Essays about: "Bakhtin"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 essays containing the word Bakhtin.

  1. 1. Stop Calling Me That! : A Reader-Response Analysis of Bullying in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, in Accordance with Theory of the Carnivalesque

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Per Nyberg; [2022]
    Keywords : bullying; carnivalesque; dignity; gender; literature; Lord of the Flies; masculinity; reader-response; students; violation;

    Abstract : In school bullying is a well-known problem and unfortunately it is not uncommon that adults do not see all the signs of a bullying situation. Bullying can be hard to detect and several factors are possible foundation pillars for a hierarchical subjugation of another individual. READ MORE

  3. 2. “In Every Wood in Every Spring There is a Different Green” : An Independent Project in Literature on The Ecocritical Dialogue and Carnivalesque Aspects of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Nicholas Pappas; [2021]
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    Abstract : Tolkien’s Middle Earth is characterised by the conflict between the forces of good, often represented as guardians of nature juxtaposed to the forces of evil, marked by a voracious edacity for a nature destroying industry. In fact, the second volume of the LotR deals with Saruman’s war against nature. READ MORE

  4. 3. “For this is the truth about our soul…” : Examining dialogic relationships and the construction of consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Olivia Danielewicz; [2021]
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    Abstract : The aim of this study was to examine how Woolf creates and depicts consciousness, using Bakhtinian thoughts on dialogism to determine the conditions and limitations for the creation of a ‘self’. In Mrs Dalloway, the characters are indeed portrayed as isolated, all struggling to communicate with one another. READ MORE

  5. 4. This Devious Subject - about the future of this earthly life, my constructive failure to locate myself, and my being as a relationality of subjectivity, discourse and materiality

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Lovisa Sallén; [2019-10-10]
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    Abstract : Through articulating what I call my weave of understanding, in this thesis I aspire to come to a new understanding of the relation between materiality, discourse and ubjectivity as with my being composing a relationality that figures me a movement in and of the world. Inspired by Arendt’s concept of weaving in combination with Bakhtin’s notion of polyphony and what I call sympathetic reading as my method I interpret and entangle notions from Foucault, Butler, Spivak, Irigaray, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, hooks, Bhabha and Barad into what I call my weave of understanding. READ MORE

  6. 5. “When shall we laugh?”: Gratiano and the two faces of comedy in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Jakob Lindner; [2019]
    Keywords : Shakespeare; The Merchant of Venice; Freud; Bakhtin; comedy; relief theory;

    Abstract : Comedy is an inherently pleasurable phenomenon with beneficial psychological functions, but its potential to bring on undesirable and socially destabilizing consequences is less intuitively obvious. In this essay, I argue that one of the hitherto under-recognized features of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice is its covert problematization of the phenomenon of comedy itself, and that the play invites its audience to become more aware of in what situations laughter is constructive and appropriate. READ MORE