Essays about: "metamorphoses"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word metamorphoses.

  1. 1. Matter Manifesting Itself : Understanding Nonhuman Agency in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Romanska och klassiska institutionen

    Author : Johanna Koivunen; [2022]
    Keywords : ecocriticism; new materialism; agency; materiality; transformation; nonhuman; latin; ancient literature; roman literature;

    Abstract : This thesis examines transformations of human characters into trees, stones, and water sources in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The current climate crisis is partly the result of a view of nature as a passive object, or inert matter, that humans without consequences can exploit. READ MORE

  3. 2. Reality and Subjectivity in Philip K. Dick’s Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Filip Rossenov Zahariev; [2021]
    Keywords : subjectivity; drugs; Philip K. Dick; The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch; postmodernism; Flow My Tears; The Policeman Said; Chew-Z; Can-D; KR-3; Baudrillard; Hutcheon; Lyotard;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the forces that affect subjectivity in two novels by the author Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. The close reading of these two novels makes use of postmodernist theory as its theoretical foundation. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Human Non-Human Boundary in 'Dune'
 – An Ontological Reading through a Comparative Nietzschean and Transhuman Framework

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Kiti Misha; [2020]
    Keywords : Frank Herbert; Dune; Science Fiction; Nietzsche; Overhuman; Transhumanism; Posthuman; Transhumanism; Human; Nonhuman;

    Abstract : In Frank Herbert’s Dune Saga, we find a transhumanist and Nietzschean argument about the evolution of humans achieved as a result of the triggering effect of the Butlerian Jihad against thinking machines. I claim that the metamorphoses of the selected characters reflect the central tenants of the transformation of Nietzsche’s overhuman, or transhumanism’s posthuman. READ MORE

  5. 4. A Clinging Embrace : A Study of the Female Rapist in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Romanska och klassiska institutionen

    Author : Johanna Koivunen; [2018]
    Keywords : metamorphoses; salmacis; hermaphroditus; europa; jupiter; rape; female rapist; desire; desiring subjects; ovid;

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  6. 5. Virginia Woolf's Orlando and the Feminist Reader : Feminist Reader Response Theory in Orlando: a Biography

    University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Alexandra Blomdahl; [2014]
    Keywords : Virginia Woolf; Feminism; Feminist Reader Response Theory; Reader Response; Orlando; Feminist Reader; Female Reader;

    Abstract : This essay is a close reading of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: a Biography that focuses on representation of gender in the novel and the possible response it elicits in the reader. The essay argues that the implied reader of Orlando - as manifested in the novel - is a feminist one, as well as it explores the possibility of this implied feminist reader being a female. READ MORE