Essays about: "literary genre"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 62 essays containing the words literary genre.

  1. 1. Pursuits of the body: Sensory realities in Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Rebecca Sonesson; [2023-07-07]
    Keywords : Horror; Clive Barker; gothic literature; The Hellbound Heart; literary studies; body horror; new materialism; splatterpunk; the weird;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how corporeality is represented within horror literature, and if the depicted corporeality can be read in a more material way rather than in a metaphorical way. By using the character of Frank from Clive Barker’s novel The Hellbound Heart, the relation between representations of corporeality and physical materiality is examined. READ MORE

  3. 2. Reading All American Boys (2015) in the Swedish Upper Secondary School English 6 Classroom

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för hälsa, lärande och teknik

    Author : Jennifer Alanentalo; [2023]
    Keywords : comprehension constructors; critical thinking; interculturality; EFL; racism; YA literature; Jason Reynolds; Brendan Kiely;

    Abstract : Young adult literature is enjoyed by both adolescents and adults. This genre of literature is often contemporary and tends to deal with real life issues, for example cultural and social aspects of young people’s lives. READ MORE

  4. 3. Racial Prejudices as Societal Norms: Utilizing Genre Pedagogy to Help Students Work with William Shakespeare’s 'Othello'

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Malek Habejbek; [2023]
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    Abstract : This essay examines racial attitudes in Elizabethan England to re-read Shakespeare’s Othello with an emphasis on the characters Roderigo, Iago, Brabantio, the Duke of Venice, and Emilia. It also looks at the historical background of blackface and how it contributed to racism. READ MORE

  5. 4. "But Maybe They Should Feel Lost": Magical Literariness in the Computer Game Kentucky Route Zero

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Anna Ishchenko; [2023]
    Keywords : intermediality; video games; magical realism; literariness;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the poetical interplays of the contemporary magical realist computer game Kentucky Route Zero. Through the notion of literariness coined by the Russian formalists, the work centers on the ways the game operates with the established conventions of magical realism. READ MORE

  6. 5. Satellites in Comparative Literature or How to Rectify the Western : A comparative study of feminist criticism in Blood Meridian and In the Distance

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Ulf Anton Waller Kaustinen; [2023]
    Keywords : Blood Meridian; In the Distance; Comparative Literature; Satellite; Satellites; Literary studies; Anti-Westerns; Anti-Westernm Westerns Western; Cormac McCarthy; Hernan Diaz; McCarthy; Diaz; Violence; Masculinity;

    Abstract : In this paper, I argue that novels of the same genre may communicate with each other, spanning time and space to recontextualize the realities of books that both preceeded and came after one another. I use Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985) and Hernan Diaz' In the Distance (2018) to illustrate my theory, focusing on the issues of masculinity presentet in both novels. READ MORE