Essays about: "symbolism"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 137 essays containing the word symbolism.

  1. 21. Chasing the Unattainable: Manifestations of Desire in Selected Novels by Carson McCullers

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Hans Ingvar Marmén; [2022]
    Keywords : Carson McCullers; Desire; Lacan; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The American author Carson McCullers’s often non-normative fictional characters typically desire something they cannot have and thus a pattern of nonreciprocal love and desire permeate much of her work. Earlier scholarship on her fiction has focused on themes of isolation as well as the element of symbolism but also psychological approaches including Freudian and Jungian perspectives have been taken. READ MORE

  3. 22. The Diary from Qutang Gorge and the letters about Donner Lake : A literary study of Mulberry and Peach by Nie Hualing

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Ling Jiang Nyfelt; [2022]
    Keywords : Nie Hualing; Chinese cultural symbols; impressionism; Intertextuality; Diasporic literature; Mulberry and Peach; Sangqing yu Taohong; Overseas Chinese literature; 聂华苓; 中国文化象征 ，互文性 ，印象主义， 离散文学， 桑青与桃红 ，海外中国文学;

    Abstract : Mulberry and Peach is a novel written in the 1970s by a Chinese American writer named Nie Hualing (1925- ). It contains overlapping letters and diaries with flashbacks and flashforwards in first-person narration. Taohong is the new identity after Sangqing’s schizophrenia in the USA in 1969-1970. READ MORE

  4. 23. From Hospitium to Hybridisation: The acquisition, adoption, and transformation of Roman zoomorphic forms in Barbaricum

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : David Stuart Parker; [2022]
    Keywords : Zoomorphism; Romans; Roman imports; Romanisation; hybridisation; Barbaricum; hospitium; dona militaria; spoils of war; gift-giving; Roman provinces; Roman Iron Age; Iron Age societies.; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : This text is an attempt to re-evaluate the significance of Roman imports in Scandinavian contexts as well as to answer overarching questions concerning frontier zones, and the building of core-periphery relationships. This is achieved by applying the Roman concepts of hospitium and dona militaria as well as theoretical frameworks such as provincial ritual practices and cultural hybridisation to a predefined group of material culture. READ MORE

  5. 24. Female Hip-Hop in the Sufi Community of Taalibe Bay : Interpretative analysis of the Sufi symbolism and meaning behind two music videos

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Elisabeth Perra; [2022]
    Keywords : Sufism; Islam; Hip-Hop; Women; rapper; Senegal; Ibrahim Niasse; Taalibe Bay; Africa; Videos;

    Abstract : Senegal is a country in West Africa that is 95% Muslim and where Islam is deeply linked to hip-hop music. According to existing academic research, the emerging rappers in the artistic and cultural scene in Dakar are men and belong to the Sufi Taalibe Bay brotherhood, whose founder Ibrahim Niasse (1900-1975) is considered the spiritual leader of the rappers. READ MORE

  6. 25. Books & Bricks : a case study on the role of media in library design

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Katharina W M de Burger; Elin Olsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Library design; library interior layout; media technologies; material media theory; actor network theory; post humanism; case study;

    Abstract : Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att illustrera vilka effekter olika medietyper och medieteknologier har på biblioteksutformning samt på vilket sätt. Detta undersöks genom två grupper av frågeställningar där den ena fokuserar på medieteknologier som en aktör i ett nätverk och den andra hänvisar till medieteknologiers placering och effekten därav. READ MORE