Search for dissertations about: "Literary parody"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words Literary parody.
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1. Veils of irony : The development of narrative technique in women's novels of the 1790s
Abstract : This thesis situates the innovations of three English novels from the 1790s by three relatively unknown women writers, Jane West, Charlotte Smith, and Anna Maria Bennett, against the background of a literary climate characterised by highly conventional forms of fiction in either sentimental or satiric modes. Their innovations consisted in the fashioning of parodic forms that would balance emotionality with irony. READ MORE
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2. "Frightened by a Word" : Shirley Jackson and Lesbian Gothic
Abstract : This study examines representations and configurations of lesbianism in literary narrative and, in particular, three novels by American author Shirley Jackson (1916-1965). As recent scholarly work has demonstrated, representations of sexuality between women in literature tend toward the ghostly, the Gothic. READ MORE
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3. Phantoms of a Future Past : A Study of Contemporary Russian Anti-Utopian Novels
Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to study the evolution of the Russian anti-utopian literary genre in the new post-Soviet environment in the wake of the defunct Soviet socialist utopia. The genre has gained a renewed importance during the 2000s, and has been used variously as a means of dealing satirically with the Soviet past, of understanding the present, and of pondering possible courses into the future for the Russian Federation. READ MORE
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4. Romance revived : postmodern romances and the tradition
Abstract : This is the first study to identify and analyse postmodern romances as a new development of the romance and to relate this late twentieth-century subgenre to its tradition. Based on a selection of works published between 1969 and 1994, by A. S. READ MORE
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5. Storming the Sadeian Citadel : Disturbing Gender in Angela Carter's Fiction of Transition
Abstract : This study demonstrates how Angela Carter’s textual contention with the works of the Marquis de Sade forms an interstice, chronologically, thematically and narratively, between the early and late works in Carter’s oeuvre. This period of fictional transition and unrest is exemplified byThe Sadeian phase in Carter’s writing can be seen as part of a feminist project. READ MORE