Sökning: "literary analysis engelska"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 72 uppsatser innehållade orden literary analysis engelska.

  1. 1. Tantalizing Terrors and Transcendent Thrills : Unveiling the Sublime Aspects in Three Works by Edgar Allan Poe

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Elin Åhlén; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Edgar Allan Poe; horror; irony; the sublime; aesthetic theory; the uncanny;

    Sammanfattning : This essay explores the sublime aspects in Edgar Allan Poe’s fictional horror, namely "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843), "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) and "The Raven" (1839). The aim is to show that the sublime – an aesthetic experience articulated by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant amongst many – can make the reader oscillate between horror and safety. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Frankenstein and the Timelessness of Queer Identities: Teaching Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through Queer Theory in the Upper-Secondary EFL classroom

    L3-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Författare :Elsa Brandt; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Frankenstein; Mary Shelley; queer theory; queer pedagogy; EFL; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : This paper analyses the pivotal gothic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley through a close queer reading, focusing on excerpts featuring the artificially created creature and their maker, Victor Frankenstein. The queer perspective is applied to the gender identity and expression of the creature, which is a reading that lends itself to the teaching of the novel to Swedish upper-secondary students because of the timelessness of the themes and its close ties to the 2022 recommendations of the Swedish National Agency for Education regarding sexuality, consent, and relationships. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Potential of The Witcher : In an interdisciplinary work between Religious studies and English

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå,

    Författare :Isabel Cardin; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Fantasy; fundamental values; ethical issues; Christianity; Hinduism; Religious studies; English studies; interdisciplinary work; Fantasy; värdegrunden; etiska problem; kristendomen; hinduismen; Religionskunskap; Engelskaundervisning; ämnesövergripande arbete;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines if The Witcher: The Last Wish can be used as a pedagogical tool for interdisciplinary literary seminars about current issues and events in students’ daily lives and society between the Swedish upper secondary school courses English and Religious studies. Additionally, the study investigates if literary seminars about how The Witcher: The Last Wish can broaden the students’ understanding of religious practices in daily lives and what effect their religion has on their relation to ethical and existential issues. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Exploring the vocabulary content of upper secondary EFL textbooks in Sweden : A corpus-based analysis of types, lexical coverage,progression, and academic words

    Magister-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Författare :Dianne Valize Garcia; [2023]
    Nyckelord :vocabulary study; Academic Word List; word families; lexical coverage; EFL in Sweden;

    Sammanfattning : Vocabulary is considered the building block of language. Without it, communication breaks down. This degree project investigates the vocabulary types, progression, lexical coverage andacademic words in EFL upper secondary textbooks in Sweden. This was done by a corpus-based approach using corpus tools such as Range and AntWord Profiler. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Affect Poststructuralism and Repressed Emotion: The True Tragedy of The Remains of The Day

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Melvin Linderot; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Kazuo Ishiguro; The Remains of the Day; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day has garnered much discussion by literary theorists. Studies have primarily concerned themselves with the main character Mr Stevens and how he interacts with the complex situations around him. LÄS MER