Essays about: "Literary Interpretation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 42 essays containing the words Literary Interpretation.
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1. "Not your darlings – but their mother's!" : Interpretative Difficulties with "Love" in Euripides' Medea
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och retorikAbstract : The aim of this Master’s thesis is to achieve philosophical clarity on an interpretative problem I have been struggle with in Euripides’ Medea: That Medea murders her own children, while claimingto love them. Situated within the philosophical and literary tradition of ordinary language philosophy and ordinary language criticism, the thesis draws on ideas, theoretical discussions, and concepts from Ludwig Wittgenstein, Toril Moi, Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond, and Niklas Forsberg – but also Søren Kierkegaard. READ MORE
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2. Dialog om landskapet, i landskapet : naturvägledning i fysisk planering
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : I denna studie undersöks huruvida naturvägledning, som facilitering av dialog om landskap, i landskapet kan användas i dialogprocesser vid fysisk planering. Syftet för uppsatsen att bidra med ökad förståelse och kunskap om hur vi kan ha en deliberativ dialog om en plats av socioekologiskt värde i en meningsfull kontext i planering genom naturvägledning. READ MORE
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3. Affect Poststructuralism and Repressed Emotion: The True Tragedy of The Remains of The Day
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day has garnered much discussion by literary theorists. Studies have primarily concerned themselves with the main character Mr Stevens and how he interacts with the complex situations around him. READ MORE
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4. The Gaps in Our Stars : The Fault in Our Stars and Reader-response Theory in the Swedish EFL Classroom
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This essay analyses John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (2012) with a theoretical approach of reader-response theory to show how the potential interpretations of the gaps in the novel make it a relevant choice of literary work for EFL education. The essay also examines whether the concept of gaps can be used as a tool in literary analysis. READ MORE
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5. Intention and Indiscernibilia: : Against Interpretive Intentionalism
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för estetikAbstract : What determines the meaning of a work of art? This paper considers three theories of art-critical interpretation: moderate actual intentionalism (the artist’s intention partly determines the work’s meaning), hypothetical intentionalism (the work’s meaning is the best hypothesis of what the artist could have meant), and the value-maximizing theory (interpretations which maximize the work’s value are to be preferred). I argue that moderate actual intentionalism is incoherent, collapsing either into the intentional fallacy or into an extreme form of intentionalism. READ MORE
