Essays about: "some author in essay"

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1. 1. Capitalism, Industrialism, and Hard Times : Satire and Social Critique in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Seth Blohm; [2023]
   Keywords : Marxism; Satire; Hard Times; Class Struggle; Social Stratification; Alienation; Mechanization; Capitalism;

   Abstract : This essay will analyze a selection of characters from Charles Dickens’ novel Hard Times. Characterizations will be analyzed by using a Marxist theoretical framework, e.g., characters’ relations to Marxist concepts such as class struggle, alienation, and stratification will be studied. READ MORE

3. 2. Me minus me: Self-Effacement in Autofiction by Christopher Isherwood, Rachel Cusk and J. M. Coetzee

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Jim Callderyd; [2022-11-24]
   Keywords : Autofiction; Christopher Isherwood; Goodbye to Berlin; Rachel Cusk; Outline; J. M. Coetzee; Summertime; sexuality; gender; auto biography;

   Abstract : Autofiction is one of the most popular genres in contemporary Anglophone literature. Yet the self-fashioning, outwardly hybrid genre merging autobiography with fiction is also the object of frequent contestation and derision, the source of which is nearly singularly rooted in authors’ perceived self-absorption. READ MORE

4. 3. Chasing the Unattainable: Manifestations of Desire in Selected Novels by Carson McCullers

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Hans Ingvar Marmén; [2022]
   Keywords : Carson McCullers; Desire; Lacan; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The American author Carson McCullers’s often non-normative fictional characters typically desire something they cannot have and thus a pattern of nonreciprocal love and desire permeate much of her work. Earlier scholarship on her fiction has focused on themes of isolation as well as the element of symbolism but also psychological approaches including Freudian and Jungian perspectives have been taken. READ MORE

5. 4. Representation and cultural bias : A study focused on three Swedish ESL-textbooks

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Author : Sofia Sandberg; [2021]
   Keywords : ESL-textbooks; textbook study; cultural textbook study; cultural representation; Swedish ESL;

   Abstract : In the following essay, a study on three textbooks used for educating pupils in Swedish secondary schools in the subject of English is presented. One aim of the study was to investigate how the selection of texts, both fiction and non-fiction, used for reading and listening comprehension purposes and their respective author representations in three Swedish EFL-textbooks could be considered to represent a broad perspective of the English-speaking world. READ MORE

6. 5. Abandonment, jealousy and self-invention: : an exploration of the adaptation process in Jeanette Winterson’s ​The Gap of Time

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Author : Jennifer Sundelin; [2020]
   Keywords : Adaptation theory; adaptation process; Jeanette Winterson; The Gap of Time; Shakespeare; The Winter s Tale;

   Abstract : This essay explores the adaptation process in ​The Gap of Time ​by Jeanette Winterson, a novel basedon​TheWinter’sTaleb​yWilliamShakespeare.Itisadiscussionandanalysisofthe novel; put in contrast to the play, and an exploration of the different emerging elements and themes in ​The Gap of Time. READ MORE