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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade orden epic society.
1. Judy Chicagos kvinnoseparatistiska middagsbjudning : En semiotisk bildanalys av Judy Chicagos The Dinner Party
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : Judy Chicago’s art installation The Dinner Party celebrates historical women and theirachievements, and is considered one of the first epic feminist art pieces. Although The Dinner Party’s huge popularity, Judy Chicago received a lot of criticism regarding her feministagenda and her choices about which women are included in The Dinner Party and how theyare portrayed. LÄS MER
2. We Are Very Similar, yet We Are Very Different: J.R.R Tolkien´s Éowyn of Rohan´s Vergilian Origins and Her Search for Meaning
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerSammanfattning : Abstract: Through the years, many characters in The Lord of the Rings have been analysed in different ways. Éowyn is no exception. Her character has often been associated with the shield-maidens and Valkyries existing in Nordic Germanic and Anglo-Saxon literatures. This essay, however, breaks with this tradition. LÄS MER
3. Time to Love: Romantic comedies and narratives of LOVE – from a Swedish context
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierSammanfattning : This study explores the relation between love and romantic comedies, (aka romcoms), among people living in Sweden. Romcoms, being one of the most popular film genres ever, has often been subject to critique of not being serious enough and to derange people’s perceptions love. LÄS MER
4. Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity Through the Use of Epic Fantasy : Using The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson to analyze hegemonic masculinity and its potential for classroom appropriation.
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to argue that using the novel The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson to explore the concepts of gender roles, with masculinity and its hegemonic aspect at the forefront, through the fields of gender studies and gender pedagogy, will provide grounds for meaningful classroom discussions and activities in the Swedish upper secondary school by drawing parallels between the fictional society presented in the novel and our own. Three main traits of hegemonic masculinity are analyzed and applied to the characters Kaladin, Dalinar and Jasnah, namely physical assertiveness, egocentric individualism, and domination. LÄS MER
5. To be or not to be: A god? : En litterär analys av gudsdefinitionen i Mesopotamien
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierSammanfattning : The Ancient Mesopotamian society is often pictured as the cradle of society. It is surroundedby the rivers Euphrates and Tigris and has given life to an agricultural civilization that hasproduced the oldest preserved literary writing of our time, the Epic of Gilgamesh. LÄS MER
