Essays about: "Elizabeth Bowen"

Found 4 essays containing the words Elizabeth Bowen.

  1. 1. The Traumatised Self in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day : Analysing identity and trauma by using psychoanalysis and trauma theory

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Annette Brantlin; [2024]
    Keywords : Elizabeth Bowen; The Heat of the Day; trauma; war; identity;

    Abstract : This thesis examines individual and collective trauma in Elizabeth Bowen’s novel The Heat of the Day, published in 1948. The main purpose of this paper is to analyse how the duality of identities is portrayed, and which elements of repression compulsion and individual and collective trauma are present in Elizabeth Bowen’s novel The Heat of the Day by using elements from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical theory and Cathy Caruth’s trauma theory as theoretical frameworks. READ MORE

  3. 2. Clutching at Straws : An Analysis of the Construction of Anglo-Irish Hybridity as a Form of National Inclusion in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Birgit Glashoff; [2017]
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  4. 3. Clutching at Straws : An Analysis of the Construction of Anglo-Irish Hybridity as a Form of National Inclusion in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Birgit Glashoff; [2016]
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  5. 4. The Figure in the Ground - Perception, Identity and Readerly Involvement in four Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Lisa Larsson; [2007]
    Keywords : Elizabeth Bowen; Identity in literature; Perception in literature; Foregrounding in literature; Cognitive Poetics; Narratology; Reader-response; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Using tools and ideas from narratology, reader-response theory and cognitive poetics, and focusing on the representation of perception, this essay studies identity in four short stories by Elizabeth Bowen: "The Demon Lover", "The Inherited Clock", "Dead Mabelle" and "Foothold". The supernatural or uncanny element in the stories is seen as part of a defamiliarizing strategy, one which invites and even induces an active reading. READ MORE