Essays about: "Critical fiction"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 54 essays containing the words Critical fiction.
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1. Evaluation and Optimization of LTE-V2X Mode 4 under Aperiodic Messages of Variable Size
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för elektro- och informationsteknikAbstract : Vehicular networks connect vehicles for improved road safety and efficiency with the assistance of wireless information exchange. Vehicular networks are based on the frequent broadcast of awareness messages referred to as CAM (Cooperative Awareness Messages) or BSM (Basic Safety Message) in the ETSI and SAE standards, respectively. READ MORE
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2. As Dark As Darkness : Using Star Maker and The Hobbit to Promote a Constructionist Understanding of Race in the ESL Classroom
University essay from Södertörns högskola/EngelskaAbstract : Although the popular conception of fantasy has nothing to do with race, in fact, the genre frequently exhibits underlying concerns with racial dynamics. Conversely, science fiction, due to its speculative perspective on the universe and the potential existence of alien species is, by nature, more inherently preoccupied with the concept of race. READ MORE
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3. Compounding the Problem? : Gated Communities in Climate and Environmental Disaster Fiction
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : The gated community motif occurs frequently within climate and environmental disaster fiction. This thesis investigates its occurrence across three media to establish how the gated community mode of living, as rendered in post-apocalyptic speculative fiction, responds to the threat and consequences of climate and environmental crisis. READ MORE
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4. Imitation and Protest: Two Case Studies of Depictions of Marriage in Anne Brontë and Olive Schreiner
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelskaAbstract : Literature has long been an effective vehicle for conveying women’s morals and opinions when they have otherwise been ignored and supressed. Fifty years apart, Anne Brontë and Olive Schreiner wrote fiction critical of different aspects of marriage with noticeably different results and conclusions. READ MORE
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5. THE COMMONS : Exploring power relations in climate fiction TV series from an Ecofeminist perspective
University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikationAbstract : Patriarchal and masculinist ideologies have facilitated the global climate crisis and need to be transformed to address climate change successfully and achieve climate justice (Gaard, 2015). Climate fiction stories can envision future states of society (Robinson, 2016) and can thus challenge these ideologies and disrupt binary concepts of domination (Anglin, 2015). READ MORE
