Search for dissertations about: "women’s literature"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 57 swedish dissertations containing the words women’s literature.

  2. 1. The True Story of Alice B. Toklas : Almost the Same but not Quite/not Straight in the Toklas Autobiographies

    Author : Anna Linzie; Rolf Lundén; Ann Fisher-Wirth; Robyn Wiegman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; autobiography; sexuality; textuality; repetition; supplementarity; mimicry; authorship; writing; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; Comparative Literature;

    Abstract : This study investigates three texts that can be provisionally defined as “Toklas autobiographies,” or inscriptions of “the true story of Alice B. Toklas.” These are Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and The Alice B. READ MORE

  4. 2. In Between Cultures : Franco-American Encounters in the Work of Edith Wharton

    Author : Maria Strääf; Lars-Håkan Svensson; Kerstin W. Shands; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; American literature; capital; economic; cultural; social and symbolic; cultural encounter; Edith Wharton; hybridity; in-betweenness; mimicry; narratology; nineteenth-century literature; twentieth-century literature; otherness; women’s literature; Amerikansk litteratur; Edith Wharton; hybriditet; in-betweenness mellanskap ; kapital: ekonomiskt; kulturellt; socialt and symboliskt; kulturmöte; kvinnolitteratur; 1800-tals litteratur; 1900-tals litteratur; mimicry; narratologi; otherness ”den andre” ; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of how the American author Edith Wharton (1862-1937) in a number of novels and short stories written between 1876 and 1937 depicts cultural encounters between Americans and Europeans, mostly Frenchmen. Chiefly concerned with Fast and Loose, “The Last Asset”, Madame de Treymes, “Les Metteurs en Scène”, The Custom of the Country and The Age of Innocence, each of which articulates ideas relevant to the theme investigated, the thesis also contains a supplementary discussion of The Reef, The Glimpses of the Moon, The Mother’s Recompense and The Buccaneers. READ MORE

  5. 3. Julian, God, and the Art of Storytelling : A Narrative Analysis of the Works of Julian of Norwich

    Author : Godelinde Gertrude Perk; Berit Åström; Virginia Langum; Liz Herbert McAvoy; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English literature; narratology; Middle English; Julian of Norwich; medieval literature; women s writing; engelska; English; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study offers a narrative comparison of A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love, the two texts created by the first known English woman writer, Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 – c. 1416). READ MORE

  6. 4. Higher Education for Girls in North American College Fiction 1886-1912

    Author : Gunilla Lindgren; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; Vassar College; liberal-arts education for women; Jean Webster; Julia A. Schwartz; Caroline M. Fuller; Helen D. Brown; Alfred Tennyson s The Princess; education in literature; women s higher education in North America; women s education in fiction; college fiction; college girls; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : Twenty years after Vassar College welcomed the first American female undergraduates in 1865, the experiences of women college students began to be fictionalized in so-called college stories. This thesis shows how higher education is presented in the novels, collections of short stories, and serialized stories for female readers published before the United States was involved in the First World War. READ MORE

  7. 5. Veils of Irony : The Development of Narrative Technique in Women's Novels of  the 1790s

    Author : Anna Uddén; Monica Correa Fryckstedt; Gary Kelly; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jane West; Charlotte Smith; Anna Maria Bennett; Jane Austen; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

    Abstract : Innovation in literary history may originate in minor as well as major novelists of the past. This study evaluates the contribution to literary history made by three unknown English women writers: Jane West, Charlotte Smith and Anna Maria Bennett. READ MORE