Search for dissertations about: "novelistic discourse"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words novelistic discourse.

  2. 1. John Cowper Powys: Displacements of Voice and Genre

    Author : Eivor Lindstedt; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Cowper Powys; Porius; cornucopian writing; narrative structure; narratology; Mikhail M. Bakhtin; novelistic discourse; dialogicity; polyphony; parody; chronotope; genre; metonymy in literature; Roman Jakobson; Engelska språk och litteratur ; English language and literature; myth in literature; A Glastonbury Romance;

    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

  4. 2. Grappling with Patriarchies : Narrative Strategies of Resistance in Miriam Tlali's Writings

    Author : Christina Cullhed; Monica Fryckstedt; David Attwell; Elleke Boehmer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Literature; South African literature; narrative strategies; patriarchy; the black literary tradition; novelization; dialogism; fragmentation; gendered violence; sacrifice; rape; discursive taboo; whispering; distancing; Miriam Tlali; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study is the first one devoted solely to the writings of the South African black novelist Miriam Tlali. It argues that her works constitute literary resistance not only to apartheid, noted by previous scholars, but also to South African patriarchies. READ MORE

  5. 3. In the shoes of a soldier : Communication in Tim O'Brien's Vietnam narratives

    Author : Mats Tegmark; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This is a study of the American writer Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone, Going After Cacciato, and The Things They Carried. Unlike previous O'Brien scholarship, which is either historical-biographical or formalistic, focusing on the contextual meaning or the literary merits of his narratives, this dissertation studies O'Brien's war narratives within a functional and communicative paradigm. READ MORE

  6. 4. Moral Philosophy and Novel Writing as Aspects of a Single Struggle : Iris Murdoch’s Hybrid Novels

    Author : Anna Victoria Hallberg; Lars-Åke Skalin; Beata Agrell; Anniken Greve; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Iris Murdoch; hybrid novel; philosophical novel; morality; viva-voce; epiphany; plot; ;

    Abstract : This investigation pursues a thesis, namely that moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch was a writer of hybrid novels. Murdoch’s novels are hybrid constructions where she tries to make reflections on moral intuitions discernible and experienced within the novels’ own “system”. READ MORE

  7. 5. Novel writing and moral philosophy as aspects of a single struggle : Iris Murdoch's hybrid novels

    Author : Anna Victoria Hallberg; Lars-Åke Skalin; Beata Agrell; Anniken Greve; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Iris Murdoch; hybrid novel; philosophical novel; morality; viva-voce; epiphany; plot; Plato; Wittgenstein; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

    Abstract : This investigation pursues a thesis, namely that moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch was a writer of hybrid novels. Murdoch’s novels are hybrid constructions where she tries to make reflections on moral intuitions discernible and experienced within the novels’ own “system”. READ MORE