Search for dissertations about: "Slavic languages"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the words Slavic languages.
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6. Support, resistance and pragmatism : An examination of motivation in language policy in Kharkiv, Ukraine
Abstract : The Ukrainian society has gone through vast changes since independence in 1991 and in this thesis some of these social changes are discussed through the prism of language policy. The main topic of the study is language policy (conceptualised as language practices, language beliefs, and language management) in the eastern Ukrainian city Kharkiv. READ MORE
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7. Polska socrealistyczna krytyka literacka jako narzedzie wladzy
Abstract : In the dissertation I analyze the relationship between Socialist Realism (SR) and literarycriticism in Poland during the years 1945-54. I suggest that literary criticism played akey role in promoting SR. SR was possible partly because of political pressure andpartly because it built on progressive ideas and values developed over the centuries. READ MORE
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8. Hamlet the Sign : Russian Translations of Hamlet and Literary Canon Formation
Abstract : This work is an attempt to answer one simple question: What is Hamlet? Based on the material of Hamlet translations into Russian, the dissertation scrutinizes the problems of literary canon formation, translation and textuality proceeding in two parallel directions: the historical analysis of canon formation in translation and the conceptualization of Hamlet’s textuality. The methodological framework is defined in the context of Jurij Lotman’s semiotics of culture, which is invaluable for an understanding of the mechanisms of literary evolution, the theory of translation and literary canon formation. READ MORE
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9. We Call upon the Author : Contemporary Biofiction and Fyodor Dostoevsky
Abstract : This thesis studies fictional representations of Fyodor Dostoevsky in contemporary biofiction. The aim of the study is to present an intermedial theoretical framework for biofiction, a genre defined as fictional biographical and often metafictional narratives in which a biographical subject serves as the focal point for the story or plays a role integral to the narrative. READ MORE
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10. The Burning Word : History and Myth in Maximilian Voloshin's Neopalimaia Kupina
Abstract : The book Neopalimaia Kupina: stikhi o voine i revoliutsii (The Burning Bush: Poems about War and Revolution) by Maximilian Voloshin (1877–1932) depicts the revolutionary period in Russia. This dissertation analyzes the work’s composition, showing how it was shaped and reshaped in response to the dramatic events of the first two and a half decades of the twentieth century, and how it remains open and mirrors the ongoing development of history. READ MORE