Essays about: "Krakauer"

Found 5 essays containing the word Krakauer.

  1. 1. Resistance to Materialism in Into the Wild : A Comparative Narratological study of the Biography and the Film Adaptation

    University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Madeleine Eriksson; [2022]
    Keywords : Into the Wild; Adaptation Theory; Narratology; Materialism;

    Abstract : From an environmental perspective, the earth’s future has been, and is, a current and much-debated topic in today’s society. Consumerism and materialism are two reasons why earth’s natural resources run out earlier and earlier every year. READ MORE

  3. 2. An Ecocritical Exploration of McCandless’ Pilgrimage Into the Wild : A Literary Analysis of the Representations of Nature in Into the Wild

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Vicky Taylor; [2022]
    Keywords : into the wild; mccandless; ecocriticism; nature; culture; transcendence; interdependence; linguistic construct; cultural construct;

    Abstract : This essay examines Jon Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild from an ecocritical perspective. It aims to analyse three representations of nature: its interdependence with culture, its connection with transcendence, and nature as a linguistic or cultural construct in Into the Wild and relate them to ecocriticism today. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Quest for a Transcendental Experience: A Deconstruction of Binary Oppositions in Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Matz Andersson; [2016]
    Keywords : English; Deconstruction; Into the Wild; Krakauer; Derrida; American Wilderness;

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  5. 4. Nature and Culture: Teaching Environmental Awareness Through Literature

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT)

    Author : Jon Nyman; [2014]
    Keywords : Ecocriticism; Walden; Thoreau; Into the Wild; Krakauer; Nature; Culture; interconnectedness; sustainability; school; environment; awareness;

    Abstract : Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka och tolka relationen mellan koncepten natur och kultur, så som de är hanterade i Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or. Life in the Woods (1854) och Into the Wild (1996) av Jon Krakauer, med hjälp av en ekokritisk analys. READ MORE

  6. 5. Thoreau as a Mirror for Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild

    University essay from Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : José Joaquín Sánchez Vera; [2013]
    Keywords : Jon Krakauer Henry D.Thoreau Transcendentalism Into the Wild nonfiction biography McCandless economy liberalism nature wilderness fiction transcendentalism romanticism;

    Abstract : Abstract To tell the nonfiction biography of Christopher McCandless in Into the Wild Jon Krakauer uses a plethora of references to Henry D. Thoreau. In this thesis I study how Krakauer uses Thoreau while balancing on the fine line that differentiates the historian from the storyteller. READ MORE