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  2. 1. We Call upon the Author : Contemporary Biofiction and Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Author : Henrik Christensen; Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre; Jørgen Bruhn; Susanna Witt; Frederick White; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Biofiction; contemporary biofiction; Fyodor Dostoevsky; biopic; biographical novel; intermediality; transmediality; Zarkhi; Tsypkin; Coetzee; Vapnyar; Khotinenko; différance; ideology; gender; post-colonialism; hyperreality; phenomenology; ethics; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : This thesis studies fictional representations of Fyodor Dostoevsky in contemporary biofiction. The aim of the study is to present an intermedial theoretical framework for biofiction, a genre defined as fictional biographical and often metafictional narratives in which a biographical subject serves as the focal point for the story or plays a role integral to the narrative. READ MORE

  4. 2. Between Death and Resurrection : Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead on the Eve of the Peasant Emancipation

    Author : Cecilia Dilworth; Anna Ljunggren; Robin Feuer Miller; Philip Bullock; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Fyodor Dostoevsky; House of the Dead; Russian realism; prison literature; emancipation; serfdom; peasant fiction; folk culture; death and resurrection; ambivalence; laughter; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a study of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from the House of the Dead (1860–1862), a semi-documentary rendition of life in a Siberian prison of the 1850s. The work is read against the background of the pivotal historical event coinciding with its writing and publication: the peasant emancipation of 1861. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Burning Word : History and Myth in Maximilian Voloshin's Neopalimaia Kupina 

    Author : Emma-Lina Löflund; Anna Ljunggren; Julie Hansen; Olga Peters Hasty; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Maximilian Voloshin; Russian Symbolism; poetry; Russian Revolution; neomythological texts; performativity; anthroposophy; Rudolf Steiner; theurgy; life-creation; myth-creation; semiotics; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : The book Neopalimaia Kupina: stikhi o voine i revoliutsii (The Burning Bush: Poems about War and Revolution) by Maximilian Voloshin (1877–1932) depicts the revolutionary period in Russia. This dissertation analyzes the work’s composition, showing how it was shaped and reshaped in response to the dramatic events of the first two and a half decades of the twentieth century, and how it remains open and mirrors the ongoing development of history. READ MORE

  6. 4. Linguistic Images of Emotions in Translation from Polish into Swedish : Henryk Sienkiewicz as a Case in Point

    Author : Ewa Gruszczyńska; Witold Maciejewski; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Slavic and Baltic languages - general; dative; emotion; expressive derivative; interjection; Polish; translation strategies; Sienkiewicz; Swedish; Slaviska och baltiska språk - allmänt; Slavic languages; Slaviska språk; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate differences in manifesting emotions in the Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz's texts and their Swedish translations, as well as the translation strategies used in this area. The empirical base material for the dissertation consists of three short stories (Janko Muzykant, Jamioł, Bądź błogosławiona) and one novel (Ogniem i mieczem). READ MORE

  7. 5. Polska socrealistyczna krytyka literacka jako narzedzie wladzy

    Author : Dorota Tubielewicz Mattsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Slavic and Baltic languages - general; Slaviska och baltiska språk - allmänt; Slavic languages; Slaviska språk; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : In the dissertation I analyze the relationship between Socialist Realism (SR) and literarycriticism in Poland during the years 1945-54. I suggest that literary criticism played akey role in promoting SR. SR was possible partly because of political pressure andpartly because it built on progressive ideas and values developed over the centuries. READ MORE