Search for dissertations about: "children literature"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 198 swedish dissertations containing the words children literature.

  2. 1. Childhood Without Children : Ian McEwan and the Critical Study of the Child

    Author : Katherina Dodou; Sara Danius; Jakob Lothe; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; representations of childhood in fiction; Ian McEwan; childhood studies; figuration; the British novel; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This study has a twofold ambition. First, it offers a new perspective on Ian McEwan’s works by focusing on his treatment of childhood. Second, by using McEwan’s writing as an example, it seeks to challenge the current critical preoccupation with childhood in the novel in terms solely of child characters. READ MORE

  4. 2. Willa Cather's children

    Author : Mona Pers; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska språket;

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  5. 3. Funny Bodies, Humour and Grotesque in English Childrens´ Literature

    Author : Andrew Casson; Dieter Petzold; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a study of grotesque and transgressional humour in English children's literature. The grotesque is seen here as a liminal and ambivalent aesthetic category at the junction between two fields of tension: the fantastic and the real in one field and the comic and the horrible in the other. READ MORE

  6. 4. Socialization of verbal and nonverbal emotive expressions in young children

    Author : Tove Gerholm; Christina Hellman; Gunilla Preisler; Karin Aronsson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; language; socialization; interaction; emotive expressions; scaffolding; internalization; development; children; parents; siblings; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; General Linguistics; allmän språkvetenskap;

    Abstract : The subject matter of this dissertation is children’s use and development of emotive expressions. While prior studies have either focused on facial expressions of emotions or on emotions in the social mechanisms of in situ interactions, this thesis opts to merge two traditions by applying an interactional approach to the interpretation of child–child and child–adult encounters. READ MORE

  7. 5. Children's Gestures from 18 to 30 Months

    Author : Mats Andrén; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; children; gesture; development; communication; language; action; semiotics; social cognition;

    Abstract : This thesis concerns the nature of the gestures performed by five Swedish children. The children are followed from 18 to 30 months of age: an age range which is characterized by a rapid succession of developmental changes in children's abilities to communicate by means of both spoken language and gesture. READ MORE