Essays about: "estrangement"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 15 essays containing the word estrangement.

  1. 11. Getting out of Strange Spaces : A Reconstructive Reading of Paul Auster’s Oracle Night

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Author : Cia Gustrén; [2019]
    Keywords : critique; deconstruction; desubjectification; estrangement; existentialism; literary theory; narratology; postmodernism; reconstruction; strange spaces; subjectivity; subjectification; thematic analysis; themes; thematic units; thematic motifs; writing;

    Abstract : As the title of this essay suggests, Paul Auster’s 2003 novel Oracle Night is studied with regard to what is here considered to be a search for a way out of estrangement. This search, as narrated from the point of view of the protagonist, is followed by a certain recognition of the limits of human existence – which may be essentially meaningless but is nevertheless portrayed as an intentional state of being, not least through the act of writing as a means of subjectification. READ MORE

  3. 12. An Impossible Profession: How To Plan the Unplanned?

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Jate Bleeker; [2016]
    Keywords : urbanism; urban design; architecture; appropriation; lived space; informality; designer; chaos; order; ideal; reality; urbanity; emotional estrangement; flaneur; top-down; bottom-up; capitalism; modernism; Makoko; Lagos; Nigeria; Rinkeby; Stockholm; Sweden; corner stores; temporality; self-built; small-scale;

    Abstract : A short film about how to design informality in the city. By comparing the chaotic Lagos with the orderly Stockholm the film rethinks the role of the designer and shows that planning as a sphere of building consistently destroys lived space. It illuminates the tension between the orderly and the chaotic, the ideal and reality. . READ MORE

  4. 13. Contemporary Iranian Women Artists in Exile - Art Embodying Feelings of Estrangement between Place of Origin and USA

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Maysam Fahad; [2016]
    Keywords : Belonging; Contemporary Iranian Women Artists; Exile; Estrangement; Islamic Revolution 1979 Post Revolution; Cultural Sciences;

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  5. 14. Burning Images The Metaphor of Fire in Literature

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : David Karlson-Weimann; [2015-02-09]
    Keywords : metaphor; Fahrenheit 451; formalism; cognitive linguistics;

    Abstract : Abstract: Fire is often used as a metaphor, both in everyday language and in literature. This essay aims to investigate the properties of this metaphor in a literary context through analysis of two novels, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and The Great Fire of London by Peter Ackroyd. READ MORE

  6. 15. ...And who sewed your clothes? : Alienation in the time of division of labour – A Marxist analysis on two contemporary Swedish fashion brands

    University essay from Centrum för modevetenskap

    Author : Judith Katharina Nyfeler; [2012]
    Keywords : alienation; estrangement; Corporate Social Responsiblity CSR ; fashion; supply chain; division of labour; branding narratives;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with questions of Marx’s concept of alienation in regards to the semi-aware state of it in contemporary society. In the fashion industry, one of the most globalised businesses, the supply chains are getting larger, tasks are being outsourced and labour is divided on several dozens of workers involved, relationships are socially and geographically dispersed. READ MORE