Search for dissertations about: "the city in literature"

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  2. 1. The Margins of Writing: A Study of Arthur Machen and the Literary Field of the 1890s

    Author : Sara Bjärstorp; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; aesthetics of failure; sociology of literature; the unspeakable; London in literature; the city in literature; Pierre Bourdieu; decadence; horror; Arthur Machen; fin-de-siècle; Allmän och jämförande litteraturvetenskap; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to analyse the early writings of Arthur Machen (1863?1947) by focusing on three aspects of literary production: the field, the author, and the text. In all these aspects position-takings in the field, the construction of an author's identity, and textual production ? Machen's early career is informed by a particular and idiosyncratic notion of aesthetic creation, referred to in this study as the "aesthetics of failure". READ MORE

  4. 2. ‘A Machine for Living’ : Urban Domesticity in Polish Literature and Cinema 1969–2008

    Author : My Svensson; Małgorzata Anna Packalén Parkman; Stefan Helgesson; Witold Maciejewski; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; urbanism; the idea of home; Polish literature; Polish cinema; narrative space; heterotopia; non-places; social space; the city; geocriticism; apartments in motion pictures; Henri Lefebvre; cities and town life in motion pictures; cities and towns in literature; system transformation; Slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to study urban domesticity in Polish film and literature against the background of the political and social transformations that have taken place in recent decades. The study begins with the so-called belle époque of the Polish People’s Republic and the decade of Edward Gierek, continues through the political upheavals, the period of martial law, and the system transformation of 1989 and the two following decades, which have been marked by the introduction of democracy, global capitalism, consumerism etc. READ MORE

  5. 3. Free to Move Along : On the Urbanisation of Cross-border Mobility Controls - A Case of Roma 'EU migrants' in Malmö, Sweden

    Author : Maria Persdotter; Listerborn Carina; Kirsten Simonsen; Ryan Powell; Per-Markku Ristilammi; Tatiana Fogelman; Malmö universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; migration; borders; urban governance; vulnerable EU citizens; eu migrants; squatting; racialisation; homelessness; eu citizenship;

    Abstract : Den här avhandlingen – som jag valt att ge den svenska titeln Fri att röra sig, förvisad att röra sig: Rörlighetskontrollens urbanisering – Fallet med romska EU-medborgare i Malmö – behandlar den lokala politik som utvecklades i Malmö under åren 2014–2016 i förhållande till närvaron av så kallade utsatta EU-medborgare, och utvecklar ett teoretiskt resonemang om hur exkluderande gränser tar plats och blir till i städer. ”Utsatta EU-medborgare” är ett begrepp som används av svenska myndigheter för att beteckna medborgare från andra EU länder som vistas i Sverige utan en fast uppehållsrätt och som befinner sig i situationer präglade av extrem fattigdom och marginalisering. READ MORE

  6. 4. "I am walking in my city" : The Production of Locality in Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege, Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay, and Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song

    Author : Anna Stibe; Åke Bergvall; Mark Troy; Nahem Yousaf; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arjun Appadurai; Githa Hariharan; Vikram Chandra; Amit Chaudhuri; the production of locality; work of the imagination; agency; haunting; storytelling; secularism; Indian English literature; cities.; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : At the center of this study are three Indian novels with an urban setting and dealing with political and social issues of the 1990s: Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege (2003), Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay (1997) and Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song (1998). The Delhi of In Times of Siege is portrayed as a city infused with power but haunted by a troubled past that is brought to the present by a dissenting professor of history. READ MORE

  7. 5. From Her Point of View : Woman's Anti-World in the Poetry of Anna Świrszczyńska

    Author : Renata Ingbrant; Leonard Neuger; Ebba Witt-Brattström; Ewa Kraskowska; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; the grotesque; ekphrastic poetry; the Warsaw Uprising; poetry of witness; the city lament; studium and punctum; the abject abjection; body-soul dualism; Świrszczyńska Swir; Miłosz; Slavic languages; Slaviska språk; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : This book is a monograph about Anna Świrszczyńska’s poetry. It may be described as one woman’s attempt to read another woman’s literary work by taking into account established canons as well as the tools of feminist literary analysis. Part One begins with a discussion of Świrszczyńska’s biography (Chapter One). READ MORE