Essays about: "canon literature"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 26 essays containing the words canon literature.

  1. 6. Language Politics of the Mexican State regarding native languages and the funding of literary production

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Lucia Paprckova; [2022]
    Keywords : literature; native languages; indigenous writers; governmental subsidies for literary creation; world literature; decoloniality; colonialism; national literary canon; homogeneity; racism; classism;

    Abstract : This thesis strives to understand the underlying narrative behind the current distribution of the public funding between the writers of the Spanish language and writers of native languages in Mexico, as well as contextualise the policies of the Mexican State that often materialise colonial dynamics. The situation of native women writers is emphasised as they are forced to tackle multiple disadvantages based on unjust social structures. READ MORE

  3. 7. A Symphonic Discussion of the Animal in Richard Adams' Watership Down

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Elisabeth Kynaston; [2020]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to suggest a new reading of Richard Adams’ Watership Down (1972) by adopting the recently new discipline of Animal Studies. Adams follows a long tradition of talking animals in literature, which still to this day, is an important part of the English literary canon. READ MORE

  4. 8. An International Language? -Cultural Representation in English textbooks for Swedish Schools

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

    Author : Henric Frenning; [2020]
    Keywords : culture; cultural representation; textbooks; inner circle; outer circle; expanding circle;

    Abstract : Culture and language are intrinsically linked, and the question of how to approach teaching culture whilst teaching a language is always going to be one teachers have to ask themselves. A textbook is a tool which is meant to aid teachers and remove some of the burden of decision-making from their shoulders. READ MORE

  5. 9. "One goal is to understand the world better" : A Thematic Analysis of Upper-Secondary School Teachers' Choice and Use of Literary Texts in EFL

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Emma Sjödin; [2020]
    Keywords : EFL; literature; teaching literature; the canon; learning objectives; cultural and general knowledge;

    Abstract : The aims of the present study were to explore how teachers in upper-secondary school choose and use literary texts and genres in their teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL), what their attitudes are towards the role of literature in reaching the learning objectives and what implications their textual choices have for  literature teaching in general. Six people participated in the study, three male and three female upper-secondary school teachers in Sweden with English as one of their main subjects. READ MORE

  6. 10. The Laughter of Literature : A diachronic study of the social functions of laughter in British literature

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Johannes Widegren; [2019]
    Keywords : cultural study; historical linguistics; literary canon;

    Abstract : This paper investigates the historical development of the social functions of laughter in literature using linguistic analysis. Many previous studies have analyzed the connection between humor and laughter, but very few have looked at laughter in literature. READ MORE