Essays about: "Carnival"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the word Carnival.

  1. 1. The Culture of Sexual Violence at Festivals: Through the Eyes of Festival Attendees

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Fanney Rún Jónsdóttir; [2022]
    Keywords : Collective effervescence; carnival; liminality; sexually violent effervescence; festivals; sexual violence; culture; Cultural Sciences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines sexual violence at festivals based on eleven interviews with people that have been to two popular festivals in Iceland, Eistnaflug, and Þjóðhátíð. The thesis seeks answers to three research questions; How are festivals characterized by festival attendees? How do festival attendees explain sexual violence at festivals? What preventive methods at festivals have festival attendees noticed, and what kind of prevention do they think would work? To be able to give concrete answers to those questions, the thesis relies upon the theoretical background of the carnival, liminality, collective effervescence, sexually violent effervescence, and social network theory. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. DEMOCRACY, A TRAGIC CARNIVALESQUE HERO : The Narratives of a Transnational Social Movement Against the Coup in Brazil

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Bartira Silva Fortes; [2020]
    Keywords : Brazil; democracy; coup; social movement; transnational; diaspora;

    Abstract : The concern that democracy in the largest country in Latin America could drive toward fascism has surfaced as a point of departure for the creation of forms of resistance among Brazilians in the diaspora. This thesis addresses this development by bringing to light the narratives of FIBRA, a transnational social movement created in 2016 to denounce the coup in Brazil. READ MORE

  5. 4. "We must speak by the card or equivocation will undo us" -A Bakhtinian Reading of Hamlet and its Pedagogical Implications for Second Language Teaching

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

    Author : Gustav Nyborg; [2019]
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    Abstract : In this study, I analyse Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy Hamlet with a Bakhtinian close reading. Using Bakhtinian concepts, such as carnival, dialogism, polyphony and heteroglossia, together with contextualising materials, I analyse Shakespeare’s use of ambiguous language as contextual communication. READ MORE

  6. 5. Conjuring a Carnival of Denial: How the Oedipus Complex Manifests in the Sociosexual Fringes of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Rion Farmer; [2018]
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