Search for dissertations about: "Modern Literature"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 343 swedish dissertations containing the words Modern Literature.

  2. 21. In Memory of Narcissus : Aspects of the Late-Modern Subject in the Narcissus Theme 1890-1930

    Author : Niclas Johansson; Torsten Pettersson; Björn Sundberg; Carin Franzén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Narcissus; subject; selfhoood; modernity; myth; intertextuality; cultural semiotics; Juri Lotman; Renate Lachmann; André Gide; Hermann Hesse; Havelock Ellis; Isidor Sadger; Otto Rank; Sigmund Freud; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

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  4. 22. The Victorian Governess Novel

    Author : Cecilia Wadsö-Lecaros; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Victorian governess; didactic fiction; education in literature; women and work in the nineteenth century; nineteenth-century English novel; marginalisation of women; female education in the nineteenth century; English language and literature; governesses in literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the Victorian governess novel as a specific genre. A comprehensive set of nineteenth-century governess novels has been examined in relation to contemporary non-fictional sources dealing with governess work and female education. READ MORE

  5. 23. The Fallen World in Coleridge’s Poetry

    Author : Agneta Lindgren; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; biblical associations; biblical imagery in poetry; Romantic literary theory; the Fallen World; religion in seventeenth-century poetry; Paradise Lost; Milton; Christianity and literature; Coleridge; religion in Romantic poetry; typology in literature; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : This study examines the motif of the Fallen World in Coleridge’s major poems The Ancient Mariner, Christabel and Kubla Khan . The use of Milton’s Paradise Lost as an intertextual foil throughout allows themes and metaphors inherent in the Fallen World motif to emerge in Coleridge’s poetry. READ MORE

  6. 24. The Order and the Archive : Freemasonic Archival Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe

    Author : Tim Berndtsson; Otto Fischer; Ann Öhrberg; Henrik Bogdan; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; masonry; archival history; archival theory; the Swedish Order of Freemasons; the Order of the Strict Observance; esotericism; eighteenth-century literature; frimureri; arkivhistoria; arkivteori; Svenska Frimurare Orden; Strikta Observansen; esoterik; sjutttonhundratalslitteratur; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study explores how eighteenth-century European Masons created archives, and how these archives in turn created Masons. It is an exploration of how a masonic archival culture was formed, and how different ideas, hopes, and anxieties were co-produced along with the records and manuscripts kept by masonic associations. READ MORE

  7. 25. Images of an Empire : Chinese Geography Textbooks of the Early 20th Century

    Author : Mats Norvenius; Marja Kaikkonen; Marianne Bastid-Bruguière; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; China; modern schools; geography textbooks; national identity; Chinese minorities; Meiji Japan; nationalism; Sinocentrism; Orientalism; social Darwinism; geographical determinism; racism; militarism; constitutional monarchism; Sinology; sinologi;

    Abstract : In 1901 the Qing regime, in power 1644-1911, took wide-ranging measures to reform the Chinese Empire. Fundamental changes were carried out within the field of education, resulting in the completion of China’s first modern educational system in 1904. READ MORE