Search for dissertations about: "Specific"

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  2. 1. We Call upon the Author : Contemporary Biofiction and Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Author : Henrik Christensen; Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre; Jørgen Bruhn; Susanna Witt; Frederick White; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Biofiction; contemporary biofiction; Fyodor Dostoevsky; biopic; biographical novel; intermediality; transmediality; Zarkhi; Tsypkin; Coetzee; Vapnyar; Khotinenko; différance; ideology; gender; post-colonialism; hyperreality; phenomenology; ethics; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    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

  4. 2. Between Death and Resurrection : Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead on the Eve of the Peasant Emancipation

    Author : Cecilia Dilworth; Anna Ljunggren; Robin Feuer Miller; Philip Bullock; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Fyodor Dostoevsky; House of the Dead; Russian realism; prison literature; emancipation; serfdom; peasant fiction; folk culture; death and resurrection; ambivalence; laughter; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a study of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from the House of the Dead (1860–1862), a semi-documentary rendition of life in a Siberian prison of the 1850s. The work is read against the background of the pivotal historical event coinciding with its writing and publication: the peasant emancipation of 1861. READ MORE

  5. 3. Prisonscape : Literary Reconfigurations of the Real and Imagined Worlds of the Chinese Prison

    Author : Serena De Marchi; Irmy Schweiger; Monika Gänssbauer; Kwok-kan Tam; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Prison; China; Prison Literature; Space; Body; Asiens språk och kulturer; Asian Languages and Cultures;

    Abstract : This study focuses on the prison writings from and about modern China (from the Mao era to the present day). It builds on previous research on Chinese prison camp literature as well as on sociological and historical studies of the evolution of punishments, both within the Chinese context and from a more global perspective. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Woke Franchise : Representing and Co-opting Resistance in Young Adult, Superhero, and Speculative Fiction

    Author : Amélie Hurkens; David Watson; Ashleigh Harris; Paul Crosthwaite; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; identity politics; the publishing industry; popular literary culture; woke capitalism; neoliberalism; racial capitalism; the franchise; blockbusters; awards; YA fiction; superhero fiction; comic books; speculative fiction; science fiction and fantasy; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : In the last decade, U.S. popular literary culture has been under increasing pressure to include more racially and other marginalized groups. READ MORE

  7. 5. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa

    Author : Nicklas Hållen; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Tim Youngs; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel literature; Africa; modernity; materiality; material objects; things; commodity form; commodity culture; postcolonialism; Homi Bhabha; museums; exhibitions; colonialism; geography; space; trade; ethnography; the book; ambivalence; subject-object relations; fetishism; John Speke; Verney Cameron; Henry Stanley; Mary Kingsley; Ewart Grogan; Constance Larymore; Mary Hall; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Comparative literature; Historia;

    Abstract : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. READ MORE