Search for dissertations about: "modern literature"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 344 swedish dissertations containing the words modern literature.

  2. 11. Cultural Techniques of Presence : Luis de Góngora and Early Modern Media

    Author : Adam Wickberg Månsson; Anders Cullhed; Mercedes Blanco; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Luis de Góngora; Cultural Techniques; Media; Presence; Manuscript; Print; Early Modern; Spain; Portraits; Monuments; Memory; Death; Cultural History; Poetry; Actor; Network; Philip II; Paper; Count-Duke of Olivares; Materiality; Object; Writing; Technology; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates the materiality of Early Modern Spanish poetry and particularly that of Luis de Góngora (1561-1627). Its purpose is to focus on physical and concrete aspects in order to create new knowledge of the past. READ MORE

  4. 12. Julian, God, and the Art of Storytelling : A Narrative Analysis of the Works of Julian of Norwich

    Author : Godelinde Gertrude Perk; Berit Åström; Virginia Langum; Liz Herbert McAvoy; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English literature; narratology; Middle English; Julian of Norwich; medieval literature; women s writing; engelska; English; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    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

  5. 13. Sports of culture : Writing the resistant subject in South Africa (readings of Ndebele, Gordimer, Coetzee)

    Author : Stefan Helgesson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; African literature; Homi Bhabha; catachresis; ethics; Frantz Fanon; Emmanuel Lévinas; mimicry; post-colonial theory; South African literature; Gayatri Spivak; subaltern; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis interrogates the post-colonial and ethical implications of three works of fiction published in South Africa between 1983 and 1987, namely Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo S. Ndebele, A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer and Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee. READ MORE

  6. 14. The code of Concord : Emerson's search for universal laws

    Author : Anders Hallengren; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 ; natural law; ethics; aesthetics; esthetics; politics; USA; ethics and physics; laws of nature; laws of society; laws of art; American literature; American philosophy; American history; legal philosophy; constitutional law; human rights; rule of law; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Practical philosophy; Praktisk filosofi; Public law; Offentlig rätt; Other law; Övrig rätt; Theory of science; Vetenskapsteori; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; praktisk filosofi; Practical Philosophy;

    Abstract : The purpose of this work is to detect a pattern: the concordance of Ethics and Aesthetics, Poetics and Politics in the most influential American thinker of the nineteenth century. It is an attempt to trace a basic concept of the Emersonian transcendentalist doctrine, its development, its philosophical meaning and practical implications. READ MORE

  7. 15. Appropriations of Shakespeare's King Lear in Three Modern North American Novels

    Author : Anna Lindhé; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Appropriation in literature; appropriation of Shakespeare; ethics and literature; Harold Bloom; Jane Smiley; Anne Tyler; Margaret Atwood; A Thousand Acres; Ladder of Years; Cat s Eye; King Lear;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the creative appropriation of Shakespeare in theory and practice. It is based on close readings of King Lear alongside three appropriations of the play in works of fiction by three North American women writers: Jane Smiley, Anne Tyler, and Margaret Atwood. The aim is to demonstrate how a ‘palimpsestic’ reading, i.e. READ MORE