Essays about: "babel"

Found 4 essays containing the word babel.

  1. 1. Jewish Religion on Trial : Understanding Isaac Babel’s Short Story "Karl-Yankel"

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Ryska

    Author : Marco Rep; [2018]
    Keywords : Isaac Babel; Karl-Yankel; Judaism; identity; Russian-Jewish literature.;

    Abstract : The subject of this thesis is the short story "Карл-Янкель" ("Karl-Yankel") by Russian-Jewish writer Isaac Babel (1894‒1940), published in 1931. The story depicts a trial following the cir-cumcision of a boy against his parents’ will, and thus directly addresses issues of high relevance at the time, namely the transformations of religious life in the early years of the Soviet Union. READ MORE

  3. 2. Re-processing of Shallow and Deep Crustal Reflection Seismic Data along BABEL Line 7, Central Sweden

    University essay from Geofysik

    Author : Hanieh Shahrokhi; [2012]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The BABEL project (Baltic And Bothnian Echoes from the Lithosphere) was a collaboration among British, Danish, Finnish, German and Swedish geoscientists to acquire deep-crustal reflection and wide-angle refraction data in the Baltic Shield and Gulf of Bothnia. In 1989, the collection of 2,268 km of deep marine reflection seismic data was carried out. READ MORE

  4. 3. Satire and Social Criticism in C. S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength

    University essay from Avd för utbildningsvetenskap och språk

    Author : Marika Österberg; [2012]
    Keywords : literary criticism; social criticism; satire; dystopia; fantasy; evil; Tower of Babel; philosophy; theology; history; social science; psychology; magnanimity; totalitarianism; laboratory animals; education;

    Abstract : The essay at hand is a New Historicist reading of C. S. Lewis’ dystopian fantasy novel That Hideous Strength. According to New Historicist theory it is informed by many disciplines, namely, philosophy, history, literary theory, theology, social science, and psychology, and it attempts to lessen injustices of race and class. READ MORE

  5. 4. United in or torn by diversity? Multilingualism and the European public sphere

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Inese Nalivaiko; [2006]
    Keywords : European public sphere; multilingualism; linguistic diversity; lingua franca; speech community; European NGOs; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : So far the academic debate on the possible emergence of a European public sphere has been exhaustive however largely neglecting the implications of expressed multilingualism/linguistic diversity in the EU for formation of a public sphere. This study problematises the question of linguistic diversity within the framework of this debate. READ MORE