Essays about: "thematic motifs"

Found 5 essays containing the words thematic motifs.

  1. 1. 'We all end up mutilated': Bodily destruction and self-mutilation in the first three novels by Chuck Palahniuk

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Jakob Eyjólfsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club Survivor Invisible Monsters Self-Mutilation Self-Destruction Mutilation Disfigurement Determinism Free Will; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In this essay, I explore the motifs of bodily destruction and self-mutilation in the first three novels of American author Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club (1996), Survivor (1999) and Invisible Monsters (1999). These motifs are prevalent throughout the author’s work and are particularly noteworthy in how detailed and graphic the novels are. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Sensual and Spiritual Love-Representation of Women by Some Ḥijāzi Poets. A Thematic Analysis of Selected Poems

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Jihad Khalil; [2021-09-29]
    Keywords : arabiska; Ḥijāzi ghazal; Ḥijāzi poets; Umayyad period; Thematic analysis;

    Abstract : The present study aims at studying the sources and patterns of women images by Ḥijāzi poets in ghazal poetry, an important Arabic poetic genre that gained popularity and an outstanding stature in the Umayyad period. It also endeavours to show how poets depict images by the use of their five senses and examines what spiritual features of women these poets prefer. READ MORE

  4. 3. “Equality, Development and Peace for All Women Everywhere”? : An Analysis of Sexual Violence Against Women and Concurring International Conventions Concerned with Protecting the Rights of Women

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Statsvetenskap

    Author : Annika Sophie Müller; [2020]
    Keywords : Feminist Theory; Multi-Ethnic Feminist Theory; Postcolonial Theory; Feminist Postcolonial Theory; Intersectionality; Violence Against Women; Sexual Violence; CEDAW; UDHR; DEVAW; BPfA; Germany; South Korea; Nigeria; International Conventions; Women’s Rights; Thematic Analysis; Problem-Solution Discourse; ‘What is the Problem Represented to Be’ Approach; WPR Approach; ‘Motifs-Issues-Representations-and-Implications’ Approach; MIRI Approach;

    Abstract : Violence against women continues to be an issue that severely impacts women worldwide. Since the global spread of the #MeToo movement in 2017, debates regarding this issue significantly increased. Yet the precise ways in which women are impacted by violence, heavily influenced by their unique and diverse aspects of identity, are often disregarded. READ MORE

  5. 4. Getting out of Strange Spaces : A Reconstructive Reading of Paul Auster’s Oracle Night

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Author : Cia Gustrén; [2019]
    Keywords : critique; deconstruction; desubjectification; estrangement; existentialism; literary theory; narratology; postmodernism; reconstruction; strange spaces; subjectivity; subjectification; thematic analysis; themes; thematic units; thematic motifs; writing;

    Abstract : As the title of this essay suggests, Paul Auster’s 2003 novel Oracle Night is studied with regard to what is here considered to be a search for a way out of estrangement. This search, as narrated from the point of view of the protagonist, is followed by a certain recognition of the limits of human existence – which may be essentially meaningless but is nevertheless portrayed as an intentional state of being, not least through the act of writing as a means of subjectification. READ MORE

  6. 5. Canonising Culture: Collective Identity Construction in the Denmark Canon

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Stine Ebbesen; [2018]
    Keywords : Denmark Canon; collective identity; cultural heritage; canonisation; identity narrative; Danish identity; nationalism; European Studies; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Inspired by what appears to be a nationalist turn in cultural policy-making across Europe, this thesis is concerned with the recent upsurge in the canonisation of Danish culture as it seems to somewhat contradict the cultural policy priorities pursued by the supranational and intergovernmental bodies of which Denmark is a member. The purpose of the research is to investigate how collective identity is constructed in the Denmark Canon. READ MORE