Essays about: "Sylvia"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 47 essays containing the word Sylvia.
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1. 21st Century Satan: Modern Day Faith Healer’s Perceptions and Experiences of the Devil in the Philippines : A Study in the Research Field of Psychology of Religion
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : 21st Century Satan: Modern Day Faith Healer’s Perceptions and Experiences of the Devil in the Philippines Abstract The aim of this qualitative research study is to explore the contemporary perceptions of Satan and give life to the personal encounters of what 3 Albularyo or modern day faith healers in the Philippines believe is the Devil himself. The study will highlight the respondent’s individual experiences and reflections over the impact it has on their life. READ MORE
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2. “Every Time You Call Me Crazy I Get More Crazy”: Sylvia Plath, Taylor Swift, and Confessional Performances
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaAbstract : This thesis explores the works and personas of Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift and analyses the popular conflations of their real lives and their works. Jon Helt Haarder’s theory of biographical performativity is introduced to analyse the threshold aesthetics between reality and art and investigate the feedback loops between oeuvres andlives as well as the interpretation of these in the public sphere. READ MORE
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3. Marriage and Motherhood in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar : An Analysis of Gender Expectations and Poetic Language
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälleAbstract : .... READ MORE
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4. "The Grey Sky Lowers" : The Uncanny in Five of Sylvia Plath's Poems
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)Abstract : This thesis investigates the uncanny (das Unheimliche) in five of Sylvia Plath’s 1962 poems: “Berck-Plage”, “The Arrival of the Bee Box”, “Daddy”, “Fever 103°”, and “Death & Co.”. Furthermore, it looks at how the biographical circumstances in which the poet found herself while writing the poems, may have influenced them. READ MORE
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5. Breaking the Bell Jar: Teaching Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Feminist Literary Criticism to Upper Secondary School Students
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : This paper studies how Sylva Plath’s The Bell Jar can be read from a feminist perspective and, in turn, what some possible benefits and potential risks of teaching the novel and feminist literary criticism to upper secondary school students of English in Sweden are. This paper also discusses how the novel can be a means to discuss the fundamental values of upper secondary school, in terms of equality, but also the topic of mental health. READ MORE