Essays about: "Binary Oppositions"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 27 essays containing the words Binary Oppositions.

1. 21. Tracing images in American and Russian oratory : an analysis of Russian and American rhetoric within the context of the Syrian conflict

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Cornelia Norén; [2013]
   Keywords : Human rights; Mänskliga rättigheter; Binary Opposition; Enemy Image; Syria; Rhetoric; America; Russia; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This essay is an analysis of American and Russian oratory within the context of the conflict in Syria. The purpose of the analysis is to delineate Russian and American understandings of an eventual military intervention in Syria, as well as depicting which images of the self and the enemy that are mediated through both countries' rhetoric. READ MORE

3. 22. Can Humbert be Trusted with the Telling of His Tale?A Deconstructive Study of Binary Oppositions in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

   University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

   Author : Anna Jangblad Jukic; [2013]
   Keywords : Vladimir Nabokov; Lolita; Humbert; Deconstruction; Binary opposition; Unreliable; Guilt; Innocence; Real; Imagined;

   Abstract : In Lolita, Humbert is obsessed with the 12-year-old Lolita. It is a vulgar and disturbing story which raises questions about morality and ethics. With a sophisticated and elegant narrative, Humbert manages to draw attention to language rather than to his actions. Through fancy prose style Humbert covers up and hides his horrible actions. READ MORE

4. 23. Who Is the Shrew? : Irony as deconstruction in The Taming of the Shrew

   University essay from Engelska

   Author : Elisabeth Ripa; [2011]
   Keywords : The Taming of the Shrew; Shakespeare; irony; deconstruction; gender; language use; the Induction;

   Abstract : In this thesis William Shakespeare’s comedy The Taming of The Shrew is analyzed from a feminist perspective. It is argued that the female characters Katherina and Bianca are mainly constructed through language expressed by male characters as binary oppositions. READ MORE

5. 24. "And Never the Twain Shall Meet"? : Separate Worlds and Characterization in David Lodge's Nice Work

   University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Jan Hallén Rizzo; [2011]
   Keywords : David Lodge; Binary oppositions; Academia; Industry; Discourses; Synthesis; Narrator;

   Abstract : This essay uses some tenets of structuralism as well as the concept of “discourse” to analyze David Lodge’s novel Nice Work (1988). The opposite discourses of Academia and Industry, as expounded through the life and character of the main protagonists, are analyzed as they are exposed throughout the novel through the involuntary mingling of the main characters. READ MORE

6. 25. Re-reading the Weak Other :  an Interpretation of the Husband in Wide Sargasso Sea

   University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

   Author : Paula Friström; [2010]
   Keywords : binary oppositions; Wide Sargasso Sea; Jean Rhys;

   Abstract : The essay is about the unnamed husband in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. About how he is depicted as the European "Other" and made into a feminized and zombified weak character from a Caribbean/feminist perspective... READ MORE