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Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words tragedy nature.

2. 1. “Only Leave Them to Themselves” : Frances Brooke’s Fictional Worlds of Emancipatory Sensibility

   Author : Michaela Vance; Frida Beckman; Stefano Fogelberg Rota; Ian Haywood; Bo Ekelund; Paula Backscheider; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Frances Brooke; education; inborn virtue; sensibility; Christianity; Rousseau; Locke; fictional worlds; modal constraints; opera; tragedy; novel; periodical; eighteenth century; English; engelska;

   Abstract : In conversation but frequently at odds with contemporary voices on education, British eighteenth-century writer Frances Brooke (1724-1789) argued for a thoroughly revised approach to moral education that relied on the emancipatory potential of inborn sensibility. This thesis considers Brooke’s original texts, which range from periodical writing, novels, tragedies, operas, and prefaces, in the light of education, sensibility, and form, with the intention of expanding our understanding of Brooke’s contribution to eighteenth-century proto-feminist debates. READ MORE

4. 2. Aeschylus' Supplices : introduction and commentary on vv. 1-523

   Author : Pär Sandin; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aeschylus; Hiketides; Supplices; Suppliants; Suppliant women; tragedy; Greek drama; Greek theatre; textual criticism;

   Abstract : Aeschylus' (525-456 B.C.) drama the Suppliant women (Greek Hikétides, Lat. Supplices) is all certain to be the first in a trilogy of tragedies with appurtenant comic epilogue, 'satyr-play'. READ MORE

5. 3. Poetic Diction and Poetic References in the Preludes of Plato’s Laws

   Author : Claudia Zichi; Grekiska (antik och bysantinsk); []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Plato; Laws; Poetry; Preludes;

   Abstract : This doctoral dissertation investigates how Plato elaborates and incorporates the works of the poets in the preludes to the laws. It is argued that the poetic style of the preludes represents a key element for the Athenian’s purpose of persuading the citizens of Magnesia to spontaneously abide to the new legislation that is being laid out. READ MORE

6. 4. Dylan Thomas's Poetics of Embodiment

   Author : Anne Päivärinta; Finland University of Tampere; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Conceptual Metaphor Theory; cognitive poetics; embodiment; stylistics; Modernism; Comparative literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : The dissertation explores the structure and functions of embodied metaphors in Dylan Thomas’s (1914–1953) works. It aims to show that embodiment defines Thomas’s writing both stylistically and thematically, and that Thomas’s body metaphors are essentially founded on the biblical myths of creation and the Fall. READ MORE

7. 5. 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