Essays about: "chronotope"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word chronotope.
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1. Negotiating Identity : A sociolinguistic analysis of adult English speaking immigrants in Sweden
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Due to increased transnational migration and globalisation, English has come to have a high status in Sweden, and is used in daily communication. The purpose of this research is to investigate how immigrants with English as their first language, negotiate their identity in Sweden, how they construct the need to (not) speak Swedish, and, finally, how their linguistic trajectories inform us about their linguistic ideologies and reported practices. READ MORE
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2. Refraction, Heteroglossia and Chronotope in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway : Following Bakhtin’s View of the Novel as Centrifugal Force
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/EngelskaAbstract : .... READ MORE
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3. Modern Fairy Tales: The New Existence of an Old Genre : Exemplified by the Books of Alan A. Milne, Tove Jansson and Eno Raud
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : The aim of this study is to draw new perspectives to the theoretic approach towards the complex nature of the modern fairy tale genre and its transformation. The study is exemplified by two books by Alan A. READ MORE
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4. “…my insides were like a house…” : A Study of Body and Space in Mercè Rodoreda’s La Plaça del Diamant
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : The present thesis is a study of how body and space interrelate in the novel La Plaça del Diamant (1962) by the Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda (1908-1983). I will in the following argue that these relations are important effects of the literary form of the novel and study how they produce a certain form of subjectivity. READ MORE
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5. “Ghetto Nerd at the End of the World”: the Decolonized Chronotope, Liminality, and Dialogics in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaAbstract : Narratives focusing on People of Color often suffer from neocolonial treatment with narrow focus on race at the expense of character development, working with stereotypical monoliths rather than complex individuals. These types of narratives tend to use Whiteness as a “neutral” reference point. READ MORE