Essays about: "Binary Oppositions"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 27 essays containing the words Binary Oppositions.

  1. 16. The Quest for a Transcendental Experience: A Deconstruction of Binary Oppositions in Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild

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

    Author : Matz Andersson; [2016]
    Keywords : English; Deconstruction; Into the Wild; Krakauer; Derrida; American Wilderness;

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  3. 17. Questioning the boundaries between fast- and slow fashion.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Emma Mardell; [2016]
    Keywords : Fashion; Fast fashion; Slow fashion; Deconstsm; Undecidable; Categorization; Poststructuralism; Postmodernism; Hegemonic market;

    Abstract : Individual’s existential ambivalence has according to Jacques Derrida, one of the foremost proponents of post-structuralism, led to a continuous demand for structure (Cooper, 1989). Categories, used as structural tools, are however often hierarchically organized, where one category is more preferable than the other, also referred to as binary oppositions. READ MORE

  4. 18. Looking for a Greener Pasture: Exploring the Narratives of Gambian Clandestine Migrants

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Fredrika Uggla; [2015]
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    Abstract : Uggla, Fredrika (2015). Looking for a Greener Pasture: Exploring the Narratives of Gambian Clandestine Migrants. Human Geography, advanced level, master thesis for master exam in Human Geography, 30 ECTS credits. Supervisors: Karen Haandrikman and Natasha Webster. READ MORE

  5. 19. Through a media lens – The Crimean Crisis : A Discourse Analysis of Media Perspectives on the New Crimean Crisis

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

    Author : Andre Baltz; [2014]
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    Abstract : The Aim of this essay is to study how the Crimean Crisis is being portrayed in international newspapers of Frankfurter Allgemeine, The New York Times and Pravda. The time period for the study is the 25th of February until the 30th of April in the spring of 2014. READ MORE

  6. 20. The Sea as a Setting and a Symbol in Contemporary Irish and British Fiction: Dermot Bolger’s Temptation (2000), John Banville’s The Sea (2005), Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach (2007)

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Elena Rein; [2014]
    Keywords : Sea fiction; function; narrative; setting; symbol; personifications; binary oppositions; modernism; Romanticism; sea adventure.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates the function of the sea in contemporary British and Irish literature, focusing on the following three novels: Dermot Bolger’s Temptation (2000), John Banville’s The Sea (2005), and Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach (2007). The analysis is divided into two main parts, where the sea is considered in its roles as a setting and as a symbol. READ MORE