Search for dissertations about: "literary subjectivity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the words literary subjectivity.

  2. 1. Reconfiguring Subjectivity : Experimental Narrative and Deleuzean Immanence

    Author : Frida Beckman; Danuta Fjellestad; David Watson; Patricia Yaeger; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Subjectivity; Gilles Deleuze; immanence; repetition; univocity; the event; Kathy Acker; David Mack; David Lynch.; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to re-think subjectivity in constructive rather than deconstructive terms of disintegration and dismantling. This shift is effected through a reading of Gilles Deleuze that brings together two concepts that are incompatible in his philosophy – immanence and subjectivity – and by my reading of three fictional texts that engage Deleuze in a generative dialogue. READ MORE

  4. 2. Her Story in Partonopeu de Blois : Rereading Byzantine Relations

    Author : Ellen Söderblom Saarela; Carin Franzén; ingela Nilsson; Anna Watz; Megan Moore; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Partonopeu de Blois; Hysmine and Hysminias; Alexiad; courtly lyric; romance; vernacular; Byzantine novel; Komnenian literature; ancient novel; Apuleius; Longus; Achilles Tatius; feminine subjectivity; literary subjectivity; subjectivity; twelfth century; Partonopeu de Blois; Hysmine and Hysminias; Alexiad; hövisk litteratur; medeltidsromanen; den antika romanen; elvahundratalet; fornfranska; Bysans; grekisk tradition; Apulejus; Achilles Tatius; Longus; Anna Komnena; kvinnlig subjektivitet; litterär subjektivitet; subjektivitet;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the twelfth-century Old French anonymous romance Partonopeu de Blois in relation to the Greek novel tradition and the Byzantine world. The study focuses on the erotic narrative in the romance and articulations of feminine subjectivity. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Gothic in contemporary interactive fictions

    Author : Van Leavenworth; Heidi Hansson; Catherine Spooner; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gothic; interactive fiction; subjectivity; posthuman; unspeakable; live burial; labyrinth; uncanny; grotesque; vampire; historiographic metafiction; cybergothic; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study examines how themes, conventions and concepts in Gothic discourses are remediated or developed in selected works of contemporary interactive fiction. These works, which are wholly text-based and proceed via command line input from a player, include Nevermore, by Nate Cull (2000), Anchorhead, by Michael S. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Narcissus Theme from Fin de Siècle to Psychoanalysis : Crisis of the Modern Self

    Author : Niclas Johansson; Torsten Pettersson; Björn Sundberg; Bo Hakon Jørgensen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Narcissus; narcissism; Symbolism; decadence; psychoanalysis; selfhood; subjectivity; modernity; Sigmund Freud; Oscar Wilde; André Gide; Paul Valéry; Leopold Andrian; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation is an intertextual-thematological investigation of the Narcissus theme at the turn of the century 1900. It focuses primarily on French-, German-, and English-language decadent and Symbolist literature from the 1890s and early 1900s, as well as on early sexology and psychoanalysis. READ MORE

  7. 5. Material virtualities : Approaching online textual embodiment

    Author : Jenny Sunden; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Embodiment; body; cyberfeminism; cyborg; subjectivity; virtuality; materiality; MUD; MOO; cybercultural studies; digital textuality; online ethnography; poststructuralist literary theory; queer theory; online interaction; Diskursanalys; språksociologi; cyberspace; queerteori; virtuell verklighet; MUD; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Abstract : While the Internet is often presented as a disembodied medium, various forms of bodily presence are continually introduced when people meet online. This study explores notions of embodiment in a particular text-based virtual world (here called WaterMOO) by investigating how bodies- always sexually specific- are created and rendered meaningful in online textual practices. READ MORE