Search for dissertations about: "Anna Swärdh"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Anna Swärdh.

  2. 1. Rape and Religion in English Renaissance Literature : A Topical Study of Four Texts by Shakespeare, Drayton, and Middleton

    Author : Anna Swärdh; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English; Engelska;

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  4. 2. Rape and Religion in English Renaissance Literature : A Topical Study of Four Texts by Shakespeare, Drayton, and Middleton

    Author : Anna Swärdh; Monica Fryckstedt; Michael Srigley; Marcus Nordlund; John Roe; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; William Shakespeare; Michael Drayton; Thomas Middleton; Robert Southwell; Titus Andronicus; The Rape of Lucrece; Matilda; The Ghost of Lucrece; complaint poetry; Reformation; Counter-Reformation; idolatry; iconoclasm; baroque; poery of tears; rape; rape legislation; Anne Bellamy; Richard Topcliffe; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This study argues that Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus (1594) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594), Michael Drayton’s Matilda (1594) and Thomas Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece (1600) are, in ways hitherto not realised, topically concerned with the religious controversies in the wake of the English Reformation. This concern is discussed on a general level of interest related to religious attitudes and practices significant at the time of writing, and on a specific level pertaining to events surrounding the capture of the Jesuit poet Robert Southwell in 1592, which included the rape or seduction of a Catholic woman. READ MORE

  5. 3. Biblical Allusion in Three Charles Dickens Condition-of-England Novels

    Author : Yuanyuan Zhu; Åke Bergvall; Anna Swärdh; Dominic Rainsford; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; biblical allusion; Charles Dickens; Condition-of-England novels; social critique; satire; Bleak House; Hard Times; Little Dorrit; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This study investigates how Charles Dickens employs biblical allusion in three Condition-of-England novels: Bleak House (1852–53), Hard Times (1854), and Little Dorrit (1855–57). Drawing on the concepts of dialogism and stratification defined by M. M. Bakhtin and rhetorical situation by Lloyd F. READ MORE