Essays about: "historical novels"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 38 essays containing the words historical novels.

1. 16. Bloody Penny Picture Pose : A comparative study on the representation of sexuality and violence within the aesthetics of Victorian Gothic horror

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Modevetenskap

   Author : Julia Bornlöf; [2019]
   Keywords : Victorian; Gothic; horror; female sexuality; feminism; agency; sadomasochism; gender; visual culture; sexual history.;

   Abstract : There is an ongoing fascination with the Victorian era as well as the genre of horror, and the characters originating from the first 18th century Gothic tales still appear in our Western popular culture today. The Victorian Gothic novels contain elements of romanticism and violence which often results in strong undertones of heated sexuality. READ MORE

3. 17. Teaching Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day : A Theoretical Essay Towards Cross-Curricular, DualCoded Historical Knowledge

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Author : Helena Salii; [2019]
   Keywords : Action Research Plan; English; British; Cross-Curricular Teaching; Dual-Coding Theory DCT ; Education; English as a Second Language ESL ; Language; Teaching; Historical Knowledge; History; Jigsaw; Learning; Novel; Second Language Acquisition SLA ; Swedish; Vocabulary; WWI; WWII; Understanding; Upper Secondary School.;

   Abstract : In a suggestion to build upon students’ historical knowledge through reading The Remains of the Day, this essay delves into cross-curricular teaching, dual-coded theory aspects and revision of suggested plans to improve learner’s understanding of historical novels, characters, events, and descriptions to grasp and reflect upon such historical knowledge. Several methods for enhancing students’ knowledge and to improve vocabulary knowledge are provided. READ MORE

4. 18. “There’s More to Life ThanSitting There SimplyInterfacing” : David Foster Wallace and his Reader in a Literature afterPostmodernism

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Andrea Minucci; [2018]
   Keywords : David; Foster; Wallace; Postmodernism; Literature; Infinite; Jest; Death of the Author; media studies; image-fiction; intermediality; transmediality; narrative; theory; narratology; heteroglossia; ekphrasis;

   Abstract : David Foster Wallace felt that literature was at a historical crossroad, and thatpostmodernism had passed the point which it could still be considered a'revolutionary' cultural phenomenon. He felt that the capitalistic machinery of TVand advertisement had absorbed the postmodernist techniques of pastiche,deconstruction and rejection of a distinction between high and low culturalmodels, to a point where there was no longer a difference between reality and itsown representation. READ MORE

5. 19. Mad or Misunderstood? A Study of the Different Portrayals of Mr. Rochester's First Wife in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Hedda Törntorp; [2018]
   Keywords : Biographical Criticism. Historical Criticism. Psychology. Madness. Post- Colonialism. 19th century literature. 20th century literature. Bertha Mason. Antoinette Cosway.; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Jane Eyre (1847), written by Charlotte Brontë, remains a classic, 170 years later. Mr. Rochester’s secret wife locked away in an attic, Bertha Mason, is the antagonist in the novel. However, in Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) written by Jean Rhys around a century later, the character has been rewritten as Antoinette Cosway. READ MORE

6. 20. The Biafra War: Cultural Memory in two novels of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chinelo Okparanta

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Afrikanska studier

   Author : Dora Cassano; [2018]
   Keywords : Cultural Memory; Adichie; Okparanta; Biafra; Afropolitanism;

   Abstract : Recently new novels about the Biafra war have appeared, proving the ongoing impact of the Nigerian civil war on writers’ interest, and the importance of memory in our life. For all these reasons, I decided to write the present thesis on how memory function in a literary work. READ MORE