Search for dissertations about: "irony"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the word irony.

  2. 1. Veils of irony : The development of narrative technique in women's novels of the 1790s

    Author : Anna Morris; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; West-Jane; Smith-Charlotte; Bennett-Anna-Maria; novel; eighteenth-century; circulating-library; review; parody; irony; free-indirect-discourse; innovation; common-reader; gossip; Quixote; education; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This thesis situates the innovations of three English novels from the 1790s by three relatively unknown women writers, Jane West, Charlotte Smith, and Anna Maria Bennett, against the background of a literary climate characterised by highly conventional forms of fiction in either sentimental or satiric modes. Their innovations consisted in the fashioning of parodic forms that would balance emotionality with irony. READ MORE

  4. 2. Veils of Irony : The Development of Narrative Technique in Women's Novels of  the 1790s

    Author : Anna Uddén; Monica Correa Fryckstedt; Gary Kelly; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jane West; Charlotte Smith; Anna Maria Bennett; Jane Austen; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

    Abstract : Innovation in literary history may originate in minor as well as major novelists of the past. This study evaluates the contribution to literary history made by three unknown English women writers: Jane West, Charlotte Smith and Anna Maria Bennett. READ MORE

  5. 3. Conflicted Selves : Ironic Representations of Westernization in Three Twentieth-century Turkish Novels

    Author : Gunvald Ims; László Károly; Laurent Mignon; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Turkish literature; novel; irony; discourse of westernization; postmodernism; first-person narration; Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar; The Time Regulation Institute; Adalet Ağaoğlu; Lying Down to Die; Orhan Pamuk; The New Life; Turkisk litteratur; roman; ironi; förvästligande; västerniseringsdiskurs; postmodernism; förstapersonsberättelse; Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar; Institutet för tidsinställning; Adalet Ağaoğlu; Att lägga sig och dö; Orhan Pamuk; Det nya livet; Türk edebiyatı; roman; ironi; Batılılaşma söylemi; postmodernizm; birinci şahıs anlatımı; Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar; Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü; Adalet Ağaoğlu; Ölmeye Yatmak; Orhan Pamuk; Yeni Hayat; Tyrkisk litteratur; roman; ironi; vestleggjeringsdiskurs; postmodernisme; førstepersonforteljing; Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar; Institutt for justering av tidene; Adalet Ağaoğlu; Å leggje seg og døy; Orhan Pamuk; Det nye livet; Turkiska språk; Turkic languages; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : For over a century, a dichotomous East–West debate has influenced conceptions of Turkish literature, threatening to reduce single works to products of westernization. This study critically reviews this discourse by investigating how it is addressed through irony in three novels from a period of forty years of the late 20th century: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü (The Time Regulation Institute, 1961), Adalet Ağaoğlu’s Ölmeye Yatmak (Lying Down To Die, 1973), and Orhan Pamuk’s Yeni Hayat (The New Life, 1994). READ MORE

  6. 4. Jews and Gentiles in Early Jewish Novels

    Author : Hedvig Larsson; Tord Fornberg; Anders Hultgård; Angela Standhartinger; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Judaism; Hellenistic period; novels; Jews and non-Jews; type scenes; irony; idol-parody; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with Jewish novels from the late Persian, Hellenistic and early Roman periods. The five texts chosen for this study are the Books of Ruth, Judith, Esther, Daniel and Joseph & Aseneth. Focus is on how the Jewish narrators describe non-Jews and non-Jewish religion, and on the relations between Jews and non-Jews. READ MORE

  7. 5. Artful organizing : essays on places, measurements and money flows in the Contemporary Cultural World

    Author : Erik Wikberg; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This dissertation focuses on how individuals, organizations, and markets manage contradictory demands and expectations from their environment. It studies primarily two fields of cultural production: the art worlds for contemporary art and the organizational field of architecture. READ MORE