Search for dissertations about: "literary form"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 99 swedish dissertations containing the words literary form.

2. 1. The mold of writing : style and structure in Strindberg's chamber plays

   Author : Erik van Ooijen; Lars-Åke Skalin; Ola Holmgren; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; August Strindberg; chamber play; literary form; writing; focus; ruin as form; simulation; speed; weed as form; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; Aesthetic subjects; Estetiska ämnen; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

   Abstract : The thesis examines the five plays published by August Strindberg under the label of Chamber Plays: Stormy Weather, The Burned Lot, The Ghost Sonata, The Pelican (all 1907), and The Black Glove (1909). It takes its point of departure in a particular aspect of Strindberg’s way of writing as he actually describes it himself: during the act of deliberate composing, a productive fever tends to emerge bringing an element of chance to the work. READ MORE

4. 2. Atmospheric and geological entanglements : north american ecopoetry and the anthropocene

   Author : Nuno Marques; Maria Lindgren Leavenworth; Daniel Andersson; Jonathan Skinner; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ecopoetry; ecopoetics; North American ecopoetry; form in poetry; lament; mourning; song; sound; atmosphere; air; geology; Anthropocene; entanglements; community-making; environmental justice; environmental humanities; ecocriticism; new materialisms.; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : Atmospheric and Geological Entanglements is a study of contemporary North American ecopoetry, a poetry which is characterized by a negotiation or subversion of established cultural representations of nature, and by a re-deployment of poetic forms such as lyrical poetry, pastoral and elegy. The studied poets experiment with form and question well-established categories such as human and nature, instead emphasizing connections between the human, other organisms, and inorganic matter. READ MORE

5. 3. Narrating Nuclear Disaster : Literary Form and Affective Modes after Chernobyl and Fukushima

   Author : Hannah Klaubert; Ansgar Nünning; Claudia Egerer; Catrin Gersdorf; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ecocriticism; nuclear disaster; Chernobyl; Fukushima; narrative; narratology; literature; Anthropocene; radioactivity; environmental humanities; energy humanities; nuclear humanities; English; engelska;

   Abstract : The major nuclear disasters of Chernobyl (1986) and Fukushima (2011) play an important role in the public perception of nuclear power, yet their social and material impacts remain scientifically debated and, thus, their meaning for the future of nuclear power production contested. Narrating Nuclear Disaster intervenes in these debates by asking what might be learned about nuclear disasters through an analysis of the formal and affective strategies employed in literary texts narrating their aftermath. READ MORE

6. 4. The phenomenon of the grotesque in modern southern fiction : some aspects of its form and function

   Author : Maria Haar; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Caldwell; Capote; Faulkner; Goyen; McCullers; O Connor; Welty; macabre-grotesque; repulsive frightening-grotesque; comic-grotesque; Philip Thomson; Det groteska i litteraturen;

   Abstract : After a general historical outline of the term and concept 'grotesque' attention is focused on the grotesque in Southern fiction and an attempt is made to explain the abundance of this mode in the literature of the South. It can seemingly be linked to the distinctiveness of that region as compared to the rest of the United States—a distinctiveness that has been brought about by historical, geographical, sociological and economic factors. READ MORE

7. 5. Främlingskap. Etik och form i Willy Kyrklunds tidiga prosa

   Author : Olle Widhe; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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