Essays about: "Toril Moi"

Found 3 essays containing the words Toril Moi.

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. She's the Man : A Close Reading of Gender in The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Frida Meurling; [2016]
   Keywords : Gender; The Return of the Soldier; Rebecca West; Masculinity; Femininity; Stereotypes;

   Abstract : This essay focuses on gender behaviour in The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West. The claim for this essay argues that West has changed the traditional gender roles in her novel by giving female characters masculine attributes and the male character feminine attributes. READ MORE

4. 3. Virginia Woolf and the F-Word: On the Difficulties of Defining Woolf's (Anti-)Feminism.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

   Author : Ute Kathmann; [2012]
   Keywords : gender studies; feminism; A Room of One s Own; Three Guineas; Toril Moi; Virginia Woolf; Rosi Braidotti; Judith Butler; Elaine Showalter; gender theory; feminist theory; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The following master's thesis discusses Virginia Woolf's essays A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas from contemporary feminist points of views in order to define the nature of Woolf's feminism. The two feminist theorists Rosi Braidotti and Judith Butler serve as the bases of the two most widely known branches in feminist theory today, the sexual difference theory on the one hand, and the theory rejecting compulsory heterosexuality and supporting the concept of change through performativity on the other hand. READ MORE