Sökning: "Ursula Le Guin"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 20 uppsatser innehållade orden Ursula Le Guin.

  1. 1. The Word for World is Forest : A multidisciplinary approach to teaching about genocide

    Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Marco Zalazar; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Genocide; Dehumanization; Peace Education; Le Guin; Cognitive Estrangement; Engaged Reading; Socratic Pedagogy;

    Sammanfattning : The current position proposed as a possible antidote to future human conflicts is to educate our students about the horrific consequences of past atrocities. To this end, this research paper will examine the possibilities of teaching the students to recognize and reject dehumanizing attitudes in society. LÄS MER

  3. 2. På tröskeln mellan världar : Fiktiv paratext i Frank Herberts Dune och Ursula K. Le Guins Four Ways to Forgiveness

    Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Andreas Rovio; [2023]
    Nyckelord :fiktiv paratext; paratext; narratologi; fiktionsteori; fiktion; science fiction; sf; le guin; herbert; dune; four ways to forgiveness; fiktiva världar; möjliga världar;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  4. 3. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Serra Hughes; [2022]
    Nyckelord :novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

    Sammanfattning : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. LÄS MER

  5. 4. #earth#enviroment#posthuman#sciencefiction#ecocriticism : eller, en ekokritisk läsning av science fiction-litteratur samt ett försök att sammanföra samtida klimatdiskussioner med framtidsgestaltningar av människan och hennes omvärld

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Författare :Jacob Lundberg; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Science fiction; ekokritik; posthumanism; Dune; The Left Hand of Darkness; Dawn; skönlitteratur; framtid; ekologi; klimatförändring;

    Sammanfattning : Uppsatsen gör en kvalitativ närläsning av utvalda passager i science fiction-verken Dune - Frank Herbert (1965), The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin (1969) och Dawn - Octavia E. Butler (1987). Materialet analyseras utifrån ett ekokritiskt perspektiv. LÄS MER

  7. 5. A Worm in an Apple : An analysis of hegemonic masculinity, personal responsibility and the nature of the Shadow in Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Gwendolyn Maddy Hansson; [2022]
    Nyckelord :A Wizard of Earthsea; Ursula K. Le Guin; genre deconstruction; masculinity; hegemonic masculinity; personal responsibility; school culture; boy problem; fantasy literature; upper-secondary school; secondary school; English as a Foreign;

    Sammanfattning : In this paper, Ursula K Le Guin’s 1968 fantasy novel, A Wizard of Earthsea will be investigated in two ways. First, through a thematic analysis of the primary antagonist through a deconstructive close-reading technique. Second, through a pedagogic analysis of the depiction of hegemonic masculinity in the novel. LÄS MER