Essays about: "abjection"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 19 essays containing the word abjection.

  1. 6. Death becomes her. Journalistic portrayals of murdered women and their bodies as subject, object and abject in Swedish high profile murder cases

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Maria Kjellman Wall; [2019]
    Keywords : media representation; crime journalism; objectification; abjection; murder; Thematic Analysis; Critical Discourse Analysis; Multimodal Visual Analysis; intersectionality; grief journalism; media and communication studies;

    Abstract : This thesis concerns how murdered women and their bodies are represented through written and visual language in tabloid crime journalism. Two Swedish high profile murders were chosen through a purposeful sampling, and 436 articles from Sweden's two largest tabloid newspapers, Aftonbladet and Expressen, were thematized through Thematic Analysis. READ MORE

  3. 7. The suppressed goddess of Beowulf : A feminist reading of Grendel’s mother as a representation of Norse goddess Gefion in a changing world order

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Lisa Persson Örtman; [2019]
    Keywords : Literary criticism; Beowulf; Grendel’s mother; Gefion; Earth goddess; monsters; abjection; feminism; the definition of a woman.;

    Abstract : The aim of this study has been to investigate in feminist terms whether or not the character Grendel’s mother symbolizes early matrilineal tribes in the form of the Norse goddess Gefion, also claimed to be the Earth goddess. The claim has been brought forward in an article by Frank Battaglia on the grounds that the chthonic deity is mentioned on several occasions in Beowulf. READ MORE

  4. 8. Normative or Power? Genealogical analysis of citizens' rights promotion within the EU visa liberalisation policy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Nijat Eldarov; [2019]
    Keywords : European Union; normative power; visa liberalisation; power relations; critical security studies.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Since 2008, the European Union requires the candidate and neighbourhood countries to undertake reforms in the field of citizens’ rights, including protection of minorities in order to give their nationals access to the Schengen area for the short-term stays. However, within the visa liberalisation procedure, the European Union has demonstrated ambivalence in monitoring the implementation of these normative reforms. READ MORE

  5. 9. The Science of the Sirens : A Critical Analysis on the Compounded Abjection of Science, Progress and Women in Three Short Stories by H.P. Lovecraft

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Sean MacGregor; [2019]
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  6. 10. What the end reveals : myths in post-­‐apocalyptic videogames

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Karin Ryding; [2016]
    Keywords : Apocalypse; videogames; myths; abjection; violence; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : The focus of this thesis is the myths and ideologies inscribed into the aesthetics, narratives and gameplay of post-apocalyptic videogames. The aim is to discuss how the conditions and conventions of the game medium shape what is presented to us as a modern, secular form of apocalypticism. READ MORE