Essays about: "literary silence"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words literary silence.
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1. Multicultural literature and intercultural theory in English 6 : A qualitative study of teachers’ experiences with multicultural literature in upper-secondary schools in Sweden
University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikationAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to examine English language teachers’ choices and uses of literary texts, and more particularly, multicultural forms of literature from an intercultural pedagogical angle. Drawing on a qualitative approach, six English teachers’ experiences were explored using interviews. READ MORE
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2. Är skogen fruktan värd? : hur tre litterära verk har influerat vår syn på skog och natur
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Syftet med denna vetenskapliga uppsats är att belysa hur skog och natur har skildrats som skrämmande i litteraturen för att avgöra hur trygghetsskapande faktorer kan användas för att motverka upplevd rädsla på gestaltade platser. En kvalitativ litteraturstudie genomfördes där jag har studerat tre litterära barn- och ungdomsverk utifrån de rekommenderade metoderna i boken Att göra systematiska litteraturstudier (Forsberg & Wengström, 2008). READ MORE
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3. "Speak Your Mind and Speak it Clearly" : Discourse and the Importance of Voices in Boy Erased, Garrard Conley
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : The voices of the autodiegetic narrator and its character counterpart in Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard Conley enter the debate around the ontology of voice in literary texts. Using this debate, I will provide an analysis of the voices in this memoir in order to prove the importance of assuming a voice for the narrator, to compensate for speech silenced through discourses and social contexts. READ MORE
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4. Beyond Crime and Space. How Quentin Tarantino conveys temporality and spatiality in relation to the characters in Reservoir Dogs
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionAbstract : In my thesis I examine how the screenplay author and director Quentin Tarantino uses the literary format of the screenplay to convey the spatiality and temporality of the characters in the narrative. I also investigate how the reader’s perception of these factors is crystallized, by contrasting the screenplay with its film. READ MORE
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5. Enacting the Silence of Subaltern Women : Julie Otsuka and the Japanese Picture Brides
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : It is by now a truth universally acknowledged that the world’s subaltern women (in Gayatri Spivak’s understanding of the term) cannot make their voices heard, that what we think we know about them are mostly stereotypes of our own making. It is likewise acknowledged that literature has a privileged status when it comes to representing these women, given its unique prerogative to retrieve their traces and convey their subjectivity through imagining. READ MORE
