Essays about: "subversion"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 essays containing the word subversion.

  1. 1. Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber through the Female Gaze

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Julia Bällsten; [2023]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The discourse on Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber has primarily been focused on the feminist undertones of her neogothic fairy tale retellings. In this essay, I apply the male and female gaze to Carter’s collection, which are perspectives I believe previous research on Carter’s works has overlooked. READ MORE

  3. 2. DIOSES EN LA TIERRA E EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DE LA MANCHA : VELÁZQUEZ’S SUBVERSION OF THE HABSBURG MYSTIQUE OF POWER

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Dan Hanqvist; [2023]
    Keywords : Baroque; Siglo de Oro; Portraiture; Diego Velázquez; Philip IV; Naturalism; Subversion; Habsburg Iconography; Political Iconography; Vision; Visuality; Reception; Barroco; Siglo de Oro; retrato; Diego Velázquez; Felipe IV; naturalismo; subverción; Habsburgo; Austrias; Iconografía; Iconografía política; visión; visualidad; recepción;

    Abstract : Sometimes the concrete form and skill of a work of art stand in a non-arbitrary or non-contingent relationship with the social circumstances of its facture. I hypothesise that this form and such skill was used by Diego Velázquez for artistically, socially and politically subversive purposes. READ MORE

  4. 3. A system safety perspective of 'Gross Negligence' as introduced in regulation (EU) 376/2014

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Erwin Karsten Langejan; [2023]
    Keywords : Ambiguities; aviation; EU; gross negligence; just culture; reporting; FLMU06; Science General;

    Abstract : The main finding of this research is that it is unrealistic to expect that it is possible to create one common European understanding of the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour; it is only possible to achieve one common European just culture policy if there is one common European understanding of the term 'gross negligence' as introduced in The Regulation. The importance of this finding is directly related to public trust in the legal system of the EU which, in the worst case, can be undermined. READ MORE

  5. 4. Frighteningly Female - Subversion of horror film tropes in Oz Perkins’ Gretel & Hansel

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Sofia Lövgren Hansson; [2022-04-13]
    Keywords : Feminism; Horror; Gretel Hansel; Subversive; Women;

    Abstract : This essay aims to examine the portrayal of the reproductive and aging female body as horrific in Oz Perkins’ Gretel & Hansel (2020). It proposes that the reinterpretation of the Grimm brothers' classical fairytale as a feminist coming of age story, centering Gretel as the protagonist and the witch as a mentor, allows for a subversion of horror film tropes pertaining to the reproductive female body. READ MORE

  6. 5. “Unking and Unpriest the Earth!” : Conspiracy Theory, the Illuminati and Revolutionary Freemasonry in the Writings of the abbé Barruel and Nicolas Bonneville

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Religionsvetenskap

    Author : Linnea Björnegren; [2022]
    Keywords : Augustin Barruel; Nicolas Bonneville; Illuminati; Freemasonry; Jesuits; French Revolution; Conspiracy theory; conspiracism; secret societies;

    Abstract : This thesis proposes an explanation for origin of conspiracy theories about the French Revolution. Despite being unfounded, the conspiracy theory blaming the Illuminati for the Revolution became widespread because it appeared to be supported by evidence. The primary source material consists of texts produced by two contemporaries. READ MORE