Search for dissertations about: "Literary development"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 57 swedish dissertations containing the words Literary development.

  2. 16. Outsiders and Others : Queer Friendships in Novels by Hermann Hesse

    Author : Oscar von Seth; Claudia Lindén; Jack Halberstam; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hermann Hesse; Peter Camenzind; Der Steppenwolf; outsiderness; otherness; queer friendship; homoeroticism; nonconformism; homosexuality; bisexuality; Bildungsroman; romantic friendship; heterosexual ambivalence; disability; animality; gender; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores how characters who embody outsiderness and/or otherness intersect with and connote queerness—such as, for instance, homoeroticism and nonconformism—in the novels Peter Camenzind (1904) and Der Steppenwolf (1927) by German-language author Hermann Hesse (1877–1962).In most of Hesse’s novels, the narrative revolves around a male protagonist who is characterized as an outsider. READ MORE

  4. 17. Seven Senses of the City : Urban Spacetime and Sensory Memory in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction

    Author : Astrid Møller-Olsen; Kinesiska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary sensory studies; sensory studies; urban fiction; senses; Sinophone fiction; comparative literature; Chinese literature; Taipei; Hong Kong; Shanghai; literary studies; spacetime; spatiality; narratology; rhythmanalysis;

    Abstract : The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the narrative mechanisms and imagery that fictional works employ to conceptualize and communicate complex human experiences of space, time and memory. Furthermore, this study shows how contemporary cities change the way we think about such basic concepts by analyzing narratives that employ and encourage multisensory, spatiotemporal understandings of reality characterized by permeable boundaries between the material, social and imaginary domains. READ MORE

  5. 18. Making Plans - Telling Stories : Planning in Karlskrona/Sweden 1980 - 2010

    Author : Mareile Walter; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Urban planning; spatial planning; comprehensive plans; narratives; narrative analysis; Karlskrona; urban transformation; neoliberal development;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to understand how a repertoire of municipal planning narratives evolved and how these were used as a means to explain, legitimise and produce change in a city that went through a process of urban transformation. The focus is set on the role of narratives in municipal plans as a mental preparation for change. READ MORE

  6. 19. On the development of the present active participle in Bulgarian

    Author : Arne Hult; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Active participles; present active participle; past active participle 1; gerund; history of the Bulgarian language; Church Slavonic; Middle Bulgarian;

    Abstract : The purpose of the study is to chronicle the loss and to a certain extent the restoration of the present active participle in Middle Bulgarian. Also problems concerning the past active participle 1 and the question of the gerund are touched upon. READ MORE

  7. 20. "There's a bad time coming" : Ecological Vision in the Fiction of D. H. Lawrence

    Author : Anne Odenbring Ehlert; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Lawrence; D. H. 1885-1930 ; social criticism; literature and the environment; ecocriticism; literary ecology; ecological philosophy; holism; biocentrism; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This study aims to shed new light on the relation between humankind and nature in D. H. Lawrence's fiction. While this may seem like well-trodden ground in Lawrence criticism, my reading is ecocritical and re-examines his texts through the perspective of today's environmental awareness. READ MORE