Search for dissertations about: "trilogy"

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

  2. 1. Reciprocal Haunting : Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy

    Author : Karen Patrick Knutsen; Mark Troy; Maria Holmgren Troy; Sharon Monteith; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pat Barker; The Regeneration Trilogy; Michel Foucault; Mikhail Bakhtin; Raymond Williams; Cultural Materialism; New Historicism; shell shock; psychoanalysis; British literature 1900-1999; class; gender; psychology; discourse; cultural trauma; dialogue; dialogism; power knowledge; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : Pat Barker’s fictional account of the Great War, The Regeneration Trilogy, completed in 1995, is considered to be her most important work to date and has captured the imagination of the reading public as well as attracting considerable scholarly attention. Although the trilogy appears to be written in the realistic style of the traditional historical novel, Barker approaches the past with certain preoccupations from 1990s Britain and rewrites the past as seen through these contemporary lenses. READ MORE

  4. 2. Margaret Atwood's Environmentalism : Apocalypse and Satire in the MaddAddam Trilogy

    Author : Marinette Grimbeek; Maria Holmgren Troy; Magnus Ullén; Sylvia Mayer; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Margaret Atwood; MaddAddam Trilogy; environmentalism; apocalypse; satire; celebrity activism; metalepsis; commodity aesthetics; storytelling; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This study considers the way in which Margaret Atwood’s post-apocalyptic MaddAddam Trilogy functions as an environmental project. The main focus is on how the three novels, Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013), simultaneously draw on and destabilise the apocalypticism inherent in so much environmental discourse, primarily through the use of satire. READ MORE

  5. 3. Darkness as Material

    Author : Mia Engberg; Rebecca Hilton; Elisabeth Hjorth; Mara Lee; Stockholms konstnärliga högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; cinema; darkness; silence; darkness as material; the visual silence; experimental cinema; essay film; Marguerite Duras; Derek Jarman; Mia Engberg; Hypermoon; Secrets of the Sun; Belleville trilogy; film; mörker; tystnad; mörker som material; den visuella tystnaden; experimentell film; essä film; Belleville-trilogin; Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts in Performative and Media Based Practices with Specialisation in Film and Media.; Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts in Performative and Media Based Practices with Specialisation in Film and Media.; Konstnärlig doktorsexamen i performativa och mediala praktiker med inriktning i film och media; Konstnärlig doktorsexamen i performativa och mediala praktiker med inriktning i film och media;

    Abstract : The doctoral project Darkness as Material, examines darkness as material and its relationship to cinematic storytelling. The study addresses different kinds of darkness: darkness in the image, darkness in the cinema theatre, darkness in the spectator where films are received and the darkness in the filmmaker, where the world is reflected and ideas are born. READ MORE

  6. 4. Taken by Stealth : Everyday Life and Political Change in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. Trilogy

    Author : Fredrik Tydal; Danuta Fjellestad; Brian McHale; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Dos Passos; American modernism; everyday life; the 1930s; Henri Lefebvre; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy (1938) tells the story of an erosion of American values and ideals – an ideological shift – during the first three decades of the twentieth century. READ MORE

  7. 5. A Trilogy of Mass A=61 : Superdeformed Structures, Exotic Decay, and Isospin Symmetry

    Author : Lise-Lotte Andersson; Kärnfysik; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; fusion-evaporation reactions; cranked Nilsson-Strutinsky calculations; prompt particle decay; shell-model calculations; mirror nuclei; Fysicumarkivet A:000; high-spin states; Superdeformation;

    Abstract : Three nuclei with mass number A=61 have been studied using four fusion-evaporation experiments carried out at the Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. Normally deformed states in 61Ga were for the first time ever explored and in addition the experimental knowledge of the mirror nucleus 61Zn was extended. READ MORE