Search for dissertations about: "Djuna Barnes"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Djuna Barnes.

  2. 1. Language Subject Ideology: The Politics of Representation in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and Gertrude Stein's Lucy Church Amiably

    Author : Petra Ragnerstam; Genusvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literature criticism; General and comparative literature; politics; aesthetics; feminism; language philosophy; literary theory; critical theory; realism; postmodernism; modernism; 20th century novels; Gertrude Stein; Lucy Church Amiably; Djuna Barnes; Nightwood; Virginia Woolf; To the Lighthouse; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates the relation between aesthetics and politics by interpreting three experimental novels by Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein. By theorizing the relation between language, subject, voice and ideology it questions the autonomous subject as a ground for political action and criticality. READ MORE

  4. 2. Relations: Ethics and the Modernist Subject in James Joyce's Ulysses, Virginia Woolf's The Waves, and Djuna Barnes Nightwood

    Author : AnnKatrin Jonsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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  5. 3. "Creating the Senses" : Sensation in the work of Shelley Jackson

    Author : Tove Solander; Maria Lindgren Leavenworth; Gabriele Griffin; Sara Danius; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Shelley Jackson; senses; literary percepts; body art; object art; hypertext; fantastic fiction; minor writing; écriture féminine; queer theory; feminist theory; phenomenology; Gilles Deleuze; engelska; English; Aesthetics; estetik; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This monograph on the œuvre of contemporary American author and multimedia artist Shelley Jackson addresses the question of how literary works employ language to evoke sense impressions. Gilles Deleuze’s notion of aesthetic percepts is drawn on to develop a theory of literary phantom sensations which is then tested on the work of Jackson and related authors. READ MORE