Essays about: "carnivalesque"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the word carnivalesque.
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1. The Many Identities of Trinidadian Women in Earl Lovelace’s Salt
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierAbstract : This essay aims to explore the identities of a selection of female characters in Earl Lovelace’s novel Salt. My research questions are the following: How are the selected characters’ hybrid identities constructed? What role do different circumstances play in the formation of the characters’ identities? How do polyphony, mimicry and the carnivalesque affect their identities? Although the examined women are assumed to conform to similar gender norms, I argue that there is no common female role in Salt. READ MORE
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2. Stop Calling Me That! : A Reader-Response Analysis of Bullying in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, in Accordance with Theory of the Carnivalesque
University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : In school bullying is a well-known problem and unfortunately it is not uncommon that adults do not see all the signs of a bullying situation. Bullying can be hard to detect and several factors are possible foundation pillars for a hierarchical subjugation of another individual. READ MORE
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3. “In Every Wood in Every Spring There is a Different Green” : An Independent Project in Literature on The Ecocritical Dialogue and Carnivalesque Aspects of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium
University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : Tolkien’s Middle Earth is characterised by the conflict between the forces of good, often represented as guardians of nature juxtaposed to the forces of evil, marked by a voracious edacity for a nature destroying industry. In fact, the second volume of the LotR deals with Saruman’s war against nature. READ MORE
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4. DEMOCRACY, A TRAGIC CARNIVALESQUE HERO : The Narratives of a Transnational Social Movement Against the Coup in Brazil
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionenAbstract : The concern that democracy in the largest country in Latin America could drive toward fascism has surfaced as a point of departure for the creation of forms of resistance among Brazilians in the diaspora. This thesis addresses this development by bringing to light the narratives of FIBRA, a transnational social movement created in 2016 to denounce the coup in Brazil. READ MORE
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5. "We must speak by the card or equivocation will undo us" -A Bakhtinian Reading of Hamlet and its Pedagogical Implications for Second Language Teaching
University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : In this study, I analyse Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy Hamlet with a Bakhtinian close reading. Using Bakhtinian concepts, such as carnival, dialogism, polyphony and heteroglossia, together with contextualising materials, I analyse Shakespeare’s use of ambiguous language as contextual communication. READ MORE
