Search for dissertations about: "intertexts"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the word intertexts.

  2. 1. Dressing Up and the Art of Jamaica Kincaid

    Author : Anna Borgström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jamaica Kincaid; Art; Autobiography; Resistance to Categorization; Dressing Up; Cognizant Readings; Intertexts; Paratexts; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : Whether her work is classified as fiction, biography, garden writing, or sketch, almost all ofJamaica Kincaid’s writing invokes the genre of autobiography. At the same time, she undercutsand complicates autobiographical readings of her work. READ MORE

  4. 2. Narrative Ethics and Intuition of the Infinite: E. L. Doctorow´s Gnostic Hope for the Postmodern Era

    Author : Catharine Walker Bergström; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethics; postmodernism; narrative ethics; metaethics; intertextuality; intuition; truth; Self; moral agency; deconstruction; Gnosticism; Kabbalah; Levinas; Emerson; Jung; Derrida;

    Abstract : Abstract: Walker Bergström, Catharine. Narrative Ethics and Intuition of the Infinite: E. L. Doctorow s Gnostic Hope for the Postmodern Era, Department of English, University of Gothenburg, 2008. READ MORE

  5. 3. Female Quest in Christina Stead's For Love Alone

    Author : Nilsson Mathilda; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language and literature; post-colonial journey; feminism; archetypes; intertextuality; Christina Stead; female quest; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : One of the conspicuously recurrent motifs in Christina Stead's novels is the quest. The present study centres on For Love Alone, the novel in which the prominence of this motif culminates in the depiction of Teresa Hawkins' successful quest, which contains both social and spiritual elements. READ MORE

  6. 4. Romance revived : postmodern romances and the tradition

    Author : Heidi Hansson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; romance; postmodernism; dialogue; feminism; intertextuality; destabilised text; cyclical time; critical return; uncertain gender-construction;

    Abstract : This is the first study to identify and analyse postmodern romances as a new development of the romance and to relate this late twentieth-century subgenre to its tradition. Based on a selection of works published between 1969 and 1994, by A. S. READ MORE

  7. 5. Sanctity and Environment in Ethiopian Hagiography : The Case of Gedle Gebre Menfes Qiddus

    Author : Abate Gobena; Samuel Rubenson; Thomas Arentzen; Susan Harvey; Avdelningen för östkyrkliga studier Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hagiography; Ethiopian Orthodox Church; Sanctity of nature; Gebre Menfes Qiddus; Reconciliation of heaven and earth; Eastern Christian Studies; Östkyrkliga studier;

    Abstract : The original forests of the central and northern highlands of Ethiopia are almost entirely confined to the “sacred groves” surrounding the churches and monasteries of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church. In Ethiopian tradition sanctity starts from the Tabot on the altar of the church and extends to the outer periphery of the compound. READ MORE