Essays about: "M.M. Bakhtin"

Found 3 essays containing the words M.M. Bakhtin.

  1. 1. “Ghetto Nerd at the End of the World”: the Decolonized Chronotope, Liminality, and Dialogics in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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

    Author : Clarissa Grace Chang; [2016]
    Keywords : contemporary literature; Junot Díaz; decolonized chronotope; decolonial imagination; heteroglossia; New Jersey; Dominican Republic; Afro-Latinidad; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Narratives focusing on People of Color often suffer from neocolonial treatment with narrow focus on race at the expense of character development, working with stereotypical monoliths rather than complex individuals. These types of narratives tend to use Whiteness as a “neutral” reference point. READ MORE

  3. 2. ‘WONDER WOMAN HAPPY MAGIC FUN SWORD GIRL SEXY! SEXY! FIGHT! FIGHT!’

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

    Author : Gustav Thoreson; [2014]
    Keywords : Wonder Woman; Gail Simone; Parody; the Dialogic; Masquerade; Mimesis; Luce Irigaray; Mass Culture; M.M. Bakhtin; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : In this thesis I explore the conceptual relationships between Parody, the body and space in via the writer Gail Simone’s version of the comic book heroine Wonder Woman. I develop a critical re-imag(e)ination of performativity, space and the body in contemporary mass culture via Gail Simone’s Wonder Woman. READ MORE

  4. 3. Who is Percival? Intertextuality, Monologism and Heteroglossia in Virginia Woolf’s "The Waves"

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Helena Rödholm Siegrist; [2012-06-28]
    Keywords : Intertextuality; Monologism; Heteroglossia; The Waves; Percival; Virginia Woolf;

    Abstract : The essay “Who is Percival?” discusses the complex questions which arise from the obvious contradictions between the ideals of the hero Percival in Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves and the political opinions which Woolf herself expressed in some of her other texts. The author acts as an invisible narrator; the reader cannot be sure of her point of view. READ MORE