Search for dissertations about: "literary competence"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words literary competence.

2. 1. Time of Turmoil : Reading and Media Combination in the American Young Adult Novels Cathy’s Book, Skeleton Creek, and Endgame

   Author : Julie Blomberg Gudmundsson; Daniel Kane; Anna Nordlund; Danuta Fjellestad; Astrid Ensslin; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; young adult fiction; reading; media combination; literary competence; reading paths; interrupted reading; media consciousness; multimedia novels; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Curriculum Studies; Didaktik;

   Abstract : In the beginning of the twenty-first century, Young Adult (YA) fiction experienced a renaissance, and YA novels began to appear on the best-seller lists in the US. Around the same time, many reports sounded alarms about rapidly declining rates of fiction reading among young adults. READ MORE

4. 2. Hyperworks : On Digital Literature and Computer Games

   Author : Anna Gunder; Johan Svedjedal; Marie-Christine Skuncke; Espen Aarseth; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; Sociology of Literature; Digital Literature; Ergodic Literature; Hypertext Fiction; Cybertext; Computer Game; Narratology; Ludology; Game Studies; New Media Studies; Textual Criticism; Media Theory; Michael Joyce; J. K. Rowling; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : This study investigates the effects of digitization on literature and literary culture with focus on works of literary fiction and other kinds of works inspired by such works. The concept of “hyperworks” refers to works intended to be navigated multisequentially, i.e. the users create their own paths through the work by making choices. READ MORE

5. 3. Shakespeare's sonnets in Russian : the challenge of translation

   Author : Elena Rassokhina; Per Ambrosiani; Berit Åström; Andrei Rogatchevski; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Shakespeare; translation; sonnets; Russian; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets have become the interest of several generations of Russian translators. Overall, after their first appearance in the middle of the nineteenth century, at least thirty-five Russian translations of the complete sonnet collection have been produced so far, though mostly during the last three decades. READ MORE

6. 4. In transit : aspects of transculturalism in Janice Kulyk Keefer's travels

   Author : Elisabeth Mårald; Sven-Johan Spånberg; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; transculturalism; ethnicity; the postcolonial discourse; travels; tourism; imagology; Imagined Communities; environment; Bakhtin s dialogic theories; cultural studies;

   Abstract : Transculturalism refers to how cultural barriers are transcended and how cultures meet. Because the transcultural perspective reflects hitherto unrepresented spaces, it revises and innovates literary canons. This study investigates aspects of transculturalism in texts dealing with travel by the Canadian writer Janice Kulyk Keefer. READ MORE

7. 5. Knowledge and survival in the novels of Thomas Hardy

   Author : Jane Mattisson; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Thomas Hardy; nineteenth-century fiction; history and literature -- nineteenth century; English language and literature; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP;

   Abstract : This thesis identifies two different kinds of knowledge in Thomas Hardy's novels: the everyday, passed on from generation to generation, which is non-academic and closely bound to the local environment and its traditions; and the specialised, recorded in the printed word, which is the product of formal education and independent of the local community and its traditions. These two kinds of epistemological competence determine one's ability to adapt and survive in a changing society. READ MORE