Search for dissertations about: "Women writers"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the words Women writers.

  2. 1. 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

  4. 2. In the first person and in the house : The house chronotope in four works by American women writers

    Author : Maria Holmgren Troy; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska; English;

    Abstract : The house looms large in American literature and plays a significant part in American society and history. This study uses Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope to examine the house in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons (1862), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping (1980). READ MORE

  5. 3. The Androgyne and the Phoenix : Marguerite de Navarre and Gaspara Stampa: Gendering Early Modern Debates on Love

    Author : Johanna Vernqvist; Carin Franzén; Unn Falkeid; Gary Ferguson; Nancy Frelick; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Marguerite de Navarre; Gaspara Stampa; Early modern Literature; Love; Women writers; Neoplatonism; Androgyne; Phoenix; Love; Gender; Dialogues; Margareta av Navarra; Gaspara Stampa; tidigmodern litteratur; kärlek; kvinnliga författarskap; nyplatonism; androgynen; fenix; genus; dialog;

    Abstract : This study explores Marguerite de Navarre’s and Gaspara Stampa’s literary strategies through a close examination of their appropriation of Neoplatonic ideals of love and gender. Against a backdrop of the cultural and literary canon of the sixteenth century, and through a theoretical framework building on Judith Butler and Michel Foucault, it demonstrates how Marguerite de Navarre and Gaspara Stampa destabilize power relations within the discourses of love and gender, thus gendering early modern debates on love. READ MORE

  6. 4. Portraits of women in selected novels by Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster

    Author : Kerstin Elert; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Forster; E.M.; Woolf; Virginia; Victorianism; Victorian women; female characters; Bloomsbury Group; woman in history; history of woman; woman in literature; mother-daughter relationship; Engelska romaner; historia; 1900-talet; Kvinnor i litteraturen;

    Abstract : Female characters in novels by Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster are studied in their relationships as wives, mothers, daughters and prospective brides. The novels selected are those where the writers are concerned with families dominated by Victorian ideals. READ MORE

  7. 5. “I Can Do Nothing against the Wish of the Pen” : Studies in the Short Stories of Widād Sakākīnī

    Author : Astrid Ottosson Bitar; Gail Ramsay; Eva Riad; Ingeborg Nordin Hennel; Roger Allen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arabic language; modern Arabic literature; Arabic women writers; the Arabic short story; feminist literary theory; Arabiska; Widad Sakākīnī; Arabic language; Arabiska;

    Abstract : This study focuses on the short story writing of the Lebanese/Syrian writer Widād Sakākīnī (1913-1991). Its primary aim is to discover how she was able to establish herself as a respected writer while keeping her distinctive character as a woman writer within a literary tradition that was strongly defined by patriarchal values and contained many misogynic elements. READ MORE