Essays about: "Rachel Cusk"
Found 4 essays containing the words Rachel Cusk.
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1. Adrift in an Unfamiliar Place: Exploring the Architectural Uncanny in Rachel Cusk´s Outline Trilogy
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This essay explores the uncanny as an overarching element of Rachel Cuk´s Outline trilogy. This is done within the theoretical framework of Freud´s uncanny, the architectural interpretations of the concept, as well as with the help of Lacan´s extimacy, a concept that will be defended as closely related to Freud´s. READ MORE
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2. Me minus me: Self-Effacement in Autofiction by Christopher Isherwood, Rachel Cusk and J. M. Coetzee
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Autofiction is one of the most popular genres in contemporary Anglophone literature. Yet the self-fashioning, outwardly hybrid genre merging autobiography with fiction is also the object of frequent contestation and derision, the source of which is nearly singularly rooted in authors’ perceived self-absorption. READ MORE
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3. Outline's Silence – In Search for A Silent Narrator
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : Outline’s Silence: In Search for a Silent Narrator is a Bachelor research paper that hopes to open a discussion about Rachel Cusk’s Outline (2014) and the possibility that an absent and silent narrator could lead to a new and innovative writing mode. The paper bases its theory on Hayden White’s “The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality” (1980) where White argues that moralization is unavoidable as long as there is a narrator in the text (27). READ MORE
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4. Aesthetic Experiences and the Miracle of Action : On the Radical Possibility of Art in Teaching and Learning
University essay from Södertörns högskola/Estetiska lärprocesser; Södertörns högskola/LärarutbildningenAbstract : This master essay starts with the author having an encounter with two 14-years old boys who claim that they are Nazis. In a school project where the pupils made films about norms in the society they made a film with a clearly racist and homophobic message. READ MORE