Essays about: "thematic oppositions"
Found 3 essays containing the words thematic oppositions.
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1. Thematic Oppositions in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkulturAbstract : This essay examines anticipation and real outcome structured as two oppositions in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. These opposites will be analyzed through Austen’s use of literary devices such as “free indirect speech” and irony. READ MORE
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2. Questioning the boundaries between fast- and slow fashion.
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Individual’s existential ambivalence has according to Jacques Derrida, one of the foremost proponents of post-structuralism, led to a continuous demand for structure (Cooper, 1989). Categories, used as structural tools, are however often hierarchically organized, where one category is more preferable than the other, also referred to as binary oppositions. READ MORE
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3. "With Meaning and Meaning's Rebuttal" : A Contrastive Reading of Philip Larkin's The Less Deceived
University essay from Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkulturAbstract : This essay focuses on Philip Larkin’s The Less Deceived, a collection of poems published in 1955, and tries to demonstrate how the poems within it can be organized and understood according to a contrast between more and less deceived. Through close reading and comparative analysis this overarching contrast is shown to be expressed by recurrences of imagery and thematic material as well as by a series of related opposing terms which inform many of the viewpoints expressed within the collection. READ MORE
