Essays about: "Aesthetic reading."

Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 essays containing the words Aesthetic reading..

  1. 1. The Diary from Qutang Gorge and the letters about Donner Lake : A literary study of Mulberry and Peach by Nie Hualing

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Ling Jiang Nyfelt; [2022]
    Keywords : Nie Hualing; Chinese cultural symbols; impressionism; Intertextuality; Diasporic literature; Mulberry and Peach; Sangqing yu Taohong; Overseas Chinese literature; 聂华苓; 中国文化象征 ，互文性 ，印象主义， 离散文学， 桑青与桃红 ，海外中国文学;

    Abstract : Mulberry and Peach is a novel written in the 1970s by a Chinese American writer named Nie Hualing (1925- ). It contains overlapping letters and diaries with flashbacks and flashforwards in first-person narration. Taohong is the new identity after Sangqing’s schizophrenia in the USA in 1969-1970. READ MORE

  3. 2. Afrofuturism and Generational Trauma in N. K. Jemisin‘s Broken Earth Trilogy

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Imogen Bagnall; [2021]
    Keywords : N. K. Jemisin; Afrofuturism; Trauma; Collective Memory; Science Fiction; Oppression;

    Abstract : N. K. Jemisin‘s Broken Earth Trilogy explores the methods and effects of systemic oppression. Orogenes are historically oppressed and dehumanised by the wider society of The Stillness. READ MORE

  4. 3. Teaching Literature as a Means to Promoting Critical Thinking -A Teacher Perspective

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Abdul Samad Abdul Samad; [2020]
    Keywords : Rreading literature; critical thinking; developing critical thinking skills; the reader-response approach; Socratic Questioning skill; efferent reading; aesthetic reading; methods and activities;

    Abstract : Developing critical thinking and mastering its skills has been a vital priority for the curriculum in Swedish upper-secondary school. The National Curriculum for upper-secondary school and the syllabus for the English subject emphasize the importance of implementing and enhancing the development of the students’ critical thinking which leads to having active learners who are able to think creatively and keeps them away from becoming narrow-minded. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Happy Prince : A Paradoxical Aesthetic Tale and a Dual Critique of Victorian Times

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildning

    Author : Quentin Caizergues; [2020]
    Keywords : Oscar Wilde; The Happy Prince; fairy tale; aestheticism; moral standards; social satire; Victorian society; Christian values;

    Abstract : This essay highlights The Happy Prince’s advantageous use of conventions of the fairy tale genre to stress critical issues of the Victorian period: the challenge of the established Christian socio-moral order, the rising of the bourgeois industrial society, and the advent of aestheticism as a response. Using the close reading technique supported by the Victorian socio-historical background, the analysis establishes that the criticism proceeds by double associations. READ MORE

  6. 5. Stuck in the Truck: Oil Dependency, Acceleration, and the Nature of Catastrophe : An Ecocritical Reading of The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Sonya Helgesson Ralevic; [2020]
    Keywords : The Wages of Fear; Le Salaire de la Peur; Henri-Georges Clouzot; ecocriticism; petro-fiction; Anthropocene; oil film; film noir; ethnographic film; spectacle;

    Abstract : As a medium of modernity, film has always been entwined with the energy regime sustaining it. This thesis is interested in the interrelation between film and oil, and approached as a piece of petro-fiction, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s film The Wages of Fear (1953) is subject to a close, ecocritical analysis. READ MORE