Essays about: "Sedgwick"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word Sedgwick.

  1. 1. ”a text… that shares my wonder”: A Survey of Three Contemporary Examples of Creative Criticism

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

    Author : Sara Dahlberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Literary criticism; Creative Criticism; Affect; Rita Felski; Anne Carson; Doireann Ní Ghríofa; Vivian Gornick; The hermeneutics of suspicion; Paranoid Reading; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In the last few decades, dissatisfaction with the prevailing critical paradigm ¬– what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as early as 1997 dubbed “paranoid” or “suspicious” reading – has grown significantly. This thesis is a survey of three recent works, The Albertine Workout (2014), Unfinished Business: Notes of A Chronic Re-Reader (2020), and A Ghost in the Throat (2020), that emerge from this discontent. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Devil Led Us to the Wrong Crib : Paranoid and Reparative Reading in Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Berfin Sekerci; [2020]
    Keywords : Attachment theory; Jeanette Winterson; Melanie Klein; mother-daughter relationship;

    Abstract : This essay analyzes the issues of attachment between Jeanette Winterson and her adoptive mother in the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. My argument is that the memoir demonstrates a movement from what Sedgwick calls the paranoid position of reading to the reparative position. READ MORE

  4. 3. Hang on to the Words : Knowledge Tokens, Hierarchies, and Concurrent Narratives in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Jack Appleton; [2020]
    Keywords : MaddAddam Trilogy; Atwood; Margaret; homosocial triangles; selfconstitution; fables; metanarratives; micronarratives;

    Abstract : Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy has received substantial critical attention inthe fields of ecocriticism, the ethics of bioengineering, and feminist theory. However, the vast majority of this criticism has focussed on Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, the first two books in the trilogy. READ MORE

  5. 4. An Investigation into Predation, Mortality and Taphonomic Bias inthe Population Distribution of Neptunea contraria from theRed Crag of East Anglia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Alexander Seale; [2016]
    Keywords : Predation; taphonomy; sampling bias; palaeobiology; gastropods; population distribution; Predation; tafonomi; provtagning snedhet; paleobiologi; snäckor; populationsfördelning;

    Abstract : Predation is a key factor in evolutionary dynamics. It disrupts the potential of fossilisation in prey items and is poorly recorded in the fossil record; failed predation in conical marine gastropods is recorded in scars. READ MORE

  6. 5. Hyde-ing Between Holmes and Watson An Examination of a Homosocial Bond Through a Freudian Analogy of Jekyll and Hyde

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Jenny Appelgren Percival; [2014-10-09]
    Keywords : Sherlock Holmes; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; male homosocial desire; structural model of the psyche; Sigmund Freud; Robert Louis Stevenson;

    Abstract : The relationship between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson is one of the most famous male friendships in modern literature. Using the two novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s extensive canon about the extraordinary detective and his companion, this essay examines the bond between Holmes and Watson through Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s theories about male homosocial desire. READ MORE