Search for dissertations about: "fiction"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 178 swedish dissertations containing the word fiction.

  2. 11. Campus clowns and the canon : David Lodge's campus fiction

    Author : Eva Lambertsson Björk; Åke Bergvall; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; campus; ideology; authoritative discourse; internally persuasive discourse; intertext; cnaon; church; status quo; stereotype;

    Abstract : This is a study of David Lodge's campus novels: The British Museum is Falling Down, Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work. Unlike most previous studies of Lodge's work, which have focussed on literary-theoretical issues, this dissertation .aims at unravelling some of the ideological impulses that inform his campus fiction. READ MORE

  4. 12. Conflicting Times : Multiple Temporalities in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction

    Author : Erik Mo Welin; Joakim Enwall; Hua Li; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Science fiction; Chinese literature; Temporality; Time travel; Alternate history; Apocalypse; Chronopolitics; Sinologi; Sinology;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores the intersection of temporality and politics in contemporary Chinese science fiction. Building on previous research on Chinese science fiction, science fiction studies, as well as narrative theory and historical theory, the investigation focuses on eight key texts written by the writers Han Song, Liu Cixin, and Baoshu. READ MORE

  5. 13. Alien Places in Late Soviet Science Fiction : The "Unexpected Encounters" of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky as Novels and Films

    Author : Henriette Cederlöf; Anna Ljunggren; Yvonne Howell; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arkady Strugatsky; Boris Strugatsky; science fiction; heterotopia; paradigm shift; Soviet culture; 1970s; Gothic; adaptation; Stalker; Roadside Picnic; Dead Mountaineer s Hotel; Arkadij Strugatskij; Boris Strugatskij; paradigmskifte; science fiction; heterotopi; Sovjetunionen; 1970-talet; adaption; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with how science fiction reflects the shift in cultural paradigms that occurred in the Soviet Union between the 1960s and the 1970s. Interest was displaced from the rational to the irrational, from a scientific-technologically oriented optimism about the future to art, religion, philosophy and metaphysics. READ MORE

  6. 14. Of Imagined and Potential Futures : Speculative Fiction in Southern Africa, 2008-2018

    Author : Joanna Woods; Stefan Helgesson; Marina Kohnen Ludwigs; Adnan Mahmutović; Madhu Krishnan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Southern Africa; contemporary literature; speculative fiction; short stories; digital; rhetorical studies; narratology; literary field; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This research project explores the rhetorical function of contemporary Anglophone speculative fiction (sf) in southern Africa. Focusing on short fiction produced between 2008 and 2018, the project delineates this literary production both theoretically and historically. READ MORE

  7. 15. Higher Education for Girls in North American College Fiction 1886-1912

    Author : Gunilla Lindgren; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; Vassar College; liberal-arts education for women; Jean Webster; Julia A. Schwartz; Caroline M. Fuller; Helen D. Brown; Alfred Tennyson s The Princess; education in literature; women s higher education in North America; women s education in fiction; college fiction; college girls; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : Twenty years after Vassar College welcomed the first American female undergraduates in 1865, the experiences of women college students began to be fictionalized in so-called college stories. This thesis shows how higher education is presented in the novels, collections of short stories, and serialized stories for female readers published before the United States was involved in the First World War. READ MORE