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2. 1. The Ergodic revisited : spatiality as a governing principle of digital literature

   Author : James Barrett; Heidi Hansson; Astrid Ensslin; Hans Kristian Rustad; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; digital literature; narrative studies; interactive narrative; ergodic; cybertext; spatial; addressivity; interactive design; representational space; spatial practice; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : This dissertation examines the role of the spatial in four works of digital interactive literature. These works are Dreamaphage by Jason Nelson (2003), Last Meal Requested by Sachiko Hayashi (2003), Façade by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern (2005) and Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day by M. D. Coverley (2006). READ MORE

4. 2. Creating a Man, a Mouse or a Monster? : Masculinityas Formulated by Syrian Female Novelists through the Second Half of the 20thCentury

   Author : Lovisa Berg; Nacim Pak-Shiraz; Paul Starkey; Jaakko Hameen-Anttila; Högskolan Dalarna; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Masculinity; Syria; Female Arab Writers; Intercultural Studies; Interkulturella studier;

   Abstract : This literary study examines the formulation of masculinity in Syrian novels authored by women. The thesis covers the period between 1959 and 2000, corresponding to both the development of the female-authored novel in Syria and the creation of the modern Syrian state. READ MORE

5. 3. 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

6. 4. The ocean of love : Middle Bengali sufi literature and the fakirs of Bengal

   Author : David Cashin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bengali; Religiös litteratur; Sufism; Tantrism;

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7. 5. We Call upon the Author : Contemporary Biofiction and Fyodor Dostoevsky

   Author : Henrik Christensen; Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre; Jørgen Bruhn; Susanna Witt; Frederick White; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Biofiction; contemporary biofiction; Fyodor Dostoevsky; biopic; biographical novel; intermediality; transmediality; Zarkhi; Tsypkin; Coetzee; Vapnyar; Khotinenko; différance; ideology; gender; post-colonialism; hyperreality; phenomenology; ethics; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Abstract : This thesis studies fictional representations of Fyodor Dostoevsky in contemporary biofiction. The aim of the study is to present an intermedial theoretical framework for biofiction, a genre defined as fictional biographical and often metafictional narratives in which a biographical subject serves as the focal point for the story or plays a role integral to the narrative. READ MORE