Search for dissertations about: "myth in literature"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 30 swedish dissertations containing the words myth in literature.
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1. In Memory of Narcissus : Aspects of the Late-Modern Subject in the Narcissus Theme 1890-1930
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2. The Burning Word : History and Myth in Maximilian Voloshin's Neopalimaia Kupina
Abstract : The book Neopalimaia Kupina: stikhi o voine i revoliutsii (The Burning Bush: Poems about War and Revolution) by Maximilian Voloshin (1877–1932) depicts the revolutionary period in Russia. This dissertation analyzes the work’s composition, showing how it was shaped and reshaped in response to the dramatic events of the first two and a half decades of the twentieth century, and how it remains open and mirrors the ongoing development of history. READ MORE
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3. John Cowper Powys: Displacements of Voice and Genre
Abstract : This study is based on dialogic readings of two of John Cowper Powys´s major novels, A Glastonbury Romance and Porius. The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate the interrelationship in the examined texts between the chain of narrative displacements and the frequent changes of voice and genre. READ MORE
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4. The extended voice : Instances of myth in the Indo-European corpus
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
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5. Poiski Rusi nevidimoj. Kitezskaja legenda v russkoj kul'ture. 1843-1940
Abstract : This doctoral dissertation examines the legend of the invisible city of Kitezh, its development and the role that it played in Russian culture between the years 1843 and 1940. It was during this period that the original folk legend was discovered by the Russian intelligentsia and transformed into a new myth about Russia. READ MORE