Essays about: "defining the self"
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1. The Traumatised Self in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day : Analysing identity and trauma by using psychoanalysis and trauma theory
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This thesis examines individual and collective trauma in Elizabeth Bowen’s novel The Heat of the Day, published in 1948. The main purpose of this paper is to analyse how the duality of identities is portrayed, and which elements of repression compulsion and individual and collective trauma are present in Elizabeth Bowen’s novel The Heat of the Day by using elements from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical theory and Cathy Caruth’s trauma theory as theoretical frameworks. READ MORE
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2. The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion - A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Construction of the German National Identity in the Right-Wing Political Discourse on Refugees, Migrants, and Foreigners
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This thesis explores how the German right-wing political party AfD constructs a national identity in their political discourse around refugees, migrants, and foreigners. The rise of refugees and migrants worldwide has led to a renewed focus on the concepts of nation-states and national identity in defining who does and does not belong. READ MORE
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3. "Sound and Vision": Thomas Pynchon, Perception, and Transcendence
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : Previous studies of Thomas Pynchon’s works have made progress in defining numerous aspects of what could be construed as the Pynchonian worldview. However, they have mainly identified them in general, visual terms, separated from the level of the direct experience of his characters. READ MORE
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4. Reflections on the economic strategies of private museums. A comparative study of the private museums in Meteora.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för tjänstevetenskapAbstract : The thesis examines the economic strategies which two private museums of Meteora, the Hellenic Culture Museum and the Natural History Museum of Meteora and Mushroom Museum implement, so as to grasp the economic strategies that private museums in Greece adopt. Utilizing Varbanova’s (2013) framework which places specific emphasis not only on the open-system theory as an efficient way to comprehend the macro-level challenges (in particular the economic crisis and Covid-19, which had been plaguing the two museums for a long time) and opportunities (as the ones that can result from the implementation of a particular legal status in the context of a given cultural policy), but also on the stakeholder and resource-dependence theories, which acknowledge the pivotal role that various actors and resources inside and outside an organization play in museums’ prosperity, the thesis analyzes previous literature that demonstrates economic strategies that (public and private) museums adopt, so as to secure their continuation and thriving. READ MORE
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5. Becoming by Buying : A qualitative study about Brandengagement in self-concept (BESC) in the pre-purchase stage
University essay from Umeå universitet/FöretagsekonomiAbstract : Fast fashion brands provide consumers with constantly available opportunities to update,not only their wardrobes, but themselves. As our identities have become a constant projectto work on, consumption of fast fashion involves the possibilities of trial and error ofpersonal development. READ MORE
