Sökning: "Victor Frankenstein"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 13 uppsatser innehållade orden Victor Frankenstein.

1. 6. On Sublimity and the Excessive Object in Trans Women's Contemporary Writing

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

   Författare :Andria Nyberg Forshage; [2015]
   Nyckelord :aesthetics; becoming; erasure; excessive object; feminine sublime; feminist aesthetics; literary theory; monstrosity; sublimity; transgender theory; trans women s writing; transmisogyny; unrepresentability;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines trans women's contemporary writing in relation to a theory of the excessive object, sublimity, transmisogyny and minor literature. In doing so, this text is influenced by Susan Stryker's work on monstrosity, abjection and transgender rage in the article “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” (1994). LÄS MER

3. 7. Speciesism in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

   Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Författare :Alexandra Kallman; [2015]
   Nyckelord :Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : This essay analyses how Mary Shelley challenges speciesist thinking popular at the time of the publication of Frankenstein (1818). Speciesism is a discriminatory belief that favours the human species over any species other than human, and that is manifested in how we perceive and treat nonhuman beings. LÄS MER

4. 8. Victor’s Body : Male Hysteria and Homoeroticism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

   Master-uppsats, Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Ulla Kerren; [2014]
   Nyckelord :hysteria; homoeroticism; homosexuality; male body; masculinity; gender; Foucault; Sedgwick;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the male body in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, first published in 1818, and Kenneth Branagh’s film Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, released in 1994. So doing, the thesis focuses on the analysis of hysteria and homoeroticism in three male-male relationships: Victor and the monster, Victor and Walton, and Victor and Clerval. LÄS MER

5. 9. "Oh, Praise the Eternal Justice of Man!" A Feminist Reading of the Monster in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

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

   Författare :Lotta Svensson; [2013-06-26]
   Nyckelord :Mary Shelley; Frankenstein; feminism; Mary Wollstonecraft; the other; Simone de Beauvoir;

   Sammanfattning : This essay studies the monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from a feminist point of view and sheds a new light on the meaning behind the monster. The aim is to show that the monster - in his development from uninformed to liberated - is in fact a feminist heroine figure that strives to attain equality through fighting patriarchy, which in this essay is represented by his creator, Victor Frankenstein. LÄS MER

7. 10. Människan och Naturen i Mary Shelleys Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus

   Kandidat-uppsats, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

   Författare :Sofia Åsman; [2013]
   Nyckelord :ecocriticism; posthumanism; anthropocentrism; transhumanism; Frankenstein; Mary Shelley; ekokritik; posthumanism; antropocentrism; transhumanism; Frankenstein; Mary Shelley;

   Sammanfattning :  Denna uppsats ämnar med hjälp av av teorier från ekokritik och posthumanism besvara frågorna hur Mary Shelley i sin roman skildrar relationen mellan natur och människa, samt hur man med utgångspunkt i Frankensteins monster (i uppsatsen refererad till som Skapelsen) kan diskutera begreppet människa. Med ekokritik menas här att studera det mänskliga jämfört med det ickemänskliga samt att också diskutera detta mänskliga, vilket är en av huvudpoängerna inom posthumanism. LÄS MER