Sökning: "Victorian"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 100 uppsatser innehållade ordet Victorian.

  1. 1. Serious Triviality : A Serious Societal Critique in a Trivial Setting in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Författare :Fredrik Zadig; [2023]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : In the late Victorian era, the British upper-class seemed to have set up their own standard of morals where truthfulness and religious conviction gave way for manners and appearance. Oscar Wilde was an outspoken socialist and talented author who shared his critique towards the ills of this society within his literary works. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Beardsleys Salome : En studie i esteticismen och den viktorianska sexualiteten

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

    Författare :Caterina Brogno; [2023]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : The collaboration between Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley would come to define a briefbut significant part of art history, the aesthetic movement. Its adherents subscribed to thetheory of art for art’s sake and believed in beauty over meaning. LÄS MER

  4. 3. En kartläggning av konservativ behandling vid trochanterrelaterad smärta : En litteraturstudie

    Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap (ID)

    Författare :Emma Edenbert; [2023]
    Nyckelord :trochanterit; bursit; träning; gluteus medius; trochanter major;

    Sammanfattning : Bakgrund: Trochanterrelaterad smärta anses bero på en bursit eller tendinopati i musklerna gluteus medius eller minimus. Smärtan uppstår när gluteal muskulatur pressas samman mot trochanter major av tractus iliotibialis när höften förs i en adduktion. Konservativ behandling är den primära behandlingsformen. LÄS MER

  5. 4. A Remote Kinship : Using Heart of Darkness to Promote an Anti-Essentialist and Anti-Racist Understanding of Race and Ethnicity in the EFL Classroom

    Kandidat-uppsats,

    Författare :Rudy Lindberg; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Heart of Darkness; Race; Essentialism; Anti-essentialism;

    Sammanfattning : Heart of Darkness does raise several issues when used in a teaching context. For instance, the novella depicts the Congolese as primitive, animalistic, ignorant, and superstitious. Thus, it perpetuates racist tropes about Africans that unfortunately still exist today. LÄS MER

  7. 5. An Ecocritical Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s A House of Pomegranates : Human- Nonhuman Interactions in the Fairy Tales

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

    Författare :Eva Aramian; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Ecocriticism; Victorian ecocriticism; Animal Studies; Oscar Wilde; Fairy tales; Human-nonhuman interaction; Transformation.;

    Sammanfattning : Abstract   This thesis investigates the interactions between human and nonhuman characters that express a particular concern regarding nature and the environment in Oscar Wilde's four fairy tales in A House of Pomegranates. The author utilizes a significant number of nonhuman characters to communicate with humans, which is a fairy-tale convention in which truth wins over falsehood, kindness is rewarded, and virtue triumphs over evil. LÄS MER