Search for dissertations about: "literary realism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words literary realism.

2. 1. Language Subject Ideology: The Politics of Representation in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and Gertrude Stein's Lucy Church Amiably

   Author : Petra Ragnerstam; Genusvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literature criticism; General and comparative literature; politics; aesthetics; feminism; language philosophy; literary theory; critical theory; realism; postmodernism; modernism; 20th century novels; Gertrude Stein; Lucy Church Amiably; Djuna Barnes; Nightwood; Virginia Woolf; To the Lighthouse; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates the relation between aesthetics and politics by interpreting three experimental novels by Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein. By theorizing the relation between language, subject, voice and ideology it questions the autonomous subject as a ground for political action and criticality. READ MORE

4. 2. Between Death and Resurrection : Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead on the Eve of the Peasant Emancipation

   Author : Cecilia Dilworth; Anna Ljunggren; Robin Feuer Miller; Philip Bullock; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Fyodor Dostoevsky; House of the Dead; Russian realism; prison literature; emancipation; serfdom; peasant fiction; folk culture; death and resurrection; ambivalence; laughter; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Abstract : This dissertation is a study of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from the House of the Dead (1860–1862), a semi-documentary rendition of life in a Siberian prison of the 1850s. The work is read against the background of the pivotal historical event coinciding with its writing and publication: the peasant emancipation of 1861. READ MORE

5. 3. Building American entrepreneurs : male commercial selves and the road to success in the US 1873-1914

   Author : Björn Kjellander; Språk; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; entrepreneur; United States; narrative; literary realism; literary naturalism; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : The thesis investigates the origins of the American entrepreneur, what popularly has been called the self-made man. It traces the building of the self-made man as a commercial ideal self, leading to the narratives of US entrepreneurship and the road to ‘success’. READ MORE

6. 4. INDEBTED BODIES, Debt and Decadence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

   Author : Signe Leth Gammelgaard; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; New Economic Criticism; debt; Balzac; Trollope; Zola; Huysmans; Wilde; Mirbeau; money; nineteenth-century novel; economy and literature; materialism; Marxist literary theory; semiotics; Saussure; the human body in literature.;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates the relationship between linguistic and stylistic innovation in nineteenth-century literature on the one hand and shifts in the dynamics of the economic sign system on the other. It draws on prior work on parallels between language and money and argues specifically that developments in the nineteenth-century novel can be understood in terms of the contemporaneous economic history, and that the two sign systems of language and money display structural similarities in this period. READ MORE

7. 5. Silent Modernism : Soundscapes and the Unsayable in Richardson, Joyce, and Woolf

   Author : Annika Lindskog; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; silence; modernist fiction; realism; the unsayable; soundscapes; Dorothy Richardson; Virginia Woolf; James Joyce;

   Abstract : This thesis examines silence in modernist fiction, explaining how it forms a central aspect of realism in the modernist novel. It is based on close readings of the form and function of silence in the works of Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. READ MORE