Essays about: "essay examples of close reading"

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1. 1. Dissonance in Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Kristian Jeremic; [2022]
   Keywords : Elizabeth Gaskell; Mary Barton; George Orwell; Down and Out in Paris and London; Marxism; class; class consciousness; historical materialism; Althusser; internal distantiation; unreliable narrator; intranarrational unreliability; extratextual unreliability; representations of poverty;

   Abstract : This essay identifies a type of narrative dissonance in the depictions of working-class conditions within Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. In this thesis, the dissonance is argued in part to be the effect created when an author belonging to one social class attempts to portray a class separate from their own. READ MORE

3. 2. Mind or Body : Patriarchal binary thought and the role of sex in Disgrace

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Author : Yrr Åslund; [2021]
   Keywords : Keywords: gender; sex; power; sexuality; race; Coetzee; Disgrace; Cixous; patriarchal binary thought.;

   Abstract : David Lurie, the main character in J.M. Coetzee’s novel Disgrace, is a white middle-aged man who lives in South Africa. He is a South African man but seems to think of himself as a European man and the story plays out in a post-colonial setting. READ MORE

4. 3. References to Darkness : A study of darkness in a selection of poems by Wendell Berry

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Lars Norén; [2019]
   Keywords : Wendell Berry; poetry; darkness; close reading; earth; soil; death; farming; figurative; imagery; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The writer, farmer, Christian pacifist, and “eco-poet” Wendell Berry has written and published novels, essays, and poetry since early 1960s. Examples of recurring themes in Berry’s literary work are the close relationship between farmer and the earth, the importance of belonging to a place/community, and having trust in the Creation. READ MORE

5. 4. She's the Man : A Close Reading of Gender in The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Frida Meurling; [2016]
   Keywords : Gender; The Return of the Soldier; Rebecca West; Masculinity; Femininity; Stereotypes;

   Abstract : This essay focuses on gender behaviour in The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West. The claim for this essay argues that West has changed the traditional gender roles in her novel by giving female characters masculine attributes and the male character feminine attributes. READ MORE

6. 5. The Postmodern self in Thomas Pynchon's the Crying of Lot 49 : Dismantling the unified self by a combination of postmodern philosophy and close reading

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Andreas Signell; [2016]
   Keywords : Pynchon; self; identity; postmodernism; Wittgenstein;

   Abstract : Abstract This essay is about identity and the self in Thomas Pynchon's critically acclaimed masterpiece The Crying of Lot 49. Through a combination of postmodern philosophy and close reading, it examines instances of postmodernist representations of identity in the novel. READ MORE