study first presents each work life story as a whole. Then follows a comparative analysis of similarities and differences between the stories through theoretical concepts. The results and analysis of the study illustrates the work life journey of the respondents, from educationist to school superintendents, and the professional identities that emerge. The joint comparative analysis found the differences between the school superintendents included their sub-identities as well as their sources of motivation. Regarding similarities, the study found that all three respondents saw their pedagogical backgrounds as beneficial for their role as school superintendents. Other similarities included the importance of work relationships for their growth and development, as well as a shared characteristic of ambition.

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This essay presents an analysis of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby through a structural approach with the focus on the narrative techniques of the novel. The essay endeavours to address narrative empathy as an important aspect of the novel, through its narrative techniques, while also examines the potential of using The Great Gatsby as a pedagogical tool for developing students’ empathy in the upper-secondary school classroom. The essay concludes that The Great Gatsby has the potential of conveying empathy to the students, through its narrative techniques. / <p>Slutgiltigt godkännandedatum: 2022-06-05</p>

This dissertation investigates how and why contemporary canonical authors such as Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, J.M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie incorporate their celebrity and canonical status as authors into the fictional worlds of their novels. The contemporary celebrity author in general is at the mercy of a more globalized publication industry that depends on a circuit of international circulation, translation, and the diverse reactions of a transnational readership. More specifically, each of the authors I focus on in this dissertation have become notorious, both for their professional literary achievements as well as various political or sexual scandals running alongside their publication history. The decentralization of the author’s power to control his own image as it becomes stratified across a multiplicity of competing discourses, audiences, and marketplaces is spurred on by a literary marketplace that favors world literature, international circulation, and the whims of readership response. Thus, the need to revise or challenge the public perception of their authorship is constantly at stake for these figures – so much so that they introduce doppelgänger versions of themselves into their fiction to negotiate this relationship. I argue that the hybrid-generic form of autobiographical-metafiction allows these authors to integrate this struggle for authority over their own authorship into both the form and content of their fictional worlds. Ultimately, the project of tracing different iterations of the doppelgänger novelist across national and historical markers helps us formulate a contemporary theory of authorship that asserts how the “author” must always operate in a liminal space between the constructed fictional world and the real historical world. / English