Essays about: "ghost"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 64 essays containing the word ghost.

  1. 1. An assessment of the surrogate host metagenome-assembled genome decontamination for non-model host organisms : Proof-of-concept

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

    Author : André Bourbonnais; [2023]
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    Abstract : In this study, a novel method has been assessed to bridge the gap between bioinformatics and ecological conservation efforts to gain evidence to further base conservational plans on. Herein, the validity of using a provisional host metagenome-assembled metagenome to decontaminate the data from host contamination was concluded. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Consequences of Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Beloved : A Psychoanalytic Reading of Sethe and Denver

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Tina Eriksson; [2023]
    Keywords : Anxiety; Core issues; Defence mechanisms; Feminism; Freud; Narrative; Psychoanalysis; Repression; Slavery; Trauma;

    Abstract : This essay’s main focus is on Sethe and her daughter Denver in Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and how they try to survive the trauma that comes from slavery. By using psychoanalysis as a theoretical framework, the essay examines what psychological reactions Sethe and Denver have as two traumatised characters, and what happens to them psychologically when they are forced to face the repressed. READ MORE

  4. 3. A sexual Series: Visningsex

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen Konsthögskolan

    Author : Eva-Marie/Emie Elg; [2023]
    Keywords : Fri Konst; Posthumanism; sexbot; Futurism; AI punk; Cyborg Drag; Asexuality;

    Abstract : The art series A Sexual Series is based on posthumanist theory and asexual experience. Shapes of performative alter egos materialized from a queer cyborg position of technologically enhanced crip experiences (the strong symbolical constructing process of straightening scoliosis surgery). READ MORE

  5. 4. Specters of Art: Hauntology and Limitrophy in John Banville's Frames Trilogy

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Astrid Isac; [2023]
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    Abstract : John Banville’s Frames Trilogy, comprising the novels The Book of Evidence (1989), Ghosts (1993) and Athena (1995), presents an account of the ghosts existent in both the reality and art surrounding one’s life. In an intriguing first-person narration, Freddie Montgomery, the protagonist in all the novels, describes spectral apparitions in works of art and is haunted by his violent, ghostly past. READ MORE

  6. 5. ”a text… that shares my wonder”: A Survey of Three Contemporary Examples of Creative Criticism

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

    Author : Sara Dahlberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Literary criticism; Creative Criticism; Affect; Rita Felski; Anne Carson; Doireann Ní Ghríofa; Vivian Gornick; The hermeneutics of suspicion; Paranoid Reading; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In the last few decades, dissatisfaction with the prevailing critical paradigm ¬– what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as early as 1997 dubbed “paranoid” or “suspicious” reading – has grown significantly. This thesis is a survey of three recent works, The Albertine Workout (2014), Unfinished Business: Notes of A Chronic Re-Reader (2020), and A Ghost in the Throat (2020), that emerge from this discontent. READ MORE