Search for dissertations about: "Satire"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the word Satire.

  2. 6. 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

  4. 7. Hollywood subversion : American film satire in the 1990s

    Author : Johan Nilsson; Mats Ekström; Mats Jönsson; Erik Hedling; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Film studies; Filmvetenskap;

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  5. 8. Mad Pursuits : Therapeutic Narration in Postwar American Fiction

    Author : Gwendolyn Haevens; David Associate Professor; Leerom Medovoi; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; early postwar American fiction; popular psychoanalysis; narrative therapy; narrative identity; narrative theory; representation of identity; script theory; therapeutic narration; fugitive selves; J.D. Salinger; Ralph Ellison; Sylvia Plath; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : Mad Pursuits: Therapeutic Narration in Postwar American Fiction examines three mid-century American novels—J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963)—in relation to the rise and popularization of psychoanalytic theory in America. READ MORE

  6. 9. Sempronia's Song : Attitudes to Women's Music-making in Ancient Rome

    Author : Erika Lindgren Liljenstolpe; Gunnel Ekroth; Gullög Nordquist; Hillevi Ganetz; Gunhild Vidén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Rome; Roman; Music; Music-making; Women; Gender; Patriarchy; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

    Abstract : This study explores attitudes towards women’s music-making in ancient Rome (c. 120 BC–130 AD), as expressed in love poetry, satire, letters, historiography, biography, rhetoric and philosophy. The texts are studied from an intersectional perspective considering gender, social status, age and ethnicity to explain various attitudes. READ MORE

  7. 10. Veils of irony : The development of narrative technique in women's novels of the 1790s

    Author : Anna Morris; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; West-Jane; Smith-Charlotte; Bennett-Anna-Maria; novel; eighteenth-century; circulating-library; review; parody; irony; free-indirect-discourse; innovation; common-reader; gossip; Quixote; education; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This thesis situates the innovations of three English novels from the 1790s by three relatively unknown women writers, Jane West, Charlotte Smith, and Anna Maria Bennett, against the background of a literary climate characterised by highly conventional forms of fiction in either sentimental or satiric modes. Their innovations consisted in the fashioning of parodic forms that would balance emotionality with irony. READ MORE