Sökning: "Circe"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade ordet Circe.
1. Goddess, Lover, Mother, Witch : Feminist Revisionist Mythmaking and Feminine Morphology of Narrative in Madeline Miller’s Circe
Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to position Circe by Madeline Miller as an example of feminist revisionist mythmaking and investigate some of the novel’s revisionary practices. I thus begin by introducing the project of feminist revisionism, as conceptualized by several different feminist thinkers. LÄS MER
2. I Seek Different Ways : De homeriska sångerna i Madeline Millers perspektiv
Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärandeSammanfattning : The essay compares Madeline Miller's books The Song of Achilles and Circe to their antique originals: the Iliad and the Odyssey. The main focus is the relationship the characters in Miller's books hold to their homeric counterparts and the evolution of the heroic and masculinity ideals they represent. LÄS MER
3. Witches are not so delicate : A Jungian analysis of gendered oppression in Madeline Miller’s Circe and the novel’s pedagogical potential in the EFL classroom
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : Circe (2018) by Madeline Miller is a retelling of The Odyssey from the perspective of the witch Circe. The novel challenges the previous portrayal of Circe as a vindictive seductress and provides insight into the narrative of a woman negotiating a man’s world, in which she is denied autonomy due to her gender. LÄS MER
4. Rewritings of Circe: Representation, Resistance, and Change in Feminist Revisionism
Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Sammanfattning : This paper analyses the feminist revisionism of the Circe-myth in the rewritings by Eudora Welty, Margaret Atwood, and Madeline Miller. To that end, the paper first examines three different ways of discussing rewritings: Jeremy M. LÄS MER
5. Transformative literature transferring power: An analysis of authorial control in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Circe by Madeline Miller and Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/EngelskaSammanfattning : By analysing three different works of transformative literature, this thesis aims to explore the different ways in which power may express itself in the context of literature. Wide Sargasso Sea, Circe and Hag-Seed are three novels that, while remaining similar in that they are rewrites of canonised literature such as Jane Eyre, The Odyssey, and The Tempest, are different enough to provide a wide array of examples of rewrites. LÄS MER
