Search for dissertations about: "paradise lost"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words paradise lost.

  2. 1. Places of Rest in Worlds of Ruin : Havens in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

    Author : Andreas Nyström; Åke Bergvall; Maria Holmgren Troy; Mathias Clasen; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Post-Apocalypse; Apocalypse; Science Fiction; Havens; Pastoral; Paradise; Mobility; Narrative Theory; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : In the inhospitable and ruined landscapes of post-apocalyptic fiction there are often found havens, places of rest that provide contrast to the desolation of the wasteland. This study explores the generic functions of such havens. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Fallen World in Coleridge’s Poetry

    Author : Agneta Lindgren; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; biblical associations; biblical imagery in poetry; Romantic literary theory; the Fallen World; religion in seventeenth-century poetry; Paradise Lost; Milton; Christianity and literature; Coleridge; religion in Romantic poetry; typology in literature; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : This study examines the motif of the Fallen World in Coleridge’s major poems The Ancient Mariner, Christabel and Kubla Khan . The use of Milton’s Paradise Lost as an intertextual foil throughout allows themes and metaphors inherent in the Fallen World motif to emerge in Coleridge’s poetry. READ MORE

  5. 3. Beastly Lessons: Natural Utopias in Seventeenth-Century England

    Author : Sandra Iren Kottum; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; theriophily; animals; nature; utopias; emblems; empiricism; anthropocentrism; language of nature; beast literature; malleability; politics; animal exemplarity; animal language; colonialism; vegetarianism; early modern zoology; Leviticus; Royal Society; bestiaries; fables; The Parly of Beasts; The Blazing World; The Way to Health; James Howell; Margaret Cavendish; Thomas Tryon; early modern England; Golden Age; paradise; misanthropy; ecocriticism; self-fashioning;

    Abstract : The present study investigates the motif of virtuous animal instructors in three selected English texts from the second half of the seventeenth century: James Howell’s The Parly of Beasts (1660), Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666), and Thomas Tryon’s The Way to Health (1683). These authors proposed solutions to the challenges facing early modern England, most notably the Civil War, the emerging empirical science, and the incipient colonization of the Americas. READ MORE

  6. 4. Alain Robbe-Grillet. Les Sables mouvants du texte

    Author : Véronique Simon; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Franska; French;

    Abstract : Alain Robbe-Grillet is often regarded as the leader of the French New Novel, a 20th century literary movement breaking with literary realism. A former scientist, Robbe-Grillet invents a new Real, where imagination, memories, fantasies and dreams are given a power somehow superior to that of tangible reality. READ MORE