Search for dissertations about: "english novel"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 119 swedish dissertations containing the words english novel.

  2. 1. Mobilising the novel : the literature of imperialism and the First World War

    Author : Johan Höglund; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska språket; English;

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  4. 2. Veils of irony : The development of narrative technique in women's novels of the 1790s

    Author : Anna Morris; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; West-Jane; Smith-Charlotte; Bennett-Anna-Maria; novel; eighteenth-century; circulating-library; review; parody; irony; free-indirect-discourse; innovation; common-reader; gossip; Quixote; education; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This thesis situates the innovations of three English novels from the 1790s by three relatively unknown women writers, Jane West, Charlotte Smith, and Anna Maria Bennett, against the background of a literary climate characterised by highly conventional forms of fiction in either sentimental or satiric modes. Their innovations consisted in the fashioning of parodic forms that would balance emotionality with irony. READ MORE

  5. 3. Appropriating King Arthur : The Arthurian legend in English drama and entertainments 1485-1625

    Author : Elisabeth Michelsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This study attempts to show that, despite the scepticism as to the historicity of Arthur and the criticism of the genre of chivalric romance that arose during the English Renaissance, Arthurian motifs in drama and entertainments performed for the royal house remained highly relevant at this time. It is argued in this thesis that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were not a kind of Arthurian 'Dark Ages. READ MORE

  6. 4. Outsiders and Others : Queer Friendships in Novels by Hermann Hesse

    Author : Oscar von Seth; Claudia Lindén; Jack Halberstam; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hermann Hesse; Peter Camenzind; Der Steppenwolf; outsiderness; otherness; queer friendship; homoeroticism; nonconformism; homosexuality; bisexuality; Bildungsroman; romantic friendship; heterosexual ambivalence; disability; animality; gender; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores how characters who embody outsiderness and/or otherness intersect with and connote queerness—such as, for instance, homoeroticism and nonconformism—in the novels Peter Camenzind (1904) and Der Steppenwolf (1927) by German-language author Hermann Hesse (1877–1962).In most of Hesse’s novels, the narrative revolves around a male protagonist who is characterized as an outsider. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Victorian Governess Novel

    Author : Cecilia Wadsö-Lecaros; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Victorian governess; didactic fiction; education in literature; women and work in the nineteenth century; nineteenth-century English novel; marginalisation of women; female education in the nineteenth century; English language and literature; governesses in literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the Victorian governess novel as a specific genre. A comprehensive set of nineteenth-century governess novels has been examined in relation to contemporary non-fictional sources dealing with governess work and female education. READ MORE