Essays about: "Johanna Koivunen"

Found 3 essays containing the words Johanna Koivunen.

  1. 1. Matter Manifesting Itself : Understanding Nonhuman Agency in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Romanska och klassiska institutionen

    Author : Johanna Koivunen; [2022]
    Keywords : ecocriticism; new materialism; agency; materiality; transformation; nonhuman; latin; ancient literature; roman literature;

    Abstract : This thesis examines transformations of human characters into trees, stones, and water sources in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The current climate crisis is partly the result of a view of nature as a passive object, or inert matter, that humans without consequences can exploit. READ MORE

  3. 2. A Clinging Embrace : A Study of the Female Rapist in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Romanska och klassiska institutionen

    Author : Johanna Koivunen; [2018]
    Keywords : metamorphoses; salmacis; hermaphroditus; europa; jupiter; rape; female rapist; desire; desiring subjects; ovid;

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  4. 3. Room for Thought: Privacy and the Private Home in Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Johanna Koivunen; [2015]
    Keywords : Privacy; interiority; Victorian domesticity; space; Virginia Woolf; modernity;

    Abstract : Modernism is often connected to the public sphere due to its associations with urbanity and technological changes. But interiority and private life was as important to modernity and, in particular, in Virginia Woolf’s writing. READ MORE