Search for dissertations about: "propaganda literature"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words propaganda literature.

2. 1. Hand-in-Hand in the Peach Flower Land : Analysis of Huí Cadre Agency in the Literature Propaganda Magazine Kāidū River in the North-West Borderland of China

   Author : Kim Jarle Wroldsen; Irmy Schweiger; Jenny White; Rune Steenberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ethnic; minzu; cadres; literature; china; xinjiang; propaganda; ideology; islam; confucianism; discourse; nationalism; maoism; Asiens språk och kulturer; Asian Languages and Cultures;

   Abstract : This thesis studies how mínzú (ethnic) agency is effectuated through propaganda literature among Muslim minority cadres in the Yānqí Huí Autonomous County of the Xīnjiāng Uyghur Autonomous Region of North-West China in the 2010s. The aim is to understand to what extent and in what ways mínzú identification can have a socio-politically significant impact on the activities of mínzú cadres in a restrictive environment and in a medium where mínzú agency is controversial and difficult to implement. READ MORE

4. 2. Ardent propaganda : miner's novels and class conflict, 1929-1939

   Author : David Bell; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; working-class; miners; roman à thèse; ideology; genre; context; communication;

   Abstract : This study of the contribution of working-class fiction to the debate on class conflict in Britain is based on four novels written by two ex-miners between 1929 and 1939: The Gate of a Strange Field (1929) and Last Cage Down (1935), by Harold Heslop, and Cwmardy (1937) and We Live (1939), by Lewis Jones. These novels represent, in work­ing-class fiction, a unique combination of an archetypal working-class occupation, min­ing, with central features of the 1930s cultural discourse, the role of political ideology in literature. READ MORE

5. 3. Laughable Propaganda : Modern Xiangsheng as Didactic Entertainment

   Author : Marja Kaikkonen; Göran Malmqvist; Pär Bergman; Nikolai Speshnev; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sinology; sinologi;

   Abstract : This dissertation introduces the popular Chinese comic story-telling genrexiangsheng. The genre is first viewed in the light of historical predecessorswhich contain elements similar to those found in traditional xiangsheng. READ MORE

6. 4. The Voice of a Waning Empire : Selected Latin Poetry of Magnus Rönnow from the Great Northern War. Edited, with Introduction, Translation and Commentary

   Author : Elena Dahlberg; Hans Helander; Outi Merisalo; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Magnus Rönnow; the Great Northern War; Charles XII; Peter I of Russia; Frederick IV of Denmark; propaganda literature; Neo-Latin; occasional poetry; Baroque style; allegory; emblematics; medals; Augustan poetry; Horace; Latin; Latin;

   Abstract : The thesis contains selected Latin poetry by the Swedish poet Magnus Rönnow (1665‒1735), composed during the Great Northern War. The Carolean age (1654–1718) was the hey-day of Latin literature, eloquence and poetry in Sweden. Rönnow was one of the last Latin poets in this tradition, and indeed one of the most outstanding. READ MORE

7. 5. Apartheid, liberalism, and romance : a critical investigation of the writing of Joy Packer

   Author : John A. Stotesbury; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; South African women’s writing; popular romantic fiction; memoirs; apartheid; colonialism; liberalism; memory; literary amnesia; propaganda; roman a these; race; gender; patriarchy.;

   Abstract : This is the first full-length study of the writing of the South African Joy Packer (1905-1977), whose 17 works of autobiography and romantic fiction were primarily popular. Packer’s writing, which appeared mainly between 1945 and 1977, blends popular narrative with contemporary social and political discourses. READ MORE