Essays about: "Roland"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 82 essays containing the word Roland.

  1. 1. Drop Dead Gorg(on)eous : A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Contemporary Medusa Tattoo

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Emma Edling; [2024]
    Keywords : Art history; Medusa; Medusa tattoo; tattoos; TikTok; multimodality; écriture féminine; postfeminism; Konstvetenskap; Medusa; Medusatatuering; tatueringar; TikTok; multimodalitet; écriture féminine; postfeminism;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the phenomenon of the contemporary ‘Medusa tattoo’ that gained traction on the social media platform TikTok in 2019 as a symbol of sexual assault survival, and which has since come to function as an instrument for digital feminist activism. The study aspires to provide a new, previously unexplored link to the long chain of academic research on the figure of Medusa by looking at the emergence, function, and potential of the Medusa tattoo. READ MORE

  3. 2. Shifting, Linking and Framing : The Case for Technology as a Coherence-Making Textual Device in Literary Realism

    University essay from Karlstads universitet

    Author : Ruben Brundell; [2024]
    Keywords : Realism; Coherence; Technology; Roland Barthes; Eric Auerbach; Ian Watt; Gabrielle Zevin; Melina Marchetta; Daniel Defoe; Gustave Flaubert; Virginia Woolf;

    Abstract : Literary realism, that is, texts that seek to represent the actual in literature while achieving a sense of verisimilitude, have historically been analyzed and defined by a number of critics. These critics have, with differing approaches, attempted to make comprehensible what it is that constitutes the realist text. READ MORE

  4. 3. Invisible Landscapes : Signs and Illusions in the Perfumery of Jean-Claude Ellena

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Victor Langer; [2023]
    Keywords : Perfumery; Semiotics; Olfaction; Jean-Claude Ellena; Hermès; Roland Barthes;

    Abstract : This study explores the potential of semiotics in the non-visual realm of perfumery, focusing on the work of French perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena. Utilizing Roland Barthes’ three levels of signification as a theoretical framework – as presented in his essay Rhétorique de l’image – it analyzes the linguistic, denotative and connotative aspects of three perfumes created by Ellena for the French luxury house Hermès: Un Jardin en Méditerranée, Un Jardin sur le Nil and Un Jardin Après la Mousson. READ MORE

  5. 4. Digitalised Combats and Their Impact on Social Sustainability in Kenya and Nigeria

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Roland Aszalós; [2023]
    Keywords : Africa; digitalisation; digital transformation; combats; social sustainability; terrorism; al-Shabaab; Boko Haram; peacekeeping; securitisation; Centre of Gravity; cyber warfare; cryptocurrency; dark web; social media;

    Abstract : In our era, digital technology is one of the fastest-changing areas. It impacts our private life, well-being, economics, politics and warfare. This essay intends to answer how digital transformation affects combats and state and non-state actors and also how these digitalised combats compromise social sustainability. READ MORE

  6. 5. Hurtful Augenblick: Affect’s Doing in a Series of Instagram Stories of Resistance

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

    Author : Samaneh Mohseni Hosseinabadi; [2022]
    Keywords : affect theories; photographic image; embodied simulation; Iran; social media; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the affective qualities in a set of Instagram stories juxtaposing photos of the pre- and after 1979 Iranian revolution protests. It poses the central question: ‘How can the power of photographic images in an era of social media be elucidated based on theories of affect?’ By asking this, another subsequent question arises: ‘How is an affective reading of a type of material of mixed and complex nature formulated?’ These two questions shape the structure of this thesis. READ MORE