Search for dissertations about: "Romantic literary theory"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Romantic literary theory.

2. 1. Outsiders and Others : Queer Friendships in Novels by Hermann Hesse

   Author : Oscar von Seth; Claudia Lindén; Jack Halberstam; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hermann Hesse; Peter Camenzind; Der Steppenwolf; outsiderness; otherness; queer friendship; homoeroticism; nonconformism; homosexuality; bisexuality; Bildungsroman; romantic friendship; heterosexual ambivalence; disability; animality; gender; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores how characters who embody outsiderness and/or otherness intersect with and connote queerness—such as, for instance, homoeroticism and nonconformism—in the novels Peter Camenzind (1904) and Der Steppenwolf (1927) by German-language author Hermann Hesse (1877–1962).In most of Hesse’s novels, the narrative revolves around a male protagonist who is characterized as an outsider. READ MORE

4. 2. 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