Search for dissertations about: "Autobiography"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the word Autobiography.

  2. 1. Dressing Up and the Art of Jamaica Kincaid

    Author : Anna Borgström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jamaica Kincaid; Art; Autobiography; Resistance to Categorization; Dressing Up; Cognizant Readings; Intertexts; Paratexts; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : Whether her work is classified as fiction, biography, garden writing, or sketch, almost all ofJamaica Kincaid’s writing invokes the genre of autobiography. At the same time, she undercutsand complicates autobiographical readings of her work. READ MORE

  4. 2. The True Story of Alice B. Toklas : Almost the Same but not Quite/not Straight in the Toklas Autobiographies

    Author : Anna Linzie; Rolf Lundén; Ann Fisher-Wirth; Robyn Wiegman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; autobiography; sexuality; textuality; repetition; supplementarity; mimicry; authorship; writing; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; Comparative Literature;

    Abstract : This study investigates three texts that can be provisionally defined as “Toklas autobiographies,” or inscriptions of “the true story of Alice B. Toklas.” These are Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and The Alice B. READ MORE

  5. 3. The written and the unwritten world of Philip Roth : fiction, nonfiction, and borderline aesthetics in the Roth books

    Author : Roger Edholm; Lars-Åke Skalin; Greger Anderson; Magnus Ullén; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philip Roth; Fiction; Nonfiction; Borderline Aesthetics; Narrative Theory; Autobiography; Authorship; Referentiality; Literature; Identity; Counterfacts; Ethics; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

    Abstract : This thesis examines five books by the American author Philip Roth commonly referred to as the “Roth Books,” which are The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography(1988), Deception (1990), Patrimony: A True Story (1991), Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993), and The Plot Against America (2004). These books, held together by the author’s proper name, are often viewed as texts that conflate fiction and nonfiction or demonstrate the “fictionality” of all factual narrative accounts in compliance with well-known postmodernist and poststructuralist theories. READ MORE

  6. 4. Materialisations of a Woman Writer : An Investigation of Gender Politics in Janet Frame's Biographical Legend

    Author : Maria Wikse; Linda Anderson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Autobiography; biography; film adaptation; the gaze; gender; New Zealand literature; poiesis; re-citations; whiteness; writer ideals; writer tradition; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study deals with interpretative procedures in literary studies that implicitly or explicitly rely on biographical information. Most often, readings either presuppose the sovereignty of the author or claim that biographical data is not at all relevant. Both these stances are problematic. READ MORE

  7. 5. The I in Design

    Author : Henrik Enquist; Certec - Rehabiliteringsteknik och Design; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; visualisation; rehabilitation; participatory design; methodology; design; artefact; autobiography;

    Abstract : This thesis describes the relations between objects, practices, and individuals. The main objective is to explore the role of artefacts in user-centred participatory design research, specifically for expressing and communicating personal experiences and creating meaning. READ MORE