Sökning: "Gothic"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 116 uppsatser innehållade ordet Gothic.
6. Maktens portar
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Historisk arkeologiSammanfattning : This Work is about the fortifications and more specific the gates to cities during the Middle Ages and the renaissance period and how they were designed to project a specific symbol of power. The city gates of Landskrona, Helsingör, Lübeck, and Kristianstad stand as architectural emblems of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, each bearing unique symbolic significance within their respective urban landscapes. LÄS MER
7. Pursuits of the body: Sensory realities in Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerSammanfattning : This thesis explores how corporeality is represented within horror literature, and if the depicted corporeality can be read in a more material way rather than in a metaphorical way. By using the character of Frank from Clive Barker’s novel The Hellbound Heart, the relation between representations of corporeality and physical materiality is examined. LÄS MER
8. Frankenstein; or, A Multimodal Strategy to Teach Othering in the Context of Swedish Upper Secondary Education : An Analysis of Othering in the Story About Frankenstein and His Creature, from a Multimodal Perspective
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskapSammanfattning : The curriculum for Sweden’s upper secondary schools emphasises that specifically exclusion should be prevented, and that equality between all humans should permeate the education. This essay maintains that the post-colonial concept of othering, with help from Mary Shelley’s story about Frankenstein and his monster, could be used to educate upper secondary school students about these important matters. LÄS MER
9. Disrupting Dominant Discourses: : Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get Out
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleSammanfattning : This study examines the theme of hybridity in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. Both the narrative text in the novel and the script with visual elements of the film use the concept of hybridity through Gothic motifs: a mad non-white woman in the attic in Jane Eyre and a psychological place in Get Out, where members of a white family hypnotise black people in order to exploit their physical capabilities. LÄS MER
10. Voices Once Lost : on Connexions in nineteenth century Swedish Geaticism
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenSammanfattning : This thesis studies how the early nineteenth century periodical Iduna, published by the influential Geatish Society from 1811 until 1844, portrayed and shaped their idea of Sweden’s past. Of particular interest to this thesis is how this past was narrated through the use of emotions and how these emotions functioned. LÄS MER
