Search for dissertations about: "Danuta Fjellestad"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words Danuta Fjellestad.

2. 6. Enchanting Irruptions : Wonder, Noir, and the Environmental Imaginary

   Author : Ryan Palmer; David Watson; Danuta Fjellestad; Michael Lundblad; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ecocriticism; ecofiction; re-enchantment; wonder; disenchantment; noir; environmental ethics; climate change; affect; environmental justice; Thomas Pynchon; Lydia Millet; Karen Tei Yamashita; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates narratives of re-enchantment and disenchantment in three contemporary U.S. novels, Lydia Millet’s Mermaids in Paradise, Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, and Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice. READ MORE

4. 7. From Frontline to Homefront : The Global Homeland in Contemporary U.S. War Fiction

   Author : Kristen Rau; David Watson; Danuta Fjellestad; Caren Irr; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Global Homeland; derealized warfare; direct warfare; military-civilian relations; sanitization of warfare; state fantasy; War on Terror; War on Terror fiction; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : Criticized for providing a simplified depiction of a post-9/11 United States, contemporary American “War on Terror” fiction has been largely neglected by critical discourse. In this dissertation, I argue that this fiction offers a vital engagement with how the War on Terror is waged, and how the fantasies and policies of the Global Homeland inform it. READ MORE

5. 8. Immanence and transcendence in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon : a phenomenological study

   Author : Joakim Sigvardson; Danuta Fjellestad; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : Thomas Pynchon; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : The investigation studies Thomas Pynchon’s givenness in terms of three strata of manifestation: the arty, the rhizomatic, and the acosmic.Utilizing a new affective turn implemented within the phenomenological movement by Michel Henry, the study proposes that alongside a rhizomatic mode of accessibility promoting transcendence, investigates the manifestation of this ontological withholding by carrying out the phenomenological reduction established by Edmund Husserl, and by elucidating the phenomenon of immanence in the literary text by means of a theory of auto-affection rooted in—but not reducible to—such methodological reduction. READ MORE

6. 9. 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. 10. On the Boundaries of Watchmen : Paratextual Narratives across Media

   Author : Peter Waites; Danuta Fjellestad; David Watson; Michael Joyce; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Paratexts; Watchmen; comics; graphic novels; transmedia storytelling; media franchising; new media; adaptation.; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : This dissertation is an intervention into the ongoing revisions of Gerard Genette’s concept of paratexts. Increasingly used in discussions of artifacts other than the literary novels that were Genette’s object of attention, the concept of paratexts has given rise to intense debates regarding the nature and functions of paratextual elements across media. READ MORE