Essays about: "melancholia"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 10 essays containing the word melancholia.

  1. 6. Lost in a Bureaucratic World A Thematic Study of Boredom in David Foster Wallace's The Pale King

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Julia Englund Örn; [2015-10-16]
    Keywords : David Foster Wallace; The Pale King; bureaucracy; melancholia;

    Abstract : Abstract: In David Foster Wallace's novel The Pale King, two themes appear connected to each other. The first is that of boredom. READ MORE

  3. 7. A Relationship to Death: An Examination of William Shakespeare´s Hamlet

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Cathérina Kubresli; [2014-02-18]
    Keywords : engelska; William Shakespeare; Hamlet; death; depression; paternal deprivation; torment; catharsis; uncompleted identification; autonomy issues; honour;

    Abstract : Hamlet is an extraordinary play, which is full of deception, drama, intrigue, melancholia and death. This essay will examine Hamlet´s relationship to death in selected acts, scenes and soliloquies from the play. The purpose is to investigate how Hamlet´s relationship to death changes during the play and why. READ MORE

  4. 8. A Domestic Matter

    University essay from Textil

    Author : Hale Güngör Oppenheimer; [2013]
    Keywords : art; painting; textile; wallpaper; pattern; home; domestic; domesticity; installation; animals; collage; oilpainting; window; house; dwelling; belonging; immigration; ghost; migration; immigrant; stranger; foreigner; outsider; inbetween;

    Abstract : This essay is an investigation of the phenomenon of home as an abstract idea. In the first chapter The space in between, I attempt to pinpoint where it is exactly that I find myself situated in relation to ‘the inside’ and ‘the outside’. READ MORE

  5. 9. Identities on the Walls : A Comparative Study of Loyalist and Republican murals in Northern Ireland

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Historia

    Author : Fredrika Larsson; [2013]
    Keywords : Political Violence; Cultural Violence; History; Uses of History; Historical Narrative; Murals; Northern Ireland; Conflict; Melancholia; Trauma; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : This thesis has investigated the formation of sectarian identities on Northern Ireland. The thesis argues that the key factor in creating and maintaining sectarian identities is cultural violence. READ MORE

  6. 10. Defining Nostalgia and Its Functions: A Review

    University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation och information

    Author : Jimmy Andersson; [2011]
    Keywords : Homesickness; Melancholia; Depression; Emotional memory; Olfactory; Positive emotions; Triggers;

    Abstract : Nostalgia is a psychological phenomenon we all can relate to but have a hard time to define. What characterizes the mental state of feeling nostalgia? What psychological function does it serve? Different published materials in a wide range of fields, from consumption research and sport science to clinical psychology, psychoanalysis and sociology, all have slightly different definition of this mental experience. READ MORE