Search for dissertations about: "Haunting"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the word Haunting.

2. 1. Reciprocal Haunting : Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy

   Author : Karen Patrick Knutsen; Mark Troy; Maria Holmgren Troy; Sharon Monteith; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pat Barker; The Regeneration Trilogy; Michel Foucault; Mikhail Bakhtin; Raymond Williams; Cultural Materialism; New Historicism; shell shock; psychoanalysis; British literature 1900-1999; class; gender; psychology; discourse; cultural trauma; dialogue; dialogism; power knowledge; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : Pat Barker’s fictional account of the Great War, The Regeneration Trilogy, completed in 1995, is considered to be her most important work to date and has captured the imagination of the reading public as well as attracting considerable scholarly attention. Although the trilogy appears to be written in the realistic style of the traditional historical novel, Barker approaches the past with certain preoccupations from 1990s Britain and rewrites the past as seen through these contemporary lenses. READ MORE

4. 2. From Words to Voids : Absencing and Haunting in Crimean Semiotic Landscapes

   Author : Natalia Volvach; Christopher Stroud; Caroline Kerfoot; Brigitta Busch; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; semiotic landscapes; linguistic landscapes; multilingualism; bilingualism; indexicality; semiosis; materiality; Linguistic Citizenship; in visibility; erasure; resemiotization; absence; trace; ghost; spectre; haunting; interdiscursivity; Crimea; Ukraine; tvåspråkighet; Bilingualism;

   Abstract : This thesis seeks to contribute to the body of ethnographically-oriented semiotic landscape research by addressing linguistic and non-linguistic signs in the landscapes of contemporary Crimea. It is based on research conducted in the region back in 2017 and 2019 after the Russian annexation but before the full-scale war against Ukraine, which started on 24 February 2022. READ MORE

5. 3. "I am walking in my city" : The Production of Locality in Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege, Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay, and Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song

   Author : Anna Stibe; Åke Bergvall; Mark Troy; Nahem Yousaf; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arjun Appadurai; Githa Hariharan; Vikram Chandra; Amit Chaudhuri; the production of locality; work of the imagination; agency; haunting; storytelling; secularism; Indian English literature; cities.; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : At the center of this study are three Indian novels with an urban setting and dealing with political and social issues of the 1990s: Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege (2003), Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay (1997) and Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song (1998). The Delhi of In Times of Siege is portrayed as a city infused with power but haunted by a troubled past that is brought to the present by a dissenting professor of history. READ MORE

6. 4. The Horror-Storied Prison : A Narrative Study of Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution

   Author : Tea Fredriksson; Magnus Hörnqvist; Ingrid Lander; Michael Fiddler; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Abject; Uncanny; Haunting; Monstrous-feminine; Prison Studies; Narrative Criminology; kriminologi; Criminology;

   Abstract : In terms of time as well as in terms of depth, prison is a storied institution. Many-layered tales have been told about it since its inception. A prominent theme of these stories is how they configure belonging and otherness through horror-iconography. READ MORE

7. 5. This Untethered Buffoon or the Trickster in Everything

   Author : Stacey Sacks; Kristina Hagström-Ståhl; Rebecca Hilton; Karmenlara Ely; Stockholms konstnärliga högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; clowning; haunting; decolonial; vivisection of W w hiteness; privilege; mask; trickster; humour; queer; ancestry; auto-ethnography; animation; softness; sculpting; discomfort; transformation; fragility; anxiety; shitfuck; porosity; intimacy; parody; satire; buffoon; listening; entanglement; embodiment; discursivity; impressibility; character; body; clowter; sensitivity; malleability; plasticity; complicity; with-nessing; narrowcasting; absurdity; race; decomposition; hospitality; bafflement.; Performativa och mediala praktiker; med inriktning mot film och media koreografi opera scen; Performative and mediated practices; with specializations in choreography film and media opera performing arts;

   Abstract : This Untethered Buffoon or the Trickster in Everything is a documented artistic research project (Doctoral Thesis) in Performative and Mediated Practices, comprising a series of excavations and vivisections of W(w)hiteness through clowning, making and thinging. This work/play traverses the fields of critical whiteness studies, performance and clowning, visual and cultural anthropology and decolonial critique. READ MORE