Search for dissertations about: "Literary development"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 57 swedish dissertations containing the words Literary development.
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1. The construction of poetic meaning : A cultural-developmental study of symbolic and non-symbolic strategies in the interpretation of contemporary poetry
Abstract : The general aim of this research has been to study children's and adolescents' construction of poetic meaning. The theoretical frame of reference reflects the social-constructivist and phenomenologically influenced orientations of A. Schutz and P. L. READ MORE
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2. Tjerita and Novel. Literary Discourse in Post New Order Indonesia
Abstract : The work examines developments in the novel and the short story of writers who grew up during the New Order era (1966-1998) in the period of reform post 1998. It is assumed and subsequently affirmed that the genres are developing, modern genres in dialogue with the past and present. The work's main use of theory is that of M. M. READ MORE
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3. INDEBTED BODIES, Debt and Decadence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Abstract : This dissertation investigates the relationship between linguistic and stylistic innovation in nineteenth-century literature on the one hand and shifts in the dynamics of the economic sign system on the other. It draws on prior work on parallels between language and money and argues specifically that developments in the nineteenth-century novel can be understood in terms of the contemporaneous economic history, and that the two sign systems of language and money display structural similarities in this period. READ MORE
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4. A World of Myths : World Literature and Storytelling in Canongate's Myths series
Abstract : This thesis discusses contemporary publishing within the global, literary system through the prism of the transnational publishing project the Myths series, initiated by Scottish publishing house Canongate Books in 2005. By combining the perspectives of world literature studies and sociology of literature, I explore the conception, development and communication around the Myths series (today published in forty countries) in relation firstly to the contemporary changes in the publishing industry, situated within a more general literary debate on globalisation and cultural diversity and secondly the rise of a social order epitomised under the umbrella term “new economy”, in which the practice of strategic communication or marketing storytelling has become increasingly common. READ MORE
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5. Japanese achievement, Chinese aspiration : a study of the Japanese influence on the modernisation of the Late Qing novel
Abstract : This dissertation concerns the early years of the modernisation of the novelin Japan and China, at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning ofthe twentieth century'. Taking as a starting point a speech made by ZhouZuoren (1885-1965) in 1918, the field of study is presented. Two of the foremostfigures in the process of modernisation, i.e. READ MORE
