Search for dissertations about: "literature analysis"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 2126 swedish dissertations containing the words literature analysis.
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1. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa
Abstract : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. READ MORE
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2. Hyperworks : On Digital Literature and Computer Games
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
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3. The True Story of Alice B. Toklas : Almost the Same but not Quite/not Straight in the Toklas Autobiographies
Abstract : This study investigates three texts that can be provisionally defined as “Toklas autobiographies,” or inscriptions of “the true story of Alice B. Toklas.” These are Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and The Alice B. READ MORE
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4. Slippery paths : The performance and canonization of Turkic literature and Uyghur muqam song in Islam and modernity
Abstract : In the past forty years the fluid Uyghur muqam song tradition has been transformed into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on the world stage. Traditional muqam performers have provided the magma of songs that scholars and politicians have edited into an invented "great tradition" which supports a Uyghur claim to an important piece world cultural history. READ MORE
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5. Julian, God, and the Art of Storytelling : A Narrative Analysis of the Works of Julian of Norwich
Abstract : This study offers a narrative comparison of A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love, the two texts created by the first known English woman writer, Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 – c. 1416). READ MORE