This study aims to identify and evaluate how teachers effectively can bring literature to life in the EFL classroom and promote high school students’ engagement and understanding of the text. Through a comprehensive literature review and analysis of empirical data, this study will provide recommendations for teachers on how to enhance the teaching ...
The gated community motif occurs frequently within climate and environmental disaster fiction. This thesis investigates its occurrence across three media to establish how the gated community mode of living, as rendered in post-apocalyptic speculative fiction, responds to the threat and consequences of climate and environmental crisis. This thesis c...
Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka tre skönlitterära verk inom barndeckargenren och dess potential inom ett didaktiskt värdegrundsarbete inom svenskämnet. Undersökningen inriktar sig på elever i årskurs 4–6. Studiens syfte och frågeställningar innefattar det didaktiska arbetet kring makt- och vänskapsrelationer samt etik och moral. Studiens a...
Being engaged in reading fiction is a crucial starting point for developing literacies (Guthrie et al., 2012) and achieving aesthetic experiences of fiction (Rosenblatt, 2002). Fiction could though be read in various formats, and previous research shows that adolescents certainly do have an interest in multimodal texts (Nordberg, 2015). Even if rec...
Uppsatsen är en komparativ studie där vi analyserar två karaktärer i två olika verk från olika tidsperioder: huvudpersonen i Astrid Lindgrens Pippi Långstrump (reviderad 2015, ursprungligen 1945) och huvudpersonen Lisa i Elias & Agnes Våhlunds Handbok för superhjältar. Våhlunds bok är en serie i sex delar men vi behandlar endast del 1 Handboken (20...
This essay analyzes the theme of “Otherness” in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through three different lenses: queer readings, feminist readings, and disability studies, which will offer multiple perspectives of the “Otherness” present in the novel. The essay will engage with critics such as Benjamin Bagocius, Fuson Wang, and Colleen Hobbs. The aim of...
Vi har valt att analysera två skönlitterära barnböcker, Gittan och gråvargarna av Pija Lindenbaum och Vem spökar, Alfons Åberg? av Gunilla Bergström. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur synen på barn formuleras och presenteras inom dessa böcker samt vilka värden och värderingar som förmedlas. Vi har även en didaktisk infallsvinkel där vi diskut...
This dissertation explores the intersection of temporality and politics in contemporary Chinese science fiction. Building on previous research on Chinese science fiction, science fiction studies, as well as narrative theory and historical theory, the investigation focuses on eight key texts written by the writers Han Song, Liu Cixin, and Baoshu. Ma...
This paper aims to explore how religious and spiritual experiences are conveyed in Karin Boye's novel Kris (English translation: Crisis). I study these experiences in the novel by using the French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil's theories of affliction and decreation. The study seeks answers to the following questions: which experiences in the ...
The current position proposed as a possible antidote to future human conflicts is to educate our students about the horrific consequences of past atrocities. To this end, this research paper will examine the possibilities of teaching the students to recognize and reject dehumanizing attitudes in society. The concept of dehumanization and our collec...
