Search for dissertations about: "Russian literature"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 61 swedish dissertations containing the words Russian literature.

2. 1. Shakespeare's sonnets in Russian : the challenge of translation

   Author : Elena Rassokhina; Per Ambrosiani; Berit Åström; Andrei Rogatchevski; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Shakespeare; translation; sonnets; Russian; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets have become the interest of several generations of Russian translators. Overall, after their first appearance in the middle of the nineteenth century, at least thirty-five Russian translations of the complete sonnet collection have been produced so far, though mostly during the last three decades. READ MORE

4. 2. Phantoms of a Future Past : A Study of Contemporary Russian Anti-Utopian Novels

   Author : Mattias Ågren; Anna Ljunggren; Per-Arne Bodin; Tetsuo Mochizuki; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Russian literature; utopia; anti-utopia; dystopia; metanarrative; satire; parody; Tatyana Tolstaya; Viktor Pelevin; Vladimir Sorokin. Russia; Russian Federation; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to study the evolution of the Russian anti-utopian literary genre in the new post-Soviet environment in the wake of the defunct Soviet socialist utopia. The genre has gained a renewed importance during the 2000s, and has been used variously as a means of dealing satirically with the Soviet past, of understanding the present, and of pondering possible courses into the future for the Russian Federation. READ MORE

5. 3. Rendering the Sublime : A Reading of Marina Tsvetaeva's Fairy-Tale Poem The Swain

   Author : Tora Lane; Anna Ljunggren; Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback; Aleksander Dolinin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Russian Literature; Modernism; Marina Tsvetaeva; Poetry; Molodets; Folkloric; Fairy Tale; Performance; Sublime; Presentation; Russian language; Ryska språket; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Abstract : The present study is a reading of the folkloric fairy-tale poem The Swain (Mólodets) (1924) by the Russian Modernist poet Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941).The poem represents a high point in Tsvetaeva’s experiments with Russian folk art, and it is thoroughly folkloric in its theme, forms of writing and poetic language. READ MORE

6. 4. Beyond the noise of time : readings of Marina Tsvetaeva’s memories of childhood

   Author : Karin Grelz; Peter Alberg Jensen; Lars Kleberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Russian literature; Tsvetaeva; childhood; Pasternak; Rilke; aesthetics; symbolism; memories; Russian language; Ryska språket;

   Abstract : Although quite a few researchers have pointed to the significance of the childhood theme in Tsvetaeva’s work, no systematic analysis of her work has been done from this perspective. Nor have her childhood reminiscences been treated as a thematically consistent whole, but have rather been read as instances of the poet’s prose in general. READ MORE

7. 5. The Acquisition of Russian in a Language Contact Situation : A Case Study of a Bilingual Child in Sweden

   Author : Natalia Ringblom; Milan Bily; Stella Ceytlin; Maria Voeikova; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Language acquisition; childhood bilingualism; bilingual first language acquisition; language contact; language separation; input; dominance; mother tongue; Russian; Swedish; weaker language; Sweden; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Abstract : This case study investigates the acquisition of Russian in a language contact situation. It examines a simultaneous Swedish-Russian bilingual child born and raised in Sweden. Qualitative analysis is provided from age 1;4 to 8;5 focusing especially on the earliest stages (before the end of the critical period at 4;5). READ MORE