Essays about: "polyphony"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the word polyphony.
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1. The Many Identities of Trinidadian Women in Earl Lovelace’s Salt
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierAbstract : This essay aims to explore the identities of a selection of female characters in Earl Lovelace’s novel Salt. My research questions are the following: How are the selected characters’ hybrid identities constructed? What role do different circumstances play in the formation of the characters’ identities? How do polyphony, mimicry and the carnivalesque affect their identities? Although the examined women are assumed to conform to similar gender norms, I argue that there is no common female role in Salt. READ MORE
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2. How is the presence of the Palestinians described through their absence? : A narratological reading of Ibtisam Azems novel: The Book of Disappearance
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM)Abstract : This thesis is about How the presence of the Palestinians is described through their absence in The Book of Disappearance. The analysis emphasizes the image of the other for both (Palestinians and Israelis). READ MORE
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3. New Holocaust Literature: Third-Generation Identity, Memory, and the Reader in Hanna Rajs' Under Månen (2020)
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaAbstract : This thesis explores the functions of memory, collective identity, and communication of those same categories to the reader by means of the poetic form in Hanna Rajs’ poetry collection Under månen (2020). Situated or framed within a discussion on Holocaust Literature, Rajs’ poetry is considered in the light of a general historical purview of Holocaust writing, and her specific place within an authorial Jewish third-generation tradition in diaspora, specifically in Sweden and in Europe. READ MORE
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4. Expressive Automatic Music Transcription : Using hard onset detection to transcribe legato slurs for violin
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : Automatic Music Transcriptions systems such as ScoreCloud aims to convert audio signals to sheet music. The information contained in sheet music can be divided into increasingly descriptive layers, where most research on Automatic Music Transcription is restricted on note-level transcription and disregard expressive markings such as legato slurs. READ MORE
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5. Consumer responsibilization in sustainable fashion communications on Instagram : A multimodal discourse analysis
University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomiAbstract : Background, Problem Statement and Gap - Political agendas informed by the negative impacts of increasing consumption (including fashion consumption) have allocated major parts of the responsibility to contribute to sustainable development to individual consumers. These agendas subsequently highlighted the need to provide more information, including through media and social media, about the negative impacts of fashion consumption - and consumption at large - to the consumer. READ MORE
