Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 10, , course: Literature Science, language: English, abstract: The present master thesis, 'Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men - Narative Elementsin Film and Novel', focuses on the comparision of the narrative in the adapted film NoCountry for Old Men and the literary narrative in the source text by Cormac McCarthybearing the same tite. Its purpose is to demonstrate various distinctions and similarities ofboth texts and to prove that the film significantly differs in inventiveness and the style ofrendering the story. The theoretical part explains the concepts of narrative, time and space,Bakhtin' s chronotope, narrative perspective, focalization and the western genre that areessential elements in the analysis of the relationship between the film and the literary fictionnarratives. The results confirm the hypothesis of the thesis and demonstrate that the filmnarrative significantly differsin inventiveness and style the story is rendered, which also playsan important role in the fates of the characters in both stories.
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