Essays about: "examples of historical essay"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words examples of historical essay.

1. 1. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Serra Hughes; [2022]
   Keywords : novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

   Abstract : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. READ MORE

3. 2. 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

4. 3. Constituents of Fatherhood that Represent a Threat to Family and Society in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Vanessa Davies; [2021]
   Keywords : Ambition; Equality; Fatherhood; Frankenstein; Mary Shelley; Patriarchy; The Theory of Performativity;

   Abstract : Feminist literary critics have long focused on the female gender role in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. This essay turns instead to the role of fatherhood in Frankenstein. READ MORE

5. 4. Nyckelparametrar för en levande landsbygd

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

   Author : Hanna-Louise Aasen; [2020]
   Keywords : landsbygd; landsbygdsutveckling; urbanisering; ruralisering; avfolkning; resiliens; klimatförändringar; jordbruk;

   Abstract : Denna uppsats behandlar frågan om levande landsbygd, där människor bor och trivs i hela landet, samt vilka förutsättningar gjort att så idag inte är fallet i Sverige. Upptäckten av fossila energislag har förändrat den mänskliga civilisationen på många sätt, inte minst genom förändrade produktionssätt inom framställningen av livsmedel och skogsråvara samt fabriksproduktionen av varor. READ MORE

6. 5. Att skapa utrymme för medborgardeltagande på en historisk plats : en platsstudie på en mindre ort

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Linda Mattsson; [2020]
   Keywords : medborgardeltagande; medborgarengagemang; allmän plats; järnvägens trädgårdshistoria;

   Abstract : Det här arbetet tar upp medborgardeltagande som exempel från orten Insjön i Leksands kommun. Målet med arbetet är att lyfta medborgardeltagande och på samma gång undersöka hur det kan ske samtidigt som historien på platsen tas tillvara. READ MORE