Search for dissertations about: "London in literature"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the words London in literature.

2. 1. “The Pathos of Past Time” : Nostalgia in Anglo-Arab Literature

   Author : Tasnim Qutait; Robert Appelbaum; Gail Ramsay; Ashleigh Harris; Waïl Hassan; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Anglophone Arab literature; Arabic literature; nostalgia; diaspora; postcolonialism; memory studies; عربٌ يكتبون بالإنجليزية، الأدب العربي، الحنين، المنفى، ما بعد الاستعمارية، دراسات الذاكرة; English; Engelska; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Semitic Languages; Semitiska språk;

   Abstract : This study explores the theme of nostalgia in contemporary Anglo-Arab literature from the 1990s to the present. Examining the implications of nostalgic tropes in Anglophone novels by Arab writers, the study makes the case that nostalgia is a key strategy used by these writers in their critical engagement with national historiographies and diasporic identities. READ MORE

4. 2. The Margins of Writing: A Study of Arthur Machen and the Literary Field of the 1890s

   Author : Sara Bjärstorp; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; aesthetics of failure; sociology of literature; the unspeakable; London in literature; the city in literature; Pierre Bourdieu; decadence; horror; Arthur Machen; fin-de-siècle; Allmän och jämförande litteraturvetenskap; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to analyse the early writings of Arthur Machen (1863?1947) by focusing on three aspects of literary production: the field, the author, and the text. In all these aspects position-takings in the field, the construction of an author's identity, and textual production ? Machen's early career is informed by a particular and idiosyncratic notion of aesthetic creation, referred to in this study as the "aesthetics of failure". READ MORE

5. 3. From Putsch to Purge. A Study of the German Episodes in Richard Hughes’s The Human Predicament and their Sources

   Author : Ivo Holmqvist; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Weimar Republic; Documentary novel; English historical fiction; The Wooden Shepherdess; The Fox in the Attic; 1900-1976; Hughes; Richard; Rise of Nazism; Hitler portraits in literature; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Abstract : The two last novels by Richard Hughes (1900-1976), the first in his planned The Human Predicament series, are partly set in Germany in the years between the First and the Second World War. Much of the action in The Fox in the Attic (1961) takes part in and around Munich, culminating in a fictional reconstruction of the so-called Hitler Putsch on November 8-9, 1923, the future dictator's aborted early bid for power. READ MORE

6. 4. Rhythm in late-modern Stockholm : Social stratification and stylistic variation in the speech of men

   Author : Nathan Joel Young; Devyani Sharma; Erez Levon; Paul Kerswill; Nicolai Pharao; United Kingdom University of London Queen Mary; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Rinkeby Swedish; Speech Rhythm; nPVI; multiethnolect; sociophonetics; Phonetics; fonetik;

   Abstract : Denna avhandling visar att talrytm är socialt stratifierad i vardagsspråket hos män i Stockholm. Som ett symboliskt centrum för många senmoderna sociala förändringar är Stockholm också hemvist för Europas ”första” multietnolekt (rinkebysvenska, Kotsinas 1988a). READ MORE

7. 5. Imagining a Place in Nature: Using Evolution to Explain the Early Evolutionary Imagination in Literature

   Author : Emelie Jonsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Victorian literature; Darwinism; evolutionary humanities; naturalistic cosmology; two cultures; mythology;

   Abstract : After Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, Victorian literature overflowed with images of man’s new place in nature. Those images can be explained by modern research that builds on Darwin’s theory: the evolutionary social sciences and evolutionary literary theory. READ MORE