Search for dissertations about: "pathos"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the word pathos.

  2. 1. Visualizing the Vir Bonus in Charles Dickens's Scenes of Persuasion : The Rhetoric of Pity, Sentiment, Fact, and Debt

    Author : Lisa-Marie Teubler; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Charles Dickens; Fact; Debt; Pity; ethos; logos; pathos; rhetoric; persuasion; kairos; vir bonus;

    Abstract : Charles Dickens’s novels are filled with scenes of persuasion—moments of heightened rhetoric. Throughthese scenes, the novels present a moral rhetoric and a person that uses this rhetoric toward ethicalends: a vir bonus. READ MORE

  4. 2. “The Pathos of Past Time” : Nostalgia in Anglo-Arab Literature

    Author : Tasnim Qutait; Robert Appelbaum; Gail Ramsay; Ashleigh Harris; Waïl Hassan; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Anglophone Arab literature; Arabic literature; nostalgia; diaspora; postcolonialism; memory studies; عربٌ يكتبون بالإنجليزية، الأدب العربي، الحنين، المنفى، ما بعد الاستعمارية، دراسات الذاكرة; English; Engelska; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Semitic Languages; Semitiska språk;

    Abstract : This study explores the theme of nostalgia in contemporary Anglo-Arab literature from the 1990s to the present. Examining the implications of nostalgic tropes in Anglophone novels by Arab writers, the study makes the case that nostalgia is a key strategy used by these writers in their critical engagement with national historiographies and diasporic identities. READ MORE

  5. 3. The "Reflexive" as an Interpretation

    Author : Robert Ryan; Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk; Växjö universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; linguistic sign; semiotics; meaning; interpretation; arbitrariness; underdeterminacy; diathesis; energia; páthos; voice; Dionysios Thrax; Tékhnē Grammatikē; prototype; Transitivity; Polish; Classical Greek; English; emphatic; decomitative; characteristic property; anti-causative; high degree of activity; reciprocal; beneficial; resultative; reflexive; focalization; narrative point of view; Diathesis; English language; Engelska språket; Engelsk språkvetenskap; English;

    Abstract : This thesis is an investigation into the meaning of the ‘reflexive’ pronoun in English, and provides a cross-linguistic generalization concerning the structurally distinct forms that can be associated with the ‘reflexive’. Before the question of the meaning of the ‘reflexive’ pronoun in English is addressed directly, the theoretical framework, primarily Structuralist, in which the results of the study are to be understood is outlined. READ MORE

  6. 4. Erotic Pathos, Rhetorical Pleasure. Narrative Technique and Mimesis in Eumathios Makrembolites´ Hysmine and Hysminias

    Author : Ingela NIlsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Eumathios Makrembolites; Hysmine Hysminias; Achilles Tatius; Leukippe Kleitophon; ancient novel; Eros; ekphrasis; Byzantine novel; mimesis; imitation; literary subversion; Byzantine literature; Komnenian literature; intertextuality; transtextuality; spatiality; Byzantinology;

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  7. 5. Åke Hodell. Art and Writing in the Neo-Avant-Garde

    Author : Johan Gardfors; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Åke Hodell; neo-avant-garde; concrete poetry; illegibility; archive; conceptual writing; materiality; visual poetry; text-sound-composition; intermedia; technology and writing;

    Abstract : Åke Hodell and the Art of Illegibility provides the first in-depth discussion in English of the concrete poet and neo-avant-garde artist Åke Hodell’s works from the 1960s. Throughout the study, Hodell’s artistic practice is contextualized by way of comparison with examples from the earlier avant-gardes, as well as with contemporaneous writers and artists, indicating how the avant-garde and modernist legacies are preserved and transformed in the works of Hodell. READ MORE