Essays about: "romantic novel"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words romantic novel.

  1. 1. Early German Romantic and Marxian Theories of Alienation in Frankenstein: Atomizing Effects of Commodification of Nature and Transgressive Science : An Eco-Marxist perspective

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Jakub Kirejczyk; [2022]
    Keywords : Alienation; Counter-Enlightenment; Ecocriticism; Enlightenment; early German Romanticism; Marxism;

    Abstract : This essay explores the topic of appropriation of nature and the resulting social alienation it imparts on several of the novel’s characters: Frankenstein, Walton, and the Creature. The Creature serves as a personification of both industrialism and urban atomization. READ MORE

  3. 2. A CINEMATIC VILLAGE FOR A CHANGING LANDSCAPE - AN ALPINE ROMANTIC STORY

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Diana Sacco; [2022]
    Keywords : Alps; Aosta Valley; Oyace; Artificial lake; Climate change; Fiction; Cinematic; Novel; Narrative; Village; Staging; Performative; Future landscapes; awareness; Movie; wilderness; artefice; constructed;

    Abstract : Climate change has already had noticeable effects on the environment. Glaciers are retreating, ice on lakes and rivers is melting earlier, plant and animal species have relocated, and trees are blooming sooner. READ MORE

  4. 3. Jane Austen’s Exploration of Romanticism: Teaching “older” Literature Through Northanger Abbey in the Swedish Upper-Secondary English Classroom

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Author : Fredrik Rosberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Northanger Abbey; Jane Austen; teaching literature; literary genres; EFL; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This paper argues that Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is a valuable pedagogical resource that can address the Swedish National Agency for Education’s mandate on the coverage of “older” literature in Swedish EFL courses at upper secondary school in a flexible and thorough way. Presupposing that the novel comprises various literary genres and forms, the paper provides a close reading through a proposed perspective on Romanticism, in which a continuum consisting of domestic felicity, courtship and the Gothic is foregrounded. READ MORE

  5. 4. Gender Roles Represented by the Four Main Characters in Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

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

    Author : Sara Niklasson; [2021]
    Keywords : Gender roles; Gone with the Wind; Margaret Mitchell;

    Abstract : Margaret Mitchell’s one and only novel, Gone with the Wind, was an instant hit when it waspublished in 1936. The novel is a romantic tragedy that takes place in a very traditional society inthe state of Georgia in the United States before, during, and after the Civil War. READ MORE

  6. 5. Criticism of Emerson's Transcendentalism in Melville's Moby-Dick

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Alexander Myrén; [2019]
    Keywords : Transcendentalism; Melville; Emerson; Ahab; Ishmael;

    Abstract : In conceptualizing Moby-Dick; or, the whale, Herman Melville was both drawn and opposed to the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Through an analysis of the main characters in MobyDick and Emerson’s writing, it becomes evident that Transcendentalism is embodied in the characterization of the novel’s main characters. READ MORE