'House, M.D.' and Indirect Communication: A Close Textural Analysis.

摘要

This dissertation utilizes indirect communication to analyze the television series, House, M.D. The work of Soren Kierkegaard and other indirect communication scholars was applied to this popular show, while the use of literary tropes of irony/sarcasm, metaphors, and deception were employed throughout the run of the series in order to indirectly bring up topics that were of interest to the general public. The methodology of close textural reading was made use of as I discuss the overhearing, inwardness, and double-reflection of indirect communication as it was seen in eight seasons of House.