Sökning: "Detective Novels"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden Detective Novels.
1. Von Jungen Pionieren und Gangstern : Der Kinder- und Jugendkriminalroman in der DDR
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines detective novels for children and young adults written and published in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The aim of the thesis is to study how the genre developed under the conditions of a socialist society. LÄS MER
2. Konsten att lägga pussel. Deckaren och besvärjandet av ondskan i folkhemmet
Sammanfattning : The present thesis, Konsten att lägga pussel. Deckaren och besvärjandet av ondskan i folkhemmet, constitutes a literary and cultural-historical investigation of the Swedish 'whodunit' from 1945 to 1965, a period when the genre flourished in Sweden. LÄS MER
3. Visuella vändningar : Bild och estetik i Kerstin Ekmans romankonst
Sammanfattning : This is a dissertation on how an aesthetics of fiction is formulated at the intersection of, and oscillation between, image-construction and image-criticism in three novels by Kerstin Ekman: En stad av ljus (1983), Händelser vid vatten (1993), and Gör mig levande igen (1996). The purpose of the dissertation is to analyze the movement of this oscillation and demonstrate how it is intertwined, not only with the aesthetic practice characterizing these novels, but also with their interpretation of the past and the contemporary. LÄS MER
4. Snuten i skymningslandet : svenska polisberättelser i roman och film 1965–2010
Sammanfattning : The dissertation "The Cop in the Twilight Land: Swedish Police Narratives 1965-2010" considers Swedish culture and ideas in the period 1965-2010 as expressed in detective fiction and film in the tradition of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. It takes the Swedish police narrative tradition to be part and parcel of the European history of ideas and culture; a history that necessarily comprises America, by extension a European colonial power, which in the process of constructing its national identity eradicated its native population. LÄS MER
5. The Mimetic Mystery : A linguistic study of the genre of British and American detective fiction including a comparison with suspense fiction
Sammanfattning : The present study is an analysis of the genre of detective fiction from a predominantly linguistic point of view.The main hypothesis is that the addresser's aims determine not only the content of a text but also its discursive and textual properties. LÄS MER