Search for dissertations about: "Romance languages - general"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words Romance languages - general.

2. 1. Romance revived : postmodern romances and the tradition

   Author : Heidi Hansson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; romance; postmodernism; dialogue; feminism; intertextuality; destabilised text; cyclical time; critical return; uncertain gender-construction;

   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

4. 2. La Constellation de Thespis. Pr�sence du th��tre et dimension m�tath��trale dans l??uvre dramatique de Victor Hugo

   Author : Sylviane Robardey-Eppstein; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Victor Hugo; métathéâtre; théâtralité; didascalies; grotesque; theatrum mundi; théâtre dans le théâtre; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Theatre; Teatervetenskap; Romance languages;

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5. 3. Identity through the other : Canadian adventure romance for adolescents

   Author : Clarence Larsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adventure romance; quest for identity; unit of the monomyth; Canadian North; polarized worlds; myths; first and second-order system; psychological discourse; cultural critique; vicarious rite of passage; Hughes; Monica Hughes; Houston; James Houston; Markoosie; Kanadensisk barn- och ungdomslitteratur; Kanadensiska äventyrsromaner; historia;

   Abstract : This study of Canadian adventure romance for adolescents seeks to demonstrate the cultural significance of the genre through close readings of James Houston's Frozen Fire and The White Archer, Monica Hughes's Hunter in the Dark and Ring-Rise, Ring-Set, as well as Markoosie's Harpoon of the Hunter. By means of a semiotic-structuralist approach I examine the texts as a signifying system conveying discourses that constitute a code of connection to the social context of contemporary young-adult readers. READ MORE

6. 4. Äventyrets tid : den sociala äventyrsromanen i Sverige 1841-1859

   Author : Anders Öhman; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; social-adventure novel; popular literature; romance; history of the novel; the study of plot; Mikhail Bakhtin; Carl Fredrik Ridderstad; Viktor Rydberg; Carl Jonas Love Almqvist;

   Abstract : The subject of this thesis is the social-adventure novel which was popular in the 1840s and early 1850s in Sweden. In contrast to literary critics who have tended to regard the thrilling plot of the genre as merely a way of creating effects, I try to analyze the plot as a bearer of both meaning and ideology. READ MORE

7. 5. Learning aspect in Italian as a third language : Transfer patterns among multilingual learners in the Swedish context

   Author : Francesco Vallerossa; Camilla Bardel; Anna Bergström; Anna Gudmundson; Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; conceptual linguistic transfer; L3 Italian; non- prototypical associations; Romance; tense-aspect; third language acquisition; språkdidaktik; Language Education;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the impact of previously acquired or learned background languages (BL) on the learning of Italian as a third language (L3) among undergraduate students in the Swedish context. Focusing on the learning of past tense-aspect (TA) inflectional categories in Italian, the thesis investigates the influence of Swedish, English and Romance languages, French or Spanish, in light of four factors. READ MORE