Essays about: "Transgressive Literature"

Found 3 essays containing the words Transgressive Literature.

1. 1. Rediscovering Beatrice and Bianca: A Study of Oscar Wilde’s Tragedies The Duchess of Padua (1883) and A Florentine Tragedy (1894)

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Minon Weber; [2020]
   Keywords : Oscar Wilde; Victorian Literature; Drama; Theatre; 19th Century Literature; Renaissance Drama; Theatre; Elizabethan Drama; Jacobean Drama; A Florentine Tragedy; The Duchess of Padua; Wilde; Wilde Studies; Transgression; Feminist Criticism; Historicist Criticism; Genetic Criticism;

   Abstract : Towards the end of the 19th century Oscar Wilde wrote the four society plays that would become his most famous dramatical works: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). The plays combined characteristic Wildean witticisms with cunning social criticism of Victorian society, using stereotypical characters such as the dandy, the fallen woman and the “ideal” woman to mock the double moral and strict social expectations of Victorian society. READ MORE

3. 2. Carmen : Voice of the Anima and its Echoes in Literature, Opera, Film and Music Video

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för musikvetenskap

   Author : Nareh Rostamian; [2018]
   Keywords : Carmen; Jung; Psychoanalysis; music; video; film; opera;

   Abstract : Since its publication in 1845, Prosper Mérimée’s Carmen has been adapted many times for stage and screen. This essay focuses on the novella, Bizet’s 1875 opera, Saura’s 1983 film and Paul Van Haver’s (known by his stage name Stromae) music video. READ MORE

4. 3. Beyond Morality : Alternative Gay Narratives in Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking and Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts 

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Makz Bjuggfält; [2017]
   Keywords : Mark Ravenhill; Shopping And Fucking; Dennis Cooper; The Sluts; Gay Male Violence; Gay Capitalism; Gay Consumerism; Gay Hyperreality; Gay Simulacra; Gay Civilisation; Gay Authenticity; Blank Fiction; Transgressive Literature; In Yer Face; Cool Britannia.;

   Abstract : The gay male emerged as a visible public consumer during 1990s, when the LGBTQ movement in the United Kingdom and the United States was marked by conflicting commercial and political motives, heightened by the AIDS crisis. The cultural tension surrounding the gay male subject was reflected through various literary expressions. READ MORE