Search for dissertations about: "studies in literary and cultural encounters"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words studies in literary and cultural encounters.

  2. 1. In Between Cultures : Franco-American Encounters in the Work of Edith Wharton

    Author : Maria Strääf; Lars-Håkan Svensson; Kerstin W. Shands; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; American literature; capital; economic; cultural; social and symbolic; cultural encounter; Edith Wharton; hybridity; in-betweenness; mimicry; narratology; nineteenth-century literature; twentieth-century literature; otherness; women’s literature; Amerikansk litteratur; Edith Wharton; hybriditet; in-betweenness mellanskap ; kapital: ekonomiskt; kulturellt; socialt and symboliskt; kulturmöte; kvinnolitteratur; 1800-tals litteratur; 1900-tals litteratur; mimicry; narratologi; otherness ”den andre” ; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of how the American author Edith Wharton (1862-1937) in a number of novels and short stories written between 1876 and 1937 depicts cultural encounters between Americans and Europeans, mostly Frenchmen. Chiefly concerned with Fast and Loose, “The Last Asset”, Madame de Treymes, “Les Metteurs en Scène”, The Custom of the Country and The Age of Innocence, each of which articulates ideas relevant to the theme investigated, the thesis also contains a supplementary discussion of The Reef, The Glimpses of the Moon, The Mother’s Recompense and The Buccaneers. READ MORE

  4. 2. Alien Places in Late Soviet Science Fiction : The "Unexpected Encounters" of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky as Novels and Films

    Author : Henriette Cederlöf; Anna Ljunggren; Yvonne Howell; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arkady Strugatsky; Boris Strugatsky; science fiction; heterotopia; paradigm shift; Soviet culture; 1970s; Gothic; adaptation; Stalker; Roadside Picnic; Dead Mountaineer s Hotel; Arkadij Strugatskij; Boris Strugatskij; paradigmskifte; science fiction; heterotopi; Sovjetunionen; 1970-talet; adaption; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with how science fiction reflects the shift in cultural paradigms that occurred in the Soviet Union between the 1960s and the 1970s. Interest was displaced from the rational to the irrational, from a scientific-technologically oriented optimism about the future to art, religion, philosophy and metaphysics. READ MORE

  5. 3. In transit : aspects of transculturalism in Janice Kulyk Keefer's travels

    Author : Elisabeth Mårald; Sven-Johan Spånberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; transculturalism; ethnicity; the postcolonial discourse; travels; tourism; imagology; Imagined Communities; environment; Bakhtin s dialogic theories; cultural studies;

    Abstract : Transculturalism refers to how cultural barriers are transcended and how cultures meet. Because the transcultural perspective reflects hitherto unrepresented spaces, it revises and innovates literary canons. This study investigates aspects of transculturalism in texts dealing with travel by the Canadian writer Janice Kulyk Keefer. READ MORE

  6. 4. Reading cultural encounter: literary text and intercultural pedagogy

    Author : Anna Greek; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English as a Foreign Language; Contact Zone; Third Space; othering; essentialism; non-essentialism; Intercultural pedagogy; Across the Barricades; Fruit of the Lemon; Curriculum; multiculturalism; culture; identity; difference;

    Abstract : This dissertation combines aspects of educational research, theories of culture and literary analysis. The main line of argument is that the informed reading and discussion of literary texts that thematise cultural encounter will enhance the intercultural dimension of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Swedish Upper Secondary schools. READ MORE

  7. 5. An Inquiry into Cultural Semiotics: Germaine de Staël's Autobiographical Travel Accounts

    Author : Anna Cabak Rédei; Kognitiv semiotik; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Phenomenological sociology; Fenomenologi; Contemporary history circa 1800 to 1914 ; Phenomenology; Humanities; Parisian salons; Humaniora; Fransk litteratur; Germaine de Staël; Cultural semiotics; Autobiographical travel accounts; French literature; Modern historia ca. 1800-1914 ;

    Abstract : Cultural semiotics studies encounters between cultures. Notions such as Culture, Extra-culture and Non-culture were developed in the 1970s by the Tartu school and were used in their studies of Russian culture and its relation to Western Europe, with special focus on Peter the Great's attempt to Westernize Russia in the eighteenth century. READ MORE