Essays about: "Julia Kristeva"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words Julia Kristeva.

  1. 1. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Otherness and The Abject in Alice Munro's "Dimensions" and "Child's Play"

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Sara Frigerio; [2023]
    Keywords : Otherness; Abjection; Critical Discourse Analysis; Lacan; Kristeva;

    Abstract : This thesis is aimed at investigating the concepts of otherness and the abject/abjection in the various characters' discourses in the two short stories "Dimensions" and "Child's Play" in Alice Munro's collection Too Much Happiness from a psychoanalytic perspective in conjunction with a Critical Discourse Analysis. Both texts share features of otherness which manifest in various forms in the characters. READ MORE

  3. 2. "The Grey Sky Lowers" : The Uncanny in Five of Sylvia Plath's Poems

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)

    Author : Eva Stenskär; [2022]
    Keywords : Sylvia Plath; Ariel; Sigmund Freud; Nicholas Royle; Harriet Rosenstein; Uncanny; das Unheimliche; Liminality; Darkness; Aposiopesis; Hauntings; Doubles;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the uncanny (das Unheimliche) in five of Sylvia Plath’s 1962 poems: “Berck-Plage”, “The Arrival of the Bee Box”, “Daddy”, “Fever 103°”, and “Death & Co.”. Furthermore, it looks at how the biographical circumstances in which the poet found herself while writing the poems, may have influenced them. READ MORE

  4. 3. Thick Love : A Psychoanalytical Study of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för utbildningsvetenskap

    Author : Khuteibe Hashim; [2021]
    Keywords : Psychoanalytical Criticism; Sigmund Freud; Jacques Lacan; Julia Kristeva; Beloved; Toni Morrison; Abjection; Semiotic; Symbolic; Imaginary; Mirror-stage; Defense Mechanism;

    Abstract : This study employs psychoanalytical theories to explore how the conscious, unconscious, and subconscious workings of the mind, combined with a search for identity, are presented and dealt with in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved (1987). It is done through a close reading and in-depth textual analysis of thematic concerns raised in the work. READ MORE

  5. 4. Sublime Transactions. The Gestures of Poetry and Criticism with Anne Carson, the Scholar-Poet

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Edda Ahrent; [2021]
    Keywords : Anne Carson; hermeneutics; Massumi; Kristeva; Greenblatt; literary criticism; poetry; affect; play; intertextuality; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The 20th century, as well as the 21st, is ripe with hermeneutic anxiety concerning the survival of the object of interpretation and the right way to study literature. In this thesis, the Canadian scholar-poet Anne Carson is studied as a framework to an understanding of how poetry and literary criticism – the event of hermeneutics – co-occur, converge, and diverge. READ MORE

  6. 5. Understanding Locke & Key: A Semiotic and Intertextual study of the Collective Unconscious and some of its Archetypes in Locke & Key

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Henrik Rogowski; [2020]
    Keywords : Comic books; Horror; Intertextuality; Julia Kristeva; Psychoanalysis; Carl Jung; Collective unconsciousness; Archetypes; Roland Barthes; Semiotics; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis’ focus will be on the comic book series Locke & Key in a semiotic and an intertextual reading through a psychoanalytical framework. The comic series is described as a “psychological horror” and a main theme running across the six volumes is good versus evil, and a lot of the narrative is helped by magical keys. READ MORE