Search for dissertations about: "and romance"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words and romance.

  2. 1. Romance revived : postmodern romances and the tradition

    Author : Heidi Hansson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; romance; postmodernism; dialogue; feminism; intertextuality; destabilised text; cyclical time; critical return; uncertain gender-construction;

    Abstract : This is the first study to identify and analyse postmodern romances as a new development of the romance and to relate this late twentieth-century subgenre to its tradition. Based on a selection of works published between 1969 and 1994, by A. S. READ MORE

  4. 2. Apartheid, liberalism, and romance : a critical investigation of the writing of Joy Packer

    Author : John A. Stotesbury; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; South African women’s writing; popular romantic fiction; memoirs; apartheid; colonialism; liberalism; memory; literary amnesia; propaganda; roman a these; race; gender; patriarchy.;

    Abstract : This is the first full-length study of the writing of the South African Joy Packer (1905-1977), whose 17 works of autobiography and romantic fiction were primarily popular. Packer’s writing, which appeared mainly between 1945 and 1977, blends popular narrative with contemporary social and political discourses. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Syntax of Past Participles. A Generative Study of Nonfinite Constructions in Ancient and Modern Italian

    Author : Verner Egerland; Italienska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Absolute Constructions; Word order and Participial Agreement in Italian; Scandinavian; and Romance; Affectedness Constraint; Medieval and Renaissance Italian; Spec head agreement and Case Theory; Antisymmetry; Past Participles; Null Objects; Italian language and literature; Italienska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is double. First, it will be shown that a number of problems of the syntax of ancient, literary Italian lend themselves readily to an analysis in terms of the Theory of Principles and Parameters. READ MORE

  6. 4. Her Story in Partonopeu de Blois : Rereading Byzantine Relations

    Author : Ellen Söderblom Saarela; Carin Franzén; ingela Nilsson; Anna Watz; Megan Moore; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Partonopeu de Blois; Hysmine and Hysminias; Alexiad; courtly lyric; romance; vernacular; Byzantine novel; Komnenian literature; ancient novel; Apuleius; Longus; Achilles Tatius; feminine subjectivity; literary subjectivity; subjectivity; twelfth century; Partonopeu de Blois; Hysmine and Hysminias; Alexiad; hövisk litteratur; medeltidsromanen; den antika romanen; elvahundratalet; fornfranska; Bysans; grekisk tradition; Apulejus; Achilles Tatius; Longus; Anna Komnena; kvinnlig subjektivitet; litterär subjektivitet; subjektivitet;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the twelfth-century Old French anonymous romance Partonopeu de Blois in relation to the Greek novel tradition and the Byzantine world. The study focuses on the erotic narrative in the romance and articulations of feminine subjectivity. READ MORE

  7. 5. Intimate relationships and olfaction : Body odors, adult attachment, and romance

    Author : Anna Blomkvist; Pehr Granqvist; Ilona Croy; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Intimate relationships; olfaction; body odor; attachment; sexual well-being; romantic relationships; infidelity; caregiving; intimacy; odors; psykologi; Psychology;

    Abstract : Odors influence several aspects of life, such as thoughts, memories, decisions, and emotions. Numerous studies have shown that human behavior can be affected by odors in different contexts. One such context is social relationships, in which body odors play a role. READ MORE