Search for dissertations about: "Stylistics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the word Stylistics.

  2. 1. A Decontextual Stylistics Study of the Genji Monogatari : With a Focus on the "Yûgao" Story

    Author : Stina Jelbring; Gunilla Lindberg-Wada; Machiko Midorikawa; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Genji Monogatari; Yûgao; Japanese literature; Murasaki Shikibu; Heian Period; monogatari; waka; poetry; stylistics; narratology; poetics; genre; metaphor; allusion; symbol; translation studies; Japanology; Japanologi; Japanology; japanologi;

    Abstract : The dominant part of the research on the “Yûgao” (The Twilight Beauty) story of the Japanese eleventh-century classic the Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) is philological and often excludes a general literary analysis. This story has also been related to Japanese and Chinese literary influences, thereby placing the text in its literary context. READ MORE

  4. 2. Form and philosophy in Sándor Weöres' poetry

    Author : Susanna Fahlström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Finno-Ugric languages - general; Sándor Weöres; Hungarianliterature; Hungarian poetry; Hungarian language; Rhetorics; Stylistics; Text analysis; Text stylistics; Poetical form; Poeticalstructure; Philosophy in poetry; Religion in poetry; Finsk-ugriska språk - allmänt; Finno-Ugric languages; Finsk-ugriska språk; Finsk-ugriska språk; Finno-Ugric Languages;

    Abstract : This dissertation, by presenting comprehensive analyses of six poems by the Hungarian poet Sándor Weöres, investigates the poetical forms and the poetical philosophies in these texts. The poems represent specific philosophic spheres of Weöres' poetry. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Game of Health Search

    Author : Ann-Marie Eklund; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; health information search; internet usage; vardguiden.se; 1177.se; trust; rationality; error analysis; stylistics; computational linguistics; language technology; natural language processing;

    Abstract : Almost two of three Swedes use internet to search for health related information on diseases, treatments and care givers. Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are increasingly used to carry out these activities, and it raises the question on how a health information portal should behave to support the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s information seekers. READ MORE

  6. 4. Dylan Thomas's Poetics of Embodiment

    Author : Anne Päivärinta; Finland University of Tampere; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Conceptual Metaphor Theory; cognitive poetics; embodiment; stylistics; Modernism; Comparative literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : The dissertation explores the structure and functions of embodied metaphors in Dylan Thomas’s (1914–1953) works. It aims to show that embodiment defines Thomas’s writing both stylistically and thematically, and that Thomas’s body metaphors are essentially founded on the biblical myths of creation and the Fall. READ MORE

  7. 5. Studies on Juvencus' Language and Style

    Author : Andreas Thor; Gerd Haverling; David Langslow; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Juvencus; biblical epic; poetic language; archaisms; Early Latin; Late Latin; prosaic language; biblical language; variation; Virgil; Latin; Latin;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with the language and style used in the poem Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor by the fourth-century Christian poet Juvencus. The poem, a rendering of the biblical story of Jesus in dactylic poetry, initiated a literary genre, which is referred to as biblical epic. READ MORE