Sökning: "elizabeth gaskell"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 uppsatser innehållade orden elizabeth gaskell.

1. 1. Dissonance in Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Kristian Jeremic; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Elizabeth Gaskell; Mary Barton; George Orwell; Down and Out in Paris and London; Marxism; class; class consciousness; historical materialism; Althusser; internal distantiation; unreliable narrator; intranarrational unreliability; extratextual unreliability; representations of poverty;

   Sammanfattning : This essay identifies a type of narrative dissonance in the depictions of working-class conditions within Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. In this thesis, the dissonance is argued in part to be the effect created when an author belonging to one social class attempts to portray a class separate from their own. LÄS MER

3. 2. The complex depiction of society and class in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South

   Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Carl Anton Lindfors; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Perspectives; complexity; contemporary criticism; industrialism; class; Mary Barton; North and South;

   Sammanfattning : Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels have been praised for their depiction of contemporary society and for giving the voiceless working-class a voice. Her two novels Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1854) are referred to as industrial novels, giving a contemporary depiction of nineteenth century England. LÄS MER

4. 3. Privilege and Poverty under Patriarchy : An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of the Portrayal of Wives and Mothers in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Författare :Louise Olander; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Elizabeth Gaskell; North and South; the Victorian novel; feminism; intersectionality; marriage; motherhood; class; gender roles; angel in the house;

   Sammanfattning : Building on previous feminist literary criticism of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South (1854-55), this essay analyses the portrayal of wives and mothers in the novel from an intersectional feminist perspective. It examines how the narrative shows that gender and economic status or class intersect to create varied representations of Victorian women's marginalisation. LÄS MER

5. 4. Moraliska kvinnor och vacklande män : Karaktärskonstellationer i en jämförelse mellan Jane Austens Mansfield Park och Elizabeth Gaskells Wives and Daughters

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Tova Danielsson Jonsson; [2020]
   Nyckelord :1800-tal; Brittisk litteratur; Jane Austen; Elizabeth Gaskell;

   Sammanfattning : Denna uppsats analyserar Jane Austens roman Mansfield Park samt Elizabeth Gaskells roman Wives and Daughters för att utröna likheter och skillnader. Uppsatsen utgår ifrån en komparativ metod för att se hur romanerna närmar sig den romantiska konflikt som uppstår, samt karakteriseringar och värderingar. LÄS MER

7. 5. Politeness strategies in the film North and South

   Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet

   Författare :Rawan AL Salti; [2019]
   Nyckelord :Positive politeness; negative politeness; North and South film;

   Sammanfattning : Politeness theory, developed by Brown and Levinson, has been applied to literature in linguistic research for in-depth analysis of discourse, whether written or spoken. Based on my understanding of politeness and the different politeness strategies suggested in the literature, this paper analyzes the different strategies mostly used by the main characters of the televised version of the novel North and South (1855), written by Elizabeth Gaskell, by focusing on some parts of the conversations in the televised version (2004), in terms of gender, social class and situation. LÄS MER