Essays about: "defamiliarization"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word defamiliarization.

  1. 1. The Neck Hammock : A First-Person Soma Design Project on the Experience of Rocking

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Aidan Kidder-Wolff; [2022]
    Keywords : Somaesthetics; Soma Design; Rocking; Aesthetics; Human Machine Interaction; Microcontroller.;

    Abstract : Estetiker inom design är ofta subjektiva, då vad som definierar interaktionens kvaliteter skiljer sig åt mellan dem. Vissa estetiker kan dock visas distinkt genom kroppsspråk, vilket påståendevis skulle vara en mer konkret metod för att förmedla upplevelser och intryck. READ MORE

  3. 2. "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

  4. 3. Estranger Around Us

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Paria Shoaei; [2021]
    Keywords : Estrangement; Displacement; Culture; Defamiliarization; Fragmentation; Intersection; social sustainability;

    Abstract : My thesis project is attempting to investigate the notion of estrangement as a qualitative effect and discover various strategies and technics of estrangement in the field of architecture.These investigations will aim to design a cultural center as an institute for discovering more about the displaced situation of mankind in the twenty-first century, producing a defamiliarized aesthetic that is both alien and strangely contextual to our new cultural identity which embraces the concepts of disorientation and otherness. READ MORE

  5. 4. Constructing Memories

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Rebecca Edin; [2019]
    Keywords : Beirut; civic center; culture; postcard; fragmentation; defamiliarization; landfill; heritage;

    Abstract : The project examines, and experiments with, how one can use historical fragments as a starting point for the design of a 7000 square meter large civic center, or house of arts and culture, in Beirut, as this is a place where the urban development has had a very different point of departure the last decades. The historical fragments in this case has been a collection of postcards of various public buildings that existed in the city between 1890 and 1970. READ MORE

  6. 5. Harry Potter and the Battle against Racism in EFL classrooms : A study of how racism is portrayed in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - novel and movie, with a CRT perspective in pedagogical settings.

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Ebba Berggren; [2017]
    Keywords : Racism; critical race theory; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; upper secondary school students; reader response; defamiliarization; EFL.;

    Abstract : This essay’s aim is to investigate how Rowling uses her novel Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to criticize racism in her magical world and ours. A secondary aim concerns how Rowling’s critical stance creates ways to resist racism for readers in the EFL classroom. READ MORE