Essays about: "Mikhail Bakhtin"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words Mikhail Bakhtin.

  1. 1. A little story about big issues : an introspective account of FEMEN

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Yelena Myshko; [2018]
    Keywords : FEMEN; Yelena Myshko; sextremism; embodiment; feminist activism; feminist snap; feminist polemic; body image; militant feminism; sweaty concept; autophenomenography; autoethnography; feminist writing; evocative storytelling; retrospective diary; dialogic meaning; censorship; national politics; police persecution; generational feminism; Resistance; protest technology; Ukraine; Netherlands; Sara Ahmed; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; Elizabeth Grosz; Mikhail Bakhtin; Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson; Carolyn Ellis; Laurel Richardson; Rosemarie Buikema; Marta Zarzycka; Steven Pressfield;

    Abstract : This research contributes a detailed personal account of a FEMEN activist. It presents an autophenomenographic analysis of cultural artefacts, including a Retrospective Diary, resulting from the activity of Yelena Myshko in FEMEN between 2012 and 2014. READ MORE

  3. 2. Everyday Dialogues in Highland Peru: With and Beyond Development Interventions

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Natalia Fernanda Munera Parra; [2015-01-15]
    Keywords : Development interventions; Peru; women; Andean farmers; dialogical relations and agency; everyday.;

    Abstract : Development is the enterprise of triggering economic, social and political improvements through policy design and planned interventions and ameliorating negative effects of change. Feminist and anthropological studies of development encounters tend to concentrate on power relations at the same time as they leave only limited room to agency. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Playboy of the Western World: A Carnivalesque Reading

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Mary Röine Doolan; [2014-02-06]
    Keywords : Synge; Irish Drama; carnivalesque; grotesque realism; tragicomedy; symbolism;

    Abstract : A carnivalesque reading of J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World is presented. Mikhail Bakhtin defines carnivalesque as a literary style that challenges authority and traditional social hierarchy through the use of humour and chaos, and he compares the carnivalesque in literature to the carnivals of popular culture. READ MORE

  5. 4. "Well? Shall we go?" "Yes, let's go." [They do not move.] : -Vernacular Comedy and Waiting for Godot.

    University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Nanna Bjørg Flensborg Rönne; [2014]
    Keywords : Beckett Godot comedy Bakhtin clown humour;

    Abstract : This essay discusses the relationship between the characters Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot and the vernacular clowning tradition. The discussion is supported by analyzing similarities between Waiting for Godot and Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of grotesque realism as it is presented in his work Rabelais and His World, as well as elements of the Italian Commedia dell’Arte and 20th century silent movie comedy. READ MORE

  6. 5. In-Yer-Face: A Study of Unsettling British TV Comedy, Critical Discomfort and Public Offence

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Linn Lönroth; [2013]
    Keywords : Chris Morris; The League of Gentlemen; Offence; Comedy; Bakhtin; Offensive comedy; Brass Eye; The Day Today; Jam; Derek; Ricky Gervais; shock; taboo; humour; dark humour; dark comedy; André Breton; British humour; British TV; transgression; provocation; laughter; Armando Iannucci; BBC; Channel 4; sick humour; tastless comedy; Cultural Sciences; Performing Arts; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In this essay I explore contemporary British TV comedy that unsettles and offends its audience by pushing humour to its very outer limits. Attempts to breach decorum and provoke the reader/audience is not a new phenomenon, and by looking at the Modernist rejection of bourgeois values I try to contextualise this fascination with transgression and provocation. READ MORE