Sökning: "mccandless"

Hittade 3 uppsatser innehållade ordet mccandless.

  1. 1. Resistance to Materialism in Into the Wild : A Comparative Narratological study of the Biography and the Film Adaptation

    Kandidat-uppsats, Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Författare :Madeleine Eriksson; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Into the Wild; Adaptation Theory; Narratology; Materialism;

    Sammanfattning : From an environmental perspective, the earth’s future has been, and is, a current and much-debated topic in today’s society. Consumerism and materialism are two reasons why earth’s natural resources run out earlier and earlier every year. LÄS MER

  3. 2. An Ecocritical Exploration of McCandless’ Pilgrimage Into the Wild : A Literary Analysis of the Representations of Nature in Into the Wild

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Vicky Taylor; [2022]
    Nyckelord :into the wild; mccandless; ecocriticism; nature; culture; transcendence; interdependence; linguistic construct; cultural construct;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines Jon Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild from an ecocritical perspective. It aims to analyse three representations of nature: its interdependence with culture, its connection with transcendence, and nature as a linguistic or cultural construct in Into the Wild and relate them to ecocriticism today. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Thoreau as a Mirror for Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild

    Kandidat-uppsats, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Författare :José Joaquín Sánchez Vera; [2013]
    Nyckelord :Jon Krakauer Henry D.Thoreau Transcendentalism Into the Wild nonfiction biography McCandless economy liberalism nature wilderness fiction transcendentalism romanticism;

    Sammanfattning : Abstract To tell the nonfiction biography of Christopher McCandless in Into the Wild Jon Krakauer uses a plethora of references to Henry D. Thoreau. In this thesis I study how Krakauer uses Thoreau while balancing on the fine line that differentiates the historian from the storyteller. LÄS MER