Essays about: "David Woods"
Found 4 essays containing the words David Woods.
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1. The Giving Up of Greer: The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the Janus-Faced Empire : Writing Back Against the British Imperial Discourse
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : The aim of this essay is to examine the tension at the heart of the British colonial discourse as it affects the relationship of Travis and Joyce in the chapter "Somewhere in England", in Caryl Phillips's 1993 novel, Crossing the River. The thesis of the essay is that the colonial discourse of the British insists on a racial signifier in the imagined community of the British, and thus resists the idea that a person can be both black and British. READ MORE
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2. WANDER AROUND WITH GOSSAGE AND THOREAU LOOKING FOR SCHMIDT
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och designAbstract : I was looking for a monument but instead I found an anonymous patch of grass in a cemetery in Berlin which marked the grave of photographer Michel Schmidt. In an attempt to understand I had to go backward into my own history to find reasons why I was standing there. READ MORE
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3. Den naturliga människan - en undersökning av naturens roll för det mänskliga känslolivet, sett genom Henry David Thoreaus Walden
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaAbstract : The purpose of this study is to examine how the American nature writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) writes about nature, and natures role for the human emotions. The study takes basis in one of the writer’s most famous works – Walden; or, Life in the woods, from 1854, which he wrote after he had been living in a small cottage in the woods around walden pond for over 2 years. READ MORE
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4. Nature and Culture: Teaching Environmental Awareness Through Literature
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT)Abstract : Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka och tolka relationen mellan koncepten natur och kultur, så som de är hanterade i Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or. Life in the Woods (1854) och Into the Wild (1996) av Jon Krakauer, med hjälp av en ekokritisk analys. READ MORE
