Sökning: "My Year of Rest and Relaxation"

Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade orden My Year of Rest and Relaxation.

1. 1. Going To Bed Now: Dissociation Feminism and Implicit Critique in My Year of Rest and Relaxation

   Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Jonathan Bäckström; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Docile body; The Culture Industry; Dissociation Feminism; Femcel; Sedation; My Year of Rest and Relaxation; Ottessa Moshfegh;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to examine how the novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018 / 2019) by Ottessa Moshfegh, through the lens of dissociative feminism, can be interpreted as a critique regarding commodification of the body. To explore this claim, I discuss the protagonist’s dissociative feminist behaviour in contrast to her friend Reva’s femcel-behaviour. LÄS MER

3. 2. (Ensam)tid – En(samtid) : En tematisk närläsning av samtida ensamhet i Ottessa Moshfeghs Eileen (2015) och My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018)

   Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Litteraturvetenskap

   Författare :Simon Brodding; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Ottessa Moshfegh; loneliness; contemporary; isolation; depression;

   Sammanfattning : This essay examines the portrayal of present-day loneliness in the novels Eileen (2015) and My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018) by contemporary author Ottessa Moshfegh. The main point of departure for this examination has been through a literary sociological standpoint which claims the inevitable effects of the current time and place through which a work is being produced in, therefore, enabling an examination of modern-day loneliness even though the stories take place in an imagined past. LÄS MER

4. 3. Worlds, Dress and Things in Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation

   Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Författare :Lina Norén; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Thing theory; Heidegger; Moshfegh; Dress; Ontology; Time;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to analyse dress in Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, both in its independent being and in its relation to the characters of the novel. Thing theory is the main methodology of use, with the support of the Heideggerian concept of ‘world’. LÄS MER

5. 4. Gränser och anti-natur : En urbanekologisk analys av Ottessa Moshfeghs My Year of Rest and Relaxation 

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

   Författare :Zelda Nahrendorf; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Ecocriticism; urban nature; urban ecology; thematic close reading; contemporary literature; anthropocene; isolation.; Ekokritik; urban natur; urban ekologi; tematisk närläsning; samtidslitteratur; antropocen; isolering.;

   Sammanfattning : This essay analyzes the depictions of urban nature in Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018). The theoretical framework consists primarily of Astrid Bracke’s thoughts on “urban ecology”, Christophe Den Tant’s descriptions of “the urban sublime” and William Cronon’s thoughts on the concept of “Wilderness”, all of which work in the ecocritical field. LÄS MER