Search for dissertations about: "Carin Franzén"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Carin Franzén.
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1. Collaborating with Gertrude Stein : Media ecologies, reception, poetics
Abstract : The reception of the American avant-garde poet, playwright, art collector and salon hostess Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) has to a wide extent taken place in an aesthetic context prior to her work’s academic and hermeneutic canonization. This thesis is in part a mapping of this transmedia reception as it is played out in a North American context in the period from her death and until today, and in part an account of Stein’s particular collaborative poetics, through which her work invites such a reception. READ MORE
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2. In Memory of Narcissus : Aspects of the Late-Modern Subject in the Narcissus Theme 1890-1930
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3. “Swarming European Consciousness” : Europe and Tradition in the Work of William Carlos Williams
Abstract : This study focuses on how the American poet William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) deals with Europe and tradition in works published between 1917 and 1928 and in unpublished material from the same period. Poems from Al Que Quiere! (1917), Sour Grapes (1921), Kora in Hell (1920) and Spring and All (1923) as well as The Great American Novel (1923) and A Voyage to Pagany (1928) constitute the core of the material. READ MORE
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4. The Taming of a Viking : August Strindberg, Translation and Post-Victorian Censorship
Abstract : This dissertation studies August Strindberg’s two-volume collection of short stories, Giftas (1884, 1886) and its first English translation, Ellie Schleussner’s Married (1913). The purpose is to demonstrate that Married deviates from the original in many ways, primarily on the very aspects that were generally associated with the work. READ MORE
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5. Her Story in Partonopeu de Blois : Rereading Byzantine Relations
Abstract : This thesis investigates the twelfth-century Old French anonymous romance Partonopeu de Blois in relation to the Greek novel tradition and the Byzantine world. The study focuses on the erotic narrative in the romance and articulations of feminine subjectivity. READ MORE