Sökning: "H.G. Wells"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade orden H.G. Wells.

1. 1. She Can Go Where She Will : Representations of Female Bicyclists in Late 19th-Century and Early 20th-Century Literature by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Richardson, Grant Allen, George F. Hall, and Alice Meynell

   Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet

   Författare :Anna Gustafsson; [2024]
   Nyckelord :bicycling women characters; late 19th-century and early 20th-century British and American literature; freedom; emancipation; feminism; gender; the New Woman; cyklande kvinnliga karaktärer; sen 1800-tals- och tidig 1900-talslitteratur från Storbritannien och USA; frihet; frigörelse; feminism; genus; the New Woman;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to investigate how representations of bicycling women in literary works by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Richardson, Grant Allen, George F. Hall, and Alice Meynell express mental and physical freedoms that had previously been denied women due to archaic societal norms. LÄS MER

3. 2. “Human Spiders”: Intellectual Observers, Degeneration and Darwinism in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

   Författare :Maja Loberg; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Degeneration; Fin de Siècle; Literature; Darwinism; H.G. Wells; The Time Machine; Intellectual Observer; Victorian literature; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : H.G. Wells’ novella The Time Machine (1895) tells the story of The Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. There, he encounters two evolutionary progressions of humanity. LÄS MER

4. 3. Den gröne mannens börda : Kolonial plikt i H G Wells The War of the Worlds

   Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Författare :Kristian Hultqvist; [2021]
   Nyckelord :H G Wells; The War of the Worlds; postcolonialism; colonialism; science fiction; duty; deontological ethics; Rudyard Kipling; The White Man’s Burden; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; the subaltern; imperialism; invasion literature;

   Sammanfattning : In 1898, H G Wells published The War of the Worlds, a scathing indictment of colonialism from the perspective of the colonized. The following year, Rudyard Kipling penned The White Man’s Burden, describing colonial conquest as driven by duty, for the sake of the subjugated. LÄS MER

5. 4. Doktor Moreau och jakten på den etiska figuren : Från misslyckat människoskapande till respektfulla relationer

   Magister-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

   Författare :Sophie Helsing; [2015]
   Nyckelord :ethics; animal studies; H. G. Wells; The Island of Doctor Moreau; Donna Haraway; Jacques Derrida; companion species; entanglement; limitrophy; Karen Barad; diffraction; etik; djurstudier; H. G. Wells; Doktor Moreaus ö; Donna Haraway; Jacques Derrida; sällskapsarter; entanglement; Charles Darwin; limitrophy; Karen Barad; diffraktion;

   Sammanfattning :  “Doctor Moreau and The Hunt for The Ethical Figure. From unsuccessful man-making to respectful relations with Jacques Derrida, Donna Haraway and H. G. Wells” In H. LÄS MER

7. 5. Att Uppleva Tid : En Undersökande Läsning av The Time Machine och "A Sound of Thunder"

   Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Författare :Christopher Reuterbrink; [2015]
   Nyckelord :Alienation; Bradbury; Science Fiction; Time Travel; Wells;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of the following essay is to examine various works of fiction featuring time travel and their underlying common theme. The main focus of the essay is the novella The Time Machine by H. G. LÄS MER