Essays about: "Zoomorphism"

Found 5 essays containing the word Zoomorphism.

1. 1. From Hospitium to Hybridisation: The acquisition, adoption, and transformation of Roman zoomorphic forms in Barbaricum

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Arkeologi

   Author : David Stuart Parker; [2022]
   Keywords : Zoomorphism; Romans; Roman imports; Romanisation; hybridisation; Barbaricum; hospitium; dona militaria; spoils of war; gift-giving; Roman provinces; Roman Iron Age; Iron Age societies.; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : This text is an attempt to re-evaluate the significance of Roman imports in Scandinavian contexts as well as to answer overarching questions concerning frontier zones, and the building of core-periphery relationships. This is achieved by applying the Roman concepts of hospitium and dona militaria as well as theoretical frameworks such as provincial ritual practices and cultural hybridisation to a predefined group of material culture. READ MORE

3. 2. The Animal in the Mirror : Zoomorphism and Anthropomorphism in Life of Pi

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Miryam Bernadette Danielsson; [2020]
   Keywords : Life of Pi; anthropomorphism; zoomorphism; anthropophagy; cannibalism; ecocriticism; animal studies; human-animal dualism; Yann Martel; cartesian dualism; animal philosophy;

   Abstract : This essay explores the application of zoomorphism and anthropomorphism in Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi. The novel, rather than being a mere shipwreck-narrative or a miraculous tale with religious overtones, is also a story about the complicated and perhaps inevitably divided relationship between humans and animals. READ MORE

4. 3. Human or Horse? : Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Instances in The Horse Whisperer

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Emma Pigney; [2015]
   Keywords : anthropomorphism; horse whispering; Nicholas Evans; zoomorphism; parallels;

   Abstract : This essay aims to show how anthropomorphism, and also to some extent zoomorphism, is created in Nicholas Evans’s novel The Horse Whisperer.  Through parallel events and the usage of the concepts horse whisperers and horse whispering, a special connection is created between Grace, the main human character, and Pilgrim, the main horse character. READ MORE

5. 4. Hunter and the Hunted : A Bakhtinian Reading of Zoomorphic Instances in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Johan Nilsson; [2015]
   Keywords : Hunter S. Thompson; Bakhtin; Zoomorphism; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas;

   Abstract : In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, the city of Las Vegasrepresents a country that is torn between the flippant capitalism and the dream ofprogress on the one hand, and the need to come closer to your own humanity on theother. READ MORE

6. 5. The Human Animal : An Ecocritical View of Animal Imagery in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad

   Author : Erik Fredriksson; [2013]
   Keywords : Aldous Huxley; Julian Huxley; ecocriticism; biofuturism; zoomorphism; dystopia; science fiction; animal imagery; environmentalism;

   Abstract : The early twentieth century saw the beginning of modern environmentalism. Intellectuals dreamed up solutions to the world’s problems and hoped for a better future being made possible by advances in science and technology. However, Aldous Huxley produced Brave New World which, as this essay argues, mocks the enthusiasm of his intellectual peers. READ MORE