Essays about: "reading event"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 34 essays containing the words reading event.
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6. Curating contemporary art, the city and the fl�neur : A walk through Bruges and its Triennial
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : Discovering the city of Bruges through the lens of its Triennial is the starting point to research the potential for contemporary art to influence one?s way of experiencing the city. Taking the case study of a still not so renowned large-scale event like the Bruges Triennial, this thesis investigates the background of this recurring event, how it started, the evolution of its curatorial process and its socio-political challenges being set, every three years, in the context of a Unesco-protected site. READ MORE
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7. Navigating deepest, darkest Peru: A seven-week investigation
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikationAbstract : This investigation began when curiosity was piqued in early January, after reading a Guardian article regarding the murder of an environmental defender of the Chaparri reserve. The headline included a new term, “Land Trafficking”, and skimmed over issues that left me wanting to learn more: an irrigation project was mentioned; a reserve was under threat; and it stated that the murderers are known to the community. READ MORE
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8. Soli, Sanguinis and Sinking States. The legal foundations of upholdning the right to nationality in the event of climate change turning sovereign territories uninhabitable
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The argument of this paper is that the two main principles of nationality law used by nation states are not designed to handle the possible scenario of states sinking due to climate change. With the consequence of its habitants having to seek haven elsewhere, the focus is to illustrate how the application of the principles ius soli and ius sanguinis stand in relation to the universal human right to a nationality in the event of a state becoming uninhabitable and/or physically extinct. READ MORE
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9. Sublime Transactions. The Gestures of Poetry and Criticism with Anne Carson, the Scholar-Poet
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaAbstract : The 20th century, as well as the 21st, is ripe with hermeneutic anxiety concerning the survival of the object of interpretation and the right way to study literature. In this thesis, the Canadian scholar-poet Anne Carson is studied as a framework to an understanding of how poetry and literary criticism – the event of hermeneutics – co-occur, converge, and diverge. READ MORE
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10. Reality and Subjectivity in Philip K. Dick’s Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This thesis examines the forces that affect subjectivity in two novels by the author Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. The close reading of these two novels makes use of postmodernist theory as its theoretical foundation. READ MORE
