Sökning: "The Last of the Mohicans"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden The Last of the Mohicans.

1. 1. Teaching History through The Last of the Mohicans

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Författare :Zaher el-Shami; [2014-10-09]
   Nyckelord :Literature; James Fenimore Cooper; The Last of the Mohicans; Gender; Native Americans; Colonialism;

   Sammanfattning : This essay explores how effective literature can be when used to teach history utilizing James Fenimore Cooper‟s The Last of the Mohicans, in order to teach students two specific historical events, as well as historical gender roles and norms. It does this by first looking at how literature has been employed by others to teach history with pedagogical goals in mind, followed by examining gender roles from the period the novel has as its setting, including the period the novel itself was written in. LÄS MER

3. 2. Idealism and Guilt in the Forest : Cooper, Emerson and the American Wilderness Myth

   Kandidat-uppsats, Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Tommy Feldt; [2012]
   Nyckelord :The Last of the Mohicans; wilderness; America; Emerson; myth;

   Sammanfattning : James Fenimore Cooper’s 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans has had a remarkable impact on American culture and modern critics have often viewed it as a myth of America itself. Cooper’s highly romanticized narrative has partly been seen as the less-than-historical “wish-fulfillment” (D.H. LÄS MER