Sökning: "Margaret Cavendish"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden Margaret Cavendish.

  1. 1. "A True Relation of my Birth, Breeding, and Life" En kritisk diskursanalys av Margaret Cavendishs köns- och identitetsskapande och konstruktionen av genushegemoni

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Historia

    Författare :Alexandra Wideheim; [2016]
    Nyckelord :Margaret Cavendish; tidigmodern tid; 1600-tal; England; genushegemoni; hegemonisk kvinnlighet; poststrukturalism; diskursteori; queerteori; CDA; subjektivitet; identitet; genus; kön; History and Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : This essay studies the construction of femininity as it appears in the early modern thinker Margaret Cavendish’s biographical work "A True Relation of my Birth, Breeding, and Life". The theoretical and methodological framework consists of a development of Raewyn Connell’s theory of hegemonic masculinity based on Judith Butler’s heterosexual matrix and Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Narrating a New World : How Microscopic Experience was Communicated through the Words and Images of Robert Hooke’s Micrographia

    Magister-uppsats, Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

    Författare :Jacob Orrje; [2008]
    Nyckelord :Micrographia; Robert Hooke 1635-1703 ; experimental experience; communicating science; English restoration; scientific text;

    Sammanfattning : This essay revolves around Micrographia written by the English 17th century experimental philosopher Robert Hooke and the way it mediated microscopic experience. The focus of this study is on one hand the strategies Hooke used to communicate experience and on the other the responses by some of Hooke’s contemporary readers. LÄS MER