Essays about: "tales"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 84 essays containing the word tales.

1. 16. Environmentalist Metaphors in Tales from Outer Suburbia : Supporting students' visual literacy skills by analysing Shaun Tan's pictures

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

   Author : Patricia Svensson; [2021]
   Keywords : pictorial metaphors; environmentalism; Shaun Tan; visual literacy; English language learning;

   Abstract : As the impact of pictures in everyday life and literature is increasing, so is the importance of visual literacy skills. This essay combines theories of visual literacy, pictorial metaphor, image analysis and environmentalism to analyse visual literacy in relation to how Shaun Tan’s pictures create metaphorical ideas related to the environment in Tales from Outer Suburbia. READ MORE

3. 17. The Brazilian jeitinho: an empirical investigation into the influence of state laws on its perception

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Tales de Oliveira Custodio; [2021]
   Keywords : Brazilian jeitinho; informality; state laws; living law; legal alienation.; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Brazilian jeitinho is a widespread informal practice that seeks to solve a problem without necessarily considering the rules. The aim of this thesis is to investigate how individuals who relate in different ways with state laws perceive this practice. READ MORE

4. 18. “Too ridiculous to be believed” – an Analysis of Fairy Tale Violence in Roald Dahl’s Children’s Fiction

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Daniel Halonen; [2021]
   Keywords : children’s literature; burlesque violence; retaliatory violence; cautionary effect; cathartic effect; fairy tale tradition; cautionary tales;

   Abstract : The aim of this essay is to examine several categories of violence in Roald Dahl’s children’s fiction, with the background of fairy tale theory. Roald Dahl’s children’s fiction has raised criticism, and the grounds of it are reconsidered in this essay. READ MORE

5. 19. Constructing sexual danger in the Spanish media: A mixed-method analysis of a high-profile, non-intimate femicide case in El País

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

   Author : Carlota Suros; [2021]
   Keywords : femicide; non-intimate femicide; sexual danger; stranger danger; women; media; Spain; mixed-method analysis; content analysis; frame analysis; journalism ethics; cautionary tales; violence against women; gender violence;

   Abstract : From January 2016 until August 2021, at least 436 women or girls have been deliberately murdered in Spain by men. Non-intimate femicide (and, particularly, murder committed by complete strangers to the victim, to which this study refers as “stranger femicide”) has historically been, and still is, the most covered type of femicide in the media. READ MORE

6. 20. Translating Away Culture: A look at how indirect translation affected the cultural aspects of the book Ur Varselklotet by Simon Stålenhag when it was translated into Japanese using English as a pivot language

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Author : Adam Osbäck; [2021]
   Keywords : Japanese; indirect translation; translation problems; analysis; Ur Varselklotet;

   Abstract : In this case study, the Swedish artbook Ur Varselklotet along with its English direct translation Tales from The Loop and the indirectly translated Japanese version za・rūpu will be examined and compared. This study will be analysing the different translations to see how certain Swedish words from the source text were affected by first being translated into English and then being translated again from the English translation into Japanese. READ MORE