Essays about: "Retellings"

Found 5 essays containing the word Retellings.

  1. 1. Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber through the Female Gaze

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Julia Bällsten; [2023]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The discourse on Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber has primarily been focused on the feminist undertones of her neogothic fairy tale retellings. In this essay, I apply the male and female gaze to Carter’s collection, which are perspectives I believe previous research on Carter’s works has overlooked. READ MORE

  3. 2. Criticizing Patriarchal Traditions through Alternative History in Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Sandra Ask; [2023]
    Keywords : Carol Ann Duffy; Poetry; The World s Wife; Retellings; Alternative History; Patriarchy; Historic Women; History; Greek Mythology; Gender;

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  4. 3. An Exploration of the American Justice System through the Trial of Tom Robinson : A New Historicist Analysis of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Eva-Lena Henriksson; [2021]
    Keywords : To Kill a Mockingbird; Harper Lee; Systemic racism; Racial bias; American justice system; New historicism; Scottsboro cases; Civil rights movement; Civil rights; Black Lives Matter movement; Constitutional rights.;

    Abstract : Adding something new to the understanding of To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), which is considered a twentieth-century classic, would be nearly impossible if not for the outlook of new historicism. Through a new historicist analysis of Harper Lee’s literary text parallel to non-fictional texts relating to the American justice system and civil rights, this essay explores how race affects U. READ MORE

  5. 4. Creating Kabīr : Understanding the use of Kabīr through the lens of Sanskritization

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Religionshistoria

    Author : Felix Rosén; [2021]
    Keywords : Kabīr; Nirguṇa; Saguṇa; Sanskritization; Bhakti; Sants; Dharmadas; Varṇa.;

    Abstract : The so called Bhakti movement spread, during the Late Medieval period, like wildfire across the South Asian subcontinent and acted like a catalyst for the development of nirguṇī-traditions. These newly emerging nirguṇī-traditions rallyd men and women alike, preaching for the abolation of the varṇa-system, for Muslim-Hindu unity, devotion to the one omipresent godhead, nirguṇa. READ MORE

  6. 5. From Unisemiotic to Polysemiotic Narratives: Translating across semiotic systems

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Karoliina Louhema; [2018]
    Keywords : bodily mimesis; cognitive semiotics; co-speech gestures; embodied narratives; experientiality; iconicity; ideophones; intersemiotic translation; language; mimetic schema; multimodality; narratives; phenomenology; pictorial semiotics; pictures; polysemiotic communication; semiotics; semiotic systems; sensory modalities; signs; sound symbolism; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Human communication is both polysemiotic and multimodal; it is comprised of ensembles of representations from different semiotic systems in different sensory modalities. These semiotic systems, such as language, gestures, and pictures consist of signs and relations between signs, with system-specific affordances (Kendon, 2004; Zlatev, 2009; Sonesson, 2014). READ MORE