Search for dissertations about: "Modernism in literature"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the words Modernism in literature.

2. 11. Interpretive Skepticism : Stanley Cavell, New Criticism, and Literary Interpretation

   Author : Ingeborg Löfgren; Torsten Pettersson; Patrik Mehrens; Niklas Forsberg; Toril Moi; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; interpretive skepticism; aesthetic skepticism; poetic skepticism; literary interpretation; interpretive theory; skepticism; Stanley Cavell; New Criticism; Cleanth Brooks; Monroe C. Beardsley; fraudulence; modernism; escape to theory; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores and analyzes interpretive skepticism in literary theory. It argues that traditional interpretive theories and debates often harbor unacknowledged forms of skeptical thinking and arguments. As these forms of skepticism are seldom recognized as skepticism, the problem tends to remain hidden and unresolved. READ MORE

4. 12. Stroke Darkly the Strings : On Paul Celan and Music

   Author : Axel Englund; Anders Olsson; Jacob Derkert; Martin Zenck; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Paul Celan; music; poetry; intermediality; metaphor; modernism; Jörg Birkenkötter; Harrison Birtwistle; György Kurtág; Erhard Karkoschka; Tilo Medek; Aribert Reimann; Wolfgang Rihm; Peter Ruzicka; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to disclose the oeuvre of the German-Romanian Holocaust survivor Paul Celan as a site of problematic yet productive encounters between poetry and music. It addresses, on the one hand, music as a thematic and structural element in Celan’s poetry and, on the other hand, contemporary musical works interacting with this poetry. READ MORE

5. 13. Passage to a new wor(l)d : Exile and restoration in Mahmoud Darwish's writings 1960-1995

   Author : Anette Månsson; Bo Isaksson; Witold Witakowski; Tetz Rooke; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arabic language; Mahmoud Darwish; Palestinian literature; Exile and literature; Biblical motives in literature; Rite of passage; Arabiska; Arabic language; Arabiska; semitiska språk; Semitic Languages;

   Abstract : This study focuses on developments of the exile motive in the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s writings 1960-1995. The sources consist primarily of Darwish’s diwans of poetry and articles published in literary magazines. READ MORE

6. 14. Dylan Thomas's Poetics of Embodiment

   Author : Anne Päivärinta; Finland University of Tampere; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Conceptual Metaphor Theory; cognitive poetics; embodiment; stylistics; Modernism; Comparative literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : The dissertation explores the structure and functions of embodied metaphors in Dylan Thomas’s (1914–1953) works. It aims to show that embodiment defines Thomas’s writing both stylistically and thematically, and that Thomas’s body metaphors are essentially founded on the biblical myths of creation and the Fall. READ MORE

7. 15. Silent Modernism : Soundscapes and the Unsayable in Richardson, Joyce, and Woolf

   Author : Annika Lindskog; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; silence; modernist fiction; realism; the unsayable; soundscapes; Dorothy Richardson; Virginia Woolf; James Joyce;

   Abstract : This thesis examines silence in modernist fiction, explaining how it forms a central aspect of realism in the modernist novel. It is based on close readings of the form and function of silence in the works of Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. READ MORE