Search for dissertations about: "hitler"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word hitler.

  2. 1. From Putsch to Purge. A Study of the German Episodes in Richard Hughes’s The Human Predicament and their Sources

    Author : Ivo Holmqvist; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Weimar Republic; Documentary novel; English historical fiction; The Wooden Shepherdess; The Fox in the Attic; 1900-1976; Hughes; Richard; Rise of Nazism; Hitler portraits in literature; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : The two last novels by Richard Hughes (1900-1976), the first in his planned The Human Predicament series, are partly set in Germany in the years between the First and the Second World War. Much of the action in The Fox in the Attic (1961) takes part in and around Munich, culminating in a fictional reconstruction of the so-called Hitler Putsch on November 8-9, 1923, the future dictator's aborted early bid for power. READ MORE

  4. 2. Women’s writing and political activism in the 1930s

    Author : Kristin Ewins; St Hilda’s College University of Oxford; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the formative relationship between the writing and political activism of leftist women writers in Britain in the 1930s. It is divided into three parts, structured around investigations of Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Storm Jameson. READ MORE