Essays about: "Litteraturvetenskap"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 48 essays containing the word Litteraturvetenskap.

  1. 1. "Not your darlings – but their mother's!" : Interpretative Difficulties with "Love" in Euripides' Medea 

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och retorik

    Author : Felicia Green; [2024]
    Keywords : Medea; love; Stanley Cavell; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Toril Moi; Cora Diamond; Søren Kierkegaard; ordinary language philosophy; ordinary language criticism; best case of acknowledgment; lived scepticism; the difficulty of reality; Fear and Trembling; avoidance of love; meaning; Medea; kärlek; Stanley Cavell; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Toril Moi; Cora Diamond; Søren Kierkegaard; vardagsspråkfilosofi; litteraturteori; Fruktan och bävan; levd skepticism; verklighetens svårigheter; mening;

    Abstract : 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

  3. 2. “The Grandest Stage of All” : A look at professional wrestling through the lens of literature

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och retorik

    Author : Natalia Hällgren; [2024]
    Keywords : Professional wrestling; wrestling; performance arts; drama; literature;

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  4. 3. ''The string between our lives''. The healing power of a cello’s music in The Cellist of Sarajevo.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för litteraturvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

    Author : Dominika Pizon; [2023]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The essay is an analysis of the intermediality of literature and music with an emphasis on music psychology and the poetic and cultural representations of the cello. The research is applied on Steven Galloway's ''The Cellist of Sarajevo'', in order to interpret the characters' experience of music and examine its therapeutic value... READ MORE

  5. 4. The madness of the Search : The poetics of deconstruction in Hilda Hilst's With my dog-eyes and The obscene Madame D

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Litteraturvetenskap

    Author : Isi de Paula; [2022]
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    Abstract : The obscene Madame D [A obscena Senhora D, 1982] and With my dog-eyes [Com os meus olhos de cão, 1986] are two short novels by the Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) where the protagonists engage in a philosophical search for meaning that lead them to a state that is publicly interpreted as madness. In this analysis, they are read in light of the philosopher's Jacques Derrida theory of deconstruction. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Dark Side of the American Dream — A Reading of Joyce Carol Oates's Novel My Life as a Rat as Working-Class Literature

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

    Author : Lisa Timmermand; [2021]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

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