Search for dissertations about: "parody"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the word parody.

  2. 6. Jews and Gentiles in Early Jewish Novels

    Author : Hedvig Larsson; Tord Fornberg; Anders Hultgård; Angela Standhartinger; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Judaism; Hellenistic period; novels; Jews and non-Jews; type scenes; irony; idol-parody; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with Jewish novels from the late Persian, Hellenistic and early Roman periods. The five texts chosen for this study are the Books of Ruth, Judith, Esther, Daniel and Joseph & Aseneth. Focus is on how the Jewish narrators describe non-Jews and non-Jewish religion, and on the relations between Jews and non-Jews. READ MORE

  4. 7. Veils of Irony : The Development of Narrative Technique in Women's Novels of  the 1790s

    Author : Anna Uddén; Monica Correa Fryckstedt; Gary Kelly; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jane West; Charlotte Smith; Anna Maria Bennett; Jane Austen; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

    Abstract : Innovation in literary history may originate in minor as well as major novelists of the past. This study evaluates the contribution to literary history made by three unknown English women writers: Jane West, Charlotte Smith and Anna Maria Bennett. READ MORE

  5. 8. Shakespearean parallels and affinities with the Theatre of the absurd in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead

    Author : Anja Easterling; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : Stoppard; Tom; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Hamlet; Beckett; Samuel; Waiting for Godot; Pinter; Harold; The Caretaker; The Theatre of the Absurd; absurd drama; cliché;

    Abstract : The study elucidates the relation of Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to Hamlet on the one hand and to the Theatre of the Absurd on the other. The two plays chosen to represent the Theatre of the Absurd are Samuel Beckett1 s Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter* s The Caretaker. READ MORE

  6. 9. Storming the Sadeian Citadel : Disturbing Gender in Angela Carter's Fiction of Transition

    Author : Margaret Benedikz; Sarah Gamble; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This study demonstrates how Angela Carter’s textual contention with the works of the Marquis de Sade forms an interstice, chronologically, thematically and narratively, between the early and late works in Carter’s oeuvre. This period of fictional transition and unrest is exemplified byThe Sadeian phase in Carter’s writing can be seen as part of a feminist project. READ MORE

  7. 10. Theology beyond Representation : Foucault, Deleuze and the Phantasms of Theological Thinking

    Author : Petra Carlsson; Mattias Martinson; Anders Johansson; Philip Goodchild; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Theology; Representation; Representation critique; Michel Foucault; Gilles Deleuze; Thomas J.J. Altizer; Graham Ward; Emilia Fogelklou; Death of God theology; Radical Orthodoxy; Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews; Systematisk teologi med livsåskådningsforskning;

    Abstract : Theology beyond Representation explores the theological opportunities embedded in Michel Foucault’s and Gilles Deleuze’s critique of Christian thinking and of what they regard as a Christian and oppressive logic of representation. Foucault’s and Deleuze’s thoughts on representation are currently discussed in many fields neighbouring theology (e. READ MORE