Search for dissertations about: "Imagery writing"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words Imagery writing.

  2. 1. Vonnegut's duty-dance with death-theme and structure in Slaughterhouse-five

    Author : Monica Loeb; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Didactic purpose; theme; structure; point of view; characterization; use of sources; imagery;

    Abstract : The influence of Vonnegut’s didactic purpose of writing on the treatment of theme  and structure in Slaughterhouse-Five is investigated in this study. The following  elements of structure are studied: point of view, the treatment of time, characterization,  the use of other sources, and imagery. READ MORE

  4. 2. "A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic" : Angela Carter and Surrealism

    Author : Anna Watz; Sara Danius; Stephen Donovan; Sarah Gamble; Lusty Natalya; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Angela Carter; surrealism; Xavière Gauthier; André Breton; feminism; avant-garde; psychoanalysis; eroticism; representations of women;

    Abstract : This study examines the intersection of surrealism and feminism in the writing of Angela Carter. Tracing the full extent to which Carter’s writing was influenced by surrealist aesthetics and politics, it reveals the way in which her growing discontent with the movement’s gender politics gave critical content to her own feminist poetics. READ MORE

  5. 3. Childhood Without Children : Ian McEwan and the Critical Study of the Child

    Author : Katherina Dodou; Sara Danius; Jakob Lothe; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; representations of childhood in fiction; Ian McEwan; childhood studies; figuration; the British novel; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This study has a twofold ambition. First, it offers a new perspective on Ian McEwan’s works by focusing on his treatment of childhood. Second, by using McEwan’s writing as an example, it seeks to challenge the current critical preoccupation with childhood in the novel in terms solely of child characters. READ MORE

  6. 4. Flannery O'Connor's View of the Modern Alienation from Sacramental Religion

    Author : Inger B Törnqvist; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; secular humanism; Social Darwinism; Progressivism; Southern literature; natural theology; Southern Protestant fundamentalism; “Americanism Debate“; modern gnosticism; gnostic; Jansenism; Neoscholasticism; American Catholicism; Sacramental religion; O’Connor; Joyce; psychology; sociology; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia;

    Abstract : Mary Flannery O’Connor (1925-64) was born in Savannah, Georgia as the only child of the American Irish Catholics Edward Francis O’Connor, Jr. and Regina Cline O’Connor. In 1952 her first novel Wise Blood, in 1955 the short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and in 1960 her second novel, The Violent Bear It Away were published. READ MORE

  7. 5. Modern Media, Modern Audiences : Mass Media and Social Engineering in the 1930s Swedish Welfare State

    Author : Ylva Habel; Soveig Julich; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Visuell kultur; urbanitet; kvinnor; mediehistoria; reception; välfärdsstaten; Film; Filmvetenskap; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

    Abstract : The dissertation straddles the interface of mass media, social engineering and advertising in 1930s Stockholm. Its twofold objective is firstly to outline their cultural output, targeting predominantly feminine audiences. READ MORE