Essays about: "essay on reading"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 259 essays containing the words essay on reading.

1. 1. My Burning Glances : The Male and queer gaze in three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Karin Faxén Sporrong; [2024]
   Keywords : The male gaze; the queer gaze; Edgar Allan Poe; Berenice: A Tale ; The Man that was Used Up ; The Man of the Crowd ; Den manliga blicken; den queera blicken; Edgar Allan Poe; Berenice ; Den förbrukade mannen ; Mannen i Mängden ;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to show the narrator’s use of the male and the queer gaze in three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe: “Berenice: A Tale” (1835), “The Man that was Used Up: A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign” (1839) and ”The Man of the Crowd” (1845). Through close reading of the stories, I show how the different gazes work, how they are used in the stories and what they lead to. READ MORE

3. 2. The Fictional World of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea: Emic and Etic Perspectives on its Worldbuilding

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Alexander Löfström; [2024]
   Keywords : Hemingway; Possible worlds theory; emic; etic; Textual actual world; Lifeworld; The Old Man and The Sea; Fiction; American Literature;

   Abstract : Reading is a past time activity that is popular all around the world. It is something thathelps us escape reality and put our focus elsewhere. When immersing yourself in afictional world, it can be intriguing to think of how it was created. READ MORE

4. 3. The Collective Unconscious in Neil Gaiman's Fairy Tales : The Motif of the Triple Goddess through Symbols and the Manifestations of the Anima Archetype

   University essay from Karlstads universitet

   Author : Yana Chyrko; [2024]
   Keywords : Neil Gaiman; Myth; Fairy Tale; Anima Archetype; Jungian Archetype; Archaic Symbol; Initiation; Collective Unconscious; Triple Goddess; Neil Gaiman; Myt; Saga; Anima Arketyp; Jungiansk Arketyp; Arkaisk Symbol; Initiation; Kollektiva Omedvetna; Tredelade Gudinnan; Symboler;

   Abstract : Many recent studies confirm that the fantasy genre is based on ancient myths. Contemporary authors of fiction create new versions of myths, often using ancient “natural” and cultural symbols. Neil Gaiman is one of these tellers of modern myth. READ MORE

5. 4. A quantitative study of Swedish high school L2 learners' receptive knowledge of English lexical collocations

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Louise Frifelt; [2024]
   Keywords : Collocations; Multi-word units; Formulaic language; Second language acquisition; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This paper investigates receptive knowledge of English lexical collocations among Swedish high school students. The study tests the claim that L2 (second language) learners of English have a low level of collocational competence and tend to recognise high-frequent collocations more than low-frequent since the former have been encountered more. READ MORE

6. 5. Jez Butterworth'z Jerusalem and the Spirit of Liberty

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Robin Pelgrom; [2023]
   Keywords : Jez; Butterworth; Mill; Blake; Byron; Cultural materialism; materialism; intertext; defiance; liberty; action; Arendt; play; criticism; theory; interpretation; mythical; historical; critique;

   Abstract : This essay is an attempt to conduct a reading of Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth through the lens of cultural materialism with John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty as intertext. The essay conducts a brief survey of previous scholarly treatment of the play, explains the theoretical background of cultural materialism that the essay operates on, and briefly introduces the intertext. READ MORE