Essays about: "theme of Alienation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words theme of Alienation.

1. 1. Embedded Madness: Mad Narrators and Possible Worlds

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Eloise Brason; [2019]
   Keywords : Mad Narrators; Narratology; Postclassical Narratology; Possible Worlds Theory; Fictional Worlds;

   Abstract : Madness has long been a popular theme for literature, featuring as a trope of horror, mystery, tragedy and comedy genres in varying degrees of amplitude. The topic has provided a significant access point for analysing historical, socio-political and cultural issues as it addresses controversial themes of alienation and criminality as well as philosophical theories of perception and consciousness. READ MORE

3. 2. It's Kind of a Gendered Story : gender identity and mental illness in two young adult novels

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

   Author : Ted Pettersson; [2016]
   Keywords : young adult literature; depression; gender;

   Abstract : This essay examines the theme of depression in two young adult novels, It’s kind of a funny story and By the time you read this, I’ll be dead. It analyzes how the protagonists are represented according to their gender and in relation to their mental health. READ MORE

4. 3. Icarus Falling, A Marxist Study of Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Anna Sundelius; [2014-10-09]
   Keywords : Marxism; Cosmopolis; ideology; alienation; capitalism; cybercapital;

   Abstract : This is a study of Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis using Marxist economical theory, from a position that we live in a postmodern capitalist society and that literature as a part of the superstructure can mirror society. The essay argues that the text is ideological, that it portrays a flawed society in order to unveil the realities of modern capitalism and thus tries to act as a starting point for an emergent counter discourse. READ MORE

5. 4. Unhomely Lives : Double Consciousness in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

   Author : Nasser Abulwassie; [2014]
   Keywords : Postcolonialism; colonial discourse; double consciousness; unhomed; hybridity;

   Abstract : This essay argues that Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother depicts how the indigenous colonized in Dominica are living ‘unhomely lives’ and that their experience is one of the double consciousness. i.e. when a person see the world through different "lenses. READ MORE

6. 5. Who of me am I?

   University essay from Konstfack/Ädellab/Metallformgivning

   Author : Anna Nordström; [2014]
   Keywords : Jewellery; identity; Lockets;

   Abstract : I have chosen to use the forum of jewellery, particularly lockets, to investigate the notion of a public and a private self as a main theme. In this text I will bring up different aspects of the locket to show which tools I have to work with, and then I will research the actual theme from a sociopsychological point of view. READ MORE