Search for dissertations about: "Mythology in literature"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words Mythology in literature.

2. 1. Imagining a Place in Nature: Using Evolution to Explain the Early Evolutionary Imagination in Literature

   Author : Emelie Jonsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Victorian literature; Darwinism; evolutionary humanities; naturalistic cosmology; two cultures; mythology;

   Abstract : After Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, Victorian literature overflowed with images of man’s new place in nature. Those images can be explained by modern research that builds on Darwin’s theory: the evolutionary social sciences and evolutionary literary theory. READ MORE

4. 2. Varying Virtue : Mythological Paragons of Wifely Virtues in Roman Elegy

   Author : Magdalena Öhrman; Latin; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ovid; Elegy; Propertius; Ovid’s exile poetry; erotodidactic elegy; Tibullus; mythology; genre;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates references to five mythological characters (Penelope, Laodamia, Andromache, Alcestis and Euadne) used as paragons of wifely virtues in Roman elegy. Providing extensive close readings, it discusses the usage of these five characters in the works of Propertius and Tibullus, and in the elegiac works of Ovid, with special reference to issues of narratology, intertextuality, and literary genre. READ MORE

5. 3. Passage to a new wor(l)d : Exile and restoration in Mahmoud Darwish's writings 1960-1995

   Author : Anette Månsson; Bo Isaksson; Witold Witakowski; Tetz Rooke; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arabic language; Mahmoud Darwish; Palestinian literature; Exile and literature; Biblical motives in literature; Rite of passage; Arabiska; Arabic language; Arabiska; semitiska språk; Semitic Languages;

   Abstract : This study focuses on developments of the exile motive in the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s writings 1960-1995. The sources consist primarily of Darwish’s diwans of poetry and articles published in literary magazines. READ MORE

6. 4. Haloed Objects on Mental Parade : Myth and Magic in Post-War Surrealist Cinema

   Author : Kristoffer Noheden; Astrid Söderbergh Widding; Malin Wahlberg; Patricia Allmer; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; surrealism; André Breton; mythology; esotericism; intertextuality; intermediality; Wilhelm Freddie; Benjamin Péret; Nelly Kaplan; Jan Švankmajer; Gaston Bachelard; Walter Benjamin; primitivism; embodied experience; initiation; art history; Pierre Mabille; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Abstract : Following the end of World War II, the surrealist founder André Breton organized the exhibition Le Surréalisme en 1947. In conjunction with it, he announced a “change in direction” for surrealism, towards the search for a new myth, replete with magic. READ MORE

7. 5. The extended voice : Instances of myth in the Indo-European corpus

   Author : Peter Jackson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Indo-European poetics; Vedic religion; Greek religion; pre-Christian Scandinavian religion; myth; oral tradition; oral literature; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; History Of Religions; religionshistoria;

   Abstract : Proceeding from the presence of recurrent, poetic phrases and verbal collocations in early texts composed in Indo-European languages, this study is an attempt to elucidate some fundamental problems of myth, tradition and culture. The scholarly study of Indo-European religions and mythology-initiated during the 19th century and proceeding up to modem times with varying success-has often been devoted to the task of restoring a homogeneous system of Indo-European religious beliefs by searching for deep-seated reflexes of such a system in the historically attainable cultures. READ MORE