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1. Voices Once Lost : on Connexions in nineteenth century Swedish Geaticism
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis studies how the early nineteenth century periodical Iduna, published by the influential Geatish Society from 1811 until 1844, portrayed and shaped their idea of Sweden’s past. Of particular interest to this thesis is how this past was narrated through the use of emotions and how these emotions functioned. READ MORE
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2. No Need for Penis-Envy : A Feminist Psychoanalytic Reading of The Bell Jar
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This essay analyzes Esther Greenwood’s identity crisis, mental illness, and recovery in Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar (1963) from a feminist psychoanalytic perspective. The purpose is to understand the cultural and psychological mechanisms behind the main character’s situation. READ MORE
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3. Racism in environmental communication about plastic pollution
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : This thesis contributes to the knowledge formation of how environmental racism is covertly transformed in environmental communication about plastic pollution and how that affects socioecological relations in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. Through analysis rhetorical and narrative strategies of the communication by the NGO Durbanites Against Plastic Pollution and by observing the Durbanites it has been revealed how aversive racism is transformed within the context of plastic pollution. READ MORE
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4. Rituals of Mourning and Melancholia in Dubliners
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : .... READ MORE
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5. Doing away with safety : A study on mourning and metafiction in How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärandeAbstract : This essay works with Freud’s theory of melancholia, and Hutcheon’s theories of parody and metafictional writing to explore Charles Yu’s novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. By looking at how both theories handle the subject of identity and unconscious formations, this study argues that the relationship between the main character and his father visualizes the process of creating, as well as evolving a dialectic discourse regarding the function of literature. READ MORE