Essays about: "Languages and Literatures"

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  1. 1. “A sickness that could kill a dozen pigs in a single day”: An ecocritical approach to Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Alexander Sloots; [2021]
    Keywords : Kazuo Ishiguro; The Buried Giant; Ecocriticism; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This essay will analyze Kazuo Ishiguro’s fantasy (or anti-fantasy) novel The Buried Giant (2016) from an ecocritical approach, with the aspiration to commence an ecocritical dialogue regarding the novel, which, at the time writing this, is non-existent. The first part of the analysis examines the portrayal of nature in The Buried Giant. READ MORE

  3. 2. Spectators’ Experience of Watching Dance without Music: A cognitive semiotic exploration of kinesthetic empathy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Kognitiv semiotik

    Author : Khatia Chikhladze; [2021]
    Keywords : empathy; kinesthetic empathy; qualitative kinetic dynamics; qualities of movement; vitality affects; emotional arousal; respiration; skin conductance; consciousness; phenomenology; intentionality; classical ballet; contemporary dance.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Empathy is our ability to experience and understand the mental states of others. In movement perception, and in particular in dance spectatorship, it has been argued that we experience observed movements through our own bodies: kinesthetic empathy. READ MORE

  4. 3. "There was no end in sight": Time and chronology in Joseph Heller's Catch-22

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Anna Fälth; [2021]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

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  5. 4. The Influence of Forensic Science and Law Enforcement on the Sherlock Holmes Stories

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Leonardo Al-Shennag; [2021]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Sherlock Holmes is one of the most famous protagonists in the literary genre of crime, but how he came to be is not often discussed. The stories about Holmes were written in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Arthur Conan Doyle during a period when British society was developing in matters of human rights, law, and science. READ MORE

  6. 5. Class, Rank and Status in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Kajsa Söderström; [2021]
    Keywords : Jane Austen; Pride and Prejudice; social class; social rank; social status; historical background; biographical background; social criticism; early 19th century; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813, is one of Jane Austen’s best known novels but there is much hidden from a modern reader when encountering the text. Being unfamiliar with the class system of early 19th-century England and its complexities will diminish the impact of the novel that would be apparent to an early reader of Austen. READ MORE