Search for dissertations about: "fictional world"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the words fictional world.

  2. 6. Ramble, linger and gaze

    Author : Katja Grillner; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; architecture; landscape; representation; 18thcentury land­scape garden; 18th century England; ThomasWhately; Joseph Heely; Hagley Park; garden history; gardentheory; garden representation; garden experience; architecturalrepresentation; poetic representation; narrativerepresentation; philosophical dialogue; architectural researchmethodology; hermeneutics.; Architecture; Arkitektur;

    Abstract : Ramble, linger, and gaze explores a method of architecturalresearch based on narrative dialogue and examines the gardentheories and lite­rary garden representations of ThomasWhately (Observations on Modern gardening 1770) and JosephHeely (Letters on the Beauties of Hagley, Envil, and theLeasowes 1777). The thesis has the form of a narrated dialoguebetween these two writers and the narrator, and it is situatedat Hagley Park, Worchestershire, England. READ MORE

  4. 7. Upscaling, Training, Commoning

    Author : Ana Džokić; Marc Neelen; Dougald Hine; Martijn Jeroen van der Linden; Ana Méndez de Andés; Iva Marčetić; Paul Currion; Henrietta Palmer; Doina Petrescu; Katherine Gibson; Kungl. Konsthögskolan; []
    Keywords : art; architecture; urbanism; spatial practice; artistic research; space; fiction; imagination; future; commons; community; economy; political economy; legitimacy; housing; emancipation; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; Arkitektur; Architecture;

    Abstract : When on September 15, 2008 the financial conglomerate Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy – and with that ‘officially’ sparks the international financial crisis – still few would anticipate the invasive effect this crisis would come to have on the professional and personal life of many across the world. Today, it’s implosion remains a mere ‘blip’ in the universe of events that followed. READ MORE

  5. 8. J.M. Coetzee's Poetics of the Child

    Author : Charlotta Elmgren; Stefan Helgesson; Pieter Vermeulen; David Attwell; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; J.M. Coetzee; poetics; Agamben; Arendt; child; childhood; truth; innocence; ethics; natality; education; pedagogy; play; infancy; impotentiality; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores how central tensions in J.M. Coetzee’s fiction converge in and are made visible by the child figure. READ MORE

  6. 9. Vonnegut's duty-dance with death-theme and structure in Slaughterhouse-five

    Author : Monica Loeb; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Didactic purpose; theme; structure; point of view; characterization; use of sources; imagery;

    Abstract : The influence of Vonnegut’s didactic purpose of writing on the treatment of theme  and structure in Slaughterhouse-Five is investigated in this study. The following  elements of structure are studied: point of view, the treatment of time, characterization,  the use of other sources, and imagery. READ MORE

  7. 10. Storming the Sadeian Citadel : Disturbing Gender in Angela Carter's Fiction of Transition

    Author : Margaret Benedikz; Sarah Gamble; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This study demonstrates how Angela Carter’s textual contention with the works of the Marquis de Sade forms an interstice, chronologically, thematically and narratively, between the early and late works in Carter’s oeuvre. This period of fictional transition and unrest is exemplified byThe Sadeian phase in Carter’s writing can be seen as part of a feminist project. READ MORE