Search for dissertations about: "French literature"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 44 swedish dissertations containing the words French literature.

  2. 6. Alain Robbe-Grillet. Les Sables mouvants du texte

    Author : Véronique Simon; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Franska; French;

    Abstract : Alain Robbe-Grillet is often regarded as the leader of the French New Novel, a 20th century literary movement breaking with literary realism. A former scientist, Robbe-Grillet invents a new Real, where imagination, memories, fantasies and dreams are given a power somehow superior to that of tangible reality. READ MORE

  4. 7. Malory and Authorship: A Study of an Irresolvable Debate

    Author : Marie Wallin; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; medieval literature; Eugène Vinaver; C.S. Lewis; textual criticism; Arthurian literature; Sir Thomas Malory; Le Morte Darthur; William Caxton; authorship;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the scholarly study of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, especially the way in which the field has been shaped by the discovery of the Winchester MS in 1934. Owing to the complex relationship between the manuscript and the printed edition of 1485, both contradictory and co-dependent, Le Morte seems to invite a number of narratives regarding its origins and originality while simultaneously foreclosing definitive resolution. READ MORE

  5. 8. An Inquiry into Cultural Semiotics: Germaine de Staël's Autobiographical Travel Accounts

    Author : Anna Cabak Rédei; Kognitiv semiotik; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Phenomenological sociology; Fenomenologi; Contemporary history circa 1800 to 1914 ; Phenomenology; Humanities; Parisian salons; Humaniora; Fransk litteratur; Germaine de Staël; Cultural semiotics; Autobiographical travel accounts; French literature; Modern historia ca. 1800-1914 ;

    Abstract : Cultural semiotics studies encounters between cultures. Notions such as Culture, Extra-culture and Non-culture were developed in the 1970s by the Tartu school and were used in their studies of Russian culture and its relation to Western Europe, with special focus on Peter the Great's attempt to Westernize Russia in the eighteenth century. READ MORE

  6. 9. The Narcissus Theme from Fin de Siècle to Psychoanalysis : Crisis of the Modern Self

    Author : Niclas Johansson; Torsten Pettersson; Björn Sundberg; Bo Hakon Jørgensen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Narcissus; narcissism; Symbolism; decadence; psychoanalysis; selfhood; subjectivity; modernity; Sigmund Freud; Oscar Wilde; André Gide; Paul Valéry; Leopold Andrian; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation is an intertextual-thematological investigation of the Narcissus theme at the turn of the century 1900. It focuses primarily on French-, German-, and English-language decadent and Symbolist literature from the 1890s and early 1900s, as well as on early sexology and psychoanalysis. READ MORE

  7. 10. Gesture as a Communication Strategy in Second Language Discourse : A Study of Learners of French and Swedish

    Author : Marianne Gullberg; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; second language acquisition; communication strategies; applied linguistics; gestures; Lingvistik; Linguistics; French; Swedish;

    Abstract : Gesture is always mentioned in descriptions of compensatory behaviour in second language discourse, yet it has never been adequately integrated into any theory of Communication Strategies (CSs). This study suggests a method for achieving such an integration. READ MORE