Sökning: "the grotesque body"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 uppsatser innehållade orden the grotesque body.
1. Inte grönt som i pengar utan grönt som i träsktroll : Klass och kön i filmen Shrek
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/GenusvetenskapSammanfattning : This essay examines class and gender in the movie Shrek from 2001. To examine class and gender, representations are of main interest. For the analysis Stuart Hall’s theories of representations and stereotypes, as well as Beverley Skeggs theory of respectability, have mainly been used. LÄS MER
2. ”Detta skriver jag säkerligen i förtvivlan över min kropp och över min framtid med denna kropp” : En analys av kroppsbetraktelser i Franz Kafkas dagböcker.
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskapSammanfattning : It is well-known that Kafka had a great fascination with the possibilities and transience of the physical body, as evidenced in his various literary works. Using the theory of "the uncanny", The essay interprets and investigates how and what Kafka writes about others' bodies, as well as his own. LÄS MER
3. "Du vet inte hur otäckt det är!" : Skräck och obehag i tre av John Ajvide Lindqvists noveller
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleSammanfattning : This study aims to explore how the author John Ajvide Lindqvist portrays horror and unpleasantness in three of his short stories. The stories were read closely to identify and categorize the means by which the author creates a spooky and scary atmosphere and feeling. The findings were compared to the horror genre and its properties. LÄS MER
4. A Grotesque and Gothic Corporeality : Queer Transgression in Closer and Frisk
Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates how two novels by Dennis Cooper, Closer and Frisk, conceive of queer sexuality as transgressing heteronormative notions of moral standards, and how they challenge these by elevating their subject matters to an excessive degree. Drawing on the concepts of the grotesque and the Gothic, this thesis explores the aesthetics of Closer and Frisk, focusing in particular on the way corporeality figures as a central aspect of how these texts explore the ways in which the body becomes a site for Cooper’s discourses of transgression. LÄS MER
5. Textfragment och kroppsmaterial : En analys om kroppens gestaltning och gränsöverskridande i Drömfakulteten
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaperSammanfattning : This study aims to examine the norm-breaking body in Sara Stridsbergs literary fantasy Drömfakulteten (2006) or The Faculty of Dreams (English translation, 2019) which explores Valerie Solanas’ life. Solanas is known for the feminist text SCUM Manifesto (1968, Swedish translation, 2003) and for shooting the artist Andy Warhol. LÄS MER