Search for dissertations about: "narrative poetry"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words narrative poetry.

2. 1. The Hero and the Law : A Study of Silius Italicus' Punica

   Author : Hannah Bartonek Åhman; Gerd Haverling; Marianne Wifstrand Schiebe; Mats Malm; Maria Plaza; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Silius Italicus; Punica; Flavian poetry; Hegel s Aesthetics; epic; drama; hero; Idealtypus; narrative; historiography; Vergil; Latin; Latin;

   Abstract : This study of Silius Italicus’ Punica is executed by means of the analytical tools provided in Hegel’s Aesthetics together with the Weberian concept of the Idealtypus. The Punica and in particular a group of its protagonists are examined in relation to the “Hegelian Idealtypus of epic”, in order to identify the driving forces in the narrative and the pivotal conflict of the poem. READ MORE

4. 2. Almost There : Approaches to Closure in the Works of Sylvia Plath

   Author : Anna Svensson; Rolf Lundén; Erik Löfroth; Steven Gould Axelrod; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : English language; Sylvia Plath; closure; endings; death; creative process; poetry; journals; life writing; Engelska; English; engelska;

   Abstract : This study of Sylvia Plath’s writings investigates aspects of representations of life and life stories. It is composed of three distinct analyses, the shared feature being their focus on the connection between narrative closure and closure in life. READ MORE

5. 3. A Decontextual Stylistics Study of the Genji Monogatari : With a Focus on the "Yûgao" Story

   Author : Stina Jelbring; Gunilla Lindberg-Wada; Machiko Midorikawa; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Genji Monogatari; Yûgao; Japanese literature; Murasaki Shikibu; Heian Period; monogatari; waka; poetry; stylistics; narratology; poetics; genre; metaphor; allusion; symbol; translation studies; Japanology; Japanologi; Japanology; japanologi;

   Abstract : The dominant part of the research on the “Yûgao” (The Twilight Beauty) story of the Japanese eleventh-century classic the Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) is philological and often excludes a general literary analysis. This story has also been related to Japanese and Chinese literary influences, thereby placing the text in its literary context. READ MORE

6. 4. The green shadow of Christ : a reception-exegetical study of Jesus and Pan in the gospel of Mark

   Author : David Wiljebrand; Karin Neutel; Mikael Tellbe; David Horrell; Sylvia Keesmaat; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gospel of Mark; Pan; Ecological Hermeneutics; eco-critisism; reception exegesis; agrarian culture; agrarianism; imperial ideology; pastoral poetry; Greco-Roman religion; nature discourses; Satan; demonology; Environmental History; nya testamentets exegetik; New Testament Exegesis;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates presentations of Jesus in the gospel of Mark, mainly chapter 6 and 9, in the light of the juxtaposition of Christ and the Greek nature god Pan. This juxtaposition recurs in the reception history of Pan in Western European culture. READ MORE

7. 5. Pearl and Contemplative Writing

   Author : Annika Sylén-Lagerholm; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Cloud of Unknowing; Julian of Norwich; Margery Kempe; Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; dream visions in literature; mysticism and literature; Thomas Aquinas and literature; Pseudo-Dionysius in England; religion and literature; literature and theology; medieval English poetry; women and medieval literature; Middle English literature; Gawain author; contemplative writers in medieval England; Pearl author; Pearl; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; General and comparative literature; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

   Abstract : This dissertation places Pearl in the context of works by the English fourteenth-century contemplative writers (‘mystics’), as well as of patristic and other theological treatises, focusing on the theme of comprehending and speaking about a transcendent divine dimension. The purpose is to show that Pearl and the works of Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Walter Hilton, Richard Rolle and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing share a concern with attempting to express the inexpressible. READ MORE