Search for dissertations about: "literature 2012"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 315 swedish dissertations containing the words literature 2012.

  2. 1. Towards a Poetics of Nostalgia : The Nostalgic Experience in Modern Fiction

    Author : Niklas Salmose; Randall Stevenson; Laura Marcus; Patricia Waugh; UK The University of Edinburgh; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nostalgia; Modernism; Literature; Aesthetics; Style; Narratology; Emotions; Nostalgi; Modernism; Litteratur; Estetik; Stilistik; Narratologi; Känslor; English literature; Engelska med litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning;

    Abstract : In recent years there has been a body of studies relating nostalgia and fiction in political, sociological, feminist, or historical ways. This thesis, instead, sets out to perform an unusual textual study of nostalgia in modern fiction in order to work towards a poetics of nostalgia. READ MORE

  4. 2. Ambiguity and Estrangement : Peer-Led Deliberative Dialogues on Literature in the EFL Classroom

    Author : Anna Thyberg; Maria Olaussen; Lena Fritzén; Kaj Sjöholm; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; literature; EFL; peer-led deliberative dialogues; civic values postcolonial; positionality; ambiguity; estrangement; aesthetic reading; internally persuasive discourse; upper secondary students; transformative learning.; Engelska med didaktisk inriktning; English Education;

    Abstract : The thesis focuses on ideological and emotional dimensions of literature reading in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. The empirical data at the heart of this dissertation comprises questionnaires, group sessions, student texts, and post-study evaluation. READ MORE

  5. 3. The written and the unwritten world of Philip Roth : fiction, nonfiction, and borderline aesthetics in the Roth books

    Author : Roger Edholm; Lars-Åke Skalin; Greger Anderson; Magnus Ullén; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philip Roth; Fiction; Nonfiction; Borderline Aesthetics; Narrative Theory; Autobiography; Authorship; Referentiality; Literature; Identity; Counterfacts; Ethics; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

    Abstract : This thesis examines five books by the American author Philip Roth commonly referred to as the “Roth Books,” which are The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography(1988), Deception (1990), Patrimony: A True Story (1991), Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993), and The Plot Against America (2004). These books, held together by the author’s proper name, are often viewed as texts that conflate fiction and nonfiction or demonstrate the “fictionality” of all factual narrative accounts in compliance with well-known postmodernist and poststructuralist theories. READ MORE

  6. 4. In Memory of Narcissus : Aspects of the Late-Modern Subject in the Narcissus Theme 1890-1930

    Author : Niclas Johansson; Torsten Pettersson; Björn Sundberg; Carin Franzén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Narcissus; subject; selfhoood; modernity; myth; intertextuality; cultural semiotics; Juri Lotman; Renate Lachmann; André Gide; Hermann Hesse; Havelock Ellis; Isidor Sadger; Otto Rank; Sigmund Freud; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

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  7. 5. Immortality through Art: The Evolution of a Decadent Theme in Four Novels within and beyond the Fin de Siècle

    Author : Tia Stajic Löfgren; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; decadence in literature; immortality-through-art theme; secularization; art; mortality; love;

    Abstract : Abstract Stajic Löfgren, Tia. Immortality through Art: The Evolution of a Decadent Theme in Four Novels within and beyond the Fin de Siècle. University of Gothenburg: Department of Languages and Literatures, 2012. READ MORE