Sökning: "writing the strange"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade orden writing the strange.
1. "The Grey Sky Lowers" : The Uncanny in Five of Sylvia Plath's Poems
Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the uncanny (das Unheimliche) in five of Sylvia Plath’s 1962 poems: “Berck-Plage”, “The Arrival of the Bee Box”, “Daddy”, “Fever 103°”, and “Death & Co.”. Furthermore, it looks at how the biographical circumstances in which the poet found herself while writing the poems, may have influenced them. LÄS MER
2. En aning om ett sällsamt universum : En undersökning av C.J.L. Almqvists ”poetiska fuga”
Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/LitteraturvetenskapSammanfattning : ABSTRACT And concrete diction Carl Jonas Love Almqvist’s Drottningens juvelsmycke (The Queen's Tiara; 1834) is, along with Amorina, the work primarily associated with the ”poetic fugue” – a concept the author develops in ”Om enheten av epism och dramatism; en aning om den poetiska fugan” (”On the unity of epism and dramatism; a notion of the poetic fugue”; 1821); an essay often considered vague and theoretical by researchers in the field. The meaning of the poetic fugue has been regarded unclear, but mainly considered as some kind of synthesis of epic and dramatic writing. LÄS MER
3. Mapping The Valleys of The Uncanny : An investigation into a process and method, colliding with questions relating to what can be known to be real, within the field of algorithmic composition. Or if you prefer: The roles of instrumentation and timbre, as they unwittingly conspire to designate access, power, status, work and ultimately class.
Master-uppsats, Kungl. Musikhögskolan/Institutionen för komposition, dirigering och musikteoriSammanfattning : We are free, from the shackles of the finite, and of the physical world. Sound now enjoys morphological freedom through a myriad of transformations. It is malleable to the utmost degree. We have at our disposal an astounding plethora of tools, with which we can manipulate and organise sound. LÄS MER
4. Getting out of Strange Spaces : A Reconstructive Reading of Paul Auster’s Oracle Night
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/EngelskaSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
5. What to Make of Waste : Material Driven Design for Better Palm Oil Practices
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Design och formgivningSammanfattning : Palm oil production create a number of solid biomass waste products, in particular empty fruit bunches and mesocarp fiber; two cellulosic plant materials that are under-utilized and a source of environmental pollution today. Their fibred structure are interesting from an industrial design perspective as similar waste products from industrialized crops are used to create composite materials. LÄS MER
