Essays about: "LITERARY THEORY"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 167 essays containing the words LITERARY THEORY.

  1. 11. Eyes on the prize-winners – a descriptive study of radical change in five contemporary award-winning Arabic picturebooks

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM)

    Author : Julia Krueger; [2023]
    Keywords : children’s literature picturebooks; Arabic; radical change theory; directed qualitative content analysis;

    Abstract : Radical change theory (RCT) was conceived in a North American context in the mid-1990s, in order to explain changes in contemporary literature for youth related to the digitization of society. This study uses directed qualitative content analysis (DQlCA) to look at a select sample of contemporary award-winning Arabic picturebooks through the lens of radical change theory. READ MORE

  3. 12. Satellites in Comparative Literature or How to Rectify the Western : A comparative study of feminist criticism in Blood Meridian and In the Distance

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Ulf Anton Waller Kaustinen; [2023]
    Keywords : Blood Meridian; In the Distance; Comparative Literature; Satellite; Satellites; Literary studies; Anti-Westerns; Anti-Westernm Westerns Western; Cormac McCarthy; Hernan Diaz; McCarthy; Diaz; Violence; Masculinity;

    Abstract : In this paper, I argue that novels of the same genre may communicate with each other, spanning time and space to recontextualize the realities of books that both preceeded and came after one another. I use Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985) and Hernan Diaz' In the Distance (2018) to illustrate my theory, focusing on the issues of masculinity presentet in both novels. READ MORE

  4. 13. "She'd learn over and over from Pa: these men had to have the last punch" : A literary analysis of Delia Owen's Where the Crawdads Sing and how it can be incorporated in the EFL classroom to discuss men's violence against women

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Julia Holmborg; [2023]
    Keywords : Power; Violence; Feminism; Rape culture; Critical literacy; EFL Classroom; Upper Secondary School;

    Abstract : This essay offers a literary study of the novel Where the Crawdads Sing written by Delia Owens published in 2018. The aim is to analyze the presence of men’s violence against women by focusing on the protagonist Kya. READ MORE

  5. 14. A Jungian Reading of The Midnight Library : Individuation Theory and Literary Criticism

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : HANA MIKAEILI; [2023]
    Keywords : Jung; Matt Haig; Jungian literary criticism; individuation; mother archetype; animus; complex; shadow; library; mental health;

    Abstract : The essay is a Jungian reading of the novel The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig, using Jung’s individuation theory. The author attends to the psychological journey of Nora, the protagonist on a quest of finding her identity. She struggles with anxiety and depression and commits suicide. READ MORE

  6. 15. Coping in Fictional Literature : A literary analysis of coping strategies in Sally Rooney´s Normal People and its usefulness in the EFL classroom

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Felicia Maxon; [2023]
    Keywords : Coping; Appraisals; Coping Strategies; Bibliotherapy; Author; EFL classroom; Upper secondary school;

    Abstract : This essay explores the notion of coping and coping strategies in Sally Rooney’s Normal People. It argues that the two protagonists are using multiple coping strategies as a way of managing life issues. Furthermore, this essay presents a discussion on how Normal People can be used in the EFL classroom as a resource to learn how coping works. READ MORE