Essays about: "biographical essay"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words biographical essay.

  1. 1. "The Grey Sky Lowers" : The Uncanny in Five of Sylvia Plath's Poems

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)

    Author : Eva Stenskär; [2022]
    Keywords : Sylvia Plath; Ariel; Sigmund Freud; Nicholas Royle; Harriet Rosenstein; Uncanny; das Unheimliche; Liminality; Darkness; Aposiopesis; Hauntings; Doubles;

    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

  3. 2. Class, Rank and Status in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Kajsa Söderström; [2021]
    Keywords : Jane Austen; Pride and Prejudice; social class; social rank; social status; historical background; biographical background; social criticism; early 19th century; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813, is one of Jane Austen’s best known novels but there is much hidden from a modern reader when encountering the text. Being unfamiliar with the class system of early 19th-century England and its complexities will diminish the impact of the novel that would be apparent to an early reader of Austen. READ MORE

  4. 3. Texts and Paratexts in a Colonial Context. Krupabai Satthianadhan's English Novels 'Saguna' and 'Kamala'

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Karin Edgardh; [2020-01-15]
    Keywords : India; Krupabai Satthianadhan; Saguna; Kamala; Gérard Genette; Autobiography; Conversion; Colonial literature;

    Abstract : The anglophone Indian author Krupabai Satthianadhan (1862-1894) was a second-generation Christian convert and a member of the Christian Tamil family in colonial Madras. Knowledge of English was still a high-caste male privilege when Satthianadhan published reformist articles on female education. Her two novels, the autobiographical Saguna. READ MORE

  5. 4. Brothers and Arms: How Two Brothers Reflect the Abandonment of Past Heroic Ideals and the Development of Future ones in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Estrid Ericson Borggren; [2019]
    Keywords : Heroic Ideals; Tolkien; Victorian Medievalism; Boromir; Faramir; The Lord of the Rings; Heroicism; Post-war Literature; The Great War; Beowulf; Past; Future; Brothers; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The literary heroic ideal changed with the Great War, as the Victorian hero ideal was no longer plausible in a post-war world. The new ideal was pacifist and non-heroic but not everyone who had been through the Great War agreed that there was no heroicism. READ MORE

  6. 5. ”Nameless here forevermore” : A study of the expression of sorrow, in the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Robin Kaas; [2019]
    Keywords : Edgar Allan Poe;

    Abstract : Despite being one of the most influential writers of his era, Edgar Allan Poe led a mostly tragic life of impoverishment and personal failures and tragedies. This essay explores to what extent this affected Poe’s writing, by examining the portrayals of the emotions of grief and sorrow in some of Poe’s work, via close-reading. READ MORE