Search for dissertations about: "aesthetic and english"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the words aesthetic and english.
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1. Atmospheric and geological entanglements : north american ecopoetry and the anthropocene
Abstract : Atmospheric and Geological Entanglements is a study of contemporary North American ecopoetry, a poetry which is characterized by a negotiation or subversion of established cultural representations of nature, and by a re-deployment of poetic forms such as lyrical poetry, pastoral and elegy. The studied poets experiment with form and question well-established categories such as human and nature, instead emphasizing connections between the human, other organisms, and inorganic matter. READ MORE
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2. “Distantly a part”: Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Modernist Autonomy
Abstract : This dissertation explores the social and political dimensions of aesthetic autonomy as it is given formal expression in Wallace Stevens’s poetry of the 1930s and the early 1940s. Whereas modernist claims to autonomy are often said to rest upon an ideological assertion of art’s detachment from socio-historical concerns, I argue that, in Stevens’s work, autonomy is conceived in relational terms, which gives rise to new lines of interconnection between his poetry and its cultural situation. READ MORE
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3. Ambiguity and Estrangement : Peer-Led Deliberative Dialogues on Literature in the EFL Classroom
Abstract : The thesis focuses on ideological and emotional dimensions of literature reading in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. The empirical data at the heart of this dissertation comprises questionnaires, group sessions, student texts, and post-study evaluation. READ MORE
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4. Ideology and Symbolism in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
Abstract : This study homes in on the ideological significance of American author Cormac McCarthy’s literary symbolism. Focusing in particular on the author’s tendency to merge humanity and the environment by way of metaphor, simile, and personification, the study demonstrates how the ethical and political import of this aesthetic is open to dispute. READ MORE
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5. Managing Diversity : The Anthologization of "American Literature"
Abstract : analys av tvåbandsantologier för USA:s litteratur, deras bild av nationallitteraturen, deras inbördes beroende och deras beroende av det litterära protokoll som den nationella litterära traditionen skapat.... READ MORE