Essays about: "Allegory"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 essays containing the word Allegory.

  1. 1. “Human Spiders”: Intellectual Observers, Degeneration and Darwinism in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Author : Maja Loberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Degeneration; Fin de Siècle; Literature; Darwinism; H.G. Wells; The Time Machine; Intellectual Observer; Victorian literature; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : H.G. Wells’ novella The Time Machine (1895) tells the story of The Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. There, he encounters two evolutionary progressions of humanity. READ MORE

  3. 2. Längtande Kroppar: Höga Visan som Pedagogik för Begären

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Nivea Schnizler; [2022-06-22]
    Keywords : Song of Songs; desire; eros; sexuality; common life; Höga Visan; begär; längtan; sexualitet; gemensamt liv;

    Abstract : This study explores how the Song of Songs could and should be interpreted in its own form, i.e., as erotic poetry, and on the basis of sexual desire. READ MORE

  4. 3. Ideology, Allegory, and Identity: : A Study of American Political Cartoons, 1770-1815

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Fanny Vårenius; [2022]
    Keywords : National identity; Political cartoons; Allegorical representations; War of 1812; United States; War of independence; Visual narratives; Pictorial cultures; Caricatures; National stereotypes;

    Abstract : In 1776, war broke out in the Colonies of New England between British Subjects, colonists, and those emplyed by the crown to uphoald law and order across the Atlantic. The union that wuld emerge from the war would have to develop what the colnial powers they migrated from had been adding on for centuries: an understanding of national character. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Spectacle of the Alien/Migrant An exploration through Hollywood Science fiction and Horror Movies before and after 9/11

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Jonathan Cardenas; [2021]
    Keywords : science-fiction; horror; blockbuster; representation; alien; the other; myth; immigration; migrant; Hollywood; orientalism; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis aims at addressing the question of the representation of the Other within current dominant visual media. The Other, in the context of this thesis, refers to any minority community group identified as different from a certain dominant norm; depending on the context it could correspond to groups such as Women, Afro-Americans or Arabs. READ MORE

  6. 5. Religious Identities in Viking Age Britain: Pagan Imagery in a Colonial Context

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : Margaret Lucille Muth; [2020]
    Keywords : archaeology; colonial identity; iconography; imagery; Norse mythology; preChristian religions; religion; stone monuments; Viking Age Britain; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : When the Vikings settled the British Isles between the 8th and 11th centuries, they left behind numerous stone monuments in their wake. These monuments, many of which are stone crosses, utilize a combination of Christian and pagan imagery, and are found heavily in Christian contexts. READ MORE