Search for dissertations about: "twentieth-century literature"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the words twentieth-century literature.

  2. 21. "There's a bad time coming" : Ecological Vision in the Fiction of D. H. Lawrence

    Author : Anne Odenbring Ehlert; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Lawrence; D. H. 1885-1930 ; social criticism; literature and the environment; ecocriticism; literary ecology; ecological philosophy; holism; biocentrism; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This study aims to shed new light on the relation between humankind and nature in D. H. Lawrence's fiction. While this may seem like well-trodden ground in Lawrence criticism, my reading is ecocritical and re-examines his texts through the perspective of today's environmental awareness. READ MORE

  4. 22. Romance revived : postmodern romances and the tradition

    Author : Heidi Hansson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; romance; postmodernism; dialogue; feminism; intertextuality; destabilised text; cyclical time; critical return; uncertain gender-construction;

    Abstract : This is the first study to identify and analyse postmodern romances as a new development of the romance and to relate this late twentieth-century subgenre to its tradition. Based on a selection of works published between 1969 and 1994, by A. S. READ MORE

  5. 23. Scholarship and Mythopoeia : The ideas of language and myth in the works of Owen Barfield, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien

    Author : Maria Kuteeva; Tony Crowley; Thomas Shippey; Department of English and American Studies University of Manchester; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; language; myth; philology; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the views adopted by Barfield, Lewis and Tolkien on the phenomena of language and myth as discussed in their academic writing and fiction. Part I (Chapters I and II) focuses on the study of language. READ MORE

  6. 24. Taken by Stealth : Everyday Life and Political Change in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. Trilogy

    Author : Fredrik Tydal; Danuta Fjellestad; Brian McHale; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Dos Passos; American modernism; everyday life; the 1930s; Henri Lefebvre; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy (1938) tells the story of an erosion of American values and ideals – an ideological shift – during the first three decades of the twentieth century. READ MORE

  7. 25. Revoicing Sámi narratives : north Sámi storytelling at the turn of the 20th century

    Author : Coppélie Cocq; Mikael Svonni; Thomas DuBois; Richard Jones-Bamman; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; storytelling; folklore; folk narratives; oral tradition; Sámi culture; muitalus; critical discourse analysis; polyphony; Sami language; Samiska;

    Abstract : Revoicing Sámi narratives investigates the relationship between storytellers, contexts and collective tradition, based on an analysis of North Sámi narratives published in the early 1900s. This dissertation “revoices” narratives by highlighting the coexistence of different voices or socio-ideological languages in repertoires and by considering Sámi narratives as utterances by storytellers rather than autonomous products of tradition. READ MORE