Search for dissertations about: "folklore"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the word folklore.

2. 1. Revoicing Sámi narratives : north Sámi storytelling at the turn of the 20th century

   Author : Coppélie Cocq; Mikael Svonni; Thomas DuBois; Richard Jones-Bamman; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; storytelling; folklore; folk narratives; oral tradition; Sámi culture; muitalus; critical discourse analysis; polyphony; Sami language; Samiska;

   Abstract : Revoicing Sámi narratives investigates the relationship between storytellers, contexts and collective tradition, based on an analysis of North Sámi narratives published in the early 1900s. This dissertation “revoices” narratives by highlighting the coexistence of different voices or socio-ideological languages in repertoires and by considering Sámi narratives as utterances by storytellers rather than autonomous products of tradition. READ MORE

4. 2. Slippery paths : The performance and canonization of Turkic literature and Uyghur muqam song in Islam and modernity

   Author : Nathan Light; USA IN Indiana University; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Folklore; Song; Islam; Muqam; Modernity; Language; literature and linguistics; Social sciences; Turkic; Canonization; Middle Eastern literature; Uyghur; Performance; China; Asian literature; Turkic languages; Turkiska språk; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

   Abstract : In the past forty years the fluid Uyghur muqam song tradition has been transformed into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on the world stage. Traditional muqam performers have provided the magma of songs that scholars and politicians have edited into an invented "great tradition" which supports a Uyghur claim to an important piece world cultural history. READ MORE

5. 3. Where Scholars are Made : Gendered Arenas of Persona Formation in Finnish Folkloristics, 1918–1932

   Author : Lisa Svanfeldt-Winter; Kirsti Niskanen; Marja-Liisa Keinänen; Annika Berg; Elise Garritzen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scholarly persona; gender; Finnish history; history of folklore; history of humanities; history of knowledge; students; History; historia;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates how two Finnish folklorists, Elsa Enäjärvi (1901–1951) and Martti Haavio (1899–1973), obtained information about perceptions of what constituted good and acknowledged scholars and how they responded to these implicit and explicit expectations and requirements. The dissertation uses the concept of scholarly persona as an analytical tool to identify notions of good scholars as well as Enäjärvi’s and Haavio’s processes to form themselves as such. READ MORE

6. 4. Passion Embracing Death : A reading of Nina Sadur's novel 'The Garden'

   Author : Karin Sarsenov; Språk- och litteraturcentrum; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ryska språk och litteratur ; Russian language and literature; gendered subjectivity; love incantations; socialist realism; chthonic forces; leitmotif; alcoholic discourse; schizoid discourse; aberrant discourse; Russian women s literature; General and comparative literature; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

   Abstract : This doctoral dissertation is an analysis of the novel 'The Garden' (1997), by the Russian author Nina Sadur. Drawing on feminist literary criticism, it aims at providing a woman-authored text with the in-depth study the novel’s literary sophistication calls for. READ MORE

7. 5. Locating Inter-Scandinavian Silent Film Culture : Connections, Contentions, Configurations

   Author : Anne Bachmann; Jan Olsson; Mark Sandberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; film history; silent film; Scandinavia; transnational film; film discourse; location; censorship; film adaptation; Cinema Studies; filmvetenskap;

   Abstract : The thesis revisits film and film-culture history in Sweden, Denmark and Norway with a view to discourses and practices of the inter- and trans-Scandinavian in the silent era. Excluding the earliest films, but including the transition to synchronised sound, it covers the period of the 1900s to 1930 with emphasis on the 1910s and 1920s. READ MORE