Sökning: "Maria Holmgren Troy"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden Maria Holmgren Troy.

  1. 1. Reciprocal Haunting : Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy

    Författare :Karen Patrick Knutsen; Mark Troy; Maria Holmgren Troy; Sharon Monteith; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pat Barker; The Regeneration Trilogy; Michel Foucault; Mikhail Bakhtin; Raymond Williams; Cultural Materialism; New Historicism; shell shock; psychoanalysis; British literature 1900-1999; class; gender; psychology; discourse; cultural trauma; dialogue; dialogism; power knowledge; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : Pat Barker’s fictional account of the Great War, The Regeneration Trilogy, completed in 1995, is considered to be her most important work to date and has captured the imagination of the reading public as well as attracting considerable scholarly attention. Although the trilogy appears to be written in the realistic style of the traditional historical novel, Barker approaches the past with certain preoccupations from 1990s Britain and rewrites the past as seen through these contemporary lenses. LÄS MER

  3. 2. In the first person and in the house : The house chronotope in four works by American women writers

    Författare :Maria Holmgren Troy; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska; English;

    Sammanfattning : The house looms large in American literature and plays a significant part in American society and history. This study uses Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope to examine the house in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons (1862), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping (1980). LÄS MER

  4. 3. Margaret Atwood's Environmentalism : Apocalypse and Satire in the MaddAddam Trilogy

    Författare :Marinette Grimbeek; Maria Holmgren Troy; Magnus Ullén; Sylvia Mayer; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Margaret Atwood; MaddAddam Trilogy; environmentalism; apocalypse; satire; celebrity activism; metalepsis; commodity aesthetics; storytelling; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This study considers the way in which Margaret Atwood’s post-apocalyptic MaddAddam Trilogy functions as an environmental project. The main focus is on how the three novels, Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013), simultaneously draw on and destabilise the apocalypticism inherent in so much environmental discourse, primarily through the use of satire. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Places of Rest in Worlds of Ruin : Havens in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

    Författare :Andreas Nyström; Åke Bergvall; Maria Holmgren Troy; Mathias Clasen; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Post-Apocalypse; Apocalypse; Science Fiction; Havens; Pastoral; Paradise; Mobility; Narrative Theory; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : In the inhospitable and ruined landscapes of post-apocalyptic fiction there are often found havens, places of rest that provide contrast to the desolation of the wasteland. This study explores the generic functions of such havens. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Ideology and Symbolism in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy

    Författare :Fredrik Svensson; Magnus Ullén; Maria Holmgren Troy; Nicholas Monk; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cormac McCarthy; Pierre Macherey; Marxism; ideology; affordances; symbolism; ecocriticism; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This study homes in on the ideological significance of American author Cormac McCarthy’s literary symbolism. Focusing in particular on the author’s tendency to merge hu­manity and the environment by way of metaphor, simile, and personifica­tion, the study demonstrates how the ethical and political import of this aesthetic is open to dispute. LÄS MER