Sökning: "David Woods"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 uppsatser innehållade orden David Woods.
1. The Giving Up of Greer: The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the Janus-Faced Empire : Writing Back Against the British Imperial Discourse
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraSammanfattning : The aim of this essay is to examine the tension at the heart of the British colonial discourse as it affects the relationship of Travis and Joyce in the chapter "Somewhere in England", in Caryl Phillips's 1993 novel, Crossing the River. The thesis of the essay is that the colonial discourse of the British insists on a racial signifier in the imagined community of the British, and thus resists the idea that a person can be both black and British. LÄS MER
2. WANDER AROUND WITH GOSSAGE AND THOREAU LOOKING FOR SCHMIDT
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och designSammanfattning : I was looking for a monument but instead I found an anonymous patch of grass in a cemetery in Berlin which marked the grave of photographer Michel Schmidt. In an attempt to understand I had to go backward into my own history to find reasons why I was standing there. LÄS MER
3. Robinson Crusoe var också vilse : Barnlitteraturens utforskande av närmiljöer som reseberättelser
Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)Sammanfattning : Travel writing studies spans a vast section of literature from travel diaries to tales of explorations and fantastical adventure stories. One area that has been less examined by travel writing is children’s literature. LÄS MER
4. Den naturliga människan - en undersökning av naturens roll för det mänskliga känslolivet, sett genom Henry David Thoreaus Walden
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaSammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to examine how the American nature writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) writes about nature, and natures role for the human emotions. The study takes basis in one of the writer’s most famous works – Walden; or, Life in the woods, from 1854, which he wrote after he had been living in a small cottage in the woods around walden pond for over 2 years. LÄS MER
5. Nature and Culture: Teaching Environmental Awareness Through Literature
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT)Sammanfattning : Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka och tolka relationen mellan koncepten natur och kultur, så som de är hanterade i Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or. Life in the Woods (1854) och Into the Wild (1996) av Jon Krakauer, med hjälp av en ekokritisk analys. LÄS MER
