Sökning: "animalisation"
Hittade 3 uppsatser innehållade ordet animalisation.
1. Migrant in Limbo : An investigation into the dehumanisation of the migrant figure during migration and integration as shown through the short stories of Hassan Blasim
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM)Sammanfattning : In 2000, Iraqi-born film director, poet and author Hassan Blasim fled Iraq to escape persecution for his films on the forced migration of Kurds by Saddam Hussein's regime. After travelling through Europe for four years, he was granted asylum in Finland. LÄS MER
2. A Paradise Fading : Perceptions of Wild Nature in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Howard Pyle's Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This thesis explores representations of wild nature in two Arthurian texts – one British and one American – produced in an age characterised by rapid social transformation: Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (1859-1885) and Howard Pyle’s Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903). By investigation of the textual descriptions of wilderness and the portrayals of characters living there, the study aims to investigate what attitudes towards unkempt nature are displayed in the two texts. LÄS MER
3. With or Without the "Divine Spark": Animalised Humans and the Human-Animal Divide in Charles Dickens's Novels
Master-uppsats, Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : Animals appear in many guises in Charles Dickens’s novels, as wild animals, domestic animals, animals used in the service of humans, and, not least, as images and symbols. Based on a close reading of all of Dickens’s major novels, this thesis centres on the symbolic use of (both metaphorical and actual) animals in the depiction of human characters, the chief aim being to explore a phenomenon that Dickens frequently resorts to, namely, the animalisation of human characters. LÄS MER